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A Bid-Based NFT Advertising Grid

https://bidsabillion.com/

1•chainbuilder•2m ago•1 comments

AI readability score for your documentation

https://docsalot.dev/tools/docsagent-score

1•fazkan•10m ago•0 comments

NASA Study: Non-Biologic Processes Don't Explain Mars Organics

https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/science-news/2026/02/06/nasa-study-non-biologic-processes-dont-ful...

2•bediger4000•13m ago•2 comments

I inhaled traffic fumes to find out where air pollution goes in my body

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74w48d8epgo

2•dabinat•13m ago•0 comments

X said it would give $1M to a user who had previously shared racist posts

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/x-pays-1-million-prize-creator-history-racist-posts-rcna257768

3•doener•16m ago•1 comments

155M US land parcel boundaries

https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/landrecordsus/us-parcel-layer

2•tjwebbnorfolk•20m ago•0 comments

Private Inference

https://confer.to/blog/2026/01/private-inference/

2•jbegley•24m ago•1 comments

Font Rendering from First Principles

https://mccloskeybr.com/articles/font_rendering.html

1•krapp•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Seedance 2.0 AI video generator for creators and ecommerce

https://seedance-2.net

1•dallen97•31m ago•0 comments

Wally: A fun, reliable voice assistant in the shape of a penguin

https://github.com/JLW-7/Wally

2•PaulHoule•32m ago•0 comments

Rewriting Pycparser with the Help of an LLM

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/rewriting-pycparser-with-the-help-of-an-llm/

2•y1n0•34m ago•0 comments

Lobsters Vibecoding Challenge

https://gist.github.com/MostAwesomeDude/bb8cbfd005a33f5dd262d1f20a63a693

1•tolerance•34m ago•0 comments

E-Commerce vs. Social Commerce

https://moondala.one/

1•HamoodBahzar•34m ago•1 comments

Avoiding Modern C++ – Anton Mikhailov [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShSGHb65f3M

2•linkdd•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AegisMind–AI system with 12 brain regions modeled on human neuroscience

https://www.aegismind.app

2•aegismind_app•40m ago•1 comments

Zig – Package Management Workflow Enhancements

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-02-06

1•Retro_Dev•41m ago•0 comments

AI-powered text correction for macOS

https://taipo.app/

1•neuling•45m ago•1 comments

AppSecMaster – Learn Application Security with hands on challenges

https://www.appsecmaster.net/en

1•aqeisi•46m ago•1 comments

Fibonacci Number Certificates

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/02/05/fibonacci-certificate/

2•y1n0•47m ago•0 comments

AI Overviews are killing the web search, and there's nothing we can do about it

https://www.neowin.net/editorials/ai-overviews-are-killing-the-web-search-and-theres-nothing-we-c...

5•bundie•52m ago•1 comments

City skylines need an upgrade in the face of climate stress

https://theconversation.com/city-skylines-need-an-upgrade-in-the-face-of-climate-stress-267763

3•gnabgib•53m ago•0 comments

1979: The Model World of Robert Symes [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmDxmxhrGDc

1•xqcgrek2•58m ago•0 comments

Satellites Have a Lot of Room

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/02/02/satellites-have-a-lot-of-room/

3•y1n0•58m ago•0 comments

1980s Farm Crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_farm_crisis

4•calebhwin•59m ago•1 comments

Show HN: FSID - Identifier for files and directories (like ISBN for Books)

https://github.com/skorotkiewicz/fsid

1•modinfo•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Holy Grail: Open-Source Autonomous Development Agent

https://github.com/dakotalock/holygrailopensource

1•Moriarty2026•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Minecraft Creeper meets 90s Tamagotchi

https://github.com/danielbrendel/krepagotchi-game

1•foxiel•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Termiteam – Control center for multiple AI agent terminals

https://github.com/NetanelBaruch/termiteam

1•Netanelbaruch•1h ago•0 comments

The only U.S. particle collider shuts down

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/particle-collider-shuts-down-brookhaven

3•rolph•1h ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Why do purchased B2B email lists still have such poor deliverability?

1•solarisos•1h ago•3 comments

Open in hackernews

Vertically rolling ball 'challenges our basic understanding of physics'

https://www.popsci.com/science/vertical-rolling-ball/

10•gennarro•8mo ago

Comments

iliti22•8mo ago

I am beginning to understand why federal funds were cut to universities. "Spitball by middle school kid rolls down whiteboard rather than instantly falling off! OMG we need a million dollars to study this."

AlotOfReading•8mo ago

Looks like they got around $75,000 total, split up over two grants, shared by the co-authors and the lab. That's a shockingly small budget and produced a neat study. Seems like Canada's getting their money's worth.

rsfern•8mo ago

The article in Soft Matter is open access: https://doi.org/10.1039/D4SM01490A

They have some interesting analysis of the elastic deformation that happens during the rolling process (as opposed to the ball just falling or sliding). Turns out it’s pretty sensitive to the elastic constant of both the ball and the wall

metalman•8mo ago

this is very interesting and may point to a new way to look at fluid dynamics, which is a poorly understood field that effects a great deal of human endevour

gus_massa•8mo ago

> Regardless, Mitra and colleagues wrote that their observation “challenges our basic understanding of physics,” with practical effects extending far beyond a neat lab trick.

The description of the orb and how it works, reminds me of the Sticky Octopus toys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruLT3LTmfxc&t=130s definitively not new physics.