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A single Bitcoin transaction carried an average water footprint of 16K litres

https://spacedaily.com/n-a-single-bitcoin-transaction-carried-an-average-water-footprint-of-about-16000-litres-in-2021-once-the-electricity-and-cooling-behind-it-were-counted-roughly-62-million-times/
1•sharemywin•50m ago

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jqpabc123•40m ago
Time to wake up and smell the coffee --- PoW is not a reasonable basis for a practical currency --- or most other things.

Security by inefficiency.

Show HN: Reintroducing Micro: A Personal Assistant

https://micro.mu/blog/post?id=1789656583547416701
1•asim•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Video uploader for React/RN – drop in or headless UI, any back end

https://github.com/hyper-serve/video-uploader
1•rtrann•2m ago•0 comments

PS5 Linux dev quits after "the only hypervisor bug left" was reported to Sony

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/ps5-linux-dev-quits-after-the-only-hypervisor-bug-left-was-...
1•speckx•3m ago•0 comments

A Windows terminal built on the Ghostty core

https://wintty.io/
2•kermatt•3m ago•1 comments

Castla: Android Auto alternative for Tesla (2024)

https://github.com/Suprhimp/castla
1•Rygian•3m ago•0 comments

VA Claims Guide – exact CFR rating thresholds for 15 conditions

https://outset-solutions.com/va-claims/
1•keithransom•4m ago•0 comments

Quantum computing's flagship chemistry results don't say which state they found

https://blog.purestatelabs.com/2026/09/16/quantum-chemistry-results-spin-state/
1•purestatelabs•5m ago•0 comments

Thomas Silverstein

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Silverstein
1•thunderbong•5m ago•0 comments

OpenAI flags new concerning AI behavior, to track model misalignment regularly

https://www.npr.org/2026/09/17/g-s1-143774/openai-concerning-ai-behavior
1•NetToolKit•6m ago•0 comments

What are you guys building? Especially in Fintech

2•breeonfloor•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Live honeypot telemetry – 941K attack events, 160 countries

https://lurescope.com/stats
2•lurescope•9m ago•0 comments

Inside OpenAI's Project Lily

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ-i642z3jc
2•frag•10m ago•0 comments

Venus Has Been Waiting 40 Years

https://blue-continuum.com/venus
1•yread•10m ago•0 comments

The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn't make it

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/15/the-ai-graveyard-a-running-list-of-projects-and-startups-that-d...
1•gmays•12m ago•1 comments

Valve open-sources Lepton, its Android compatibility layer for SteamOS

https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/frame-public/lepton
4•vgalin•12m ago•0 comments

NASA spacecraft discovers a new 2-year-old crater on the moon

https://apnews.com/article/moon-lunar-crater-space-nasa-80eea242ad275fda1f7a88587cdccd2f
1•bookofjoe•13m ago•0 comments

Why are APRs on secured credit cards so high?

https://unbreakfinance.com/blog/why-are-secured-credit-card-aprs-high
2•dashee•13m ago•0 comments

Sharing My Secret for Fast, Security-First VM Deployment on AWS. Save This Post

https://idlefy.medium.com/sharing-my-secret-for-fast-security-first-vm-deployment-on-aws-save-thi...
1•Idlefy_platform•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I build unprompted speaking app to improve speaking

https://speechio.app
1•dicksent•14m ago•0 comments

What Is Happening with PostgreSQL 19?

https://www.snowflake.com/en/blog/engineering/postgresql-19-release-delay-feature-reverts/
2•craigkerstiens•15m ago•0 comments

Reverse Engineering ChatGPT Web: How OpenAI Built for a Billion Users

https://performance.dev/chatgpt
1•theanonymousone•16m ago•0 comments

OpenAI reports new misalignment incidents

https://openai.com/index/model-misalignment-reporting-framework/#the-misalignment-examples-were-s...
1•greg7mdp•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Calmscroll – a reader that shows the current paragraph in the library

https://calmscroll.com/
1•amadeuspagel•16m ago•0 comments

Is the phrase "master bedroom" harmful? A new psychology study says no

https://www.psypost.org/is-the-phrase-master-bedroom-actually-harmful-a-new-psychology-study-says...
5•theanonymousone•16m ago•2 comments

Olympiad Man has displaced Davos Man

https://economist.com/business/2026/09/16/olympiad-man-has-displaced-davos-man
1•andsoitis•17m ago•0 comments

A decade of Gazette: a streaming broker that doesn't store data

https://estuary.dev/blog/gazette-streaming-broker-architecture/
2•danthelion•18m ago•0 comments

Imaginary Fires, Real Theaters

https://www.xaviondono.com/posts/imaginary-fires-very-real-theaters/
2•xondono•18m ago•0 comments

From Academia to Alignment

https://millicosm.substack.com/p/from-academia-to-alignment
1•sebg•19m ago•0 comments

Google Pixel phones pwned in zero-click attacks

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/16/google-pixel-phones-pwned-in-zero-click-attacks/5...
1•teekert•19m ago•1 comments

Claude Desktop Silently Associates with Common Files

2•3371•21m ago•0 comments