Leaded Gas Was a Known Poison the Day It Was Invented (2016)
Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/leaded-gas-poison-invented-180961368/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48873893 Points: 17 # Comments: 5
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Earendel (Astronomical Object)
Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earendel_(astronomical_object) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48873858 Points: 19 # Comments: 3
Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox
Article URL: https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/11/vulgar-thatcherism/#there-is-an-alternative Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48873855 Points: 28 # Comments: 5
Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom
Article URL: https://io-fund.com/ai-stocks/nvidia-coreweave-nebius-circular-financing-gpu-boom Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48873836 Points: 16 # Comments: 1
I created a super harmful model ! :D (by tweaking it’s J-Space!!!)
Soooo! Since Anthropic share their Jacobian-Lens a few days ago I went on and made a tool based on it which adds the possibilité to export…
Public Library Find [D]
Pleasantly surprised to find O’Reilly books on ML at a public library submitted by /u/ai_hedge_fund [link] [comments]
Female US rower completes historic solo journey from California to Hawaii
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/04/california-hawaii-rowing-solo-journey Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48873692 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Sixtyfour (YC P25) Is Hiring
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sixtyfour/jobs/bIbgQkL-operations-associate-data-samples-customer-success Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48873665 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Orbit – AR satellite tracker, watch 15k+ objects
Hey HN! I made Orbit, an iOS app that allows you to see the satellites, planets, and constellations above you in AR, on a 2D map,…
Show HN: Earth Game – An offline CLI for turning life goals into quests
Article URL: https://github.com/skorotkiewicz/earth-game Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48873486 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transaction
Article URL: https://timeseriesofindia.com/economy/reads/upi-architecture/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48873457 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Modern Decor May Be Straining People's Brains
Article URL: https://studyfinds.com/modern-decor-may-be-straining-peoples-brains/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48873424 Points: 19 # Comments: 3
Show HN: Reame – a CPU inference server that gets faster as it runs
Article URL: https://github.com/swellweb/reame Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48873417 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
I feel like I’m not using my hardware efficiently
Hi there, got a 7950x,128GB DDR5, RTX 4090 and RTX 3090TI. I'm currently running Qwen3.6 27B Q8 with 262k Context at Q8 with llama.cpp. It's not…
Tropical forests facing increasing risks of exposure to critical temp thresholds
Article URL: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2528622123 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48872973 Points: 16 # Comments: 0
We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput
Article URL: https://clickhouse.com/blog/pgbouncer-clickhouse-managed-postgres Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48872874 Points: 30 # Comments: 2
The early History of the Singular Value Decomposition (1993) [pdf]
Article URL: https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~saito/courses/229A/stewart-svd.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48872858 Points: 23 # Comments: 0
VultronRetriever family of models released on HuggingFace![R]
Thrilled to announce the VultronRetriever family of models, which were announced during Raise Summit Paris and demonstrated running Q&A and embedding documents on the iPhone, fully…
6x MI50’s on PCIE vs 4x MI50’s on PEX8749 and 2x on PCIE
I am really excited to share this one. On the X99-E-WS motherboard.. while old and PCIE 3.0 - I think it's still pretty capable for what…
Follow-up: what I learned scaling a SQLite/FTS5 patent database from 3.5M to 5.36M records
A few months ago I posted about classifying 3.5M US patents with Nemotron 9B on a single RTX 5090. This is a follow-up on the data-engineering…
Why are MoE models so belittled?
E.g "Qwen 3.5 122B is just 10B active, so it's no where close to the dense 27B model" That is the main sentiment around here and…
Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch
Article URL: https://shipthatcode.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48871973 Points: 9 # Comments: 5
Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine (1965) [pdf]
Article URL: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/Good1964.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48871932 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Semantic/Hybrid Search in the Browser
Article URL: https://bart.degoe.de/semantic-search-in-your-browser/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48871716 Points: 7 # Comments: 1