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The Evolution of the Interface

https://www.asktog.com/columns/038MacUITrends.html
1•dhruv3006•1m ago•0 comments

Azure: Virtual network routing appliance overview

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/virtual-network-routing-appliance-overview
1•mariuz•1m ago•0 comments

Seedance2 – multi-shot AI video generation

https://www.genstory.app/story-template/seedance2-ai-story-generator
1•RyanMu•4m ago•1 comments

Πfs – The Data-Free Filesystem

https://github.com/philipl/pifs
1•ravenical•8m ago•0 comments

Go-busybox: A sandboxable port of busybox for AI agents

https://github.com/rcarmo/go-busybox
1•rcarmo•8m ago•0 comments

Quantization-Aware Distillation for NVFP4 Inference Accuracy Recovery [pdf]

https://research.nvidia.com/labs/nemotron/files/NVFP4-QAD-Report.pdf
1•gmays•9m ago•0 comments

xAI Merger Poses Bigger Threat to OpenAI, Anthropic

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-02-03/musk-s-xai-merger-poses-bigger-threat-to-op...
1•andsoitis•9m ago•0 comments

Atlas Airborne (Boston Dynamics and RAI Institute) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNorxwlZlFk
1•lysace•10m ago•0 comments

Zen Tools

http://postmake.io/zen-list
1•Malfunction92•13m ago•0 comments

Is the Detachment in the Room? – Agents, Cruelty, and Empathy

https://hailey.at/posts/3mear2n7v3k2r
1•carnevalem•13m ago•0 comments

The purpose of Continuous Integration is to fail

https://blog.nix-ci.com/post/2026-02-05_the-purpose-of-ci-is-to-fail
1•zdw•15m ago•0 comments

Apfelstrudel: Live coding music environment with AI agent chat

https://github.com/rcarmo/apfelstrudel
1•rcarmo•16m ago•0 comments

What Is Stoicism?

https://stoacentral.com/guides/what-is-stoicism
3•0xmattf•17m ago•0 comments

What happens when a neighborhood is built around a farm

https://grist.org/cities/what-happens-when-a-neighborhood-is-built-around-a-farm/
1•Brajeshwar•17m ago•0 comments

Every major galaxy is speeding away from the Milky Way, except one

https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/every-major-galaxy-is-speeding-away-from-the-milky-wa...
2•Brajeshwar•17m ago•0 comments

Extreme Inequality Presages the Revolt Against It

https://www.noemamag.com/extreme-inequality-presages-the-revolt-against-it/
2•Brajeshwar•17m ago•0 comments

There's no such thing as "tech" (Ten years later)

1•dtjb•18m ago•0 comments

What Really Killed Flash Player: A Six-Year Campaign of Deliberate Platform Work

https://medium.com/@aglaforge/what-really-killed-flash-player-a-six-year-campaign-of-deliberate-p...
1•jbegley•19m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Anyone orchestrating multiple AI coding agents in parallel?

1•buildingwdavid•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Knowledge-Bank

https://github.com/gabrywu-public/knowledge-bank
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Show HN: The Codeverse Hub Linux

https://github.com/TheCodeVerseHub/CodeVerseLinuxDistro
3•sinisterMage•27m ago•2 comments

Take a trip to Japan's Dododo Land, the most irritating place on Earth

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2•zdw•27m ago•0 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
38•bookofjoe•27m ago•13 comments

BookTalk: A Reading Companion That Captures Your Voice

https://github.com/bramses/BookTalk
1•_bramses•28m ago•0 comments

Is AI "good" yet? – tracking HN's sentiment on AI coding

https://www.is-ai-good-yet.com/#home
3•ilyaizen•29m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Amdb – Tree-sitter based memory for AI agents (Rust)

https://github.com/BETAER-08/amdb
1•try_betaer•29m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw Partners with VirusTotal for Skill Security

https://openclaw.ai/blog/virustotal-partnership
2•anhxuan•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Seedance 2.0 Release

https://seedancy2.com/
2•funnycoding•30m ago•0 comments

Leisure Suit Larry's Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and Disney

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
1•thelok•30m ago•0 comments

Towards Self-Driving Codebases

https://cursor.com/blog/self-driving-codebases
1•edwinarbus•30m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

A magnetic field orientation that changes the fundamental design of motors

https://www.paranetics.com/copy-of-home
53•dillonshook•3mo ago

Comments

JumpCrisscross•3mo ago
What advantage would this have over a rotary Hallbach array?
roarcher•3mo ago
Maybe I'm missing something but this just seems to be a guy playing with magnets? In the "Demonstration of Ion Propulsion" video, he shows how the magnet "shoots" through the ring, but it's just the release of potential energy from forcing the opposing poles together in the first place. It's like those "permanent magnet rail guns" people post on YouTube. I don't see what's novel about it.
lazylester•3mo ago
beneath the fancy graphics there's zero explanation of how these are manufactured, how they're constructed, or the magnetic field patterns. No actual deployments or demonstrated applications, just graphics. It's a 3-person company that "expects to begin testing of this exciting new technology early in the 2nd quarter of 2023".
thro1•3mo ago
Howard JOHNSON, Permanent Magnet Motor http://www.rexresearch.com/johnson/1johnson.htm - is that similar ?

( https://patents.google.com/patent/US4877983A/en expired 2006, https://www.freepatentsonline.com/4877983.html )

Edit: https://www.paranetics.com/electric-motors - there is more details. And parametric motor https://patents.google.com/patent/JPH04344155A/en is more similar.

(and magnetic experiments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZaRMt6xhoE explains a lot nicely)

hazbot•3mo ago
Don't talk about it, be about it.
ohman876•3mo ago
I migh sound negative but when I was reading through this website it looked a bit like free energy scams to me, "stick a rod into the ground and voila, bulb is lit". drawings of magnets with two poles adjecent to the same pole- when I was attending physics course our proffesor told us that magnet would rearrange so there would be 2 poles if we tried tricks like this.. I'd like to see the 'how it's built' before I can attempt to get rid of my scepticism..
animal531•3mo ago
Yeah, doing some googling it seems that if you for example glue two together in a NS-SN type fashion that they would either turn into a single magnet as you are describing, or if its unstable then the two fields will demagnetize each other over some time.

But having said that, there's probably a few openings for research in there where you can experiment with different field/magnet shapes, sizes and counts.

juancn•3mo ago
You could in theory make that with two solenoids sharing a core and inverting the electric field and make it work like a NS-SN joined magnet.

But I guess it would heat up fairly quickly, having to fight the force of the opposing S-S poles. Now I want to try it.

karlkloss•3mo ago
I'm not sure what they want to achieve with that. The logo looks like they invented magnetic monopoles, but otherwise it's just a lot of blabla.

Investor trap?

Razengan•3mo ago
I misread that as "a magnetic fluid orientation" and it made me wonder: could a torus of liquid or something like that be induced with a spinning magnetic field to replace mechanical motors for electricity generation?
jacknews•3mo ago
magnetohydrodynamics (MHD)?
ElevenLathe•3mo ago
Maybe a giant spinning mass of molten iron the size of a small planet?
metalman•3mo ago
the idea is simple enough, use both poles of permanent magnets, unlike other motors that use only one side while alternating the polarity of the fixed magnets. Watch the little slow motion video, it is either a masterfull slight of hand, or evidence. the magic I believ is in harnessing modern compute and power control hardware to achive something that was long ago dismissed as wishfull thinking
IAmBroom•3mo ago
No numbers: no data. No data: smoke and mirrors.
BewareTheYiga•3mo ago
Did I miss the memo where we repealed ∇·B = 0?
jakedata•3mo ago
It reminds me of a cylindrical Hallbach array that has been split in two.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halbach_array