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Battery-Free 'MicroSparc' That Allegedly Draws Power from the Quantum Vacuum

https://thedebrief.org/free-energy-from-the-vacuum-warp-drive-pioneer-unveils-battery-free-microsparc-that-allegedly-draws-power-from-the-quantum-vacuum/
3•rramadass•1h ago

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rramadass•57m ago
The article itself gives the technical details but i would welcome the viewpoints of the Physicists/Researchers here ;-)

The company was funded quite recently - https://thequantuminsider.com/2026/05/12/casimir-launches-wi...

Sabine Hossenfelder's viewpoint - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEteCJUMVn4

Emergence of Wasp Dope in Rural Appalachian Kentucky

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8046840/
1•Eisenstein•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: NextEra discussing $66B deal for Dominion Energy

https://nypost.com/2026/05/17/business/nextera-discussing-66b-deal-for-dominion-energy-report/
1•wasimsk•1m ago•0 comments

AnyFrame – Sandboxes for Your AI Agents

https://github.com/tinyhq/anyframe-python
1•inishchith•2m ago•1 comments

How to Write to SSDs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09927
1•eigenBasis•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Map of 90 companies in the co-packaged optics supply chain

https://leoinai.substack.com/p/supply-chain-photonics-and-co-packaged
1•lboquillon•16m ago•0 comments

America's Most-Spoken Languages After English and Spanish

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-americas-most-spoken-languages-after-english-and-spanish/
2•RyeCombinator•24m ago•0 comments

Which country voted the best at Eurovision?

https://lalitm.com/post/which-country-voted-best-at-eurovision/
2•shintoist•26m ago•0 comments

A Year Late, Claude Beats Pokémon

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sehJYg5Yny9fvpbpt/a-year-late-claude-finally-beats-pokemon
2•sambellll•34m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AnyFrame – Sandboxes for AI Agents

https://anyfrm.com
2•inishchith•35m ago•0 comments

Build a Searchable Catalog with Filters, Facets, and Semantic Search

https://manticoresearch.com/blog/manticore-php-demo/
1•snikolaev•35m ago•0 comments

Carbonara Before the Rules [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrz0KhclCWM
1•gadtfly•39m ago•0 comments

Best Proxy for Twitter 2026

https://momoproxy.com/blog/best-proxy-for-twitter-2026
1•xbjamilnz•53m ago•0 comments

Battery-Free 'MicroSparc' That Allegedly Draws Power from the Quantum Vacuum

https://thedebrief.org/free-energy-from-the-vacuum-warp-drive-pioneer-unveils-battery-free-micros...
3•rramadass•1h ago•1 comments

There Is No 'Hard Problem of Consciousness'

https://www.noemamag.com/there-is-no-hard-problem-of-consciousness/
24•ahalbert4•1h ago•40 comments

Building a multi-agent system from scratch: 50 lines of bash and Git

https://en.andros.dev/blog/ed26ea98/building-a-multi-agent-system-from-scratch-50-lines-of-bash-git/
2•thunderbong•1h ago•1 comments

Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwWaoyIy5e8
1•mgh2•1h ago•0 comments

Turn inbound call recordings into structured JSON

https://www.gensail.com/call-data-extraction
1•vartana•1h ago•0 comments

What A.I. Did to My College Class

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/opinion/chatgpt-ai-college-school-graduation.html
6•mmooss•1h ago•1 comments

Ben Affleck Banned from Hard Rock Casino When Caught Counting Cards (2014)

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ben-affleck-banned-hard-rock-casino-counting-cards-223154372....
1•thunderbong•1h ago•0 comments

LLM Performance by Programming Language

https://gertlabs.com/blog/llm-performance-by-language
4•gertlabs•1h ago•1 comments

First-Ever Tokenized Space Tourism: AI and Space and Blockchain

https://cccforgc.com/
1•cccxtha•1h ago•0 comments

Archivists Turn to LLMs to Decipher Handwriting at Scale

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-handwriting-transcription-transkribus-lecun
1•pseudolus•1h ago•0 comments

Dot-Coms That Deliver (2001)

https://books.google.com/
1•Apocryphon•1h ago•3 comments

The American epoch of oil is collapsing. What comes next could be ugly

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/17/america-china-energy-oil-renewables
8•nithinj•1h ago•0 comments

AI Leak Watch: 435,608 potential AI API key matches in public GitHub code

https://ai-keys-leaks.begimher.com/
4•dan_l2•1h ago•0 comments

The automation of jobs will never end

https://metastable.org/never-end/
1•pbw•1h ago•0 comments

Spirit Airlines Passenger Brings 'Emotional Support' Rotisserie Chicken Thru TSA

https://viewfromthewing.com/spirit-airlines-passenger-brings-emotional-support-rotisserie-chicken...
4•rawgabbit•1h ago•0 comments

Possible atmosphere detected on small trans-Neptunian object

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-tiny-celestial-body-past-pluto-shouldnt-have-an-at...
3•pavel_lishin•1h ago•0 comments

Slop Bucket Idea – a dataset of AI slop (train AI what not to do)

2•IAmNeo•1h ago•4 comments

Hubris of Timing: Why being right abt the future isnt enough to capitalize on it

https://deciens.com/press-and-insights/epistula-14-the-hubris-of-timing
3•ryan_j_naughton•1h ago•0 comments