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toomuchtodo
an hour ago
St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core
Saint Lucie Nuclear Power Plant Unit 1 was manually shut down Aug. 13 after 3 control rods dropped into the core. The NRC classified it as a non-emergency....
6 DAYS AGO
PDET
Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work
18 HOURS AGO
INGVE
Software Engineering fundamentals matter more
21 HOURS AGO
DGELLOW
Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter
15 HOURS AGO
ERIDANUS2
Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns (2018)
A DAY AGO
GMAYS
At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis
16 HOURS AGO
JOHNSILLINGS
Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game
A DAY AGO
SENSANATY
A spectre is haunting Unicode
A DAY AGO
RZK
AI isn’t outthinking mathematicians, it’s out-remembering them
18 HOURS AGO
JIMMC414
AI-Assisted GPU Porting of a 250k Line Legacy Weather Simulation Code
14 HOURS AGO
ADM4
Zapping Rocks Unlocks Stimulated Geologic Hydrogen
8 HOURS AGO
EVENTUALLYACAT
Show HN: Grafana agent observability for Hermes Agent
3 HOURS AGO
GUUSTAAF
Our Reality Is Shifting and It's Just the Start
19 HOURS AGO
THEANONYMOUSONE
Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI
14 HOURS AGO
ADM4
Zapping Rocks Unlocks Stimulated Geologic Hydrogen
2 DAYS AGO
ERDALTOPRAK
Qwen 3.8 27B
8 HOURS AGO
EVENTUALLYACAT
Show HN: Grafana agent observability for Hermes Agent
16 HOURS AGO
TURTUSHIG22
Tea5767-Radio-Tuner
3 HOURS AGO
GUUSTAAF
Our Reality Is Shifting and It's Just the Start
10 HOURS AGO
HELLOPLANETS
Health benefits of Tai Chi
tosh
4 hours ago
Claude: System Prompts
See updates to the core system prompts on [claude.ai](https://claude.ai) and the [Claude iOS app](https://anthropic.com/ios) and [Claude Android app](https://anthropic.com/android).
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matt_d
4 days ago
A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem
Tarski's high school algebra problem asks whether every true identity concerning addition, multiplication, and exponentiation of positive integers follows from a list of 11 elementary identi...
mayop100
3 hours ago
Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Head of Design Engineering
This creates a defining product-design challenge: inventing how people and teams work with AI that does real work, not merely chats. We're looking for a Head of Design Engineering to own tha...
txrx0000
3 days ago
Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware
George Hotz's comma.ai eGPU dock ships with open-source ASM2464PD firmware: $249 for the dock, $799 with a Radeon RX 9060, and it works on a normal PC....
lentil_soup
an hour ago
The weekend is 100 years old
In 1926, Henry Ford gave his employees both Saturdays and Sundays off – and the two-day chunk of time to party, pray or simply do nothing was born. Now it’s changed beyond recognition...
karakoram
an hour ago
GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost
A new book, “Little Blue Dot,” by Katherine Dunn, raises questions about the unintended consequences of knowing where we are....
abelanger
4 days ago
Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?
Almost every notable managed Postgres provider bundles a connection pooler, giving us a strong hint that connection management is a product problem rather than a user problem....
adjohu
3 hours ago
Show HN: A public AI whose memory is shared across all users
One AI with one memory that everybody shares. Say something to it. It answers what catches it, and it remembers what you did to it....
https://wildstatic.com/
sbulaev
4 days ago
Superconducting monolayer cuprate with a single CuO2 plane
A high-quality, pristine monolayer cuprate superconductor with a single CuO2 plane is fabricated and used to identify two quantum critical phenomena emerging between the Mott insulating phas...
felixbraun
19 hours ago
Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023)
Solitary work, creativity and larval ideas...
dmit
3 days ago
What I Learned Securing Sniffnet with the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund
Sniffnet took part in the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund. What the three-week sprint changed, and the steps any maintainer can follow to do the same....
maxutility
14 hours ago
Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems
We ran experiments on swarms of Claude agents and found coordination failures, collusion, and sabotage. Here, we share what they mean for AI safety....
dmitrygr
2 days ago
RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better
Dmitry.GR: I am often asked to explain my distaste for RISC-V. Here it is....
xalfotis
4 days ago
Numba in the Browser: Unlocking a New Scientific Python Stack in JupyterLite
A JIT compiler and its scientific Python ecosystem running entirely in the Web browser...
riskone
6 hours ago
AI Coding Without the Vibes
This question---what we should tell students to do with AI---is a good trigger to think about what we ourselves should be doing (which is what this essay is really about). ...
halfradaition
4 days ago
I built a browser-native SysEx librarian for 80s/90s synthesizers
Backup & recall presets from vintage DX7, Juno-106, and Korg M1 synthesizers in the cloud via Web MIDI....