Paratyphoid Fever and Louse-Borne Relapsing Fever Decimated Napoleon's Army

https://www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/08/lice-and-pickled-beets-pathogens-that-decimated-napoleons-army-during-his-disastrous-1812-retreat-from-russia-identified/

1•nafnlj•53s ago•0 comments

NYT Mini Archive

https://www.nytminiarchive.com/

1•rishikeshs•2m ago•0 comments

Hugo, Lodestar, and Astounding Awards Winners

https://locusmag.com/2025/08/hugo-lodestar-and-astounding-awards-winners-2/

1•CharlesW•2m ago•0 comments

Scientific and technological knowledge grows linearly over time

https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.08349

1•ColinWright•3m ago•0 comments

Ernst Haeckel: Beauty in Even the Most Unlikely of Creatures

https://haeckel.tilda.ws/en

1•ofou•5m ago•0 comments

Canada's first commercial spaceport is under construction

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/canadas-1st-commercial-spaceport-is-officially-under-construction-when-will-it-open-for-launches

1•geox•5m ago•0 comments

EgoExplore: Large-Scale Open World Exploration Dataset

https://zeroframe.ai/egoexplore

1•anirudra•6m ago•0 comments

Germany at it again: now trying to reopen the "adblockers are illegal" debate

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/15/german_court_ruling_ad_blocking/

1•star-glider•8m ago•0 comments

Duolingo's stock down 38%, drops after OpenAI's GPT-5 language vibe coding demo

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/17/194212/duolingos-stock-down-38-plummets-after-openais-gpt-5-language-app-building-demo

3•MilnerRoute•10m ago•0 comments

The rise and fall of the Seagaia Ocean Dome wave pool

https://www.surfertoday.com/surfing/the-untold-story-of-the-seagaia-ocean-dome-indoor-wave-pool

1•herbertl•14m ago•0 comments

HN Search isn't ingesting new data since Friday

https://github.com/algolia/hn-search/issues/248

19•busymom0•16m ago•2 comments

The Cat

https://mwl.io/ego/the-cat

2•worik•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Retly- collect feedback like a boss (free)

https://retly.byako.dev/

1•ardakaan•19m ago•0 comments

You Should Add Debug Views to Your DB

https://chrispenner.ca/posts/views-for-debugging

1•ezekg•21m ago•0 comments

Perplexity Comet – interested in your feedback

1•zyruh•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Daily analysis of 9k GitHub repos using AI Coding Agents

https://ai-coding.info/en

2•kotauchisunsun•29m ago•0 comments

'MMS' to 'aerobic oxygen,' drinking bleach has become a dangerous wellness trend

https://theconversation.com/from-mms-to-aerobic-oxygen-why-drinking-bleach-has-become-a-dangerous-wellness-trend-260761

2•PaulHoule•32m ago•0 comments

Converting PNG images to 3D mesh in mixed reality based on image light shading [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyvDz0iFdYo

1•Englestone•33m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Doxx – Terminal .docx viewer inspired by Glow

https://github.com/bgreenwell/doxx

2•w108bmg•33m ago•1 comments

I Prefer RST to Markdown

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/why-i-prefer-rst-to-markdown/

3•shlomo_z•34m ago•0 comments

A composition-safe monadic baptism

https://twitter.com/eigen_moomin/status/1956771652345512360

1•MrBuddyCasino•35m ago•0 comments

Radio Garden

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=70250

1•everybodyknows•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Heicconvert.it – HEIC → JPEG, PNG, WebP or AVIF In-Browser (No Upload)

https://www.heicconvert.it

3•reverdin•38m ago•0 comments

China's military wants to target US undersea sensor network: Analysis

https://www.defensenews.com/global/asia-pacific/2025/08/13/chinas-military-wants-to-target-us-undersea-sensor-network-analysis/

4•giuliomagnifico•38m ago•0 comments

When Did AI Take Over Hacker News?

https://zachperk.com/blog/when-did-ai-take-over-hn

91•zachperkel•40m ago•20 comments

CEO laid off nearly 80% because they refused to adopt AI fast enough

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ceo-laid-off-nearly-80-120000706.html

3•ripe•40m ago•3 comments

Show HN: A simple site for Tao Te Ching And I Ching

https://IChingDao.Love

1•kindkang2024•43m ago•0 comments

Tokenizers

https://huggingface.co/learn/llm-course/chapter2/4

1•tokfan•45m ago•0 comments

AI reasoning enhancement through bias elimination

https://github.com/OscarLawrence/UCP

2•vindao•47m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Self-hosted Brainfuck compiler (for macOS)

https://github.com/michaelfm1211/bf.bf

2•michaelfm1211•47m ago•0 comments