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Ask HN: How are researchers using AlphaFold in 2026?

1•jocho12•2m ago•0 comments

Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler

https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3786614
1•devooops•7m ago•0 comments

Watermark API – $0.01/image, 10x cheaper than Cloudinary

https://api-production-caa8.up.railway.app/docs
1•lembergs•8m ago•1 comments

Now send your marketing campaigns directly from ChatGPT

https://www.mail-o-mail.com/
1•avallark•12m ago•1 comments

Queueing Theory v2: DORA metrics, queue-of-queues, chi-alpha-beta-sigma notation

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/queueing-theory
1•jph•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Hibana – choreography-first protocol safety for Rust

https://hibanaworks.dev/
5•o8vm•26m ago•0 comments

Haniri: A live autonomous world where AI agents survive or collapse

https://www.haniri.com
1•donangrey•26m ago•1 comments

GPT-5.3-Codex System Card [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/23eca107-a9b1-4d2c-b156-7deb4fbc697c/GPT-5-3-Codex-System-Card-02.pdf
1•tosh•39m ago•0 comments

Atlas: Manage your database schema as code

https://github.com/ariga/atlas
1•quectophoton•42m ago•0 comments

Geist Pixel

https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-geist-pixel
2•helloplanets•45m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP to get latest dependency package and tool versions

https://github.com/MShekow/package-version-check-mcp
1•mshekow•53m ago•0 comments

The better you get at something, the harder it becomes to do

https://seekingtrust.substack.com/p/improving-at-writing-made-me-almost
2•FinnLobsien•54m ago•0 comments

Show HN: WP Float – Archive WordPress blogs to free static hosting

https://wpfloat.netlify.app/
1•zizoulegrande•56m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I Hacked My Family's Meal Planning with an App

https://mealjar.app
1•melvinzammit•56m ago•0 comments

Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal
2•basilikum•59m ago•0 comments

The Future of Systems

https://novlabs.ai/mission/
2•tekbog•59m ago•1 comments

NASA now allowing astronauts to bring their smartphones on space missions

https://twitter.com/NASAAdmin/status/2019259382962307393
2•gbugniot•1h ago•0 comments

Claude Code Is the Inflection Point

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/claude-code-is-the-inflection-point
3•throwaw12•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: MicroClaw – Agentic AI Assistant for Telegram, Built in Rust

https://github.com/microclaw/microclaw
1•everettjf•1h ago•2 comments

Show HN: Omni-BLAS – 4x faster matrix multiplication via Monte Carlo sampling

https://github.com/AleatorAI/OMNI-BLAS
1•LowSpecEng•1h ago•1 comments

The AI-Ready Software Developer: Conclusion – Same Game, Different Dice

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/the-ai-ready-software-developer-conclusion-same-game...
1•lifeisstillgood•1h ago•0 comments

AI Agent Automates Google Stock Analysis from Financial Reports

https://pardusai.org/view/54c6646b9e273bbe103b76256a91a7f30da624062a8a6eeb16febfe403efd078
1•JasonHEIN•1h ago•0 comments

Voxtral Realtime 4B Pure C Implementation

https://github.com/antirez/voxtral.c
2•andreabat•1h ago•1 comments

I Was Trapped in Chinese Mafia Crypto Slavery [video]

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

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

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/reported-employee-arrests
1•ludicrousdispla•1h 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/
2•vladeta•1h ago•1 comments

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

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9EbCb5A408
2•lifeisstillgood•1h 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/
2•bundie•1h ago•0 comments

When Albert Einstein Moved to Princeton

https://twitter.com/Math_files/status/2020017485815456224
1•keepamovin•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

A misplaced wire label caused a power outage on a container ship, the NTSB finds

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/18/us/ntsb-dali-bridge-collapse
6•mschuster91•2mo ago

Comments

ghostly_s•2mo ago
I don't follow how the label placement in the graphic could cause a connection issue, unless it slipped down further to interfere with the pin?
rolph•2mo ago
that is very much the primary event.

"That sticker, identifying the line, kept the wire from getting a good connection in a circuit breaker – which in turn ultimately caused the first blackout. "

eternityforest•2mo ago
They say thermal imaging could have identified the issue, does that mean that it was actually a low voltage power line, not a signal line? Do they have cameras that can see the heat from sub-mA connections?

I wonder what kind of diagnostics and logging they have for their power distribution?

mikewarot•2mo ago
> Do they have cameras that can see the heat from sub-mA connections?

If it was hooked to a circuit breaker, it wasn't a sub milliamp connection. A thermal camera might have been able to see the heat from arcing at the connection point. It could have caused a hot spot visible on thermal imaging.

eternityforest•2mo ago
The article claims it's a "low voltage signal wire", but perhaps they meant to say a low voltage power wire?
mikewarot•2mo ago
According to the report, on page 7[1], it was connected to a WAGO terminal block 280-681 connector. Looking that up on Digikey[2,3] finds that it's a connector suitable for 28 through 12 AWG, up to 800 volts and 24 amps.(UL 20 Amps)

According to "3 - ENGINEERING - DALI - ENGINEERING FACTUAL REPORT"[5], page 20, the circuit was DC, 110 volts, going to a circuit breaker's "under voltage release" terminal. It was 17 AWG, according to page 23.

It apparently goes to a solenoid, and if [6] is in any way typical, it's only 2-6 watts of power in normal operation. This yields a current of 20-50 milliAmps.

Here's a nice animation of the connection failure on that wire.[4]

[1] https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Documents/Board%20Summar...

[2] https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/wago-corporation/...

[3] https://wago.priintcloud.com/datasheets/280-681/en_GG/d41d8c...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu7PJoxaMZg

[5] https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/docBLOB?ID=19228257&Fi...

[6] https://abbsales.com/pdfs/tmax_techspecs.pdf

eternityforest•2mo ago
Wow, that's a lot of amazing information, so many details that just get glossed over if you don't read the full report!
FrankWilhoit•2mo ago
If it happened, it wasn't preventable. If you say it was preventable, you mean that in theory, it could have been prevented by people who don't exist (front-line and management, with consciences), working processes that don't exist, using resources that don't exist, within cultures that don't exist.
mikewarot•2mo ago
The actual discovery of the wiring problem is pretty interesting. It starts on page 17 of the Engineering Factual Report[1], which is one of many released[2].

The wire in question was carrying unknown current (likely 20-50 mA), but 110 volts DC signaling.

Comparing the photos on page 22 (Dali) and 25 (Cezanne), you can clearly see the blue ferrules in the correctly wired panel on the Cezanne.

[1] https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/docBLOB?ID=19228257&Fi...

[2] https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/?NTSBNumber=DCA24MM031

gregsadetsky•2mo ago
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45984659