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Wafer-Scale Superconducting Transistors Cut Cryo Cables

https://spectrum.ieee.org/superconducting-transistors
3•rbanffy•46m ago

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peter_d_sherman•16m ago
>"They fabricate their superconducting transistors on a 6-inch (150-mm) silicon wafer. Their CMOS-compatible process involves laying a graphene channel upon the wafer and shaping three electrodes from an aluminum-based superconductor. Two of these electrodes touch the graphene channel to create an aluminum-and-graphene Josephson junction. Then, controlling the voltage through the third electrode—the gate—can change the critical current or switch the superconductivity on or off.

Graphene isn’t normally a superconductor, but with the right conditions, the electrodes can “leak” their superconductivity into the graphene.

The researchers spent years fine-tuning their process to achieve those conditions. Their device’s geometry, materials, and engineering had to be just right."

Isn't that interesting! Graphene, or at least a very small 150nm-scale "nano surface" of Graphene becoming a superconductor under the right conditions! It'll be interesting to see where that goes in the future...

Show HN: Learn divergently/chaotically with tree-learn

https://tree-learn.srijanshukla18.workers.dev
1•srijanshukla18•9s ago•0 comments

Berkshire Hathaway, Inc

https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/
1•sippingabonedry•13s ago•0 comments

We Should Double-Check the AI Output: A Bug Which Wasn't

https://giodicanio.com/2026/07/28/why-we-should-double-check-the-ai-output-a-bug-which-wasnt/
1•ibobev•3m ago•0 comments

New Species of Cat Discovered for First Time in a Century

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/science/tilcayo-new-cat-species-bolivia.html
1•marojejian•4m ago•1 comments

Why isn't mutable a subtype of immutable, or vice versa?

https://crumbles.blog/posts/2026-09-17-immutable-mutable.html
1•ibobev•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: App Launch: GrabThat (NLP Launcher for Windows)

https://grabthat.ai/
2•kevanparker•5m ago•0 comments

Persistent Databases in the Browser with DuckDB-WASM and OPFS

https://duckdb.org/2026/09/18/opfs-wasm
2•erwinmatijsen•7m ago•0 comments

DropSlim – Local and open-source image compressor built with Rust and Tauri

https://github.com/onza/DropSlim
2•onza123456•11m ago•0 comments

Leave the Class Path in the Rearview Mirror

https://netflixtechblog.com/leave-the-class-path-in-the-rearview-mirror-67a85b15b6be
1•BinaryRage•12m ago•1 comments

AI containment is a systems engineering problem

https://tobi.knaup.me/2026-09-18-ai-safety-systems-engineering/
1•tknaup•14m ago•0 comments

Some of All Fears

https://sharptext.net/2026/some-of-all-fears/
1•cdata•14m ago•0 comments

You cry "AI generated" because you can't debunk the actual technical facts

https://medium.com/@istokovicsgyorgy79/you-cry-ai-generated-because-you-cant-debunk-the-actual-te...
3•Bitu79•17m ago•1 comments

Alea iacta non est: rerolling the LLM dice

https://rolisz.ro/2026/alea-iacta-non-est-rerolling-the-llm-dice/
1•rolisz•19m ago•0 comments

Arrow heads at Obi-Rakhmat (Uzbekistan) 80K years ago?

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0328390
2•bookofjoe•21m ago•0 comments

Testing whether a real fly connectome's wiring matters, using crypto as stimulus

https://github.com/mayombe67/moscaquant
1•vill4no•21m ago•0 comments

Ephemerals.dev – Disposable cloud dev environments

https://ephemerals.dev/
2•ishener•22m ago•0 comments

The Headword

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:The_Headword
1•altilunium•22m ago•0 comments

Lilo 0.2.2 – a Rust/egui Markdown notes app with widget and workspace modes

https://github.com/HellterEnjoy/Lilo
1•HellterEnjoy•24m ago•0 comments

Court shines a further light on who was at fault in SVB implosion

https://www.ft.com/content/24dc8ce0-5331-4280-ad85-c2dddcef429d
5•mustache_kimono•25m ago•0 comments

The Lamentable Later Life of Lemmings

https://www.filfre.net/2026/09/the-lamentable-later-life-of-lemmings/
3•doppp•28m ago•0 comments

Jev VC – Pitch Jev Your Startup

https://pitchjev.vercel.app/
1•Aeroi•30m ago•1 comments

US Treasuries Have Become Unappetizing for Foreign Central Banks and Governments

https://wolfstreet.com/2026/09/17/treasuries-have-become-badly-unappetizing-for-foreign-central-b...
21•iamnothere•31m ago•3 comments

A systemd timer to log and lock kids out of their Linux accounts overnight

https://github.com/mowglixx/linux-parental-controls
1•bluepeter•31m ago•0 comments

Knot: A CLI ticket tracker for solo developers

https://github.com/UniSoma/knot
2•jxonas•31m ago•0 comments

How to run offline, local coding agents on Linux

https://ostechnix.com/atomic-chat-local-ai-coding-assistant-linux/
1•Muhammad523•31m ago•0 comments

From 2027 you must be at least 18 to use Dropbox

https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/company/updates-to-our-terms-of-service-and-privacy-policy-2026
1•butz•32m ago•2 comments

Salesforce tracing without debug logs: every trigger, field write, and rollback

https://www.fidelic.dev/blog/your-request-did-something-here-is-the-receipt/
1•cliqer1•32m ago•0 comments

Awesome-tunneling – List of ngrok, Cloudflare Tunnel, Tailscale and related

https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
1•peter_d_sherman•32m ago•0 comments

Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar over 'Little Red Dots'

https://www.quantamagazine.org/black-holes-or-black-hole-stars-astronomers-spar-over-webb-telesco...
2•jandrewrogers•34m ago•0 comments

System Design Unboxed: new eBook and extras

https://books.lextrem.com/system-design-1/
1•hnque•35m ago•0 comments