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The Victorian War on Rabies

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/mad-dogs-and-englishmen-winning-war-rabies
10•benbreen•4d ago

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datakan•1h ago
Strange article. So much focus on dogs with only one mention of bats who are the primary carrier and spreader of rabies.
Hikikomori•57m ago
The first recorded rabies from a bat was in 2002 so not that surprising that it wasn't a focus on victorian England.
nephihaha•19m ago
Dogs were seen as the main vector right into the 1980s. Rightly so. A dog is more likely to attack you than a bat.

Modern Decor May Be Straining People's Brains

https://studyfinds.com/modern-decor-may-be-straining-peoples-brains/
52•downwithdisease•1h ago•27 comments

We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput

https://clickhouse.com/blog/pgbouncer-clickhouse-managed-postgres
82•saisrirampur•2h ago•12 comments

The early History of the Singular Value Decomposition (1993) [pdf]

https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~saito/courses/229A/stewart-svd.pdf
40•wolfi1•2h ago•3 comments

Female US rower completes historic solo journey from California to Hawaii

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/04/california-hawaii-rowing-solo-journey
34•speckx•38m ago•7 comments

AI Can't Recreate the Thrust Game (But It Can Help You Understand It)

https://www.jamesdrandall.com/posts/thrust_ai_powered_software_archaeology/
4•msephton•19h ago•0 comments

Sixtyfour (YC P25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sixtyfour/jobs/bIbgQkL-operations-associate-data-samples-cu...
1•HPMOR•40m ago

Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows

https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-07-09/chemical-bonds-relativity
349•hhs•19h ago•156 comments

QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/quadrf-can-spot-drones-and-see-wifi-through-my-wall/
695•speckx•1d ago•218 comments

Google Search lets creators know more about their reach

https://www.theverge.com/tech/961955/google-search-console-reach-platform-properties
72•herbertl•3d ago•34 comments

Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine (1965) [pdf]

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/Good1964.pdf
65•zetalyrae•4h ago•32 comments

Amber the programming language compiled to Bash/Ksh/Zsh

https://amber-lang.com/
9•_superposition_•3d ago•5 comments

Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets

https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/10/apple-sues-openai-trade-secret-theft/
1433•stock_toaster•20h ago•784 comments

Book: RISC-V System-on-Chip Design

https://www.amazon.com/RISC-V-Microprocessor-System-Chip-Design/dp/0323994989
62•xlmnxp•2d ago•22 comments

Digital Deli, 1984 book by early PC hackers and enthusiasts

https://www.atariarchives.org/deli/
21•achairapart•3d ago•2 comments

Tropical forests facing increasing risks of exposure to critical temp thresholds

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2528622123
34•littlexsparkee•2h ago•5 comments

Otary – Image and Geometry Python Library Now Has Tutorials

https://alexandrepoupeau.com/otary/learn/
75•poupeaua•3d ago•1 comments

Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch

https://shipthatcode.com
18•acley•4h ago•8 comments

Leaded Gas Was a Known Poison the Day It Was Invented (2016)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/leaded-gas-poison-invented-180961368/
6•downbad_•13m ago•1 comments

Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot

https://www.mixfont.com/ghost-font
137•justswim•8h ago•104 comments

An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1080822/990a8a5e2d379085/
287•chmaynard•22h ago•300 comments

FCC approves test of space mirror to light night sky

https://theconversation.com/the-u-s-just-approved-a-giant-space-mirror-to-test-sunlight-on-demand...
98•reaperducer•5h ago•96 comments

The Victorian War on Rabies

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/mad-dogs-and-englishmen-winning-war-rabies
10•benbreen•4d ago•3 comments

SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth

https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/spacex-wants-to-launch-100000-more-starlink-sate...
264•CrankyBear•23h ago•965 comments

An iroh powered smart fan

https://www.iroh.computer/blog/an-iroh-powered-smart-fan
154•surprisetalk•4d ago•52 comments

Why it's so difficult to produce American-made medical gloves

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-07-07/why-it-s-so-difficult-to-produce-100-american-...
95•helsinkiandrew•8h ago•106 comments

The mask that compiles to nothing: how HotSpots JIT learned to reason about bits

https://questdb.com/blog/jvm-jit-known-bits/
63•rowbin•5d ago•8 comments

Good Tools Are Invisible

https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2026/07/10/good-tools-are-invisible/
515•theanonymousone•1d ago•234 comments

AI 2040: Plan A

https://ai-2040.com/
362•kschaul•2d ago•447 comments

Earendel (Astronomical Object)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earendel_(astronomical_object)
5•brainlessdev•17m ago•0 comments

Late Bronze Age Collapse

https://acoup.blog/2026/01/30/collections-the-late-bronze-age-collapse-a-very-brief-introduction/
409•dmonay•1d ago•287 comments