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New best story on Hacker News: Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats

Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats 489 by raahelb | 528 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived

Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived 468 by boredjohnny | 251 comments on Hacker News. Visual FoxPro stopped at version 9 in 2007. A surprising amount of it is still running, in 32 bits, because rewriting a 20-year-old business app is how you lose the business. A customer wanted to keep milking their app for the foreseeable future, so here it is: the same language on a new runtime (Rust, compiled to wasm, checked against the real vfp9.exe), tables no longer stopped at 2 GB, the old 32-bit .fll add-ins still loading, and lambdas, JSON and an HTTP server bolted on for good measure. Reports are not done and the builds are unsigned. MIT because why not?

New best story on Hacker News: Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy

Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy 516 by geox | 336 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Jev in 25 Lines of Python

Jev in 25 Lines of Python 587 by bashbjorn | 190 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005

OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005 603 by sohkamyung | 373 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy

Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy 612 by MC995 | 459 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: GPT-6 Sol and Luna

GPT-6 Sol and Luna 746 by OfficialTurkey | 417 comments on Hacker News.