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The illusion of illusions: There are no optical corrections in the Parthenon

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.16831
3•geox•1h ago

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damnitbuilds•58m ago
Their title does not match their overview.

"This paper analyzes these corrections scientifically and demonstrates that the illusions they are supposed to correct are either non-existent or so small as to be imperceptible."

So the paper claims to demonstrate that there are no optical corrections that work, not that "There are no optical corrections".

This is supposed to be science, guys.

NASA spots comet reversing its spin in a first for science

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-spots-comet-reversing-its-spin-in-a-first-for-sci...
1•Brajeshwar•43s ago•0 comments

The Systemd Age Verification Debate: Developer Responds to Criticism

https://itsfoss.com/dylan-taylor-systemd-controversy/
1•optionalsquid•1m ago•0 comments

Sony is raising PS5 prices by $100 in April

https://www.theverge.com/games/902224/sony-ps5-playstation-price-hike
1•adrianhon•2m ago•0 comments

You don't have to gamble for gambling to ruin your life

https://yourbrainonmoney.substack.com/p/gambling-is-ruining-your-life-even
1•RickJWagner•2m ago•0 comments

What if I told you

http://130.204.65.82:3000/what-if-i-told-you-gaby.png
1•rudixworld•3m ago•0 comments

Chapel 2.8

https://chapel-lang.org/blog/posts/announcing-chapel-2.8/
1•pjmlp•3m ago•0 comments

Harness Engineering for Coding Agents

https://www.humanlayer.dev/blog/skill-issue-harness-engineering-for-coding-agents
1•kamikazeturtles•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Digital Input using Rust on XIAO nRF52840 with Embassy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rmd7PqXNT28
1•sarmadgulzar•6m ago•0 comments

Have some empathy for your LLMs

https://www.softwaredesign.ing/blog/have-some-empathy-for-your-llms
1•prakhar897•8m ago•0 comments

Selling Your Company

https://ma.tt/2026/03/selling-your-company/
1•taubek•9m ago•0 comments

Preventing Data Exfiltration in Coding Agents: Lessons from the LiteLLM Attack

https://blog.wiseprobe.io/posts/litellm-supply-chain-attack/
2•wiseprobe•12m ago•0 comments

Building a NES Emulator from Scratch

https://matiassalles99.codes/posts/building-nes-emulator-crystal-book/
1•birdculture•13m ago•0 comments

AI platform for real estate professionals and exam learners

https://www.takkenai.jp/
1•RoyKim24•13m ago•0 comments

Using AI to code does not mean your code is more secure

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/ai_coding_assistant_not_more_secure/
1•taubek•13m ago•0 comments

One Way or Another, Most of Our Electricity Comes from Solar Power

https://www.wired.com/story/most-of-our-electricity-comes-from-solar-power/
1•Brajeshwar•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Forkrun – NUMA-aware shell parallelizer (50×–400× faster than parallel)

https://github.com/jkool702/forkrun
1•jkool702•18m ago•0 comments

The surprising science behind red-light therapy – and how it works

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00878-1
1•sohkamyung•19m ago•0 comments

Whack-a-Mole with Slow Machines

https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/s/EMDo7QD8t5
1•platzhirsch•19m ago•0 comments

TinyLoRA – Learning to Reason in 13 Parameters

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04118
1•sorenjan•19m ago•0 comments

Austria agrees plan to ban social media for children under 14

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/austria-plans-social-media-ban-children-under-14-2...
2•mkurz•19m ago•0 comments

30 Years Ago, Robots Learned to Walk Without Falling

https://spectrum.ieee.org/honda-p2-robot-ieee-milestone
1•sohkamyung•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I vibe reverse engineered my Bluetooth mouse to support it on macOS

https://github.com/gh123man/opensnek
1•gh123man•21m ago•0 comments

How 2000 Words becomes one word. A collab with Claude Opus

https://medium.com/@cmitre/how-2-000-words-becomes-one-word-5365cf8df07b
1•ceemite•23m ago•0 comments

Rich content AI chat – maps for locations, summaries, follow up questions

https://99helpers.com/tools/ai-chat
1•nickk81•25m ago•3 comments

SONIC2MOD – Convert Sonic SMPS assembly music files from Sega to MOD format

https://github.com/djyt/sonic2mod
1•mosura•26m ago•0 comments

Why some people choose cryonics to store their bodies and brains after d

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/27/1134705/cryonics-store-bodies-brains-after-death/
1•joozio•28m ago•0 comments

Why mathematicians are boycotting their biggest conference

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-mathematicians-are-boycotting-their-biggest-confer...
3•jjgreen•28m ago•1 comments

Team PCP Strikes again – `telnyx` on PyPI gets compromised

https://safedep.io/malicious-telnyx-pypi-compromise/
3•Sahil121•29m ago•0 comments

Life Pro Tip

1•Bestia-Hestia-•29m ago•1 comments

Agent Cost Benchmark – 1,127 Runs Across Claude, GPT-4o, and Gemini

https://www.grislabs.com/blog/we-tracked-1000-agent-runs
1•hac96•32m ago•0 comments