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31. Ian's Shoelace Site
32. Pretty soon, heat pumps will be able to store and distribute heat as needed
Researchers have developed a heat storage unit that takes up less space than a regular hot water tank. It charges when electricity is cheap and releases heat when needed.
33. Good if make prior after data instead of before
They say you’re supposed to choose your prior in advance. That’s why it’s called a “prior”. First, you’re supposed to say say how plausible different…
34. Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions
The discovery that tissues use electricity to expel unhealthy cells is part of a surge of renewed interest in the currents flowing through our bodies.
35. Once Thought to Support Neurons, Astrocytes Turn Out to Be in Charge
New experiments reveal how astrocytes tune neuronal activity to modulate our mental and emotional states. The results suggest that neuron-only brain models, such as connectomes, leave out a crucial layer of regulation.
36. Aging muscle stem cells shift from rapid repair to long-term survival
37. For most flagged articles, nearly every cited sentence failed verification
38. Anciente map of Fairyland. Places from nursery rhymes, fairy tales etc.
39. Mobile carriers can get your GPS location
In iOS 26.3, Apple introduced a new privacy feature which limits “precise location” data made available to cellular networks via cell towers. The feature is only available to devices with Apple’s in-house modem introduced in 2025. The announcement1 says https://support.apple.com/en-us/126101 ↩
40. pg_tracing: Distributed Tracing for PostgreSQL
Distributed Tracing for PostgreSQL. Contribute to DataDog/pg_tracing development by creating an account on GitHub.
41. Opentrees.org (2024)
42. Outsourcing Thinking
Personal website.
43. Light exposure and aspects of cognitive function in everyday life
Light exposure can modulate cognitive function, yet its effects outside of controlled laboratory settings remain insufficiently explored. To examine the relationship between real-world light exposure and cognitive performance, we assessed personal light exposure and measured subjective sleepiness, vigilance, working memory, and visual search performance over 7 days of daily life, in a convenience sample of UK adults (n = 58) without significant circadian challenge (shiftwork or jet-lag). A subset of participants (n = 41) attended an in-lab session comprising a battery of pupillometric and psychophysical tests aimed to quantify melanopsin-driven visual responses. We find significant associations between recent light exposure and subjective sleepiness. Recent light exposure was also associated with reaction times for both psychomotor vigilance and working memory tasks. In addition, higher daytime light exposure and an exposure pattern with reduced fragmentation were linked to improved cognitive performance across visual search, psychomotor vigilance, and working memory tasks. Higher daytime light exposure and earlier estimated bedtimes were associated with stronger relationships between recent light exposure and subjective sleepiness. These results provide real world support for the notion that intra- and inter-individual differences in light exposure meaningfully influence aspects of cognition, with beneficial effects of short-term bright light and of habitual light exposure patterns characterized by brighter daytimes, earlier rest phase, and greater intra- and inter-daily stability. In daily life, light exposure influences cognitive performance in 58 UK adults: brighter, more stable days are linked to better vigilance, memory, and visual search, while recent bright light reduces sleepiness and reaction times.
44. Coffee as a staining agent substitute in electron microscopy
45. Oregon gave homeless youth $1k/month with no strings. Here's what happened
The program helped 94% of participants secure housing while building financial literacy skills that could break the cycle of homelessness.
46. List animals until failure
hot new brain workout
47. L4Ka: Pistachio Microkernel
48. Scientist who helped eradicate smallpox dies at age 89
A leader in the global fight against smallpox and a champion of vaccine science, William Foege died last Saturday
49. Nonograms: a practical guide with interactive examples
50. Lessons Learned Shipping 500 Units of My First Hardware Product
Building in consumer hardware as a software engineer
51. Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign
52. Nintendo DS code editor and scriptable game engine
53. OpenClaw is everywhere all at once, and a disaster waiting to happen
Not everything that is interesting is a good idea.
54. Finland to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with ban on youth social media
Prime Minister Petteri Orpo (NCP), the Finnish public health authority THL and two-thirds of Finns are in favour of banning or restricting the use of social media by under-15s.
55. Magnetic core memory 128-byte USB drive
Another drawback with this device is that reading data is destructive.
56. Data Processing Benchmark Featuring Rust, Go, Swift, Zig, Julia etc.
Data Processing benchmark featuring Rust, Go, Swift, Zig, Julia etc. - zupat/related_post_gen
57. Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf]
58. 'Right-to-Compute' Laws May Be Coming to Your State This Year
Montana passed the first “right-to-compute” law shielding AI from regulation. Now similar bills are spreading.
59. Automatic Programming
60. "Giving up upstream-ing my patches & feel free to pick them up"