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Dimethylmercury Poison MIT

https://whdh.com/news/first-on-7-patient-brought-to-mgh-for-exposure-to-chemical-substance-prompts-large-emergency-response/
3•dukefishron•1h ago

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fishronduke•22m ago
Dimethylmercury was spilled at MIT on August 26. It seems one person was exposed and taken to MGH Wednesday night. Dimethylmercury is incredibly toxic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Wetterhahn). I don't know of any confirmed cases of someone exposed surviving, but I hope they are able to treat this person. There doesn't seem to have been any emergency declared or alert by MIT at the time. Students were informed of potential contamination the following morning, but more recent information suggests the spill was fairly localized. Dimethylmercury is not allowed on MIT's campus so it is unclear why this person had it. The building is closed for decontamination.

The data center backlash is here – and Big Tech is spending big to combat it

https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2026/08/california-data-center-backlash-big-tech-lobbying/
1•cdrnsf•1m ago•0 comments

Solid state batteries have reached a make-or-break moment

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-quantumscape-and-factorial-energy-mass-produce-sol...
1•johnshades•1m ago•0 comments

The Analytical AI Handbook

https://handbook.sutro.sh
1•sethkim•1m ago•0 comments

Conceptions of the Heavens

https://inwaves.io/posts/conceptions-of-the-heavens/
1•inwavesaye•1m ago•0 comments

TypePHP: A native AOT compiler for PHP

https://github.com/swoole/typephp/blob/master/README.md
1•pachico•2m ago•0 comments

Degradability

https://fagnerbrack.com/degradability-91ce5a6e2367
2•fagnerbrack•2m ago•0 comments

Can Kafka Support Elastic Partitioning?

https://terroir.systems/can-kafka-support-elastic-partitioning/
1•raindev•2m ago•0 comments

ICE Plans to Spend Millions on Boston Dynamics Dog Robots

https://www.404media.co/ice-plans-to-spends-millions-on-boston-dynamics-dog-robots/
5•johnshades•7m ago•0 comments

The Vibe Code Cleanup Specialist [video]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_10OigKn0Pc
2•root-parent•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Hi agent – run `npx microfeed/CLI manage` to deploy CMS on Cloudflare

https://docs.microfeed.org/start-here/
1•wenbin•8m ago•0 comments

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launches this Sunday

https://www.npr.org/2026/08/28/nx-s1-5905370/nasa-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope-dark-energy-s...
2•topspin•9m ago•0 comments

Mental Health (For Humans)

https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2026-06-06-mental_health_for_humans
1•NaOH•10m ago•0 comments

Scientists discover a brain "brake" that can shut down chronic pain

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260826055442.htm
2•samso26•10m ago•0 comments

Karaqu

https://www.karaqu.com/
3•toilet•10m ago•0 comments

Bash on Balls (2010)

https://github.com/jneen/balls
1•zbentley•10m ago•0 comments

TurnBench – a turn-taking benchmark for spoken conversation

https://turnbench.sesame.com
5•freemanjiang•13m ago•1 comments

China's daily AI token usage tops 500T as compute demand grows

https://technode.com/2026/08/28/chinas-daily-ai-token-usage-tops-500-trillion-as-compute-demand-g...
3•yogthos•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Nexora – Custom Automation and Data Pipeline Showcases

https://nexora-digital-rust.vercel.app/
1•a1yu•14m ago•0 comments

How do newly released 3D images explain the Gyirong mudslide?

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2026-08-28/3D-imagery-reveals-path-and-causes-of-Xizang-s-Gyirong-muds...
2•dredmorbius•14m ago•1 comments

Delivering Vera: Nvidia's First CPU Built for Agents Is Shipping Now

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/vera-cpu-delivery/
2•bcaulfield•14m ago•0 comments

The Uninvited Guest Who Crashed Our Family Vacation: My Mom's AI Chatbot

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/claude-family-ai-chatbot-vacation-boomers-b6b7b25e
3•bcaulfield•17m ago•0 comments

Police officer arrested after tracking ex-girlfriend on Flock over 2k times

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/26/us/flock-kentucky-police-officer-arrest
6•cocacola1•19m ago•0 comments

PhoneLLM Alpha 1: Open-weight LLM for voice agent use cases

https://www.daily.co/blog/announcing-pipecat-phonellm-alpha-1/
1•tash_2s•21m ago•0 comments

Polytoken Is an AI Harness

https://polytoken.dev/
2•droidjj•23m ago•0 comments

Metriport (S22) raises $26M to give clinicians insight into any patient question

https://www.metriport.com/blog/metriport-series-a
7•dgoncharov•24m ago•0 comments

Chatgpt.com is down – all signups and logins are down as of

https://status.openai.com/incidents/01M0E7K87VJNMGW0QTMHPEQQ39
1•kyisaiah47•25m ago•0 comments

Omarchy Desktops on Cua Cloud Fleets

https://cua.ai/docs/how-to-guides/sandbox/run-omarchy-on-cloud-fleet
2•frabonacci•28m ago•0 comments

RL fries the models' brains on complex domains

https://jagilley.github.io/rl-is-not-enough.html
2•threevox•31m ago•0 comments

New AI tech considered to tackle wrong-way driving

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/0828/1589622-ai-motorways/
1•austinallegro•31m ago•0 comments

DHS Proposal to eliminate 60 day grace period for H1B

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/h-1b-workers-to-lose-grace-period-in-white-house...
2•laxmena•31m ago•0 comments