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New stretchable alloy boosts heat pump efficiency 20 times over metals

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/elastic-alloy-achieves-better-heat-shift
2•bilsbie•1d ago

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blacksqr•1d ago
Seems like a worthy breakthrough, but the reported effect only produces temperature differences of 4-5K. They conjecture they can go to 22K deltas in the future.

Can an effect that small be practically scaled to grid-level usefulness, efficiency notwithstanding?

bilsbie•1d ago
How much is that in F?

Watch a robot play badminton against human players

https://www.science.org/content/article/watch-robot-play-badminton-against-human-players
1•geox•5m ago•0 comments

SQL Workbench – Republicans not welcome

https://www.sql-workbench.eu/
1•bitbasher•6m ago•0 comments

85% of Komoot staff being let go after being sold to Bending Spoons

https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2025/05/komoot-team-goodbye.html
1•sorenjan•6m ago•0 comments

The Atomic Airplane

https://whatisnuclear.com/the-story-of-the-atomic-airplane.html
1•mpweiher•8m ago•0 comments

Coinbase support agents were compromised

https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/05/29/coinbase-hack-the-community-taskus-bpos-teenagers/
2•miohtama•11m ago•0 comments

Tesla FSD doesn't stop for school buses with stop signs and red lights

https://bsky.app/profile/realdanodowd.bsky.social/post/3lqafg2zqfk2v
2•alex_young•11m ago•0 comments

Canva's Dev MCP Server

https://www.canva.dev/docs/apps/mcp-server/
1•gitgud•14m ago•0 comments

Lifetime earnings and the making of Subliminal Words

https://indest.ee/lifetime-earnings-and-the-making-of-subliminal-words/
1•indest•16m ago•0 comments

Is gravity evidence of a computational universe?

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/adv/article/15/4/045035/3345217/Is-gravity-evidence-of-a-computational-universe
1•mpweiher•18m ago•0 comments

Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?

https://www.physics.harvard.edu/undergrad/humor
1•mapolone•18m ago•0 comments

My Guide to Avoiding the Internet's Constant Noise

https://uscne.blogspot.com/2025/05/my-guide-to-avoiding-internets.html
1•uscne•21m ago•0 comments

Florida was a shining example of open government. Not any more

https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2025/05/29/florida-was-shining-example-open-government-not-any-more-column/
1•howard941•25m ago•0 comments

JavaScript Errors

https://www.haydenbleasel.com/blog/on-javascript-errors
1•fmerian•27m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How Bing is indexing YouTube videos?

1•the_arun•28m ago•1 comments

The Bullseye of America's Internet (2012)

https://gizmodo.com/the-bullseye-of-america-s-internet-5913934
1•droideqa•28m ago•0 comments

AI Isn't a Worker Replacement; It's a Human Replacement

https://old.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1kygh20/cmv_ai_isnt_a_worker_replacement_its_a_human/
1•amichail•31m ago•0 comments

The Future of Comments Is Lies, I Guess

https://aphyr.com/posts/388-the-future-of-comments-is-lies-i-guess
3•zdw•32m ago•1 comments

A new architecture emulates imagination and higher-level human mental states

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-05-architecture-emulates-higher-human-mental.html
2•birriel•34m ago•0 comments

An AI Chatbot Is Flooding Canadian City Councils with Climate Misinformation

https://www.desmog.com/2025/05/28/a-weaponized-ai-chatbot-is-flooding-canadian-city-councils-with-climate-misinformation/
1•OutOfHere•36m ago•0 comments

An online space for Python developers to code, run and share small Python things

https://py.space/
1•thomascountz•36m ago•0 comments

Cognitive Debt

https://smithery.com/2025/05/05/cognitive-debt/
1•frereubu•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I Launched B2B Ad Network for Tech Startups

https://www.tinyadz.com/
1•johnrushx•40m ago•0 comments

The Vagus Nerve Industry

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/book-of-the-day/2025/05/the-vagus-nerve-industry
3•bookofjoe•42m ago•0 comments

RFK Jr.'S MAHA Report Cites Research Studies That Don't Exist

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/rfk-jr-maha-report-fake-research-studies-1235350468/
2•Animats•47m ago•3 comments

Show HN: Willow Voice (YC X25) – Personalized Dictation You Can Use Anywhere

https://willowvoice.com/
2•LiuLawrence45•49m ago•0 comments

Basecoat UI: All of the shadcn/UI magic, none of the React

https://basecoatui.com/
1•icar•50m ago•0 comments

Qian Xuesen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian_Xuesen
1•Metacelsus•52m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Client side mental health screeners

https://kairoscope.org/
1•SubzeroCarnage•55m ago•0 comments

HellCaptcha: Accessibility Theater at Its Worst

https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/hellcaptcha-accessibility-theater-at-its-worst/
2•SSLy•56m ago•0 comments

Understanding Droids

https://docs.factory.ai/user-guides/droids/understanding-droids
4•data_delaurier•59m ago•1 comments