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I Was Trapped in Chinese Mafia Crypto Slavery [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOcNaWmmn0A
1•mgh2•2m ago•0 comments

U.S. CBP Reported Employee Arrests (FY2020 – FYTD)

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/reported-employee-arrests
1•ludicrousdispla•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a free UCP checker – see if AI agents can find your store

https://ucphub.ai/ucp-store-check/
1•vladeta•9m ago•1 comments

Show HN: SVGV – A Real-Time Vector Video Format for Budget Hardware

https://github.com/thealidev/VectorVision-SVGV
1•thealidev•11m ago•0 comments

Study of 150 developers shows AI generated code no harder to maintain long term

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9EbCb5A408
1•lifeisstillgood•11m ago•0 comments

Spotify now requires premium accounts for developer mode API access

https://www.neowin.net/news/spotify-now-requires-premium-accounts-for-developer-mode-api-access/
1•bundie•14m ago•0 comments

When Albert Einstein Moved to Princeton

https://twitter.com/Math_files/status/2020017485815456224
1•keepamovin•15m ago•0 comments

Agents.md as a Dark Signal

https://joshmock.com/post/2026-agents-md-as-a-dark-signal/
1•birdculture•17m ago•0 comments

System time, clocks, and their syncing in macOS

https://eclecticlight.co/2025/05/21/system-time-clocks-and-their-syncing-in-macos/
1•fanf2•18m ago•0 comments

McCLIM and 7GUIs – Part 1: The Counter

https://turtleware.eu/posts/McCLIM-and-7GUIs---Part-1-The-Counter.html
1•ramenbytes•21m ago•0 comments

So whats the next word, then? Almost-no-math intro to transformer models

https://matthias-kainer.de/blog/posts/so-whats-the-next-word-then-/
1•oesimania•22m ago•0 comments

Ed Zitron: The Hater's Guide to Microsoft

https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com/post/3me7ibeym2c2n
2•vintagedave•25m ago•1 comments

UK infants ill after drinking contaminated baby formula of Nestle and Danone

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c931rxnwn3lo
1•__natty__•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Android-based audio player for seniors – Homer Audio Player

https://homeraudioplayer.app
2•cinusek•26m ago•0 comments

Starter Template for Ory Kratos

https://github.com/Samuelk0nrad/docker-ory
1•samuel_0xK•28m ago•0 comments

LLMs are powerful, but enterprises are deterministic by nature

2•prateekdalal•31m ago•0 comments

Make your iPad 3 a touchscreen for your computer

https://github.com/lemonjesus/ipad-touch-screen
2•0y•36m ago•1 comments

Internationalization and Localization in the Age of Agents

https://myblog.ru/internationalization-and-localization-in-the-age-of-agents
1•xenator•37m ago•0 comments

Building a Custom Clawdbot Workflow to Automate Website Creation

https://seedance2api.org/
1•pekingzcc•39m ago•1 comments

Why the "Taiwan Dome" won't survive a Chinese attack

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/why-taiwan-dome-won-t-survive-chinese-attack
2•ryan_j_naughton•40m ago•0 comments

Xkcd: Game AIs

https://xkcd.com/1002/
1•ravenical•41m ago•0 comments

Windows 11 is finally killing off legacy printer drivers in 2026

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-11-finally-pulls-the-plug-on-legacy-p...
1•ValdikSS•42m ago•0 comments

From Offloading to Engagement (Study on Generative AI)

https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5729/10/11/172
1•boshomi•44m ago•1 comments

AI for People

https://justsitandgrin.im/posts/ai-for-people/
1•dive•45m ago•0 comments

Rome is studded with cannon balls (2022)

https://essenceofrome.com/rome-is-studded-with-cannon-balls
1•thomassmith65•50m ago•0 comments

8-piece tablebase development on Lichess (op1 partial)

https://lichess.org/@/Lichess/blog/op1-partial-8-piece-tablebase-available/1ptPBDpC
2•somethingp•51m ago•0 comments

US to bankroll far-right think tanks in Europe against digital laws

https://www.brusselstimes.com/1957195/us-to-fund-far-right-forces-in-europe-tbtb
4•saubeidl•52m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Have AI companies replaced their own SaaS usage with agents?

1•tuxpenguine•55m ago•0 comments

pi-nes

https://twitter.com/thomasmustier/status/2018362041506132205
1•tosh•58m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Crew – Multi-agent orchestration tool for AI-assisted development

https://github.com/garnetliu/crew
1•gl2334•58m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Long-distance and wide-area detection of gene expression in living bacteria

https://www.asimov.press/p/hyperspectral
79•mailyk•4mo ago

Comments

advisedwang•4mo ago
Critically this only works for the bioengineered microbes that produce marker molecules that the hyperspectral cameras can identify. This doesn't work for random microbes out and about.
igleria•4mo ago
Then we infect every microbe with that biomarker and make hell real for germophobics?

Or a less dumb application: lab leak monitoring

dylan604•4mo ago
There are people pushing for the use of microbes in farm land instead of chemical fertilizers. These markers would be useful to see what plots are treated or not.
m3047•4mo ago
Here's a company which produces biomarkers (which it can disperse as aerosols or via other means) which it can then detect in air or other samples: https://www.safetraces.com/

(I have no commercial connection with them.)

robotresearcher•4mo ago
The title here and the first image in the article are annoyingly misleading.

The authors report being able to detect populations of many microbes that they genetically engineered to produce lots of detectable molecules and they sprayed in patches on top of the soil.

So this could be a valuable thing. But the damn article shows an aerial image inlaid with a microscope image with individual organisms resolved, which is very very far from what is reported here.

It’s science reporting. Science is cool already. There’s no need to give misleading hyperbolic impressions. Bah.

happyPersonR•4mo ago
That makes a lot more sense, otherwise the SNR from 90 meters away seems like it would be … enormous.
moralestapia•4mo ago
We can see Uranus from Earth which in on a similar size/distance order of magnitude :).
HarHarVeryFunny•4mo ago
Actually the angular size of Uranus seen from earth is almost a million times larger than a microbe seen from 90m (not that TFA was about seeing a single microbe, or seeing a microbe at all for that matter).
moralestapia•4mo ago
Can we do the math? I know that burden's on me but I feel I might be wrong, my back of the napkin calculation puts them within 10-100x.

1 micrometer (1E-6) to 50,700 km (1E6)

90 meters (1E2) to 2.8 billion km (1E12)

Edit: Oh yeah but size/distance does not decay linearly ...

HarHarVeryFunny•4mo ago
I was lazy and asked Claude, although I didn't check the math.

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Uranus subtends a much greater angle than a microbe at 90 meters. Let me work this out: Microbe from 90 meters:

A typical bacterium is about 1-5 micrometers (let's say 2 μm = 0.000002 meters) Angular size = (size / distance) in radians = 0.000002 / 90 ≈ 2.2 × 10⁻⁸ radians Converting to arcseconds: ≈ 0.0000046 arcseconds

Uranus from Earth:

Uranus is about 2.6-3.2 billion km from Earth (depending on orbital positions) Its diameter is about 51,000 km At closest approach, Uranus subtends approximately 3.7 arcseconds Even at its farthest, it's still around 3.3 arcseconds

So Uranus appears about 800,000 times larger in angular size than a bacterium at 90 meters away! This is why we can see Uranus through telescopes (and technically with the naked eye under perfect conditions, though just barely), but we absolutely cannot see individual bacteria without a microscope—the angle they subtend is far, far too small for our eyes to resolve.

penteract•4mo ago
2.2 × 10⁻⁸ radians is 0.0045 arcseconds [1]. That answer is off by 3 orders of magnitude.

[1] https://frinklang.org/fsp/frink.fsp?fromVal=2.2*10%5E-8+radi...

moralestapia•4mo ago
:O

So what would be the difference on magnitude between the bacteria and Uranus, then?

Edit: nvm, I just read your other comment.

HarHarVeryFunny•4mo ago
Thanks.

That was the latest greatest Sonnet 4.5 ... not quite great enough evidentially.

I just asked it to "check the radians to arcsec conversions", and it realized the error.

moralestapia•4mo ago
"You're absolutely right!"
penteract•4mo ago
Angular size is proportional to size/distance, so the calculation you're trying to do is correct; however, 50700 km is more than 1e7 meters so the angular sizes differ by about 3 orders of magnitude.
dylan604•4mo ago
A leading reason touted as evidence the moon landing was fake is that we can't see the stuff supposedly left on the moon. Once you start going into angular resolution and the physics of optics you've already lost the argument.
outworlder•4mo ago
You don't "lose" an argument just because the other side doesn't have the attention span to understand what you are saying.
dylan604•4mo ago
Sure, but you'll never win. So whether you want to call it "lose" the argument or just apply "lose" to the amount of time and/or your own sanity, it's still a loss. You will definitely not be changing the other party's mind.
TrainedMonkey•4mo ago
There is but a sliver of atmosphere between Earth and Uranus... and all of the atmosphere between sensing apparatus and microbes 90m away. I am curious how moon would look like if there was the atmospheric scattering the entire way there. Or if would even be able to spot Mars / Venus if we had a constant 1 atm the entire way.
dylan604•4mo ago
How could it be constant 1 atm all the way to the moon. Wouldn't having an atmosphere as thick as 240km mean the pressure on the surface would be much greater than 1 atm?
TrainedMonkey•4mo ago
That is physically impossible, the point was to compare apples to apples. I.E. resolving 1 micrometer at 90 meters through 1atm vs resolving celestial objects through the same medium to compare light scattering effects.
initramfs•4mo ago
I do agree- i hate when an article doesn't include a thumbnail that Google News might indicate includes, but in this case, they just buried the lede, which is slightly different, and sometimes just as annoying: https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PKJG!,w_1456,c_limit...
moffkalast•4mo ago
It's a nose, they invented a nose for robots. That's pretty neat.
tomhow•4mo ago
We updated the title to match the research paper, thanks.
nachox999•4mo ago
engineering microbes for drone-detectable spectral signatures truly is a visionary leap in biosensing, but its real test lies in navigating biology’s unpredictability and society’s caution
HPsquared•4mo ago
I can see algal blooms from miles away.
hinkley•4mo ago
I can practically hear the germaphobes breathing heavily.
cozzyd•4mo ago
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tomhow•4mo ago
Please don't do this here.