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You'll never guess who made the first wireless telephone

https://signoregalilei.com/2026/05/31/youll-never-guess-who-made-the-first-wireless-telephone/

42•surprisetalk•3d ago

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nephihaha•1h ago

Alexander Graham Bell was a successful inventor and made breakthroughs with helicopters and hydrofoils. Definitely not a one trick pony.

lordleft•1h ago

IIRC, Bell ended up wanting to spend his life after inventing the telephone as a scientist and a researcher, rather than tending to the running of Bell Telephone and AT&T.

fph•1h ago

Clickbait titles should be changed, as per the guidelines for HN submissions.

HelloUsername•1h ago

"Antonio Meucci invented the telephone and he got robbed! Everybody knows that!"

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

andai•31m ago

As a kid I had this idea of using mirrors for wireless communication. I've never heard of this one before but it makes me very happy! I was thinking of using it for like, torrents or something though.

esafak•11m ago

What kind of a signal were you thinking of bouncing off the mirror?

esafak•7m ago

In more technical terms, Bell used amplitude modulation of audio using light as the carrier wave, and selenium as a photoconductive transducer. Correct me if I'm mistaken...

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112•howToTestFE•1h ago•54 comments

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96•gavinray•2h ago•12 comments

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61•maxloh•3h ago•25 comments

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51•elpocko•3h ago•14 comments

Making Peace with Your Unlived Dreams

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55•herbertl•2h ago•19 comments

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76•tosh•2d ago•30 comments

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81•zdw•1d ago•13 comments

You'll never guess who made the first wireless telephone

https://signoregalilei.com/2026/05/31/youll-never-guess-who-made-the-first-wireless-telephone/

42•surprisetalk•3d ago•7 comments

My automated doubt development process

https://www.alexself.dev/blog/automated-doubt

17•aself101•2h ago•10 comments

Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics

https://www.lms.ac.uk/news/leiden-declaration-on-ai-and-mathematics

34•_____k•2h ago•1 comments

The complete IPv4 address space, mapped

https://worldip.io/

13•theanonymousone•2h ago•4 comments

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340•matt_d•14h ago•80 comments

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1•pablo24602•3h ago

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https://github.com/devenjarvis/lathe

182•devenjarvis•9h ago•37 comments

Backrest – a web UI and orchestrator for restic backup

https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest

52•flexagoon•5d ago•3 comments

Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?

https://www.natesilver.net/p/why-isnt-the-us-better-at-soccer

32•7777777phil•1h ago•37 comments

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9•Kelvinidan•2d ago•0 comments

Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux

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372•predkambrij•7h ago•212 comments

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78•daesorin•6h ago•5 comments

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122•supermatou•2d ago•59 comments

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28•tosh•6h ago•18 comments

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227•davidbarker•20h ago•32 comments

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57•ChrisGammell•3d ago•5 comments

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131•kkm•3d ago•28 comments

Symbolica 2.0: Programmable Symbols for Python and Rust

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140•mmastrac•2d ago•12 comments

My Software North Star

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196•kristoff_it•4d ago•128 comments

Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14470

161•Anon84•19h ago•66 comments