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Desalination Technology, by the Numbers

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/09/1135495/desalination-technology-numbers/
16•Brajeshwar•1d ago

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two_handfuls•1d ago
One metric of "user friendliness" for websites (but also apps) is how much of the screen serves the user, and how much is adversarial.

For example, if the google results page is 1/4 ads and 3/4 genuine results, the score is 3/4.

This pages was fully covered in 3 layers of popups. So there were 3 screens of ads for 1 screen of content (well 3/4 of a screen, there was an ad at the top). So I had to figure out how to extend my computation to handle this case.

I think the score here is 0.75/4.25, or an 18% score.

That’s a new record!

SilverElfin•9h ago
That menu at the top is also obnoxious. Why does it need to be visible at all times?

Flowyble Studio – Run Claude, Copilot and Codex Side-by-Side

https://flowyble.com/studio
1•schizi•24s ago•0 comments

The Munro Lecture with Adam Tooze – April 8 2026 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th1pZfKi4SI
1•hackandthink•1m ago•0 comments

Energy-Based Models Is All You Need

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9Gkchqr__M
1•frag•3m ago•0 comments

The Infinity Man: Demis Hassabis, Colleagues and Rivals

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/the-infinity-man
1•klelatti•3m ago•0 comments

Mark's Magic Multiply

https://wren.wtf/shower-thoughts/marks-magic-multiply/
1•luu•5m ago•0 comments

Give Your Agent a Canvas, Not Just a Chatbox

https://create0.ai
1•enha•7m ago•0 comments

The Great GPU Shortage: H100 Rental Prices Up 40%

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/the-great-gpu-shortage-rental-capacity
2•alecco•7m ago•0 comments

Due Diligence Framework Before Your Business Commits to Open Source

https://groundblue.gumroad.com/l/nlzhlx
1•elsadek•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I missed my terminal so I rebuilt email

https://tallyman.io
3•Mechse•10m ago•0 comments

AIYO Wisper – Local voice-to-text for macOS (WhisperKit, open source)

https://github.com/Aiyo28/aiyo-wisper
1•Aiyo28•13m ago•0 comments

What We Learned Building a Rust Runtime for TypeScript

https://encore.dev/blog/rust-runtime
1•vinhnx•15m ago•0 comments

Rust terminal projects in 3 years

https://blog.orhun.dev/800-rust-projects/
1•vinhnx•16m ago•0 comments

How AI Is Reimagining the Game of Golf–For Both Players and Courses

https://www.wsj.com/sports/golf/ai-in-golf-technology-impact-4122d0e1
2•thm•17m ago•0 comments

The tragedy of leisure

https://www.ft.com/content/b91b739e-2164-463c-a8e0-54b59650a9f9
2•pramodbiligiri•26m ago•0 comments

State of Utopia passes its first law

https://stateofutopia.com/laws/1/law1.html
1•logicallee•27m ago•2 comments

EU fingerprint and photo travel rules come into force

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c39rkpe8mj2o
3•zeristor•27m ago•0 comments

Umeshism

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=40
2•yawboakye•27m ago•0 comments

Artemis II is competency porn

https://lizplank.substack.com/p/artemis-ii-is-competency-porn-and
2•jgrodziski•33m ago•0 comments

Why you need to replace your native macOS screenshot app?

https://snapkeep.webytes.net/
1•Mohamm6d•33m ago•1 comments

Automated Browser Testing with MCP

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_automation
2•jacksonkasi•38m ago•0 comments

Kaze Emanuar: Illegal 3D Rendering Techniques (N64) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIUkoUEMf_g
1•tnelsond4•41m ago•0 comments

Picasso's Guernica (Gigapixel)

https://guernica.museoreinasofia.es/gigapixel/#3/63.11/-120.59
1•guigar•41m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LSM Trees: MemTable, Compaction, and the Amplification Triangle [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOC7jkN748w
1•rcron•41m ago•0 comments

France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk

https://www.xda-developers.com/frances-government-ditching-windows-for-linux/
4•pabs3•43m ago•1 comments

Reverse Engineering File Format Steganography Chain of the TeamPCP Attack

https://husseinmuhaisen.com/blog/reverse-engineering-teampcp-telnyx-file-format-chain/
1•husseinmuhaisen•43m ago•1 comments

GazeFollow from Scratch

https://github.com/aldipiroli/GazeFollow_from_scratch/tree/main
2•tgnk2341•43m ago•0 comments

Incremental Compilation with LLVM

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-04-08
1•birdculture•46m ago•0 comments

I built a skill manager for AI agents. The agents install the skills themselves

https://github.com/nattergabriel/reseed
3•eterer•47m ago•1 comments

I built a programming language in 6 days without writing a single line of code

https://github.com/Quynah/ape-lang
1•Quynah•48m ago•1 comments

Digital World Statistics in Real Time

https://anythingcounter.com
1•digitalofen•48m ago•0 comments