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China reaches energy independence milestone by 'breeding' uranium from thorium

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3331312/china-reaches-energy-independence-milestone-breeding-uranium-thorium
5•mpweiher•1h ago

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bigbadfeline•36m ago
> "since achieving first criticality on October 11, 2023, the thorium molten salt reactor has been steadily generating heat through nuclear fission"

TMSRs are a promising technology, unfortunate all but abandoned in the US. Hopefully China achieves a complete success in that area, so we can copy the tech from them...

UBS chair warns of 'looming systemic risk' from private credit ratings

https://www.ft.com/content/73ee8c6d-3c04-425e-9d2c-ecbf2f376a4f
1•moose_man•1m ago•0 comments

Why Crypto Can't Build Anything Long-Term

https://x.com/therosieum/article/1984987750647333350
1•salkahfi•1m ago•0 comments

How Much AI Spending Is Too Much? Investors Are Starting to Wonder

https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/how-much-ai-spending-is-too-much-investors-are-starting-to-won...
3•moose_man•1m ago•0 comments

Famous Method of Valuing Stocks Is Pointing Toward Some Rough Years Ahead

https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/this-famous-method-of-valuing-stocks-is-pointing-toward-som...
1•moose_man•3m ago•0 comments

For a Literary Saint, Margaret Atwood Can Sure Hold a Grudge

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/books/review/margaret-atwood-book-of-lives-memoir.html
1•binning•4m ago•0 comments

Cleaning an orange iPhone 17 Pro with hydrogen peroxide turns it pink

https://www.pcmag.com/news/has-your-orange-iphone-17-turned-pink-turns-out-youre-to-blame
1•zdw•4m ago•0 comments

Trump reverses course to renominate billionaire Musk ally to lead NASA

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/nov/04/trump-jared-isaacman-nasa
2•foobarbecue•6m ago•0 comments

What's the deal with the popcorn button? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Limpr1L8Pss
1•Sir_Twist•8m ago•0 comments

Problems regulating emotions during pregnancy linked with perinatal depression

https://theconversation.com/problems-regulating-emotions-during-pregnancy-linked-with-perinatal-d...
1•binning•10m ago•0 comments

GenAI for Computing Careers: A Sunny Take

https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/genai-for-computing-careers-a-sunny-take/
1•tjr•11m ago•0 comments

Taliban ban books written by women from Afghan universities

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0kn7yyzrjgo
2•binning•11m ago•0 comments

Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not

https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/04/dhs_wants_to_collect_biometric_data/
5•SanjayMehta•14m ago•0 comments

I built the most humanlike chess AI to help me

https://mbuffett.com/posts/chess-move-prediction
1•freediver•15m ago•0 comments

The Legal Case Against Ring's Face Recognition Feature

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/legal-case-against-rings-face-recognition-feature
2•hn_acker•16m ago•0 comments

Copyright Claims over Content Syndication Sniping Can Proceed

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2025/11/copyright-claims-over-content-syndication-sniping-c...
2•hn_acker•17m ago•1 comments

YouTube Headquarters Shooting (2018)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_headquarters_shooting
1•stefap2•18m ago•0 comments

Bluetui – A TUI for managing Bluetooth on Linux

https://github.com/pythops/bluetui
1•birdculture•20m ago•0 comments

Can Hackers Root Linux? SUID and SSH Demo [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuzp_IuDa7U
1•jazzrobot•21m ago•0 comments

Is Human Fall Flat Worth Playing in 2025? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekI1VYS60Nk
1•doener•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Barcable – We Built Agents That Automatically Load Test Your Back End

https://www.barcable.dev/
3•iyang_steraflow•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: An ETL engine with hard memory guarantees

https://github.com/logannye/emsqrt
2•logannyeMD•24m ago•0 comments

Amazon sends legal threats to Perplexity over agentic browsing

https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/04/amazon-sends-legal-threats-to-perplexity-over-agentic-browsing/
4•erhuve•30m ago•0 comments

Creating minimal music with code in any programming language

https://zserge.com/posts/etude-in-c/
3•etrvic•31m ago•0 comments

The mind-boggling valuations of AI companies

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2025/nov/04/the-mind-boggling-valuations-of-ai-companies
4•devonnull•34m ago•0 comments

What Happened to Ukraine's Missile Defense

https://missilematters.substack.com/p/what-happened-to-ukraines-ballistic
6•bharbr•35m ago•1 comments

Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs. Native Code

https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/1901.09056
22•liminal•36m ago•9 comments

Google Removed 749M Anna's Archive URLs from Its Search Results

https://torrentfreak.com/google-removed-749-million-annas-archive-urls-from-its-search-results/
22•gslin•38m ago•11 comments

UPS plane crashes near airport in Louisville, Kentucky, officials say

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ups-plane-crash-louisville-kentucky/
11•jnsaff2•38m ago•3 comments

Border Patrol agent testifies sandwich thrown at him "exploded all over,"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sean-dunn-trial-dc-sandwich-thrower-testimony-onions-mustard/
19•rolph•41m ago•12 comments

Varnish Orca: Virtual Registry Manager for build and runtime artifacts

https://www.varnish-software.com/orca
2•ingve•44m ago•0 comments