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Bhartrhari's Paradox

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2026/08/18/bhartrharis-paradox/
1•leephillips•45m ago

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goodmythical•28m ago
Are there actually things that cannot be named?

Any such thing could easily be assigned some such "Phenomenon 8x306Q".

If any two people agree to call it that and use that to succesfully discuss the thing, then that is a name for the thing.

Otherwise nothing can be named. Is the cat in your house really a cat, or is it a Felis catus? How can we be certain that it's not a gato or a кот? If the cat in your house is indeed a кот, gato, Felis catus, and cat, then Phenomenon 8x306Q can certainly be Penomenon 8x306Q as much as it is "familial bonds strained by misdeeds" or whatever the things we're naming is.

nofriend•22m ago
The proof is simple: there are countably many names, but uncountably many real numbers. Hence, some real numbers must be unnameable.

Neko: A self hosted virtual browser that runs in Docker and uses WebRTC

https://github.com/m1k1o/neko
1•sigalor•2m ago•0 comments

Laptop catches fire on US flight, with passenger treated at airport

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce979zpjj85o
1•starkparker•2m ago•0 comments

Atopic Dermatitis Drugs Market (2026 – 2033)

https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/atopic-dermatitis-drugs-market
1•Rutujad•3m ago•0 comments

Static final fields vs. TrustFinalNonStaticFields in Java

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65981238/static-final-fields-vs-trustfinalnonstaticfields
1•mfiguiere•5m ago•0 comments

This is one of the worst scientific papers I've ever seen

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/22/this-is-one-of-the-worst-scientific-papers-ive-...
1•malshe•7m ago•1 comments

Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is

https://forum.level1techs.com/t/why-your-local-llm-feels-dumber-than-it-is/253917
1•felineflock•8m ago•0 comments

Scientists are fixing the big fat problem with vegan cheese

https://www.hw.ac.uk/news/2026/scientists-are-fixing-the-big-fat-problem-with-vegan-cheese
1•littlexsparkee•9m ago•0 comments

Model confusion in recursive instruction contexts

https://medium.com/@rviragh/chatgpt-sol-5-6-pro-still-exhibits-model-confusion-given-recursive-ro...
1•logicallee•10m ago•0 comments

Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers

https://marcua.net/minitools/figmimic/
2•speckx•11m ago•0 comments

What the Treasury's Buyback Surprise Says About the Bond Market

https://www.cfr.org/articles/what-the-treasurys-buyback-surprise-says-about-the-bond-market
1•latentframe•11m ago•0 comments

Thinking in Python by Bruce Eckel

https://thinkinginpython.com/
2•pjacotg•12m ago•0 comments

NPM-audit-fix -A Python CLI to automate Node.js security PRs

https://github.com/faisalalidoka-stack/npm-audit-fix
1•faisal_ali3•13m ago•0 comments

Scrap

https://twitter.com/moxie/status/2091218652133732491
3•tosh•14m ago•0 comments

I set a trap for a book-marketing scammer (2025)

https://rwwgreene.substack.com/p/i-set-a-trap-for-a-book-marketing
2•rznicolet•14m ago•2 comments

Humanoid robots surpass human records in 100M, high jump

https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/49692320/humanoid-robots-surpass-human-records-100m-high...
1•bryan0•14m ago•0 comments

Apple and European Commission Reach Agreement on App Payment Terms Under DMA

https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/apple_eu_business_terms_conceding_little
1•CharlesW•15m ago•0 comments

Using models to create models of NYC

https://petersobot.com/blog/using-models-to-create-models-of-new-york-city/
1•itunpredictable•18m ago•0 comments

I vibe-coded a C compiler that can build SQLite

https://blog.fsck.com/2026/08/21/i-vibe-coded-a-c-compiler/
2•CharlesW•18m ago•0 comments

Sick of Constant Pings, They're Sending Texts at the Speed of Carrier Pigeon

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/technology/carrier-pigeon-app-texting-technology.html
1•apparent•22m ago•1 comments

Reading Maps – Journeys from fiction drawn on the real world

https://readingmaps.com/
3•hakkikonu•23m ago•0 comments

Australian Aboriginal Astronomy and Navigation (2016)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.02215
1•NaOH•26m ago•0 comments

No Boss, No Money: The Raw Reality of China's Gen-Z Freelancers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJZFUEQebbI
1•conferza•27m ago•0 comments

What happens to our conscious experience after we die?

https://sidhsikka.substack.com/p/the-qualia-continuum-part-one
1•sidhsikka123•31m ago•0 comments

When AI art has no author: Generated images can't trace to training data (study)

https://news.mit.edu/2026/when-ai-art-has-no-author-generated-images-often-cant-be-traced-to-trai...
3•em3rgent0rdr•32m ago•0 comments

The Scam Hunt

https://www.nrk.no/dokumentar/xl/svindeljakten-1.17875063
1•karencarits•33m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Wharf – Self-Host Postgres, MySQL, Mongo, Redis, ClickHouse in Docker

https://github.com/drk1rd/wharf
1•drk1rd•34m ago•0 comments

Mixxxdj/Mixxx: Programmers Wanted for PR Reviews/Testing Check Zulip/GitHub

https://mixxx.discourse.group/t/programmers-wanted-for-pr-reviews-testing-check-zulip-github/34140
1•mxmilkiib•34m ago•0 comments

Jelqing: The latest in a long history of attempts to enlarge the male member

https://theconversation.com/jelqing-the-latest-in-a-long-history-of-attempts-to-enlarge-the-male-...
1•Teever•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Rackast, a screen recorder with a built in editor, made with Tauri

https://rackast.com/
2•SzegiRoli•38m ago•0 comments

The Deathbed Confession of a Bank Robber – Episode #133 [audio]

https://jimmystable.com/the-deathbed-confession-of-a-bank-robber-episode-133/
1•thunderbong•40m ago•0 comments