Ice water drowning survival of young patient (2025)

A young boy survived 147-minute submersion in ice water with a body temperature of 7 °C. He was resuscitated with ECMO and made a full recovery.

DuckDB Internals: Why Is DuckDB Fast? (Part 1)

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DuckDB is a fast in-process analytical SQL database that has gained widespread adoption due to its ease of use and performance. It can read data from various file formats like Parquet, CSV, and JSON, and execute queries directly on these files without the need for a server or cluster.

To study how chips work, MIT researchers built their own operating system

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Researchers at MIT developed Fractal, a new kernel that gives a cleaner view of processor behavior, and has already found previously unknown behavior in Apple's M1. Fractal treats hardware as the object of study, allowing researchers to run experiments with minimal background noise and gain a deeper understanding of processor behavior.

So You Want to Define a Well-Known URI

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Well-known URIs work best when clients need to discover site-wide information, such as access policies or site metadata. They should be used for specific problems, not as a URL shortener or to confer legitimacy.

Gribouille 0.3.0: A Grammar of Graphics for Typst

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Gribouille 0.3.0 adds guide control for hiding axis ticks and legends, and introduces a theme parameter for styling composition chrome. It also includes fixes for legend layout, stacking area charts, and other features.

Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Research

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To become a successful researcher, you need to combine reading and building skills, and be willing to put in the time and effort required. A good researcher stays open-minded, refuses to let ego cloud their judgement, and is willing to learn from failure.

I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware

The user found 10,000 GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware by analyzing commit patterns and using a script to filter repositories. The script found 10,000 repositories that matched the pattern of being updated every few hours with a link to a zip archive in the readme file, but the user believes there should be many more due to GitHub's large repository count.

Zero-Touch OAuth for MCP

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The Enterprise-Managed Authorization extension is now stable, allowing organizations to centrally manage authorization for MCP servers and end-users to access all connected servers through a single login. This extension addresses a major pain point in enterprise environments by providing a zero-touch setup and centralized policy control.

DARPA Heavy Life Challenge

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Official websites use .milA .mil website belongs to an official U.S. Department of War organization. Secure .mil websites use HTTPSA lock ( Locked padlock icon ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .mil website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette

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Datasette Apps are self-contained HTML+JavaScript applications that run in a sandboxed iframe, allowing users to build custom interfaces and visualizations for their data. The plugin uses a combination of sandboxing and Content Security Policy to ensure secure execution of untrusted code.

Building a robotics research setup that lives next to my desk

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A researcher is conducting independent robotic manipulation research on a tabletop setup with a single industrial-grade robot arm, two cameras, and teleoperation, aiming to test the hypothesis that a single person can achieve meaningful results with a budget of €10,000. The setup includes a UFACTORY xArm Lite 6 robot arm, Intel RealSense D405 wrist camera, and Logitech C920 webcam, with a ...

Iran Delays U.S. Peace Talks over Israeli Attacks in Lebanon

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On Thursday, U.S. Central Command confirmed that it has officially lifted the American blockade on Iranian seaports, and is allowing all Iranian trade to pass freely in accordance with the new U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding. Simultaneously, Iranian negotiators have reportedly suspended plans to attend the next round of talks in Switzerland because of ongoing Israeli strikes in Lebanon, ...

Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS

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ENAS offers a private, local storage platform with performance, scalability, and simplicity, eliminating costly licensing and proprietary hardware. It integrates with UniFi for centralized management, secure access, and multi-site backup orchestration without recurring software costs.

The ISA Doesn't Matter Where It Counts

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AMD, Intel, Nvidia, Arm, and Qualcomm are all selling datacenter CPUs into the AI buildout. The previous piece mapped them across five sockets orbiting the GPU and ranked those sockets by value: coherent host, standard host, thinker, doer, traditional cloud. Honestly, not as much as made out to be. But let’s go socket by socket. The ISA is the language a CPU speaks. Software gets compiled ...

Many Let's Encrypt renewals had errors today

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Let's Encrypt's production API is experiencing degraded performance due to networking issues. We're working to resolve the issue and stabilize API performance.

CS 6120: Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course (2020)

CS 6120 is a PhD-level Cornell CS course on programming language implementation covering universal compilers and research topics. The course involves reading papers and open-source hacking tasks using LLVM and an educational IR.

Cell-based architecture for resilient payment systems

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American Express uses a cell-based architecture to ensure high availability and low latency in its payments ecosystem. This architecture isolates failures, maintains low-latency processing, and scales capacity without expanding the failure domain.

Flexport (YC W14) Is Hiring in Indonesia, India, and Thailand

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Flexport aims to revolutionize global logistics with AI, making trade easier and driving real-world impact. The company seeks talented individuals worldwide to join its mission-driven team and help build the future of automated global logistics.

How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart

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The JR mark was designed by Yōji Yamamoto in 1987 for Japan's railway companies, with a simple yet effective design that has remained unchanged for nearly 40 years. Yamamoto's design philosophy emphasized truth, reality, and honesty, resulting in a mark that has become synonymous with Japan's railways.

Show HN: Talos – Open-source WASM interpreter for Lean

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Talos is a Lean 4 WebAssembly interpreter that enforces rules with a single codebase for evaluation and proof. It aims for full Wasm coverage with a focus on non-optimized source code semantics.

.gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git

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Git has three levels of file ignoring: .gitignore, .git/info/exclude, and ~/.config/git/ignore. These files allow ignoring files at repository, per-repo, and machine levels respectively.

Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at lower cost

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Universities and hospitals are conducting late-stage clinical trials with lower costs, repurposing existing drugs for new uses. This "hidden" research system offers affordable treatments with huge potential, operating outside of the patent system.

Generative AI Is Having Its Herbalife Moment

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Over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed that TikTok has been serving me ads for Replit — one of the many vibe-coding startups that have emerged in the past couple of years, and that serve as a glorified wrapper for models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google. Now, TikTok can be a weird place at times. It’s full of companies trying to sell things to an audience that can not — and will not — ever ...

Horizons JPL Solar System Data Demo and NASA DSN Updates: Datastar, Common Lisp

Click on a planet to see JPL Horizons details | NASA Deep Space Network logs update in the background (all antenas) Demo for Datastar + Common Lisp / by fsm ΛↃ lambda combine
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A customer club's marketing arrangement was found to be unlawful due to forced consent. The company was fined NOK 20 million for violating GDPR rules on consent, transparency, and data processing.

Show HN: Are You in the Weights?

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The weights are the billions of numbers forming an AI's brain. Type a name and see how strongly the leading AI models recognize it. Are you in the weights?

If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good (2010)

The author argues that successful products focus on a few key features, ignoring others, to create a simple and compelling experience. This approach is seen in products like the original iPod and Gmail.

Launch HN: TesterArmy (YC P26) – Agents that test web and mobile apps

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TesterArmy is a service that uses AI to test websites and mobile apps by navigating pages and interacting with UI like a human. It integrates with GitHub and other pipelines for automatic testing and reporting.

W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty

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The user is fascinated by W Social, a microblogging platform that claims to be Europe's alternative to X, but has discrepancies between its public image and reality. The European Commission's migration of its ATproto accounts to W Social is concerning due to W Social's lack of transparency and potential reliance on Bluesky's infrastructure.

Zork name origin got an update on Wikipedia

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User investigated the origin of the word "zork" in the game Zork, initially believing it was a jargon word for unfinished programs. After researching and contacting experts, they found no evidence to support this claim.