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Public toilets in China are making people watch ads for toilet paper

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/public-toilets-in-china-are-making-people-watch-ads-for-toilet-paper-3250289/
7•smsm42•1h ago

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leakycap•1h ago
Did you know in the US, pressing the four buttons in any order on the right side of the gas pump screen will mute the audio from whatever ad plays while you pump fuel?

Maybe there will be similar workarounds when you need another square of TP.

DaveZale•1h ago
how about ads for dump trucks?

Learn Your Way: Towards an AI-Augmented Textbook, Google Research

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13348
1•walterbell•5m ago•0 comments

The Long Mode Chronicles: How the World Became x86-64 Inside

https://computerparkitecture.substack.com/p/the-long-mode-chronicles
1•ksec•8m ago•0 comments

Meta's AI system Llama approved for use by US Government agencies

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/metas-ai-system-llama-approved-use-by-us-government-agencies-202...
1•TMWNN•12m ago•0 comments

Training Qwen to answer briefly yet intelligently using feedback control

https://www.runrl.com/blog/feedback-control
1•ag8•13m ago•0 comments

Global Prevalence of Long Covid, Its Subtypes, and Risk Factors

https://academic.oup.com/ofid/article/12/9/ofaf533/8244677
2•alihm•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: WordDrop – my first mobile game (Tetris and Scrabble hybrid)

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/worddrop-app/id6747409372
2•gimlithedoge•19m ago•0 comments

Poland to Russia: 'You have been warned' so don't 'whine' if jets shot down

https://www.politico.eu/article/radoslaw-sikorski-poland-russia-un-security-council-nato/
3•JumpCrisscross•26m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How are you dealing with documentation these days?

1•yakkomajuri•31m ago•0 comments

US fall foliage map 2025

https://www.explorefall.com/fall-foliage-map
2•rappatic•31m ago•0 comments

Edward Teller Last Interview (2002)

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/interviews/a2020/esq0102-jan-teller/
1•JumpinJack_Cash•36m ago•0 comments

Turn Your Phone into a Robot

https://www.instructables.com/Turn-Your-Phone-into-a-Robot/
1•wslh•37m ago•0 comments

Waterloo built an LRT more cheaply than other North American cities [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uttoyAX4ntc
1•zahlman•38m ago•1 comments

$37B 'Stargate of China' project takes shape

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/china-is-converting-farmland-i...
2•jonbaer•39m ago•0 comments

The CSS Handbook, 2025 edition

https://flaviocopes.com/the-css-handbook-2025-edition/
2•indigodaddy•51m ago•0 comments

Wearable Electrochemical Platform for Continuous Sweat Lactate Detection

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smll.202502655
1•PaulHoule•53m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is there no way to incrementally backup from Google photos?

3•mijoharas•53m ago•4 comments

Everyone builds apps for where the night starts. We built one for where it ends

https://myaftr.com/
1•Jessenet•54m ago•1 comments

American students are getting dumber

https://www.slowboring.com/p/american-students-are-getting-dumber
8•JumpCrisscross•55m ago•3 comments

The pattern language of software architecture

https://metapatterns.io
1•t-3•55m ago•0 comments

Apple steps up war of words with European regulators

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly930y90lro
2•tchalla•58m ago•0 comments

As Good as a Coin Toss: Human Detection of AI-Generated Content

https://cacm.acm.org/research/as-good-as-a-coin-toss-human-detection-of-ai-generated-content/
2•pseudolus•1h ago•2 comments

Thundering Herd Problem: Preventing the Stampede

https://distributed-computing-musings.com/2025/08/thundering-herd-problem-preventing-the-stampede/
1•pbardea•1h ago•0 comments

Grepctl: Semantic Search for Your Data Lake

https://github.com/gregorymulla/grepctl
2•GregoryMulla•1h ago•1 comments

Ron DiMenna, Founder of Ron Jon Surf Shop, Has Died

https://spacecoastdaily.com/2025/09/obituary-ron-jon-surf-shop-founder-ron-dimenna-who-turned-sur...
2•NaOH•1h ago•1 comments

US Intel officials "concerned" China will soon master reusable launch

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/09/us-intel-officials-cite-reusable-launch-as-difference-maker...
2•pseudolus•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Minimalist automatic Prettier formatting plugin for Vite

https://github.com/kekyo/prettier-max
1•kekyo•1h ago•0 comments

How Climate Change Is Fueling Your Sugar Addiction

https://grist.org/food-and-agriculture/how-climate-change-is-fueling-your-sugar-addiction/
1•sizzle•1h ago•1 comments

Predicting the Future: The Supergroup of AI, Humans, Hedgehogs and Foxes

https://www.newsweek.com/nw-ai/predicting-future-supergroup-ai-humans-hedgehogs-foxes-2132146
1•T-A•1h ago•0 comments

Bayes vs. Frequentists – An Empirical Test in Code

https://software.rajivprab.com/2019/12/29/bayes-vs-frequentists-an-empirical-test-in-code/
2•whack•1h ago•1 comments

Building ventilation invented by ancient Persians/Romans making modern comeback

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/what-on-earth-solar-chimneys-1.7636962
2•bookofjoe•1h ago•0 comments