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Gemini Diffusion

https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/21/gemini-diffusion/
405•mdp2021•6h ago•88 comments

Decibels Are Ridiculous

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/decibels-are-ridiculous
72•Ariarule•2h ago•18 comments

Kotlin-Lsp: Kotlin Language Server and Plugin for Visual Studio Code

https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-lsp
67•todsacerdoti•4h ago•28 comments

Inigo Quilez: computer graphics, mathematics, shaders, fractals, demoscene

https://iquilezles.org/articles/
57•federicoponzi•3d ago•5 comments

Getting a paper accepted

https://maxwellforbes.com/posts/how-to-get-a-paper-accepted/
103•stefanpie•5h ago•41 comments

For algorithms, a little memory outweighs a lot of time

https://www.quantamagazine.org/for-algorithms-a-little-memory-outweighs-a-lot-of-time-20250521/
244•makira•11h ago•63 comments

Direct TLS can speed up your connections

https://marc-bowes.com/postgres-direct-tls.html
8•tanelpoder•1h ago•2 comments

The Lost Decade of Small Data?

https://duckdb.org/2025/05/19/the-lost-decade-of-small-data.html
54•andreasha•2d ago•12 comments

Devstral

https://mistral.ai/news/devstral
477•mfiguiere•16h ago•107 comments

Gemini figured out my nephew’s name

https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2025/May/gemini-figured-out-my-nephews-name/
101•BeetleB•3d ago•48 comments

Rocky Linux 10 Will Support RISC-V

https://rockylinux.org/news/rockylinux-support-for-riscv
128•fork-bomber•10h ago•62 comments

CERN gears up to ship antimatter across Europe

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/cern-gears-up-to-ship-antimatter-across-europe/
129•ben_w•2d ago•61 comments

ITXPlus: A ITX Sized Macintosh Plus Logicboard Reproduction

https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/itxplus-a-itx-sized-macintosh-plus-logicboard-reproduction.49715/
78•zdw•9h ago•19 comments

Collaborative Text Editing Without CRDTs or OT

https://mattweidner.com/2025/05/21/text-without-crdts.html
223•samwillis•14h ago•61 comments

Show HN: Display any CSV file as a searchable, filterable, pretty HTML table

https://github.com/derekeder/csv-to-html-table
125•indigodaddy•6h ago•24 comments

OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-21/openai-to-buy-apple-veteran-jony-ive-s-ai-device-startup-in-6-5-billion-deal
706•minimaxir•14h ago•940 comments

Animated Factorization (2012)

http://www.datapointed.net/visualizations/math/factorization/animated-diagrams/
246•miniBill•16h ago•55 comments

The curious tale of Bhutan's playable record postage stamps (2015)

https://thevinylfactory.com/features/the-curious-tale-of-bhutans-playable-record-postage-stamps/
103•ohjeez•12h ago•12 comments

Tales from Mainframe Modernization

https://oppi.li/posts/tales_from_mainframe_modernization/
48•todsacerdoti•7h ago•11 comments

LLM function calls don't scale; code orchestration is simpler, more effective

https://jngiam.bearblog.dev/mcp-large-data/
210•jngiam1•13h ago•78 comments

Possible new dwarf planet found in our solar system

https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K25/K25K47.html
128•ddahlen•12h ago•82 comments

Single RGB camera turns your palm into a keyboard for mixed reality interaction

https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/05/09/a-single-rgb-camera-turns-your-palm-into-a-keyboard-for-mixed-reality-interaction/
3•PaulHoule•2d ago•0 comments

Sorcerer (YC S24) Is Hiring a Lead Hardware Design Engineer

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sorcerer/6beb70de-9956-49b7-8e28-f48ea39efac6
1•maxmclau•10h ago

Dijkstra on Ada

https://craftofcoding.wordpress.com/2014/04/16/dijkstra-on-ada/
35•cpeterso•6h ago•7 comments

Ancient reptile footprints are rewriting the history of when animals evolved

https://apnews.com/article/oldest-reptile-footprints-australia-963e3c38c8d5782e7ac20f5405f15f89
7•gmays•3d ago•0 comments

The Machine Stops (1909)

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/e-m-forster/short-fiction/text/the-machine-stops
79•xeonmc•9h ago•18 comments

An upgraded dev experience in Google AI Studio

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-ai-studio-native-code-generation-agentic-tools-upgrade/
138•meetpateltech•13h ago•84 comments

Show HN: Confidential computing for high-assurance RISC-V embedded systems

https://github.com/IBM/ACE-RISCV
85•mrnoone•10h ago•5 comments

Show HN: ClipJS – Edit your videos from a PC or phone

https://clipjs.vercel.app/
114•mohyware•11h ago•44 comments

Understanding the Go Scheduler

https://nghiant3223.github.io/2025/04/15/go-scheduler.html
145•gnabgib•3d ago•20 comments
Open in hackernews

How AppHarvest’s indoor farming scheme imploded (2023)

https://www.lpm.org/investigate/2023-11-16/a-celebrated-startup-promised-kentuckians-green-jobs-it-gave-them-a-grueling-hell-on-earth
22•andrewrn•6h ago

Comments

itsdrewmiller•5h ago
Needs (2023) - discussed previously here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34959649
grg0•5h ago
Also, "Exposé". Grammar don't check otherwise.
tomhow•3h ago
Thanks!

The vertical farming bubble is finally popping - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34959649 - Feb 2023 (270 comments)

smcin•5h ago
JD Vance, Martha Stewart were on the board of this indoor vertical farming startup. It went public in 2020 via a Covid-era SPAC (Novus Capital Corp), in 2021 raised $700m then went public at a $1b valuation, was sued by shareholders for securities fraud in 2022 (Vance had left in 2021), then filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2023.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppHarvest

[1]: https://apnews.com/article/appharvest-indoor-farming-bankrup...

[2]: Coverage of Plenty, Bowery, AppHarvest and AeroFarms https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/24/vertical-farming-company-p...

99_00•3h ago
I don’t get it. How could a high tech green house ever be more profitable than free sunshine, dirt

Your product gets, what? Max $2.50/# retail?

poulsbohemian•2h ago
Farmland is stupidly expensive. The equipment and inputs (fertilizer, fuel) are stupidly expensive. Growing outside, you are forever at the whims of the weather rather than being able to control each detail of production. Fields inevitably have parts that have variable soil and water conditions. When you look at what a country like the Netherlands has done with greenhouse growing, it's pretty compelling. Was AppHarvest the answer? Apparently not, but that doesn't negate that there are indoor models that work.
nradov•2h ago
Which indoor models work? They might be viable for boutique produce that is highly perishable. But the notion that this could ever work for bulk staple crops is just stupid.

Farmland isn't that expensive.

sanswork•1h ago
Australia has a number of large veggie producers that use glasshouses for growing and have been around and successful for many years. Look up Flavorite and Perfection Fresh for two examples.
yorwba•1h ago
Perfection seem to be using a lot of foil tunnels: https://www.perfection.com.au/our-farms/perfection-berries-r... Which makes sense, because they're cheap and easy to construct. But for some reason "indoor farming" startups don't seem very interested in taking the simplest solution that could possibly qualify as "indoors" and scaling it up.
MandieD•35m ago
A lot of the bell peppers and tomatoes for sale in Germany, especially in the winter, are grown in greenhouses in the Netherlands. They’re only somewhat more expensive than the ones grown outside in Spain at the peak of their harvests.

But wheat and potatoes? No, those are strictly outdoor things.

bryanrasmussen•1h ago
many products that are wanted year round in some freshness are seasonal and limited, tomatoes being the canonical example.
ryanwhitney•1h ago
In comforting news, post-bankruptcy, the founder and CEO of AppHarvest has gone on to start…uhh…The Nuclear Company?[0] Hopefully when it's ready they'll invite McConnell back to flip the switch.

0: https://www.thenuclearcompany.com