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Heatbit's $899 Water Heater Element Mines Bitcoin While It Heats Your Tank

https://decrypt.co/381665/heatbits-899-water-heater-element-mines-bitcoin-while-it-heats-your-tank

2•bookofjoe•1h ago

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gnabgib•30m ago

2021: Heatbit – electric heater that earns you money [An indiegogo, not actualized] (3 points, 5 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26121782

2026: Heatbit Says Your Water Heater Should Be Mining Bitcoin, and Now It Can (4 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50233756

We can exercise more without even trying

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20261023-how-we-can-exercise-more-without-trying

1•onemoresoop•49s ago•0 comments

Emma sicher grows biomaterials from wild berries and microorganisms

https://www.designboom.com/design/emma-sicher-biomaterials-microorganisms-cellulose-eating-scoby/

1•rdmuser•1m ago•0 comments

Who Is Responsible for Tackling Professional Deskilling?

https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/humaff-2026-0080/html

4•geox•4m ago•0 comments

Anduril, Qualcomm launch BlueChip, a new kind of US-made laptop

https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/1019274/anduril-qualcomm-bluechip-laptops-american-made-military

2•kikkia•4m ago•0 comments

US agency is again probing if Polymarket broke 2022 settlement, sources says

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-agency-is-again-probing-if-polymarket-broke-2022-sett...

2•tartoran•5m ago•0 comments

I turned a looped transformer into a decision model that scores answer options [pdf]

https://wyat.io/wyat2-brief.pdf

1•teilom•5m ago•1 comments

Open-source n8n and MCP workflows for UCP store audits and B2B signals

https://github.com/edtool79-collab/hirepulse-mcp/blob/main/templates/SUPER_TOOLS_PLAYBOOK.md

1•ystudio3d•7m ago•0 comments

The Diffusion of Reality: How the Interface Imperceptibly Became a Habitat

https://medium.com/@smoking2man/the-diffusion-of-reality-how-the-interface-imperceptibly-became-a...

1•Aldus551•8m ago•0 comments

Mossad Has Devices Like the Exploding Pagers in "Every Country You Can Imagine"

https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/israel-news/2462875/former-mossad-chief-yossi-cohen-planted-...

9•newspaper1•9m ago•0 comments

The American Divide on Empathy

https://kottke.org/26/10/the-american-divide-on-empathy

2•lehi•9m ago•1 comments

Dismissing Claude's request for feedback is itself considered feedback (2025)

https://keydiscussions.com/2025/09/29/dont-even-dismiss-the-how-is-claude-doing-this-session-prom...

1•kaycebasques•9m ago•0 comments

ZacOS 9 and Mavernix: Two classic Apple desktops find their Wayland to Linux

https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/10/27/zacos-9-and-mavernix-two-classic-apple-deskto...

1•losgehts•9m ago•0 comments

Microsoft PowerToys Meets NLP

https://grabthat.ai/blog/microsoft-powertoys-natural-language-integration

1•kevanparker•10m ago•0 comments

OSRS Wiki and RuneLite increasingly under strain from low-effort AI development

https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/User:Cook_Me_Plox/OSRS_Wiki_and_RuneLite_are_increasingly_unde...

1•Planktonne•11m ago•0 comments

Blanets and Weird Worlds

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2026/10/bizarre-blanets-and-other-weir.html

1•pavel_lishin•12m ago•0 comments

Debcraft at v1.0

https://optimizedbyotto.com/post/debcraft-1-0-released/

1•ottoke•12m ago•1 comments

Echo-3 and the SpAItial App

https://spaitial.ai/blog/echo-3-release

1•frozenseven•14m ago•0 comments

Doctor removes prostate from 35 miles away in first telerobotic surgery in US

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/27/first-telerobotic-surgery

1•bookofjoe•14m ago•0 comments

I benchmarked 4 web search APIs for AI agents on 30 live queries

https://github.com/psinglap/websearch-api-eval

1•pallavisingla•15m ago•0 comments

A critical look at self-distillation for reasoning

https://jasonkena.github.io/blog/posts/does_self_distillation_improve_reasoning/

6•RevoGen•19m ago•1 comments

The Slopocalypse Survival Guide

https://alicegg.tech/2026/10/27/slopocalypse

4•zer0tonin•20m ago•0 comments

Cloud Rats and Software Roaches

https://idlewords.com/2026/10/cloud_rats_and_software_roaches.htm

2•pavel_lishin•21m ago•0 comments

Intel: Panther Lake

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panther_Lake_(microprocessor)

2•tosh•21m ago•0 comments

Claude vs. DeepSeek vs. GLM: what coding agents pick

https://whatagentspick.com/claude-vs-deepseek-vs-glm/

2•nsiradze•21m ago•0 comments

Satya Nadella Rethinks Whether More Powerful AI Is Safer

https://www.businessinsider.com/satya-nadella-ai-alignment-changed-mind-different-problem-scales-...

4•hirodxb•21m ago•1 comments

Wanted: Robot-Dog Walkers. $20/Hour

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/technology/robot-dog-walkers.html

2•beansovertoast•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Search2o Simplifies AI Agents

https://search2o.com/

2•ramvenkat11•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Agent-relay for multi-vendor coding sessions

https://github.com/saranyan/agent-relay

2•svts•25m ago•0 comments

Bunkering Down

https://interconnected.org/home/2026/10/24/bunker

4•tonyedgecombe•26m ago•0 comments

Almost isn't good enough: Introducing VybBench, our Design Fidelity Benchmark

https://cocolabs.ai/blog/introducing-vybbench

2•dzats•26m ago•1 comments