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Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym

https://thienantran.com/talking-to-35-strangers-at-the-gym/
407•thitran•3h ago•174 comments

PyInfra 3.8.0 Is Out

https://github.com/pyinfra-dev/pyinfra/releases/tag/v3.8.0
98•wowi42•2h ago•27 comments

GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0p8yled1do
389•n1b0m•5h ago•322 comments

Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test

https://www.science.org/content/article/newton-s-law-gravity-passes-its-biggest-test-ever
53•pseudolus•2h ago•18 comments

How Monero's proof of work works

https://blog.alcazarsec.com/tech/posts/how-moneros-proof-of-work-works
22•alcazar•53m ago•0 comments

Redis array: short story of a long development process

https://antirez.com/news/164
11•antirez•40m ago•1 comments

World's biggest RC A380 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr9YLGbhxng
79•NaOH•1d ago•26 comments

Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/npp-trademark-infringement/
396•maxloh•5h ago•161 comments

Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers

https://samcollins.blog/underdrawings/
308•samcollins•2d ago•107 comments

Texico: Learn the principles of programming without even touching a computer

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/shows/texico/
116•o4c•2d ago•7 comments

Why are neural networks and cryptographic ciphers so similar? (2025)

https://reiner.org/neural-net-ciphers
56•jxmorris12•2d ago•17 comments

BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth

https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/116499715071759135
421•nullagent•21h ago•134 comments

DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro

https://github.com/aattaran/deepclaude
567•alattaran•16h ago•237 comments

Why Almost Everyone Loses–Except a Few Sharks–On Prediction Markets

https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/polymarket-kalshi-betting-profits-prediction-markets-eb23ac11
54•JumpCrisscross•3h ago•40 comments

Someone allegedly used a hairdryer to rig Polymarket weather bets

https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/someone-allegedly-used-a-hairdryer-to-rig-polymarket-weather-be...
63•cdrnsf•1h ago•26 comments

Discovering hard disk physical geometry through microbenchmarking (2019)

https://blog.stuffedcow.net/2019/09/hard-disk-geometry-microbenchmarking/
133•TapamN•3d ago•6 comments

A treasure trove of fossils rewrites the story of early life

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-treasure-trove-of-cambrian-fossils-rewrites-the-story-of-early-l...
74•worldvoyageur•2d ago•14 comments

Southwest Headquarters Tour

https://katherinemichel.github.io/blog/travel/southwest-headquarters-tour-2026.html
287•KatiMichel•22h ago•87 comments

Let's Buy Spirit Air

https://letsbuyspiritair.com/
466•bjhess•15h ago•436 comments

US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City

https://phys.org/news/2026-04-usindian-space-mission-extreme-subsidence.html
187•leopoldj•3d ago•68 comments

Fun with polynomials and linear algebra; or, slight abstract nonsense

https://guille.site/posts/abstract-nonsense/
34•LolWolf•3d ago•2 comments

OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/30/ai-outperforms-doctors-in-harvard-trial-of-eme...
454•donsupreme•1d ago•396 comments

Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024)

https://aruljohn.com/blog/macos-created-tar-files-linux-errors/
131•heresie-dabord•4d ago•87 comments

Bad Connection: Global telecom exploitation by covert surveillance actors

https://citizenlab.ca/research/uncovering-global-telecom-exploitation-by-covert-surveillance-actors/
181•miohtama•22h ago•18 comments

A desktop made for one

https://isene.org/2026/05/Audience-of-One.html
397•xngbuilds•23h ago•230 comments

Introduction to Atom

https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/atom.html
115•susam•16h ago•53 comments

New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/attributed-to-banksy-a-new-statue-of-a-suited-man-blind...
489•dryadin•20h ago•467 comments

Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons

https://www.drive.com.au/news/mercedes-benz-commits-to-bringing-back-phycial-buttons/
788•teleforce•1d ago•450 comments

Text-to-CAD

https://github.com/earthtojake/text-to-cad
145•softservo•3d ago•38 comments

I recreated the Apple Lisa computer inside an FPGA [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jNQDcpHc68
119•cyrc•21h ago•39 comments
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Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test

https://www.science.org/content/article/newton-s-law-gravity-passes-its-biggest-test-ever
53•pseudolus•2h ago

Comments

GuB-42•1h ago
If you follow Sabine Hossenfelder's channel, she has a MONDOmeter. With MOND (modified Newtonian gravity) on one side and dark matter on the other side.

As new papers come out the needle goes back and forth, and I guess that she will make a new video if she hasn't already, with the needle moving one step towards dark matter.

I find it interesting how it doesn't seem to settle. Dark matter is still the favorite, but there is a lot of back and forth between "MOND is dead" and "we found new stuff we couldn't explain with dark matter, but it matches MOND predictions".

ReptileMan•1h ago
Once I joked that a lot of things in the universe make sense if you view it as a "simulation with optimizations like lazy loading".
nathan_compton•1h ago
Everything we don't understand we conceptualize using the most similar tools which we do have command over.
sebzim4500•1h ago
Yeah until you get to quantum computing and then it seems as if the universe is doing enormously more work than you would think necessary.
cvoss•57m ago
This comment and GP are two of the most concise and punchy descriptions I've ever heard of some of the deepest aspects of modern physics. On the one hand we have principles of locality and finite propagation speed, which limit the computational work to a small neighborhood, and on the other hand we have principles of non-locality and superposition, which cause the computation to explode as it swallows up potentially everything and every possible thing.
davrosthedalek•24m ago
It might just be a reflection of the architecture the universe simulation is running on...
ReptileMan•44m ago
But only if someone observes it. The act of observation forces reality into existence.
fooker•2m ago
Not necessarily.

You'd be correct given hidden variables.

But we know pretty convincingly that quantum anything does not have hidden variables.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem

PaulHoule•1h ago
MOND does amazingly well at galactic rotation curves, less well at anything else. If you think it started with Vera Rubin in 1966 MOND seems natural, but if you know that it started with Fritz Zwicky in 1933 than dark matter is easier to believe.
adgjlsfhk1•1m ago
MOND only really does well on galactic rotation curves because it has free parameters that are tuned to "predict" the correct answer for galactic rotation curves.
cwmma•42m ago
my understanding is that there are a few MOND champions who are still holding on to the idea while everyone else has moved on.
elashri•41m ago
MOND is dead is a true statement if we say MOND is dead as a general theory of gravity. It does not mean is does not have its success with explaining galactic rotation curves but failing at mostly everything else.
cowl•9m ago
It's funny how for MOND we cant accept that it has some unknowns yet but we are more than willing to accept the FULL UNKNOWN Dark Matter. it's easy. put "Dark" in front of something and you don't have to explain it at all, no matter that something else explains at least 60-70% instead of 0.
fooker•5m ago
We are likely going to find out that both are unfixably faulty.

It'll take either the next Einstein or some groundbreaking experimental observation to get there in my opinion.

If it was possible to incrementally fix these theories, the army of postdocs working on these would have already done so in the last decade or so.

Lvl999Noob•1h ago
I thought newtonian gravity was already proven to be inaccurate with Einstein's Special Relativity (or General Relativity?) giving better results on cosmic scales (basically analogous to an approximation vs an exact formula)?
GuB-42•52m ago
At these scales (entire galaxies, very weak forces), it doesn't make a significant difference.

There are ways of adapting MOND to match general relativity, should it turn to be correct at explaining what it is supposed to explain (like the movement of galaxies).

magicalhippo•50m ago
General Relativity reduces to Newtonian gravity as the curvature goes to zero, that is when you're very far away from objects relative to their masses, for slow non-relativistic objects like stars and galaxies.

Galaxies are typically so far away from another they're almost like point sources to each other, hence Newtonian gravity explains their motion very well.

However, inside galaxies things do not behave as expected, as stars in almost all the galaxies we've measured does not move like Newtonian (nor GR) behaves based on the matter in the galaxy we see. One alternative to the mainstream theories of dark matter is to modify Newtonian gravity, called MOND.

This work tested if MOND fit the motion of galaxies in galaxy clusters. They found it did not.

MOND already does not explain other phenomena that dark matter can so it's not terribly surprising. Here[1] is a nice accessible talk going through all the evidence for dark matter.

But it is technically a possibility that there's two things are going on, something MOND-like as well as dark matter, so worth checking.

[1]: https://pirsa.org/26030070

DonaldFisk•49m ago
General Relativity. It explained the anomaly in the precession of Mercury's perihelion, and the bending of starlight by the Sun (double the value predicted by Newton's law).

The test here is for the inverse square law of gravity. The rival theory in this case isn't GR, but MOND: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Newtonian_dynamics