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1•soh3il•29s ago

Trends in LLM-Generated Citations on ArXiv

https://spylab.ai/blog/hallucinations/
1•fi-le•51s ago•0 comments

Facial recognition technology fails to match on Charlie Kirk shooter

https://twitter.com/FBISaltLakeCity/status/1966166991435071761
1•harambae•54s ago•0 comments

The Evolution of Logical Replication in PostgreSQL

https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/evolution-logical-replication-postgresql-firsthand-account
2•KraftyOne•1m ago•0 comments

DOOMscroll

https://gisnep.com/doomscroll/
1•colinprince•1m ago•0 comments

BBC infrastructure response during and following 9/11

http://www.slimey.org/bbc_ticket_10083.txt
1•simonjgreen•2m ago•0 comments

Universal Systems Language for Preventative Systems Engineering [pdf]

http://www.htius.com/Articles/36.pdf
1•OhMeadhbh•2m ago•0 comments

3D-printed superconductor achieves record performance with soft matter approach

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/08/3d-printed-superconductor-achieves-record-performance
1•PaulHoule•3m ago•1 comments

Rapid Application Development [Wikipedia]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_application_development
1•OhMeadhbh•4m ago•0 comments

Nvidia Is a National Security Risk

https://www.compactmag.com/article/nvidia-is-a-national-security-risk/
3•giuliomagnifico•6m ago•1 comments

New video at UFO hearing appears to show missile striking and bouncing off orb

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/video-house-ufo-hearing-us-missile-strikes-unidentified-object/
3•bookofjoe•8m ago•0 comments

Every Keystroke You Make: A Tech-Law Measurement and Analysis of Event Listeners

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19825
9•lapcat•9m ago•0 comments

NASA bars Chinese citizens from its facilities, networks

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/11/nasa_china_ban/
3•ironyman•10m ago•0 comments

Over the last two years, the sea level has dropped by 3 mm

https://twitter.com/JVinos_Climate/status/1966033973332652084
1•bilsbie•10m ago•1 comments

Candidozyma Auris

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candidozyma_auris
1•BruceEel•11m ago•0 comments

Walmart's bet on AI depends on getting employees to use it

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/11/walmarts_bet_on_ai_depends/
3•rntn•16m ago•0 comments

Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype

https://spectrum.ieee.org/humanoid-robot-scaling
7•voxadam•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Historian – bridge from InfluxDB 1.x/2.x to 3.0 with Parquet and DuckDB

https://cduser.com/how-to-migrate-influxdb-1-x-2-x-to-3-0-without-losing-your-history-introducing...
1•ignaciovdk•17m ago•0 comments

The Evil Genius Who Invented Propaganda

https://sgcarney.substack.com/p/meet-the-evil-genius-who-invented
3•mooreds•17m ago•0 comments

MotoE, electric bike world championship, going on hiatus due to lack of interest

https://www.engadget.com/transportation/evs/motoe-the-electric-bike-world-championship-is-going-o...
3•thunderbong•19m ago•0 comments

Where does your glass come from?

https://theconversation.com/where-does-your-glass-come-from-263421
1•bikenaga•19m ago•0 comments

Racial/institutional biases in accessing paywalled articles and scientific data

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08299
2•bikenaga•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Which Airbnb did your friends stay in?

1•arpitagarwal•21m ago•1 comments

David Foster Wallace on 9/11, as Seen from the Midwest

https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/david-foster-wallace-on-9-11-as-seen-from-the-midwest-242422/
2•tolerance•22m ago•0 comments

The Murder of Charlie Kirk Didn't Help Anyone

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/11/the-murder-of-charlie-kirk-didnt-help-anyone/
4•speckx•22m ago•2 comments

A deep dive into Cellebrite: Android support as of February 2025

https://osservatorionessuno.org/blog/2025/03/a-deep-dive-into-cellebrite-android-support-as-of-fe...
1•akyuu•23m ago•0 comments

Nano-switch achieves first directed, gated flow of excitons

https://news.engin.umich.edu/2025/09/nano-switch-achieves-first-directed-gated-flow-of-excitons/
2•geox•24m ago•0 comments

Apple 40W Dynamic Power Adapter with 60W Max

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MGKN4AM/A/40w-dynamic-power-adapter-with-60w-max
6•ksec•28m ago•0 comments

Happiest Countries in the World for 2025, According to a New Report

https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurabegleybloom/2025/03/20/the-20-happiest-countries-in-the-world-f...
4•mindracer•30m ago•1 comments

Form16x — Parse tax PDFs into JSON with regime comparison and optimization

https://github.com/ri-sh/Form16x
2•taxedo•30m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Why did the Babylonians use a base 60 number system?

https://galileo-unbound.blog/2024/10/22/counting-by-the-waters-of-babylon-the-secrets-of-the-babylonian-60-by-60-multiplication-system/
2•just_human•2h ago

Comments

just_human•2h ago
No one knows why the Sumerians (later Babylonians) used base 60, but the leading theory is that 60 is highly divisible for a smaller number, making it much easier to do fractions and square roots by hand.

Also interesting, YAML supported base 60 in earlier versions (not sure why? possibly because easier to represent time?), but it was later dropped: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagesimal?utm_source=chatgpt...