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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/
337•speckx•5h ago•132 comments

Mayor Mamdani Announces Landmark "Click-to-Cancel" Consumer Protection Rules

https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/07/mayor-mamdani-announces-landmark--click-to-cancel-...
164•thisislife2•1h ago•35 comments

Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/spider-silk-loses-top-spot-natures-strongest-material-s...
122•simonebrunozzi•4h ago•83 comments

GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/04d1d1e4-bc75-476a-97cf-49055cd98d31/cdc_proof.pdf
188•scrlk•2h ago•169 comments

The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017)

https://vfxblog.com/2017/08/23/the-tech-of-terminator-2-an-oral-history/
111•markus_zhang•4h ago•45 comments

How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI

https://casp.ac/reports/ai-enabled-terrorism
71•imustachyou•2h ago•56 comments

New York City to become first in US to ban deceptive subscription practices

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/10/new-york-city-deceptive-subscriptions-ban
210•randycupertino•2h ago•79 comments

War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history

https://waratlas.org
61•NaOH•3h ago•22 comments

Combustion Engine Web-Based Simulator

https://combustionlab.net
66•mytuny•5d ago•25 comments

Computation as a universal and fundamental concept

https://ergo.org/courses/computation-as-a-universal-and-fundamental-concept
54•simonpure•5h ago•52 comments

An Update on the scraper situation

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1080822/990a8a5e2d379085/
18•chmaynard•1h ago•5 comments

Late Bronze Age Collapse

https://acoup.blog/2026/01/30/collections-the-late-bronze-age-collapse-a-very-brief-introduction/
275•dmonay•9h ago•184 comments

Don't discontinue Gemini 2.5 Flash

https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/please-dont-discontinue-gemini-2-5-flash/174246
18•NickDob•1h ago•6 comments

Good Tools Are Invisible

https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2026/07/10/good-tools-are-invisible/
288•theanonymousone•10h ago•138 comments

Show HN: Wyrm – Solve algebra by touch, built on an open-source soundness engine

https://github.com/dicroce/wyrm_math
22•dicroce•1d ago•2 comments

Lost city discovered beneath Egypt's desert with ancient church

https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-15956159/Incredible-lost-city-discovered-Egypts-des...
118•Bender•4d ago•59 comments

Materials innovation has a scale-up problem, not discovery

https://www.atomscale.ai/updates/our-thesis-atom-to-scale
14•groznyj•2h ago•3 comments

Successful Companies Go Blind

https://ianreppel.org/how-successful-companies-go-blind/
156•speckx•7h ago•57 comments

Why We Don't Trust the Database with Authentication

https://blog.sturdystatistics.com/posts/api_keys/
4•kianN•3d ago•1 comments

A Love Letter to Flashcards

https://lesleylai.info/en/flashcards/
108•surprisetalk•5h ago•63 comments

The Clouds of Hiroshima

https://doomsdaymachines.net/p/the-clouds-of-hiroshima
13•handfuloflight•3d ago•10 comments

Write code like a human will maintain it

https://unstack.io/write-code-like-a-human-will-maintain-it
300•ScottWRobinson•7h ago•247 comments

45% of Enthusiasts 'Seriously Considering' Leaving Sony for PC

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2026/07/ps5-has-put-a-dampener-on-gaming-45percent-of-enthusiasts...
48•speckx•2h ago•60 comments

Laylo (YC S20) Is Hiring a Head of Finance

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/laylo/jobs/qce41D2-head-of-finance
1•amellin794•9h ago

Ask HN: Are systems ready for the first negative leap second?

39•Asmod4n•4d ago•41 comments

Hands-On with the AMD Ryzen AI Halo

https://www.microcenter.com/site/mc-news/article/amd-ryzen-ai-halo-review.aspx
34•bdcravens•5h ago•30 comments

Show HN: Reverse-engineering web apps into agent tools

74•pancomplex•1d ago•25 comments

Show HN: Reviving my 2001 college band with AI

https://www.fadingmaize.com
41•jacobgraf•1d ago•49 comments

The mathematical secrets of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia

https://mappingignorance.org/2026/06/30/sagrada-familia/
111•Gedxx•1w ago•27 comments

In Emacs, Everything Looks Like a Service

http://yummymelon.com/devnull/in-emacs-everything-looks-like-a-service.html
157•kickingvegas•12h ago•89 comments
Open in hackernews

The Clouds of Hiroshima

https://doomsdaymachines.net/p/the-clouds-of-hiroshima
13•handfuloflight•3d ago

Comments

voidUpdate•3d ago
I think that everybody who supports the use of nuclear weapons should look at these pictures and listen to the experiences by the survivors of the blast about what it was actually like just afterwards and think critically about if any creature deserves to be subjected to that
defrost•3d ago
Is it actually the case that deaths and injuries in H & N are distinctly worse than the deaths and injuries in the other 72 cities levelled by bombing in the few months prior to the H & N bombings?

  Before the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was the burning of Tokyo. Operation Meetinghouse, the early March 1945 raid on Tokyo that involved over 330 B-29s dropping incendiary bombs from low-altitude at night, killed roughly 100,000 people, and may have injured and made homeless an order of magnitude more. As with all statistics on the damage caused by strategic bombing during World War II, there are debatable points and methodologies, but most people accept that the bombing of Tokyo probably had at least as many deaths as the Hiroshima bombing raid, and probably more. It is sometimes listed as the most single deadly air raid of all time as a consequence.
~ https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2014/09/22/tokyo-hiroshima/
voidUpdate•3d ago
Depends, do you consider death by burns and smoke inhalation to be worse than death by having your skin stripped off by the blast, your appendages completely burned off in an instant, people completely losing their mind, pregnant women dying and having their unborn children exposed to the open air? I've heard all of those in testimonies from survivors.

Yes, both of those events are terrible and shouldn't have happened, but which is "worse" probably depends on if you consider more deaths or worse deaths to be "worse"

defrost•3d ago
> I've heard all of those in testimonies from survivors.

You've read the testimonies of those that survived Dresden and Tokyo then?

Again, dead is dead, injured by temperatures that melt flesh is the same regardless of heat source.

Is there any reason to elevate death by atomic weapon above death by carpet bombing HE's and incendiaries?

voidUpdate•3d ago
I've not heard testimonies by those survivors, no, but I have heard about a lot of other burn victims and survivors in mass casualty events.

How about we both don't have nuclear weapons and also don't carpet bomb people?

anonymars•10m ago
None of the ways of dying in wars sound particularly appealing to me; instant disintegration doesn't sound like the worst of them

If we're going to move the goalposts, why don't we just move them to the logical endpoint and proclaim "why don't we just not have wars"

Which, by the way, perhaps it's of interest to compare the frequency and severity of war before and after the invention of atomic weapons

Anyway, I'd be curious to hear your ethical solution to the trolley problem? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem)

fragmede•3d ago
I think no creature should be subjected to such pain, but wishing doesn't change the reality that Putin invaded Ukraine, so devices exist to cause such horrible destruction. The remaining question is, who's holding the trigger?
voidUpdate•3d ago
Nuclear devices existed way before Putin. Currently, many countries hold the trigger. I appreciate that my wishing doesn't change anything, but I can't exactly do much about it concretely
brudgers•2d ago
The fire bombing of civilians was wrong too.
m-i-l•9m ago
> "Is it actually the case that deaths and injuries in H & N are distinctly worse"

Hiroshima and Nagasaki had radiation, which wasn't well understood at the time. Many died in the following months from the "atomic bomb disease", now known to be acute radiation sickness, and many died in the following years from cancer, for a example.

Furthermore, all the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki "and their children were (and still are) victims of severe discrimination when it comes to prospects of marriage or work due to public ignorance about the consequences of radiation sickness, with much of the public believing it to be hereditary or even contagious"[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibakusha