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SlimeMoldCrypt – Biological Encryption Engine

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/slimemoldcrypt-relies-on-gloopy-living-organisms-ever-changing-network-of-tendrils-for-its-dynamic-biological-encryption-engine-inventor-claims-concept-is-resistant-to-decryption-even-by-quantum-machines
1•embedding-shape•8h ago

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free_bip•8h ago
Title is misleading. They don't claim that the machine is capable of encrypting anything at all, only that the slime mold pattern can form the basis for an entropy source, which can then be used by an existing CSPRNG to generate encryption keys.

There Has to Be a Way

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/there-has-to-be-a-way
1•ArmageddonIt•1m ago•0 comments

Test scores in U.S. schools are down. Are smartphones to blame?

https://www.npr.org/2025/12/14/nx-s1-5587585/is-decline-in-test-scores-linked-to-cell-phones
1•pseudolus•3m ago•0 comments

Why the Shipping Forecast Endures

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/radio-podcasts/2025/12/why-the-shipping-forecast-endures
1•bookofjoe•4m ago•0 comments

CEO-CTO Therapy (Part 1): Communication

https://avivbenyosef.com/ceo-cto-therapy-part-1-communication/
1•avivby•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Email Expiration Manager Thunderbird Add-On

https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/email-expiration-manager/
1•pydubreucq•7m ago•0 comments

We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-claude-ai-vending-machine-agent-b7e84e34
1•lukaspetersson•7m ago•1 comments

Who needs a NAS? Just use your old phone

https://www.xda-developers.com/phone-as-nas-home-server-guide/
1•sipofwater•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Save For Later – AI-powered bookmark manager that resurfaces your saves

https://saveforlater.pro
1•aria-sfl•10m ago•0 comments

Updates to GitHub Actions Pricing

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/182186
1•choult•11m ago•0 comments

Slowness Is a Virtue

https://blog.jakobschwichtenberg.com/p/slowness-is-a-virtue
2•jakobgreenfeld•14m ago•0 comments

Why are sperm donors having hundreds of children?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg8mge23leo
1•0in•16m ago•0 comments

Tomlin7/KeePassDiff: A diff/merge tool for KeePassXC databases

https://github.com/tomlin7/KeePassDiff
1•rcarmo•17m ago•0 comments

Windows 3.1's 'Hot Dog Stand' UI Color Scheme

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/12/17/windows-3-1-hot-dog-stand
1•tosh•18m ago•0 comments

One Big Server Is Probably Enough: Why You Don't Need the Cloud for Most Things

https://oneuptime.com/blog/post/2025-12-12-one-big-server-is-enough/view
1•stanislavb•20m ago•0 comments

Saudi Arabia wants to host the cheapest data centres

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/12/17/saudi-arabia-wants-to-host-the-worlds...
1•Brajeshwar•22m ago•0 comments

Reinventing the Wheel with In-Wheel Motors

https://www.electrichybridvehicletechnology.com/uncategorized/feature-reinventing-the-wheel-with-...
1•Kaibeezy•27m ago•0 comments

2025 was the year we lived alt-2016 and debated everything

https://thesocialjuice.substack.com/p/2025-was-the-year-we-lived-alt-2016
1•jaskaransainiz•28m ago•0 comments

Natilus Enters India with Bold SpiceJet Deal

https://airinsight.com/natilus-enters-india-with-bold-spicejet-deal/
1•Brajeshwar•28m ago•0 comments

Japan App Store Gets Alternative Marketplaces, Third-Party Payments and More

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/17/japan-app-store-feature-updates/
1•akyuu•29m ago•0 comments

Apple announces more ads are coming to App Store search results

https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/17/apple-announces-more-ads-are-coming-to-app-store-search-results/
2•akyuu•30m ago•0 comments

Encrypted Client Hello Approved for Publication

https://www.feistyduck.com/newsletter/issue_127_encrypted_client_hello_approved_for_publication
1•maxloh•32m ago•0 comments

After Ruining a Treasured Water Resource, Iran Is Drying Up

https://e360.yale.edu/features/iran-water-drought-dams-qanats
3•YaleE360•32m ago•0 comments

AI is making dangerous lab work accessible to novices, UK's AISI finds

https://www.transformernews.ai/p/aisi-ai-security-institute-frontier-ai-trends-report-biorisk-sel...
1•llabwons•35m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What are some interesting papers I could read during vacations?

2•znpy•40m ago•1 comments

Understanding Power BI Engine Architecture: A Deep Dive

https://medium.com/microsoft-power-bi/understanding-power-bi-engine-architecture-a-deep-dive-c162...
1•janandonly•42m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built an Animated UI Library with drag and drop components

https://ogblocks.dev/
2•ogsome•43m ago•0 comments

A New Chapter for Cowboy

https://cowboy.com/blogs/stories/a-new-chapter-for-cowboy
2•terabytest•44m ago•0 comments

It's all about momentum

https://combo.cc/posts/its-all-about-momentum-innit/
14•sph•50m ago•1 comments

Jinja.cpp: A single-header C++11 Jinja2 template engine for LLM chat templates

https://github.com/wangzhaode/jinja.cpp
1•limoce•50m ago•0 comments

Tuitar – A portable guitar training tool and DIY kit

https://github.com/orhun/tuitar
1•orhunp_•52m ago•0 comments