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The Silent Frequency That Makes Old Buildings Feel Haunted

https://scienceblog.com/the-silent-frequency-that-makes-old-buildings-feel-haunted/

17•jnord•1d ago

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ordu•1h ago

Now it will be possible to create haunted buildings, or even repurpose existing ones. Does haunting increase a building value?

antiterra•1h ago

Looks to be an AI summary of:

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/behavioral-neuroscience...

Scienceblog.com is an extremely low quality site. Looks like an old content farm ‘splog’ that upgraded from markov chain nonsense to LLMs.

Aerolfos•54m ago

For those who want a more pop-science approach, this video (despite the clickbait) is pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTvr8L5v8u8

I believe it references that article, too

voidUpdate•1h ago

I've heard that some frequencies can also wobble your eyeball in just the right way to create visual distortions. Not as in straight up creating ghost images, but similar to what happens when you press on your eyeballs and your vision can become blurry or shift

Where the goblins came from

https://openai.com/index/where-the-goblins-came-from/

555•ilreb•5h ago•314 comments

Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans

https://www.noctua.at/en/3d-cad-models

218•embedding-shape•2d ago•37 comments

Zed 1.0

https://zed.dev/blog/zed-1-0

1831•salkahfi•18h ago•588 comments

The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/30/zig-anti-ai/

254•lumpa•7h ago•103 comments

Craig Venter has died

https://www.jcvi.org/media-center/j-craig-venter-genomics-pioneer-and-founder-jcvi-and-diploid-ge...

227•rdl•7h ago•41 comments

Copy Fail

https://copy.fail/

934•unsnap_biceps•15h ago•350 comments

Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell

https://burrito.bio/essays/biology-is-a-burrito

92•the-mitr•5h ago•12 comments

Alignment whack-a-mole: Finetuning activates recall of copyrighted books in LLMs

https://github.com/cauchy221/Alignment-Whack-a-Mole-Code

129•reconnecting•6h ago•94 comments

Cursor Camp

https://neal.fun/cursor-camp/

920•bpierre•17h ago•147 comments

London to Calcutta by Bus (2022)

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2022/08/london-to-calcutta-by-bus.html

50•CGMthrowaway•1d ago•18 comments

FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies

https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/fastcgi_is_the_better_protocol_for_reverse_proxies

332•agwa•17h ago•78 comments

OpenTrafficMap

https://opentrafficmap.org/

258•moooo99•13h ago•58 comments

Functional programmers need to take a look at Zig

https://pure-systems.org/posts/2026-04-29-functional-programmers-need-to-take-a-look-at-zig.html

111•xngbuilds•6h ago•79 comments

Mozilla's Opposition to Chrome's Prompt API

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1213

19•jaffathecake•1h ago•1 comments

Monad Tutorials Timeline

https://wiki.haskell.org/Monad_tutorials_timeline

33•brudgers•4h ago•7 comments

Mike: open-source legal AI

https://mikeoss.com/

89•noleary•8h ago•34 comments

HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/53262

1126•homebrewer•14h ago•477 comments

Creating a Color Palette from an Image

https://amandahinton.com/blog/creating-a-color-palette-from-an-image

71•evakhoury•1d ago•10 comments

Why I still reach for Lisp and Scheme instead of Haskell

https://jointhefreeworld.org/blog/articles/lisps/why-i-still-reach-for-scheme-instead-of-haskell/...

223•jjba23•1d ago•113 comments

Will you heed my warnings now?

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9718

51•bwesterb•2h ago•47 comments

Laws of UX

https://lawsofux.com/

264•bobbiechen•16h ago•39 comments

An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce

https://github.com/GliaX/Stethoscope

250•0x54MUR41•18h ago•109 comments

"Parse, don't validate" through the years with C++

https://derekrodriguez.dev/parse-dont-validate-through-the-years-with-c-/

3•dwrodri•2d ago•0 comments

Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight

https://www.flyingmag.com/joby-nyc-electric-air-taxi-jfk-airport/

47•Jblx2•8h ago•116 comments

A 25-Year-Fight over a 2-Second Sample

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/04/20/a-25-year-fight-over-a-2-second-sample/

8•speckx•1d ago•0 comments

Consequences of passing too few register parameters to a C function

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260427-00/?p=112271

58•aragonite•2d ago•24 comments

A grounded conceptual model for ownership types in Rust

https://cacm.acm.org/research-highlights/a-grounded-conceptual-model-for-ownership-types-in-rust/

32•tkhattra•7h ago•1 comments

The Silent Frequency That Makes Old Buildings Feel Haunted

https://scienceblog.com/the-silent-frequency-that-makes-old-buildings-feel-haunted/

17•jnord•1d ago•4 comments

Gooseworks (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Growth Engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gooseworks/jobs/ztgY6bD-founding-growth-engineer

1•shivsak•11h ago

How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNyuX1zoOgU

118•sandslash•19h ago•57 comments