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"Magic" Cleaning Sponges Found to Release Trillions of Microplastic Fibers

https://scitechdaily.com/magic-cleaning-sponges-found-to-release-trillions-of-microplastic-fibers/
9•01-_-•3h ago

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01HNNWZ0MV43FF•1h ago
These guys again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melamine_foam

I don't buy them. Lots of tiny hard fibers? Sounds too much like asbestos and fiberglass

Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01191
1•nnx•1m ago•0 comments

Indigenous Runner Wins 63K Ultramarathon After Walking 14 Hours to Starting Line

https://mymodernmet.com/candelaria-rivas-ramos-ultramarathon-runner/
1•bookofjoe•3m ago•0 comments

HappyX – Macro-oriented asynchronous web-framework

https://github.com/HapticX/happyx
1•TheWiggles•4m ago•0 comments

'I Feel Like I'm Going Crazy': ChatGPT Fuels Delusional Spirals

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/i-feel-like-im-going-crazy-chatgpt-fuels-delusional-spirals-ae5a51fc
1•jrflowers•11m ago•0 comments

Benchmarks Show Speculative Decoding Needs the Right Draft Model for 3× Gains

https://www.bentoml.com/blog/3x-faster-llm-inference-with-speculative-decoding
1•bbzjk7•18m ago•0 comments

Cosmic Ray Bit Flips and the Hidden Risk at Scale

https://cside.dev/blog/cosmic-ray-bit-flips-and-the-hidden-risk-at-scale
2•s-mon•18m ago•0 comments

Founder Virtues, per the Thiel Fellowship

https://venki.dev/notes/thiel-founder-virtues
1•venkii•22m ago•0 comments

The Calculus of Grit (2011)

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/08/19/the-calculus-of-grit/
1•venkii•27m ago•0 comments

China Tells Brokers to Stop Touting Stablecoins to Cool Frenzy

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-08/china-tells-brokers-to-stop-touting-stablecoins-to-cool-frenzy
1•TMWNN•28m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why do readmes still use $ in copy-pasteable commands?

1•garyfirestorm•29m ago•1 comments

Alzheimer's Breakthrough: Lithium Reverses Memory Loss in Mice

https://www.sciencealert.com/alzheimers-breakthrough-lithium-reverses-memory-loss-in-mice
1•amichail•32m ago•1 comments

Sam Altman does damage control: GPT-5 rollout's unpopular changes will be undone

https://xcancel.com/sama/status/1953893841381273969
2•alecco•32m ago•0 comments

Future AI bills of $100k/yr per Dev

https://blog.kilocode.ai/p/token-growth-indicates-future-ai
1•tirumario•33m ago•0 comments

Apollo 13 moon mission leader James Lovell dies at 97

https://apnews.com/article/james-lovell-dies-obituary-apollo-13-astronaut-ed08c1efc0a74fbd9d47868ff9983a23
3•divbzero•35m ago•1 comments

Google commits $1B for AI training at US universities

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/google-commits-1-billion-ai-training-us-universities-2025-08-06/
1•rbanffy•36m ago•0 comments

Atom aims to create a U.S. rival to China's open-source AI technology

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/05/atom-project-open-source-ai-china/
2•rbanffy•37m ago•0 comments

3D printing and AI used to slash nuclear reactor component construction time

https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/3d-printing-and-ai-used-to-slash-nuclear-reactor-component-construction-time-from-weeks-to-days-pioneers-hail-new-era-of-nuclear-construction
1•rbanffy•37m ago•0 comments

NextCoder by Microsoft — LLM performing on par with GPT-4o on complex benchmarks

https://huggingface.co/microsoft/NextCoder-32B
2•maxloh•42m ago•0 comments

High costs and thin margins threatening AI coding startups

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/07/the-high-costs-and-thin-margins-threatening-ai-coding-startups/
2•gpi•45m ago•0 comments

Hacker News Extension

https://github.com/sea2ocean/hn-quickview
2•alexmonami•48m ago•1 comments

GPT-5 is better, but isn't giant leap forward for vision

https://blog.roboflow.com/reflections-on-gpt-5-vision-capabilities/
2•jswandev•49m ago•0 comments

Little-known leguminous plant can increase beef production by 60% (2022)

https://www.embrapa.br/en/busca-de-noticias/-/noticia/75361634/little-known-leguminous-plant-can-increase-beef-production-by-60
13•littlexsparkee•51m ago•1 comments

Pedestrians walk faster than NYC crosstown bus

https://www.fox5ny.com/news/nyc-midtown-bus-transportation-mamdani-lander-vote-traffic
2•impish9208•51m ago•0 comments

Hospital fined after patient files used as snack bags

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/3080090/hospital-fined-after-patient-files-used-as-snack-bags
1•gnabgib•53m ago•0 comments

What to know about cardiac catheterization vs. angiogram

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/cardiac-catheterization-vs-angiogram
1•teleforce•54m ago•0 comments

Green dildos are raining down on WNBA courts. Why? Crypto memecoins, of course

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/08/green-dildos-are-raining-down-on-wnba-courts-why-crypto-memecoins-of-course/
1•pseudolus•55m ago•0 comments

R/MyBoyfriendIsAI

https://old.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfriendIsAI/
2•shepherdjerred•58m ago•1 comments

Battlefield 6, day 1 cheats despite kernel anticheat and Secure Boot with TPM2.0 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFfs_D6JzEo
2•anonfordays•58m ago•1 comments

Medicaid cuts are likely to worsen mental health care in rural America

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07-medicaid-worsen-mental-health-rural.html
1•PaulHoule•59m ago•0 comments

GTP Blind Voting: GPT-5 vs. 4o

https://gptblindvoting.vercel.app/
2•findhorn•1h ago•0 comments