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The death rays that guard life

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-death-rays-that-guard-life/
12•ortegaygasset•3d ago

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scirob•2h ago
I'v seen a "UV" switch next to the regular light switch in some private GP's offices in eastern europe. But I did immediatly think of skin cancer when i saw that switch.
dist-epoch•1h ago
It's far more dangerous to the eyes than to the skin.
neocron•1h ago
afaik they use it to desinfect the room after or before usage, not during
Perz1val•1h ago
Oh yeah, why don't we put an air purifier, UV lamp box combo in each office/classroom? I've never thought about that, but it seems like such an obvious thing to do now
dist-epoch•1h ago
> Studies have shown that various immunological and autoimmune diseases are much less common in the developing world than the industrialized world and that immigrants to the industrialized world from the developing world increasingly develop immunological disorders in relation to the length of time since arrival in the industrialized world.[23] This is true for asthma and other chronic inflammatory disorders.[18] The increase in allergy rates is primarily attributed to diet and reduced microbiome diversity, although the mechanistic reasons are unclear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis

kragen•1h ago
I had thought that there were LED-based far-UV sources already on the consumer market, but the startup I'd heard about, Naomi Wu's NuKit222, uses an excimer-based source, not LEDs: https://www.nukit222.com/pages/nukit-torch-quality-provenanc...
nenenejej•1h ago
Blows my mind we have only know about UV disinfection for < 100 years.
iberator•2m ago
what do you mean? Electricity is needed first so how come this is strange?

Kmart's use of facial recognition to tackle refund fraud unlawful

https://www.oaic.gov.au/news/media-centre/18-kmarts-use-of-facial-recognition-to-tackle-refund-fr...
36•Improvement•2h ago•21 comments

SGI demos from long ago in the browser via WASM

https://github.com/sgi-demos
96•yankcrime•4h ago•21 comments

How I, a beginner developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me

https://anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-a-non-developer-read-the-tutorial-you-a-developer-wrote-for-...
465•wonger_•10h ago•224 comments

Tesla coast-to-coast FSD crashes after 60 miles

https://electrek.co/2025/09/21/tesla-influencers-tried-elon-musk-coast-to-coast-self-driving-cras...
49•HarHarVeryFunny•31m ago•14 comments

Biconnected components

https://emi-h.com/articles/bcc.html
19•emih•13h ago•3 comments

M4.6 Earthquake – 2 km ESE of Berkeley, CA

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ew1758534970/executive
80•brian-armstrong•2h ago•38 comments

You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

https://hackerone.com/reports/3340109
417•redbell•4h ago•199 comments

Privacy and Security Risks in the eSIM Ecosystem [pdf]

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/usenixsecurity25-motallebighomi.pdf
188•walterbell•7h ago•100 comments

Show HN: Software Freelancers Contract Template

https://sopimusgeneraattori.ohjelmistofriikit.fi/?lang=en
67•baobabKoodaa•4h ago•17 comments

Sj.h: A tiny little JSON parsing library in ~150 lines of C99

https://github.com/rxi/sj.h
425•simonpure•19h ago•211 comments

Metamaterials, AI, and the Road to Invisibility Cloaks

https://open.substack.com/pub/thepotentialsurface/p/metamaterials-ai-and-the-road-to
19•Annabella_W•3h ago•5 comments

What happens when coding agents stop feeling like dialup?

https://martinalderson.com/posts/what-happens-when-coding-agents-stop-feeling-like-dialup/
13•martinald•1d ago•9 comments

Download responsibly

https://blog.geofabrik.de/index.php/2025/09/10/download-responsibly/
244•marklit•6h ago•161 comments

A Generalized Algebraic Theory of Directed Equality

https://jacobneu.phd/
41•matt_d•3d ago•9 comments

Why is Venus hell and Earth an Eden?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-is-venus-hell-and-earth-an-eden-20250915/
147•pseudolus•13h ago•235 comments

We Politely Insist: Your LLM Must Learn the Persian Art of Taarof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01035
82•chosenbeard•11h ago•28 comments

What if AMD FX had "real" cores? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb4FDtAwnqU
8•zdw•3d ago•0 comments

LinkedIn will soon train AI models with data from European users

https://hostvix.com/linkedin-will-soon-train-ai-models-with-data-from-european-users/
100•skilled•2h ago•61 comments

Simulating a Machine from the 80s

https://rmazur.io/blog/fahivets.html
53•roman-mazur•3d ago•5 comments

How can I influence others without manipulating them?

https://andiroberts.com/leadership-questions/how-to-influence-others-without-manipulating
144•kiyanwang•14h ago•139 comments

Tell the EU: Don't Break Encryption with "Chat Control"

https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/campaigns/tell-the-eu-dont-break-encryption-with-chat-control/
187•nickslaughter02•2h ago•71 comments

Lightweight, highly accurate line and paragraph detection

https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.09638
124•colonCapitalDee•15h ago•20 comments

40k-Year-Old Symbols in Caves Worldwide May Be the Earliest Written Language

https://www.openculture.com/2025/09/40000-year-old-symbols-found-in-caves-worldwide-may-be-the-ea...
162•mdp2021•4d ago•98 comments

I uncovered an ACPI bug in my Dell Inspiron 5567. It was plaguing me for 8 years

https://triangulatedexistence.mataroa.blog/blog/i-uncovered-an-acpi-bug-in-my-dell-inspiron-5667-...
104•thunderbong•4d ago•13 comments

Be careful with Go struct embedding

https://mattjhall.co.uk/posts/be-careful-with-go-struct-embedding.html
102•mattjhall•13h ago•68 comments

DXGI debugging: Microsoft put me on a list

https://slugcat.systems/post/25-09-21-dxgi-debugging-microsoft-put-me-on-a-list/
267•todsacerdoti•21h ago•76 comments

Show HN: Coding Agents swarming your codebase

https://infrastructureas.ai
6•FreeFrosty•2h ago•5 comments

Nvmath-Python: Nvidia Math Libraries for the Python Ecosystem

https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvmath-python
57•gballan•3d ago•3 comments

Why your outdoorsy friend suddenly has a gummy bear power bank

https://www.theverge.com/tech/781387/backpacking-ultralight-haribo-power-bank
235•arnon•23h ago•282 comments

The death rays that guard life

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-death-rays-that-guard-life/
12•ortegaygasset•3d ago•8 comments