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Post #231983 2.45K Sep 11, 2026, 09:58 UTC

Neijuan
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Wikipedia Neijuan Neijuan,[a] sometimes known by the English term involution, is a Chinese term that describes a condition in which a system, institution, or competitive process continues to intensify in effort, complexity, or participation without a corresponding increase…

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Post #231982 2.52K Sep 11, 2026, 09:06 UTC

Cherenkov Radiation - traveling faster than light
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www.iaea.org What is Cherenkov Radiation? Cherenkov radiation is a form of energy that we can perceive as a blue glow emitted when the electrically charged particles that compose atoms.

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Post #231981 2.69K Sep 11, 2026, 07:59 UTC

1M+ German households have hung solar panels off their balcony railings
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Space Daily More than a million German households have hung solar panels off their balcony railings and plugged them into a wall socket, and… Germany's renters have found the loophole to energy independence: a solar panel that plugs into the wall like a toaster, dodging landlords, permits, and the 55 percent of households locked out of rooftop solar.

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Post #231980 2.57K Sep 11, 2026, 06:45 UTC

We Replaced MMAP with Io_uring in Our Rust Query Engine. It Got Slower
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Conviva We Replaced mmap with io_uring in Our Rust Query Engine. It Got Slower. Why Conviva replaced mmap with io_uring in its Rust query engine, what went wrong under real production load, and why the first rewrite ended up 60% slower.

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Post #231979 2.49K Sep 11, 2026, 06:32 UTC

Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?
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Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again? Some thoughts on Astra and newfangled long-horizon models.

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Post #231978 2.44K Sep 11, 2026, 05:36 UTC

The Gemini app is now available for Windows
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Google The Gemini app is now available for Windows We’re launching the Gemini app for Windows, the new desktop app built to work alongside your favorite tools and daily applications.

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Post #231977 2.42K Sep 11, 2026, 04:53 UTC

Nine coding harnesses vs. your laptop
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nasutton on Notion Nine coding harnesses vs. your laptop | Notion If you have ever considered swapping out the API calls your coding harness is making for a local model it probably ended in disappointment. You ran a quick llama-bench and thought you were going to see X tokens/second. What that benchmark doesn’t tell you…

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Post #231976 2.47K Sep 11, 2026, 04:36 UTC

Exercise intensity is associated with cardiometabolic health
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Cell Reports Medicine Exercise intensity modulates interorgan communication and is associated with cardiometabolic health outcomes in humans Sprint-interval exercise (SIE) is a time-efficient exercise prescription. However, how short bursts of physical activity promote metabolic health remains unclear. Olsen et al. show that SIE stimulates greater remodeling of plasma, skeletal muscle, and adipose…

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Post #231975 2.46K Sep 11, 2026, 02:23 UTC

Mexican student creates an acoustic fire extinguisher to put out fire in seconds
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Upsocl 16-year-old Mexican student creates an acoustic fire extinguisher that uses sound waves to put out fires in seconds Optimismo que nos une

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Post #231974 2.5K Sep 11, 2026, 01:32 UTC

Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation: 192 GB GPU Memory
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system76 Thelio Mira AI Accelerate Your AI Development with the Thelio Mira AI Linux desktop workstation

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Post #231973 2.41K Sep 11, 2026, 00:54 UTC

YuE2 · Frontier Music with Symbolic Planning
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map-yue2.github.io YuE2 · Frontier Music with Symbolic Planning YuE2 unifies symbolic and audio music generation at frontier quality. Symbolic planning turns lyrics and style into an editable score, then a full song with vocals and accompaniment.

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Post #231972 2.43K Sep 11, 2026, 00:49 UTC

Google will buy half the electricity of a nuclear power plant
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Bbc Google picks Finland for its largest single investment in Europe The US tech giant says the €13bn data centre project will create tens of thousands of jobs.

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Post #231971 2.32K Sep 10, 2026, 23:42 UTC

AI Is Breaking This Thing We Call Trust
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Terrible Software AI Is Breaking This Thing We Call Trust AI-generated work can look finished without being understood. That uncertainty erodes trust, slows reviews, and leaves colleagues doing the missing work.

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Post #231970 2.28K Sep 10, 2026, 22:56 UTC

The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac
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Post #231969 2.32K Sep 10, 2026, 22:54 UTC

Cognition's SWE-2 achieves 92.8 on Terminal-Bench 2.1
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tokenstead.ai SWE-2 - Tokenstead SWE-2: hardware requirements, quantization options, and live cloud pricing on Tokenstead.

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Post #231968 2.34K Sep 10, 2026, 22:41 UTC

Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026
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Anthropic Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic Case studies from threat actors disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026 across seven areas of harm, from cyber operations to biological misuse.

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Post #231967 2.25K Sep 10, 2026, 22:30 UTC

Bodily Oddities
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Bodily Oddities Bodily Oddities: strange things the human body can (sometimes) do A collection, normal things human bodies can (sometimes) do: reflexes, illusions, sounds, tricks and rare abilities.

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Post #231966 2.26K Sep 10, 2026, 22:16 UTC

AI 2027 (2025)
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Ai-2027 AI 2027 A research-backed AI scenario forecast.

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Post #231965 2.35K Sep 10, 2026, 22:01 UTC

NTSB Issues Investigative Update on B-767 Runway Excursion Accident in Miami
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NTSB NTSB Issues Investigative Update on B-767 Runway Excursion Accident in Miami ​​WASHINGTON (Sept. 9, 2026) — The National Transportation Safety Board is providing the following update on its investigation into the Sept. 6 runway excursion accident involving 21 Air Flight 7598, a Boeing 767-33A cargo airplane, at Miami International…

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Post #231964 2.39K Sep 10, 2026, 21:34 UTC

The part of Navier-Stokes no one is talking about
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John D. Cook | Applied Mathematics Consulting The part of Navier-Stokes no one is talking about When OpenAI released their proof that solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations can blow up in finite time, they also released a formal proof in Lean 4.

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