How much hydrogen awaits us underground?
In the 1990s, Barbara Sherwood Lollar descended into the Kidd Creek mine in northern Ontario, which cuts more than…
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Election Officials Are Preparing for Prediction Markets to Sow Chaos in the Midterms
From threats to the safety of poll workers to voters who can’t distinguish between odds and results, prediction markets…
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El Niño and Saharan Dust Silence Atlantic Hurricane Season
El Niño coupled with Saharan dust is making this year’s hurricane season a dud. But there’s still potential for…
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There’s a New Link Between Gut Health and Alzheimer’s Disease
Researchers found that a metabolite produced by gut bacteria can weaken the barrier that protects the brain and promote…
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I’m hooked on Peak Design’s new City bags
It's just a hook, sewn into a bag, but I really, really like it. Peak Design is so proud of its clever integration that…
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The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]
Article URL: https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/vinton_report_5.pdf Comments URL:…
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Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/qwen-38-27b/ Comments URL:…
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NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers
Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-ending-key-grant-budding-clinical-researchers Comments URL:…
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Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
A few hours ago I switched my nameservers to Cloudflare in order to enable R2 bucket serving through my own subdomain,…
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A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better"
Article URL: https://rvembedded.com/blog_post/12/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321717 Points:…
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Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose
Article URL: https://w4g1.dev/blog/models-are-getting-dumber-on-purpose Comments URL:…
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Open Mike Eagle and Kenny Segal crafted a hip hop breakup masterpiece
"Breakups are… tough." It's the opening lines of an interlude towards the end of DOOMED! Called "It Happens in Every…
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Why people aren’t buying Mark Zuckerberg’s AI future
On the latest episode of Equity podcast, we discuss why not everyone is buying Zuckerberg’s vision.
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Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+
OpenRouter's CEO recently described the startup as Stripe for AI.
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The AI Credit Resale Economy
Article URL: https://vectoral.com/blog/who-are-the-token-brokers Comments URL:…
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The Dutch community where people live on strips of land in a lake
Article URL: https://www.core77.com/posts/144869 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312165 Points:…
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Amazon is trying to crush class-action suits before they get started
On Friday, Amazon customers received an email alerting them to an update to the site's terms and conditions. Most…
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Anthropic CEO says AI backlash is ‘fundamentally a crisis of trust’
Dario Amodei is pushing back against the idea that he's been painting an overly pessimistic picture of AI.
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AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41573-026-01496-2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313367 Points:…
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Engineers will do anything to avoid learning from history
Article URL: https://horn.gg/blog/engineers-will-do-anything-to-avoid-learning-from-history/ Comments URL:…