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downwithdisease
32 minutes ago
Modern Decor May Be Straining People's Brains
Scientists say modern buildings, LED lighting, and repetitive patterns may overload the brain's visual processing system, causing headaches, nausea, and physical distress for millions....
5 DAYS AGO
BENBREEN
The Victorian War on Rabies
3 HOURS AGO
ACLEY
Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch
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DMONAY
Late Bronze Age Collapse
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MARKUS_ZHANG
The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017)
2 DAYS AGO
VFORNO
Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer
20 HOURS AGO
SRIMALIREDDI
Moss (YC F25) Is Hiring
A DAY AGO
SIMONPURE
Computation as a universal and fundamental concept
2 DAYS AGO
POMPOMSHEEP
Show HN: 18 Words
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SPECKX
Successful companies go blind
2 HOURS AGO
GBIT
Microsoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch
20 HOURS AGO
DJFERGUS
GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in ALL Linux distributions for 15 years
2 HOURS AGO
GBIT
Microsoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch
saisrirampur
2 hours ago
We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput
PgBouncer is single-threaded, so a single process caps out at one CPU core no matter the box size. See how ClickHouse Managed Postgres runs a peered fleet of PgBouncer processes with so_reuseport to scale pooling across every core — with benchmarks showin
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herbertl
4 days ago
Google Search lets creators know more about their reach
Google is trying to make Search more of a hub for everything creators do online....
reaperducer
5 hours ago
FCC approves test of space mirror to light night sky
From space hotels and artificial meteor showers, to a new giant mirror that reflects sunlight to Earth — low-Earth orbit is getting weird....
CrankyBear
a day ago
SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
It could mean faster internet for rural customers, but not everyone is happy....
speckx
a day ago
QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall
The QuadRF (pictured above) a phased-array radio built around a Raspberry Pi 5 and an FPGA board with picosecond-level timing. It does advanced signal processing and beamforming. It can see ...
stock_toaster
20 hours ago
Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI today, accusing the company of trade secret theft. Specifically, Apple alleges that its......
surprisetalk
4 days ago
An iroh powered smart fan
Putting iroh on a bare ESP32 to build a temperature-driven smart fan you can check on from anywhere....
hhs
19 hours ago
Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows
Researchers have shown the first direct experimental evidence that the textbook triple bond structure breaks down in heavy elements, where relativity makes the rules....
https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-07-09/chemical-bonds-relativity
rowbin
6 days ago
The mask that compiles to nothing: how HotSpots JIT learned to reason about bits
A deep dive into the known-bits abstraction that recently landed in HotSpot's C2 JIT compiler: the same tristate-bit abstraction LLVM and GCC use, and why it lets the JVM delete redundant ma...
kschaul
2 days ago
AI 2040: Plan A
A detailed forecast and recommendation for how the US, China and the rest of the world should navigate superintelligence....
mvdtnz
12 hours ago
The vintage beauty of Soviet control rooms (2018)
Just for the pleasure, a selection of vintage control rooms dating back to the Soviet era! A beautiful collection of control rooms filled with large buttons and analog dials, long before the...
aviaviavi
a day ago
After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell
After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell — Avi Press...
simonebrunozzi
a day ago
Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
The discovery makes sense: Mollusks use these teeth to excavate rocks while they feed...
randycupertino
a day ago
New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices
Rule from Mamdani administration bans companies from trapping customers into paying recurring charges and ‘junk fees’...
NaOH
a day ago
War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history
Explore 5,000 years of conflict on an interactive world map. 10,584 wars, 427 empire borders with shifting frontiers, casualty estimates with sources....
amadeuspagel
an hour ago
Is There Any End to the Atlantic's "End-Ism" Fetish?
I am so tired of this lazy approach to social commentary....