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Los Alamos and the long path to detecting neutrinos

https://www.lanl.gov/media/publications/1663/from-ghost-particle-to-cosmic-messenger

11•LAsteNERD•1d ago

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rdtsc•30m ago

The Soviet detector mentioned is probably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baksan_Neutrino_Observatory

There is a tour of it on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5jhp74Uw54 if you happen to speak some Russian. The scintillator array part starts around 22min

Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data

https://www.theverge.com/tech/926458/canvas-shinyhunters-breach

437•stefanpie•6h ago•303 comments

Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit

https://xeiaso.net/blog/2026/abstain-from-install/

296•psxuaw•5h ago•129 comments

Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/07/8

512•flipped•9h ago•212 comments

Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce

https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/cloudflare-cut-over-1100-jobs-2026-05-07/

415•PriorityLeft•8h ago•255 comments

Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered

https://storica.club/blog/pinocchio-in-italian/

64•cemsakarya•1d ago•7 comments

The map that keeps Burning Man honest

https://www.not-ship.com/burning-man-moop/

580•speckx•14h ago•303 comments

Agents need control flow, not more prompts

https://bsuh.bearblog.dev/agents-need-control-flow/

388•bsuh•12h ago•202 comments

Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus

https://www.bcm.edu/news/researchers-discover-advanced-language-processing-in-the-unconscious-hum...

78•hhs•5h ago•32 comments

Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text

https://www.anthropic.com/research/natural-language-autoencoders

230•instagraham•11h ago•80 comments

AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields

https://deepmind.google/blog/alphaevolve-impact/

269•berlianta•13h ago•110 comments

Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women: study

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/gambling-ads-on-social-media-reach-more-than-twice-as-many-me...

31•hhs•5h ago•16 comments

DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal

https://github.com/antirez/ds4

335•tamnd•13h ago•95 comments

GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094

https://github.com/robertdfrench/ifuncd-up

45•foltik•4h ago•17 comments

AI slop is killing online communities

https://rmoff.net/2026/05/06/ai-slop-is-killing-online-communities/

529•thm•10h ago•482 comments

Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect

https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/research-and-discoveries-articles/nonprofit-hospitals-...

105•hhs•6h ago•31 comments

Komai: a fine Matrix chat app you can get to love

https://etke.cc/blog/introducing-komai

36•anotherevan•4h ago•13 comments

Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard

https://www.elciudadano.com/en/brazils-pix-payment-system-faces-pressure-from-visa-and-mastercard...

133•wslh•11h ago•89 comments

Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/06/singapore-caning-school-bullies

111•rustoo•1d ago•124 comments

Los Alamos and the long path to detecting neutrinos

https://www.lanl.gov/media/publications/1663/from-ghost-particle-to-cosmic-messenger

11•LAsteNERD•1d ago•1 comments

I want to live like Costco people

https://tastecooking.com/i-want-to-live-like-costco-people/

271•speckx•13h ago•562 comments

Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/behind-the-scenes-hardening-firefox/

112•HieronymusBosch•12h ago•68 comments

How to make SSE token streams resumable, cancellable, and multi-device

https://zknill.io/posts/everyone-said-sse-token-streaming-was-easy/

3•zknill•1d ago•0 comments

Creating for a niche

https://www.davesnider.com/posts/working-in-a-niche

44•snide•9h ago•6 comments

Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/home-affairs-officials-suspended-ai-hallucinations/

65•jruohonen•9h ago•17 comments

The Disappearance of the Public Bench

https://placesjournal.org/article/the-disappearance-of-the-public-bench/

71•cainxinth•1d ago•60 comments

Programming Still Sucks

https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp

526•jeromechoo•1d ago•280 comments

Principles for agent-native CLIs

https://twitter.com/trevin/status/2051316002730991795

76•blumpy22•11h ago•42 comments

Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers

https://old.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/1t5qayz/chrome_removes_claim_of_ondevice_al_not_sending/

508•newsoftheday•13h ago•195 comments

Tools in the Grass: Raising the next generation of crafts person

https://www.popularwoodworking.com/editors-blog/tools-in-the-grass/

39•NaOH•2d ago•3 comments

The Traveling Salesdog Problem

https://www.wespiser.com/posts/2026-05-04-traveling-salesdog.html

20•wespiser_2018•2d ago•5 comments