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Toroidal Logit Bias – Reduce LLM hallucinations 40% with no fine-tuning

https://github.com/Paraxiom/topological-coherence
1•slye514•30s ago•1 comments

Top AI models fail at >96% of tasks

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-failed-test-on-remote-freelance-jobs/
1•codexon•41s ago•1 comments

The Science of the Perfect Second (2023)

https://harpers.org/archive/2023/04/the-science-of-the-perfect-second/
1•NaOH•1m ago•0 comments

Bob Beck (OpenBSD) on why vi should stay vi (2006)

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=115820462402673&w=2
2•birdculture•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Glimpsh – exploring gaze input inside the terminal

https://github.com/dchrty/glimpsh
1•dochrty•6m ago•0 comments

The Optima-l Situation: A deep dive into the classic humanist sans-serif

https://micahblachman.beehiiv.com/p/the-optima-l-situation
1•subdomain•6m ago•0 comments

Barn Owls Know When to Wait

https://blog.typeobject.com/posts/2026-barn-owls-know-when-to-wait/
1•fintler•6m ago•0 comments

Implementing TCP Echo Server in Rust [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjOBZ_Xzuio
1•sheerluck•6m ago•0 comments

LicGen – Offline License Generator (CLI and Web UI)

1•tejavvo•10m ago•0 comments

Service Degradation in West US Region

https://azure.status.microsoft/en-gb/status?gsid=5616bb85-f380-4a04-85ed-95674eec3d87&utm_source=...
2•_____k•10m ago•0 comments

The Janitor on Mars

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1998/10/26/the-janitor-on-mars
1•evo_9•12m ago•0 comments

Bringing Polars to .NET

https://github.com/ErrorLSC/Polars.NET
3•CurtHagenlocher•14m ago•0 comments

Adventures in Guix Packaging

https://nemin.hu/guix-packaging.html
1•todsacerdoti•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: We had 20 Claude terminals open, so we built Orcha

1•buildingwdavid•15m ago•0 comments

Your Best Thinking Is Wasted on the Wrong Decisions

https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-07-your-best-thinking-is-wasted-on-the-wrong-decis...
1•iand675•15m ago•0 comments

Warcraftcn/UI – UI component library inspired by classic Warcraft III aesthetics

https://www.warcraftcn.com/
1•vyrotek•16m ago•0 comments

Trump Vodka Becomes Available for Pre-Orders

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kirkogunrinde/2025/12/01/trump-vodka-becomes-available-for-pre-order...
1•stopbulying•17m ago•0 comments

Velocity of Money

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money
1•gurjeet•20m ago•0 comments

Stop building automations. Start running your business

https://www.fluxtopus.com/automate-your-business
1•valboa•24m ago•1 comments

You can't QA your way to the frontier

https://www.scorecard.io/blog/you-cant-qa-your-way-to-the-frontier
1•gk1•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PalettePoint – AI color palette generator from text or images

https://palettepoint.com
1•latentio•26m ago•0 comments

Robust and Interactable World Models in Computer Vision [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B4kkaGOozA
2•Anon84•30m ago•0 comments

Nestlé couldn't crack Japan's coffee market.Then they hired a child psychologist

https://twitter.com/BigBrainMkting/status/2019792335509541220
1•rmason•31m ago•1 comments

Notes for February 2-7

https://taoofmac.com/space/notes/2026/02/07/2000
2•rcarmo•33m ago•0 comments

Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/07/boomers_vs_zoomers_workplace/
2•Willingham•40m ago•0 comments

The Big Hunger by Walter J Miller, Jr. (1952)

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/the-big-hunger
2•shervinafshar•41m ago•0 comments

The Genus Amanita

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/amanita.html
1•rolph•46m ago•0 comments

We have broken SHA-1 in practice

https://shattered.io/
10•mooreds•46m ago•4 comments

Ask HN: Was my first management job bad, or is this what management is like?

1•Buttons840•47m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to Reduce Time Spent Crimping?

2•pinkmuffinere•49m ago•1 comments
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Small Near-Earth Objects in the Taurid Resonant Swarm

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22602
34•bikenaga•4mo ago

Comments

chermi•4mo ago
From the wiki on Encke, "Comet Encke is believed to be the originator of several related meteor showers known as the Taurids (which are encountered as the Northern and Southern Taurids across November, and the Beta Taurids in late June and early July).[29] A shower has similarly been reported affecting Mercury". Italics mine.

I'm very surprised we don't have sufficient data to definitively pin the origin of meteor showers. There's only so many degrees of freedom. I'd guess maybe the problem is the objects in the shower are too small to detect before entry, and by the time they enter, their dynamics are too messed up by breaking apart to retrace their pre-entry trajectory? But we also have the LHC... We're pretty good at scattering reconstruction. I know it's not exactly the same, but it's surprising this isn't solved.

Edit- As an aside, for "Tunguska" sized meteors, how harmful would they be if they landed only with terminal earth velocity? I'm guessing relatively safe(1)? It seems possible we could mess with their orbits enough if we strapped rockets to them to make them approach earth at specified trajectories to land in Siberia or something and mine them. Or rail guns from the moon to redirect them? (I just watched the expanse lol). I know there's at least one startup trying to mine asteroids, but I think they want to do it in space. Maybe that makes more sense. Still, I assume they must be planning on dropping smaller mined+maybe partially refined chunks down to earth in a similar fashion.

Maybe controlling/predicting trajectories is harder than I thought though.

(1) Asked Gemini real quick and it estimates approximately 200 times weaker if Tunguska "dropped" from top of atmosphere relative to the actual blast. But I know Gemini is bad at math, so...