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31. In Europe, Wind and Solar Overtake Fossil Fuels
32. Stunnel
Home page for stunnel: a multiplatform GNU/GPL-licensed proxy encrypting arbitrary TCP connections with SSL/TLS.
33. 'Active' sitting is better for brain health: review of studies
Excessive sitting isn't good for a person's physical or mental health, but there's a type of sedentary activity that may not shrink our brains or cost our cognition to the same extent.
34. Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance
35. Design Thinking Books You Must Read
An updated list of design thinking books and papers to understand the principles underpinning the design thinking process and its practice.
36. AnswerThis (YC F25) Is Hiring
We crossed $1M ARR in 8 months. 200,000+ researchers at Stanford, MIT, and Amazon use us to do literature reviews 10x faster.\ \ Now we're building something bigger: the system of record for scientists where they can find papers, analyze experiments, and write their drafts while collaborating with other scientists as well as our AI agents. \ \ You should apply if you:\ \ → Ship fast and learn faster \ → Know the agentic AI stack cold (vector DBs, graph RAG, agent memory) \ → Have built full-stack products that scaled past 1M users \ → Actually care about accelerating scientific discovery\ \ Bonus: You've published research yourself. \ \ Don't apply if you:\ \ → Can't be in SF, in person \ → Haven't used the product yet \ → Don't want to talk to customers \ \ $120K-$200K + equity. We're a small team backed by YC. \ \ Reach out on careers [at] answerthis.io (http://answerthis.io)\ \ Tell us what you hate about AnswerThis, what you love, and one project you're proud of alongside your resume.\ \ Science moves too slowly. Help us fix that.
37. Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate (2020)
This blog post explores the historical accuracy of medieval city-builder video games.
38. Project Mercury and the Sofar Bomb
Why bombs were hidden on the first space capsules
39. Turso is an in-process SQL database, compatible with SQLite
Turso is an in-process SQL database, compatible with SQLite. - tursodatabase/turso
40. Tree-sitter vs. Language Servers
I got asked a good question today: what is the difference between Tree-sitter and a language server? I don’t understand how either of these tools work in depth, so I’m just going to explain from an observable, pragmatic point of view.
41. Composing APIs and CLIs in the LLM era
42. Keeping 20k GPUs Healthy
43. 30 Years of ReactOS
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
44. Doctors in Brazil using tilapia fish skin to treat burn victims
In a historic Brazilian city, burn patients look as if they’ve emerged from the waves. They are covered in fish skin — specifically strips of sterilized tilapia -- but why?
45. eBay Explicitly Bans AI "Buy for Me" Agents in User Agreement Update
eBay bans AI “buy for me” agents & LLM scrapers, updates arbitration & dispute resolution rules in User Agreement update effective Feb. 20, 2026.
46. Google is ending full-web search for niche search engines
47. Extracting a UART Password via SPI Flash Instruction Tracing
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48. Show HN: Interactive physics simulations I built while teaching my daughter
49. It looks like the status/need-triage label was removed
What would you like to be added? Adds native recognition for JetBrains IDE as a supported IDE environment. Why is this needed? Currently, Gemini CLI restricts IDE integration features to environments where TERM_PROGRAM is vscode (or othe...
50. Why are there so many CPU bugs nowadays
In the early days of personal computing CPU bugs were so rare as to be newsworthy. The infamous Pentium FDIV bug is remembered by many, and even earlier CPUs had their own issues (the 6502 comes to mind). Nowadays they've become so common that I encounter them routinely while triaging crash reports sent from Firefox users. Given the nature of CPUs you might wonder how these bugs arise, how they manifest and what can and can't be done about them. 🧵 1/31
51. Skill.md: An open standard for agent skills
All Mintlify documentation sites now contain a skill.md file. Learn about this open standard for agent skills and how to use it.
52. Satya Nadella: "We need to find something useful for AI"
Workers should learn AI skills and companies should use it because it's a "cognitive amplifier," claims Satya Nadella.
53. The mushroom making people hallucinate tiny humans
Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.
54. SpaceX lowering orbits of 4,400 Starlink satellites for safety's sake
SpaceX will soon lower the orbits of about 4,400 Starlink satellites, to decrease the threat they pose to other spacecraft and reduce space traffic overall.
55. Mote: An Interactive Ecosystem Simulation [video]
​Localhost is a series of technical talks in NYC given by members of the Recurse Center community. ​🦠 Mote is an interactive ecosystem simulation composed o...
56. Reverse engineering Lyft Bikes for fun (and profit?)
57. The Uncomfortable Math of Working for Yourself
58. Ask HN: What AI feature looked in demos and failed in real usage? Why?
59. From stealth blackout to whitelisting: Inside the Iranian shutdown
Iran is in the midst of one of the world’s most severe communications blackouts. This post uses Kentik data to detail how this historic event unfolded, where this event lies in the context of previous Iranian shutdowns, and finally discusses what might be in store next for Iran.
60. In Praise of APL (1977)