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High-Entropy Alloy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-entropy_alloy
15•leonidasrup•3d ago

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tornikeo•40m ago
I wonder if the Xenonite is a high-entropy alloy :-)
PowerElectronix•36m ago
In the book Grace says that it's a mess of proteins and molecules that he gives up on trying to understand

I don't think AI will make your processes go faster

https://frederickvanbrabant.com/blog/2026-05-15-i-dont-think-ai-will-make-your-processes-go-faster/
139•TheEdonian•2h ago•81 comments

Native all the way, until you need text

https://justsitandgrin.im/posts/native-all-the-way-until-you-need-text/
182•dive•2h ago•117 comments

The ultimate female fantasy – A feminist critique of Beauty and the Beast

https://storica.club/blog/beast-was-the-best-part/
7•muge•9m ago•0 comments

Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter

https://www.williamangel.net/blog/2026/05/17/offline-llm-energy-use.html
122•datadrivenangel•2h ago•85 comments

Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit

https://www.techspot.com/news/112410-security-researcher-microsoft-secretly-built-backdoor-bitloc...
65•nolok•58m ago•28 comments

Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon

https://unplannedobsolescence.com/blog/prolog-basics-pokemon/
79•birdculture•2d ago•12 comments

Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust

https://crates.io/crates/zerostack/1.0.0
476•gidellav•16h ago•252 comments

High-Entropy Alloy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-entropy_alloy
15•leonidasrup•3d ago•2 comments

AI is a technology not a product

https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/ai_is_technology_not_a_product
40•ch_sm•1h ago•2 comments

WHO Declares Ebola Outbreak a Global Health Emergency

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/world/africa/ebola-congo-uganda-who-public-health-emergency.html
73•zzzeek•1h ago•19 comments

Every AI Subscription Is a Ticking Time Bomb for Enterprise

https://www.thestateofbrand.com/news/ai-subscription-time-bomb
109•mooreds•2h ago•76 comments

Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools

https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2026/05/15/mozilla-to-uk-regulators-vpns-are-essential-privacy...
417•WithinReason•8h ago•169 comments

How Diamonds Are Made

https://diamond.jaydip.me/
39•lemonberry•1d ago•7 comments

Scientists believe ibogaine can help veterans overcome PTSD

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260514-how-hallucinogenic-ibogaine-helps-veterans-overcome-ptsd
12•bushwart•2h ago•6 comments

I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation

https://github.com/tech4bot/rk3562deb
3•tech4bot•1h ago•0 comments

A nicer voltmeter clock

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/a-nicer-voltmeter-clock
254•surprisetalk•15h ago•30 comments

Colossus: The Forbin Project

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project
155•doener•2d ago•50 comments

Hosting a website on an 8-bit microcontroller

https://maurycyz.com/projects/mcusite/
177•zdw•13h ago•15 comments

Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS

https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/05/15/moving-away-from-tailwind--and-learning-to-structure-my-css-/
605•mpweiher•1d ago•334 comments

OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens

https://openai.com/index/malta-chatgpt-plus-partnership/
250•bookofjoe•18h ago•296 comments

SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video

https://nvlabs.github.io/Sana/WM/
371•mjgil•1d ago•143 comments

Playing Atari ST Music on the Amiga with Zero CPU

https://arnaud-carre.github.io/2026-05-15-ym-fast-emu/
79•z303•6h ago•29 comments

Mado: Fast Markdown linter written in Rust

https://github.com/akiomik/mado
19•nateb2022•2d ago•2 comments

We've made the world too complicated

https://user8.bearblog.dev/the-world-is-too-complicated/
357•James72689•1d ago•345 comments

Roman Letters

https://romanletters.org/
63•diodorus•2d ago•10 comments

Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races Before the Age of Linotype

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/twilight-of-the-velocipede/
32•benbreen•17h ago•1 comments

Illusions of understanding in the sciences

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42113-026-00271-1
71•sebg•2d ago•34 comments

Accelerando (2005)

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando.html
311•eamag•1d ago•177 comments

Unknowable Math Can Help Hide Secrets

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-unknowable-math-can-help-hide-secrets-20260511/
69•Xcelerate•3d ago•17 comments

Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format

https://kabir.au/blog/the-ctf-scene-is-dead
400•frays•1d ago•419 comments