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The mountain that weighed the Earth

https://signoregalilei.com/2026/01/18/the-mountain-that-weighed-the-earth/
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divbzero•36m ago
> Primary sources:

> Maskelyne’s notes: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1775.0050

> Hutton’s notes: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1778.0034

> Cavendish’s notes on his own experiment: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1798.0022

I got to reproduce Cavendish’s experiment when I was a student. Love that we can easily read the primary source today, archived and indexed by DOI.

Gas Town Decisions

http://fimbaz.blogspot.com/2026/01/title-i-invented-decisions-yes-hello.html
1•frazbin•6s ago•0 comments

Super Monkey Ball

https://bsky.app/profile/twilightpb.bsky.social/post/3mdbynphtbc2l
1•Breadmaker•16s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Colin, a context engine for keeping agent skills fresh

https://github.com/PrefectHQ/colin
1•jlowin•30s ago•0 comments

Every Citi Bike Ride Across the East River

https://app.citibikedata.com/
1•patrickcleary•2m ago•0 comments

Agents Are About to Change Software

https://solomon.io/agents-are-about-to-change-software/
1•speckx•3m ago•0 comments

Pope Leo's latest AI warning: 'overly affectionate' chatbots

https://www.businessinsider.com/pope-leo-ai-warning-overly-affectionate-personalized-chatbots-reg...
1•josephcsible•3m ago•0 comments

The Festivus Report [pdf]

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/FESTIVUS-2025-FINAL.pdf
1•mhb•4m ago•0 comments

Kubernetes RCE: Exploiting nodes/proxy GET

https://labs.iximiuz.com/tutorials/nodes-proxy-rce-c9e436a9
2•eyberg•5m ago•0 comments

Qwen3-Max-Thinking Drops: 36T Tokens

1•SilasYee•7m ago•0 comments

Some Haskell idioms we like

https://exploring-better-ways.bellroy.com/some-haskell-idioms-we-like.html
1•surprisetalk•7m ago•0 comments

I Won't Have Kids Right?

https://arizerner.com/posts/children/
1•surprisetalk•7m ago•0 comments

Mini Tokyo 3D

https://minitokyo3d.com
1•surprisetalk•7m ago•0 comments

>1M ".ai" websites contributed $70M to Anguilla's government revenue last year

https://sherwood.news/tech/now-more-one-million-ai-websites-contributing-an-estimated-70-million-...
2•TMWNN•7m ago•1 comments

AI at Davos – Part 1

https://substack.com/inbox/post/185792467
1•cafrealpao•7m ago•1 comments

Little plastic being recycled in California as state efforts falter

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-01-14/very-little-plastic-being-recycled-in-califo...
2•PaulHoule•8m ago•0 comments

UK loses measles elimination status

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgjw0xegxglo
4•hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm•9m ago•0 comments

Do savings accounts lose money to inflation?

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/01/do-savings-accounts-really-lose-money-to-inflation/
3•speckx•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Pipecat Meets Claude Code

https://github.com/pipecat-ai/pipecat-mcp-server
1•aconchillo•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Using ASTs to visualize complex codebases

https://ast-visualizer.com/app
2•codeviewer•10m ago•0 comments

Local Limit Theorems for Random Isometries of the Plane

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16295
2•keepamovin•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Makers Page – A clean "Proof of Work" profile for software builders

https://www.makers.page/
1•alexcloudstar•11m ago•0 comments

Google Books has been effectively killed by the last algorithm update

https://old.reddit.com/r/google/comments/1qn1hk1/google_has_seemingly_entirely_removed_search/
6•adamnemecek•12m ago•3 comments

Ethical source is hot garbage

https://blog.giovanh.com/blog/2021/10/29/ethical-source-is-hot-garbage/
1•lr0•12m ago•0 comments

Who We Are When Everything Goes Wrong [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT_sKGbP1yY
1•jamesgill•13m ago•0 comments

AI code is slop too

https://alexwennerberg.com/blog/2026-01-25-slop.html
1•alexwennerberg•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built Goodreads for academic papers to help my wife survive her PhD

https://paperstack.ac
3•lowercasename•14m ago•2 comments

Claude Code Is Locked in Your Laptop

https://stumpy.ai/blog/claude-code-is-locked-in-your-laptop
2•bluesnowmonkey•14m ago•1 comments

The state of Linux music players in 2026

https://crescentro.se/posts/linux-music-players-2026/
3•todsacerdoti•15m ago•0 comments

MCP Apps – UI and Interactivity for MCP

http://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2026-01-26-mcp-apps/
3•dend•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: React and NextJS lessons and exercises embedded in VSCode / Cursor

https://www.stanza.dev
1•olivdums•16m ago•1 comments