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Thorium 229 based nuclear clocks

https://www.jerrycards.com/news/first-ticking-nuclear-clocks-thorium-229-tsinghua-tu-wien-2026
1•oofbey•1h ago

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oofbey•1h ago
Two teams have independently gotten a new kind of ultra precise clock working based on isomers of the thorium 229 nucleus. Currently not as accurate as atomic clocks but they have the potential to redefine the metric second.

New site for AI math problems

https://erdosproblems.ai
1•NatalieTrono•3m ago•0 comments

Should your toaster be able to refuse to make you toast?

https://blog.pascalschuster.de/article/on-model-welfare-and-usage-policies
1•thepasch•3m ago•0 comments

Inspect Your Model Training

https://github.com/ahmadmustafaanis/tvis
1•ahmadanis1234•4m ago•0 comments

Shipping Container Sized Whales: Scientists are unsure how many exist

https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/marine-animals/omuras-whale-feeding-raja-ampat
1•bigwheels•6m ago•0 comments

Bitmaps in the Linux Kernel

https://0xax.dev/books/linux-inside/linux-datastructures-2
1•matt_d•6m ago•0 comments

Why Capitalism Is Doomed According to Joseph A. Schumpeter

https://jonasanksher.substack.com/p/why-capitalism-is-doomed
1•paulpauper•7m ago•0 comments

When the White Collars Feel Threatened – A Reply to Terence Tao

https://komando1.substack.com/p/when-the-white-collars-feel-threatened
1•paulpauper•7m ago•0 comments

AI and the Death of the Author

https://thedeepdish.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-death-of-the-author
1•paulpauper•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Page.json – An open standard for representing UI

https://wuwei.us/pages/page-json
1•laybak•9m ago•0 comments

Pentagon to execute convicted Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Hasan by firing squad

https://abcnews.com/US/pentagon-execute-convicted-fort-hood-mass-shooter-nidal/story?id=137019865
1•embedding-shape•9m ago•1 comments

Equality Saturation: An "Incomplete" Project

https://blog.sigplan.org/2026/10/01/equality-saturation-an-incomplete-project/
1•matt_d•10m ago•0 comments

https://surf-alert.net - Simplified Surf Forecasts

1•rmarques7•11m ago•0 comments

Planning system ensures a robot's flight path will remain collision-free

https://news.mit.edu/2026/planning-system-ensures-robots-flight-path-will-remain-collision-free-1007
1•gmays•12m ago•0 comments

Firmus pulls IPO amid investor doubt about datacentre company

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/09/firmus-pulls-asx-float-datacentre-investor...
1•aussieguy1234•12m ago•0 comments

AI and Chiral Fermions

https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=15915
1•jjgreen•14m ago•0 comments

Apple will reportedly debut its first touchscreen MacBook in three weeks

https://www.theverge.com/tech/1008422/apple-macbook-pro-touchscreen-ipad-mini-rumor
1•tolugenius•14m ago•0 comments

Why 'vertical farming' is not a fix for our food system

https://theconversation.com/why-vertical-farming-is-not-a-fix-for-our-food-system-293201
1•rdmuser•17m ago•0 comments

A quiet pixel-art city where strangers listen to music together

https://roomcity.live/
1•louislefebvreqc•18m ago•0 comments

Data needs its DevOps moment

https://render.com/blog/data-needs-its-devops-moment
2•dm03514•20m ago•1 comments

Fort Hood attacker's execution by firing squad will be livestreamed

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmy0r96xygx6o
5•mo7061•20m ago•1 comments

Load TBs into Postgres in Minutes

https://www.databricks.com/blog/load-terabytes-data-minutes-lakebase-postgres
1•moonikakiss•22m ago•0 comments

Bevy 0.20

https://bevy.org/news/bevy-0-20/
2•Philpax•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Wick, a daily word game where you guess by meaning, not spelling

https://guesswick.com/
1•jpage2•25m ago•1 comments

Lego Mindstorms' future predictions from 1998

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6Tt4uBL-6Pw7kGiKjSDds7A3xhxOG2hq&si=ztOhEYq6JK3-V68Q
2•soundworlds•26m ago•0 comments

The Subreddit Where Men Share Their Dinners–and Their Most Intimate Feelings

https://www.gq.com/story/boydinnerdiaries-subreddit-community
1•rdmuser•27m ago•0 comments

Top Reasons AI Will Never Become Superintelligence: Won't Destroy nor Save Us

https://www.wmbriggs.com/post/62236/
3•B1FF_PSUVM•28m ago•0 comments

ICE Emails Discuss Using Palantir-Supported Tool to Investigate Voter Fraud

https://www.wired.com/story/ice-emails-discuss-using-palantir-supported-tool-to-investigate-voter...
2•mikelgan•30m ago•0 comments

Scientists invent new kind of clock

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/clock-new-atomic-nuclear-time-b3062910.html
1•gmays•31m ago•0 comments

'Breathtaking,' 'Devastating': Mathematics Reels After New OpenAI Release

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/science/mathematicians-respond-openai-release.html
2•furcyd•31m ago•0 comments

Highly multiplexed mammalian metabolic engineering with a shotgun approach

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-026-03318-7
1•bookofjoe•32m ago•0 comments