2026-11-03 Discoveries

Show HN: Warsaw in voxels – An interactive 3D map of the city centre

Central Warsaw in 1 m voxels, built from OpenStreetMap, LiDAR and the city

Is There Anything Left in the Dream of Cold Fusion?

Dig a little deeper and you’ll find a thriving research program with exotic atoms that won’t solve the energy crisis but stretches the boundaries of physics. The post Is There Anything Left in the Dream of Cold Fusion? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Oracle files to sell $20B in new stock, bonds to finance AI buildout

Oracle filed plans on Monday to issue new shares and more debt to finance its artificial intelligence buildout.

Price rises for some 16GB Raspberry Pi products

Rising component costs drive price increases for 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 and Compute Module 5, but not Raspberry Pi 500+.

Flying an RC Airplane with Twin Airblower EDFs

Shortly after [RCMakerLab] posted his question on potentially equipping an RC airplane with the electronic ducted fans (EDFs) from those airblower devices – are sold mostly as a replacement for …

Anthropic's growth just flattened

The latest AI news we announced in October 2026

Here are Google’s latest AI updates from October 2026

A Beginner’s Guide to Philosophy: From Logic to Epistemology to Metaphysics

These are, perhaps, not the very best times for humanities majors. Seldom do we even hear the once-standard defense that, by pursuing a course of study in subjects of that kind, students “learn how to think.” Such a justification still points to real value, at least in the most demanding settings…

Bizarre Fruit-Eating “Hell Chicken” Suggests Dinosaurs Played a Role in Flowering Plant…

Its jaws were fruit-mashing machines

Investigating whether Zener Diodes work for ESD Protection

Sometimes the naming of parts in electronics can contribute to confusion about what they are good for, with the topic of Zener diodes in the context of fast surges like …

Launch HN: Momentic (YC W24) – Agents that catch bugs by using your app

The SEC Should Block Anthropic's IPO to Protect the Public

If Anthropic goes public, workers, retail investors, and retirees will be left holding the bag when its bills come due, writes Matt Scherer.

Jeffrey Gibson’s ‘A Real Love Thing’ Surveys a Decade of the Artist’s Multidisciplinary…

Fifteen works amplify Gibson's interest in pattern, music, queer iconography, and his Indigenous Mississippi Choctaw and Cherokee heritage. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The…

Hera

AI Creative Canvas

Watch David Bowie Take MTV to Task for Failing to Play Music Videos by Black Artists…

The old vaudeville phrase “Will it play in Peoria?” has its roots in the late 19th century, specifically in Horatio Alger’s novel Five Hundred Dollars; Or Jacob Marlowe’s Secret. Like all of the books Alger wrote extolling the virtues of thrift, study, grooming, industry, etc., this one…

Google Messages, Phone by Google, and Google Contacts get new, updated icons.

Google is updating the icons for Messages, Phone, and Contacts with a sleeker, cohesive design. See the new look for your home screen.

Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era

[This is a guest post by Karthik C. S., Amit Sahai, and Jie Xue. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] This is a good time for mathemat…

Ask Hackaday: What Puts This Photo In The Pink?

It’s an exciting time to be a camera hacker, because we are at a moment when even cheap camera hardware is starting to have high resolution sensors, and the awesome …

A Collapsing Star Produced an Afterglow Brighter Than Its Galaxy

“The explosion packed roughly a billion years of the sun’s energy output into a pencil-thin beam”

diff-tour

AI writes the code. Learn to read it like a senior engineer.

Friday Work

When Claude hits its limit, your task keeps going

Faceted Faces and Surreal Still Lifes Fill GaHee Park’s Dreamy Paintings

An eye peers from a goblet. A disembodied finger creeps from beneath a curtain. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Faceted Faces and Surreal Still Lifes Fill GaHee Park’s…

US boy names that became girl names and vice versa

Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen

We find that frontier LLMs are surprisingly good at natively reading and writing neural network weights, well past what we’d expect from humans or conventional algorithms.

These ponds help support half the people on Earth

What are these electric blue ponds in the middle of the Utah desert? And why do they keep changing color?

Listen to the Earliest Known Recordings of a Nearly Dead American Language

These “lost” recordings of the Creole language offer unique insights that written transcripts can’t provide

Cedric AI for Meetings

The first AI agent to present your slides and attend for you