Asus Bike Booster

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Follow the user manual for safe and proper use of the ASUS Oxiis E250G1. Failure to comply with instructions may result in damage to the product or others, and voids warranty.

Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work

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DuckDB version 2.0 will support asynchronous reads of Parquet and CSV files, significantly speeding up queries when synchronous I/O saturates the available bandwidth. This change is particularly beneficial for remote data access, such as in data lakes like DuckLake.

Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk

Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game

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The free online version of Grab the Mic: get a word, buzz in, and sing a real song containing it — your friends vote. No app, no mic needed, 2–8 players.

Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023)

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The author discusses the importance of solitude and isolation for creative individuals, citing examples from mathematician Alexander Grothendieck and filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. They argue that this state allows for a heightened sensitivity to new ideas and a freedom from social pressure.

AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward

Tea5767-Radio-Tuner

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This project involves building an ESP32-based FM radio with a custom PCB design, featuring a TEA5767 tuner, KY-040 rotary encoder, PAM8403 amplifier, and 0.96" OLED display. The goal is to create a compact and functional device for manual and preset FM tuning.

At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis

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The US experiences a significant number of tick-borne illnesses, with over 31 million Americans affected annually. Lyme disease is the most common diagnosis, with an estimated 476,000 patients treated each year.

Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter

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A Super El Niño event is rapidly strengthening across the tropical Pacific, with record-level westerly wind anomalies and subsurface ocean heat driving its growth. The latest forecasts indicate a historic peak in late 2026/early 2027, with significant impacts on global weather patterns expected.

Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI

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A study published in JACC found that waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio are better indicators of cardiovascular disease risk than body mass index (BMI) alone. Adding these measures to BMI can reclassify individuals with normal weight as high-risk for heart disease.

RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better

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RISC-V's design is flawed due to its excessive optionality, leading to a lack of coherence and consistency across the architecture. This makes it difficult for developers to write code that works on all RISC-V cores, resulting in fragmentation and wasted time debugging issues.

Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug

The author investigated a bug in Zsh where commands were sometimes missing from the shell history file, despite being run previously. The issue was eventually tracked down to an incorrect implementation of signal handling in savehistfile, which caused it to truncate the history file when interrupted by a signal.

Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel

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The author participated in a GPU Mode contest to implement batched square compact-Householder QR factorization, achieving a 232x speedup over the baseline solution. They used blocked Householder and WY updates to optimize performance on NVIDIA B200 GPUs.

Show HN: I built a native app for coding agents with Rust and GPUI

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Waku is a fast, local agent CLI that integrates sessions, transcripts, and tool activity in one window. It provides control without cloud or telemetry, with features like instant launch and roll-back capabilities.

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain

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AI systems excel in mathematics due to their ability to process and store vast amounts of information, whereas humans are limited by working memory capacity. This allows AI models to generate longer chains of deductions and explore multiple possibilities more efficiently than humans can.

A fortuitous decade as an indie software developer

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SugarTrack – an offline Android logbook for blood sugar (no account, no cloud)

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This app, SugarTrack, is a personal blood sugar tracking logbook that stores data locally on the phone without requiring a login or cloud backup. It allows users to log readings and export them as PDF or CSV files for sharing with doctors.

A spectre is haunting Unicode

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The JIS X 0208 encoding was established in 1978 with added characters that later became known as ghost characters, which had no obvious sources. An investigation in 1997 discovered the origins of most ghost characters, including some being mistakes during cataloging and others having unclear or misread sources.

Numba in the Browser: Unlocking a New Scientific Python Stack in JupyterLite

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Numba now runs in the browser via WebAssembly with JupyterLite, offering significant speedups. This enables full scientific computing in static websites without server dependencies.

Software Engineering fundamentals matter more

A software engineer reflects on the role of agentic engineering, finding value in harnessing and models to solve development puzzles. They highlight the importance of human reasoning and critical thinking in software creation, beyond what large language models can offer.

Tess's Android Wayland Compositor

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tawc is a rootless Android app that runs Linux CLI and graphical programs, using its own Wayland compositor and tawcroot for emulation. The project has limitations, including no real sandboxing, desktop GL support, or x86 builds.

Voltair (YC W26) Is Hiring a Test Flight Engineer

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Voltair is building a distributed drone network for earth observation, focusing on power utilities. They're seeking a Flight Test Engineer to validate test fixtures and deploy drones for customer contracts within 90 days of arrival.

AI-Assisted GPU Porting of a 250k Line Legacy Weather Simulation Code

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AI agents aid in GPU porting of legacy scientific apps by preserving validation through benchmarking and error detection. The workflow achieves significant speedup while ensuring numerical accuracy and enabling developer feedback.

Working with AI feels more like leadership than coding

The author reflects on the shift from treating AI like a compiler to collaborating with it, recognizing that good leaders share context and explain desired outcomes. Effective use of AI requires expressing intent beyond just giving instructions.

Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns

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where he talks about a particular type of “Inogon” light used to guide ships through channels or harbours. The patent is here: https://patents.google.com/patent/US4629325 and the military report on the effectiveness is here: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a168108.pdf I decided to build my own to play around with the effect. After a few minutes sketching in inkscape and a few more ...

Show HN: Bribes.fyi – Compare bribes statistics department wise

Anonymous bribe reports aggregated into department rankings, city breakdowns, and service-level averages. India's first crowdsourced corruption transparency platform.

Bede Liu, a digital signal processing pioneer, has died

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H. Vincent Liu was a renowned electrical engineer who pioneered digital signal processing, enabling technologies like streaming video and cellphone calls. He received numerous awards for his contributions to the field, including the 2018 IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal.

Big Pickle on SWE Atlas – Codebase QnA

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Task Resolve Rate: 50.8% (63/124) — big-pickle, the free stealth model on OpenCode Zen, evaluated on Scale AI's SWE Atlas Codebase QnA benchmark using the mini-swe-agent scaffold. Within the Mini-SWE-Agent scaffold class — the apples-to-apples comparison — this run outscores every entry on the official leaderboard, and it also tops the Codex-scaffold GPT entries. Only the two Claude ...

An image can overflow

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The <img> element can have hidden quirks, such as overflow when using object-fit: cover or border-radius. This is because the image content (the actual image) has a natural size that can exceed its container's size.

The Wow signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected on August 15, 1977

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The Wow! signal was a strong, narrowband radio signal detected in 1977 by Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope, sparking interest in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Despite numerous follow-up searches and hypotheses, the signal has never recurred or been confirmed as of 2024.