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HN @hnws.bsky.social · 48m

Sodium batteries are finally catching up
L: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/10/251016223116.htm
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45630251
posted on 2025.10.18 at 16:49:56 (c=0, p=4)

HN @hnws.bsky.social · 53m

Dutch intelligence services now share less information with US
L: https://www.dutchnews.nl/2025/10/dutch-intelligence-services-now-share-less-information-with-us/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45630058
posted on 2025.10.18 at 16:13:41 (c=0, p=6)

HN @hnws.bsky.social · 58m

Most users cannot identify AI bias, even in training data
L: https://www.psu.edu/news/bellisario-college-communications/story/most-users-cannot-identify-ai-bias-even-training-data
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45629299
posted on 2025.10.18 at 14:13:27 (c=0, p=3)

HN @hnws.bsky.social · 58m

How to sequence your DNA for <$2k
L: https://maxlangenkamp.substack.com/p/how-to-sequence-your-dna-for-2k
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45629970
posted on 2025.10.18 at 15:58:25 (c=0, p=5)

HN @hnws.bsky.social · 1h

Salesforce told ICE it could help speed up hiring of immigration officers
L: https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/salesforce-told-ice-help-speed-hiring-officers-21105202.php
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45629643
posted on 2025.10.18 at 15:05:39 (c=0, p=6)

HN @hnws.bsky.social · 1h

Carbonized 1,300-Year-Old Bread Loaves Unearthed in Turkey
L: https://ancientist.com/1300-year-old-communion-bread-unearthed-in-karaman-a-loaf-for-the-farmer-christ/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45569692
posted on 2025.10.13 at 11:48:33 (c=0, p=4)

HN @hnws.bsky.social · 1h

Solution to CIA’s kryptos sculpture is found in Smithsonian vault
L: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/science/kryptos-cia-solution-sanborn-auction.html
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45603876
posted on 2025.10.16 at 06:56:50 (c=6, p=37)

HN @hnws.bsky.social · 1h

Is Postgres read heavy or write heavy?
L: https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/is-postgres-read-heavy-or-write-heavy-and-why-should-you-care
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45619108
posted on 2025.10.17 at 13:06:16 (c=1, p=4)

HN @hnws.bsky.social · 2h

The Rise and Fall of Hunter S. Thompson (Part 3 of 3)
L: https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-hunter-s-thompson-aa8
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45629337
posted on 2025.10.18 at 14:18:51 (c=0, p=4)

HN @hnws.bsky.social · 2h

Chen-Ning Yang, Nobel laureate, dies at 103
L: https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202510/18/WS68f3170ea310f735438b5bf2.html
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45625229
posted on 2025.10.18 at 01:47:14 (c=4, p=3)

HN @hnws.bsky.social · 3h

The Hunt for the World's Oldest Story
L: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/20/review-the-roots-of-ancient-mythology-books
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45566857
posted on 2025.10.13 at 06:35:58 (c=1, p=5)

HN @hnws.bsky.social · 3h

Ex-Builder.ai CFO subpoenaed as US authorities probe its collapse
L: https://www.ft.com/content/177dd03a-bffe-4248-9c75-db2f54dd35a4
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45629038
posted on 2025.10.18 at 13:37:35 (c=0, p=3)

HN @hnws.bsky.social · 3h

Atuin desktop: Runbooks that run
L: https://github.com/atuinsh/desktop
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45628499
posted on 2025.10.18 at 12:25:58 (c=0, p=3)

HN @hnws.bsky.social · 4h

What Dynamic Typing Is For
L: https://unplannedobsolescence.com/blog/what-dynamic-typing-is-for/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45576857
posted on 2025.10.14 at 02:23:47 (c=1, p=4)

HN @hnws.bsky.social · 4h

Picturing Mathematics
L: https://mathenchant.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/picturing-mathematics/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45628283
posted on 2025.10.18 at 11:52:39 (c=1, p=2)

HN @hnws.bsky.social · 4h

Testosterone Administration Induces a Red Shift in Democrats
L: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12230349/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45628373
posted on 2025.10.18 at 12:04:37 (c=0, p=3)

HN @hnws.bsky.social · 4h

Best xkcd
L: https://www.heavyconsulting.net/bestxkcd/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45627889
posted on 2025.10.18 at 10:55:54 (c=0, p=3)

HN @hnws.bsky.social · 4h

SAP users still wrestling with business case for S/4HANA
L: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/17/sap_s4hana_business_case/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45628494
posted on 2025.10.18 at 12:25:01 (c=0, p=3)

HN @hnws.bsky.social · 4h

Solving the NYTimes Pips puzzle with a constraint solver
L: https://www.righto.com/2025/10/solve-nyt-pips-with-constraints.html
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45628279
posted on 2025.10.18 at 11:52:08 (c=1, p=4)

HN @hnws.bsky.social · 4h

Tinnitus Neuromodulator
L: https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/neuromodulationTonesGenerator.php
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45628391
posted on 2025.10.18 at 12:08:10 (c=0, p=3)

HN @hnws.bsky.social · 5h

Who invented deep residual learning?
L: https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/who-invented-residual-neural-networks.html
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45567050
posted on 2025.10.13 at 07:07:25 (c=0, p=7)

HN @hnws.bsky.social · 5h

Blackstone says Wall Street is complacent about AI disruption
L: https://www.ft.com/content/35d80b4d-eecd-424b-9350-8da138036d7e
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45628120
posted on 2025.10.18 at 11:29:46 (c=2, p=5)

HN @hnws.bsky.social · 5h

Eco-friendly technology removes toxic PFAS from water
L: https://phys.org/news/2025-10-eco-friendly-technology-toxic-pfas.html
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45628204
posted on 2025.10.18 at 11:41:41 (c=0, p=3)

HN @hnws.bsky.social · 5h

Attention Is a Luxury Good
L: https://seths.blog/2025/10/attention-is-a-luxury-good/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45628190
posted on 2025.10.18 at 11:39:47 (c=1, p=4)

HN @hnws.bsky.social · 5h

Free Programing Books
L: https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45628348
posted on 2025.10.18 at 11:59:58 (c=0, p=6)