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gmays
7 hours ago
At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis
LymeAlert will hit the market in August. The latest tool against the tick-borne illness could become a medicine cabinet staple...
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SCHAPMAN1974
BriskDB
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BIRDCULTURE
Thunderbird's Desktop Calendar Visual Redesign
A DAY AGO
ERDALTOPRAK
Qwen 3.8 27B
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PAULPAUPER
Job Recession in Higher Education
16 HOURS AGO
CHATCHAN
Show HN: ThoughtDAG – An editable context graph for LLM conversations
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TOBR
Xorshift Generators
3 DAYS AGO
BBAYLES
Unearthing a 31 year old Easter egg in Ecco the Dolphin
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SBULAEV
Peer-reviewed study of 443,000 Backblaze drives ranks HGST most reliable
rzk
3 hours ago
AI Isn't Outthinking Mathematicians. It's Out-Remembering Them
The key advantage may not be superior reasoning, but a virtually unlimited symbolic working memory.
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sensanaty
6 hours ago
A Spectre Is Haunting Unicode
In 1978 Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry established the encoding that would later be known as JIS X 0208, which still serves as an important reference for all Japanese encodi...
wweissbluth
2 hours ago
Voltair (YC W26) Is Hiring a Test Flight Engineer
About Voltair Voltair is building the world’s first distributed network of drones for earth observation. We envision a world where after a major storm, an operator of critical infrastructur...
jeffreyrogers
4 hours ago
A controversial Alzheimer's surgery is said to reverse symptoms
Jaw-dropping patient videos and miraculous testimonials ignited a frenzy in China over a technique that aims to improve drainage from the brain. Now it is entering trials worldwide....
tosh
10 hours ago
Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel
Table of Contents Intro Contest in short Problem intro Why this problem is auto-research-able Learning Enough to Ask Better Questions (Optional) Math f......
AnodicElegy
2 hours ago
AI in drug discovery — what it is, where we stand and the path forward
Applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in drug discovery have attracted high interest in recent years, but evidence for clinically relevant impact so far is limited. This Perspective d...
BaselAshraf81
5 days ago
Show HN: Eigendrum - Draw any shape and hear what it sounds like as a drum
Draw any shape and hear it as a drum. Every frequency is solved from your outline with finite elements, never sampled. Includes the two drums that sound identical but are not the same shape....
dmitrygr
a day ago
RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better
Dmitry.GR: I am often asked to explain my distaste for RISC-V. Here it is....
https://dmitry.gr/?r=06.%20Thoughts&proj=12.%20RV
Bowes-Lyon
4 hours ago
The Dutch Community Where People Live on Strips of Land in a Lake
In much of the world, owning a lakeside home is desirable. But in the Dutch town of Loosdrecht, residents live within the lake itself, with houses on their own impossibly skinny islands: The...
bookofjoe
3 days ago
In 1962, Egypt's Missile Program Lost Its Key Scientist Without a Trace
Some accounts suggest that a brutal assassination is to blame. ...
tcp_handshaker
2 hours ago
Why tech bosses keep sharing their manifestos about AI
Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg is the latest Big Tech name to pen a letter thousands of words long about AI....
rbanffy
5 days ago
Robot Videos: Heavy Lift Cargo Drones, Grippers, More
This week’s selection of awesome robot videos also includes NASA’s Skyfall water-hunting Martian helicopter, gecko-inspired robotic grippers, and more...
Fellw
an hour ago
Meta will train its AI on Newsmax, a far-right media outlet
This week, Newsmax — a far-right news organization with a strong allegiance to President Trump and a history of pushing wild conspiracy theories — announced it had struck a deal with Meta....
doekenorg
3 days ago
Understanding WCAG 2.2 as ePub and PDF
Download Understanding WCAG 2.2 as a free EPUB or PDF. The official W3C documentation converted for e-readers, offline reading, and fixing audit findings....
vslira
a day ago
Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking
I’m coming down from spending a few days at Usenix Security, right here in my hometown of Baltimore. This means that my days have been taken up with two kinds of conversation: first, explain...