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I'm a physicist by trade, not by training, and that matters

https://csferrie.medium.com/im-a-physicist-by-trade-not-by-training-and-that-matters-70cd0e66b2c8

7•MaysonL•1d ago

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gsf_emergency_2•4h ago

Math: intuition is earned, the payment is in the proof

Physics: intuition favors the favored (some say you earn those favors by shutting up and calculating but in practice most prefer riskier but flashier routes to justify their funding) the flavor is in the pudding

Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck

https://ordep.dev/posts/writing-code-was-never-the-bottleneck

201•phire•2d ago•83 comments

Fei-Fei Li: Spatial intelligence is the next frontier in AI [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PioN-CpOP0

116•sandslash•1d ago•43 comments

Astronomers discover 3I/ATLAS – Third interstellar object to visit Solar System

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-07-03/3i-atlas-a11pl3z-interstellar-object-in-our-solar-system/105489180

138•gammarator•7h ago•59 comments

Whole-genome ancestry of an Old Kingdom Egyptian

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09195-5

104•A_D_E_P_T•10h ago•55 comments

Trans-Taiga Road (2004)

https://www.jamesbayroad.com/ttr/index.html

105•jason_pomerleau•9h ago•46 comments

Next month, saved passwords will no longer be in Microsoft’s Authenticator app

https://www.cnet.com/tech/microsoft-will-delete-your-passwords-in-one-month-do-this-asap/

110•ColinWright•2d ago•188 comments

Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024)

https://blog.mgdproductions.com/ikko-activebuds/

516•ajdude•20h ago•194 comments

That XOR Trick (2020)

https://florian.github.io//xor-trick/

138•hundredwatt•2d ago•68 comments

Nano-engineered thermoelectrics enable scalable, compressor-free cooling

https://www.jhuapl.edu/news/news-releases/250521-apl-thermoelectrics-enable-compressor-free-cooling

71•mcswell•2d ago•37 comments

ASCIIMoon: The moon's phase live in ASCII art

https://asciimoon.com/

215•zayat•1d ago•70 comments

There's no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically) (2021)

https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2021/05/02/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-tree/

36•afunk•2d ago•35 comments

Gmailtail – Command-line tool to monitor Gmail messages and output them as JSON

https://github.com/c4pt0r/gmailtail

79•c4pt0r•10h ago•14 comments

Show HN: CSS generator for a high-def glass effect

https://glass3d.dev/

319•kris-kay•18h ago•88 comments

Couchers is officially out of beta

https://couchers.org/blog/2025/07/01/releasing-couchers-v1

204•laurentlb•16h ago•89 comments

Demonstration of Algorithmic Quantum Speedup for an Abelian Hidden Subgroup

https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.15.021082

20•boilerupnc•6h ago•7 comments

AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/02/ai-note-takers-meetings-bots/

182•tysone•16h ago•203 comments

Conversations with a hit man about a notorious cold case

https://magazine.atavist.com/confessions-of-a-hit-man-larry-thompson-jim-leslie-george-dartois-louisiana-shreveport-cold-case/

73•gmays•1d ago•5 comments

ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/iceblock-an-app-for-anonymously-reporting-ice-sightings-goes-viral-overnight-after-bondi-criticism/

143•exiguus•18h ago•386 comments

Vitamin C Boosts Epidermal Growth via DNA Demethylation

https://www.jidonline.org/article/S0022-202X(25)00416-6/fulltext

97•gnabgib•14h ago•38 comments

A Higgs-Bugson in the Linux Kernel

https://blog.janestreet.com/a-higgs-bugson-in-the-linux-kernel/

132•Ne02ptzero•16h ago•17 comments

Features of D That I Love

https://bradley.chatha.dev/blog/dlang-propaganda/features-of-d-that-i-love/

145•vips7L•18h ago•125 comments

The uncertain future of coding careers and why I'm still hopeful

https://jonmagic.com/posts/the-uncertain-future-of-coding-careers-and-why-im-still-hopeful/

41•mooreds•9h ago•63 comments

I scanned all of GitHub's "oops commits" for leaked secrets

https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/guest-post-how-i-scanned-all-of-github-s-oops-commits-for-leaked-secrets

147•elza_1111•4h ago•83 comments

Sony's Mark Cerny Has Worked on "Big Chunks of RDNA 5" with AMD

https://overclock3d.net/news/gpu-displays/sonys-mark-cerny-has-worked-on-big-chunks-of-rdna-5-with-amd/

93•ZenithExtreme•18h ago•95 comments

The Evolution of Caching Libraries in Go

https://maypok86.github.io/otter/blog/cache-evolution/

114•maypok86•3d ago•29 comments

Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-national-assessment-nasa-white-house-057cec699caef90832d8b10f21a6ffe8

388•geox•13h ago•203 comments

What to build instead of AI agents

https://decodingml.substack.com/p/stop-building-ai-agents

184•giuliomagnifico•10h ago•101 comments

What's the difference between named functions and arrow functions in JavaScript?

https://jrsinclair.com/articles/2025/whats-the-difference-between-named-functions-and-arrow-functions/

4•jrsinclair•3d ago•7 comments

Serenading Cells with Audible Sound Alters Gene Activity

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cells-can-hear-sounds-and-respond-genetically/

10•Bluestein•2d ago•1 comments

Gene therapy restored hearing in deaf patients

https://news.ki.se/gene-therapy-restored-hearing-in-deaf-patients

335•justacrow•19h ago•80 comments