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Speaking for the Dead

https://longreads.com/2026/08/11/obituaries-new-york-times-sam-roberts/
3•NaOH•4d ago

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thataccount•4d ago
This is not speaking "for". It is speaking "about". About is always someone else's job to perform. "For" would be writing it up yourself, and handing it someone else to read.
Tomte•6m ago
That‘s wrong. Speaking for someone means from their point of view, and it ususally implies a moral permission to do so.

Asus Bike Booster

https://www.asus.com/accessories/bike-booster/asus-oxiis/oxiis-intelligent-bike-booster/
296•wiradikusuma•4d ago•162 comments

Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work

https://duckdb.org/2026/07/31/asynchronous-io
115•pdet•5d ago•8 comments

Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk

https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dad2.70432
402•randycupertino•14h ago•281 comments

Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems

https://www.anthropic.com/research/multiagent-systems
45•maxutility•4h ago•13 comments

Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023)

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/good-ideas
142•felixbraun•9h ago•33 comments

Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns

https://tinkerings.org/2018/03/28/guiding-ships-with-moire-patterns/
30•Eridanus2•5h ago•7 comments

Software Engineering fundamentals matter more

https://rhonabwy.com/2026/08/15/software-engineering-fundamentals-matter-more-than-ever/
85•ingve•8h ago•23 comments

Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter

https://www.severe-weather.eu/long-range-2/super-el-nino-growth-accelerating-to-record-strength-f...
176•dgellow•11h ago•96 comments

Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game

https://www.micdrop.gg/
45•johnsillings•6h ago•17 comments

At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/the-first-at-home-test-for-infected-ticks-could-improve...
247•gmays•16h ago•86 comments

AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/so-how-ai-drug-discovery-doing-really
128•AnodicElegy•11h ago•64 comments

RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better

https://dmitry.gr/?r=06.%20Thoughts&proj=12.%20RV
278•dmitrygr•1d ago•338 comments

Numba in the Browser: Unlocking a New Scientific Python Stack in JupyterLite

https://notebook.link/blog/numba-in-the-browser/
25•xalfotis•3d ago•5 comments

Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI

https://www.acc.org/about-acc/press-releases/2026/08/11/14/59/abdominal-fat-predicts-heart-diseas...
227•theanonymousone•9h ago•167 comments

Tea5767-Radio-Tuner

https://github.com/turtushig22-blip/tea5767-radio-tuner
35•turtushig22•6h ago•2 comments

Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-08-09-zsh-history-truncation-bug/
61•ingve•9h ago•21 comments

A fortuitous decade as an indie software developer

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/8/3.html
66•frizlab•5d ago•9 comments

Zapping Rocks Unlocks Stimulated Geologic Hydrogen

https://spectrum.ieee.org/stimulated-geologic-hydrogen
12•adm4•4h ago•3 comments

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain

https://davidepiffer.com/p/ai-isnt-outthinking-mathematicians
469•rzk•12h ago•405 comments

A spectre is haunting Unicode

https://www.dampfkraft.com/ghost-characters.html
206•sensanaty•16h ago•71 comments

Program with Paint Brushes, Not Pencils

https://blog.pickcode.io/program-with-paint-brushes-not-pencils/
8•skadamat•4d ago•1 comments

Speaking for the Dead

https://longreads.com/2026/08/11/obituaries-new-york-times-sam-roberts/
3•NaOH•4d ago•2 comments

Government sponsored study on alcohol doesn't stand up to scrutiny

https://nntaleb.substack.com/p/have-another-drink
31•scoofy•3h ago•11 comments

Falstad Math and Physics Simulations

https://www.falstad.com/mathphysics.html
3•pykello•2h ago•0 comments

AI-Assisted GPU Porting of a 250k Line Legacy Weather Simulation Code

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13122
21•Jimmc414•8h ago•2 comments

Tess's Android Wayland Compositor

https://github.com/wmww/tawc
61•schmorptron•12h ago•9 comments

SugarTrack – an offline Android logbook for blood sugar (no account, no cloud)

https://sugartrack-beta.vercel.app/
40•hunzaboy•8h ago•15 comments

Show HN: Fixing optical computing jitter via fluid dynamics in GPU registers

https://github.com/PJHkorea/photonic-mesh-fng-router
3•PJHkorea•1w ago•1 comments

An image can overflow

https://master.dev/blog/something-nobody-told-you-about-the-image-element-it-can-overflow/
38•ibobev•4d ago•11 comments

Voltair (YC W26) Is Hiring a Test Flight Engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/voltair/jobs/sSOD2Ox-flight-test-engineer
1•wweissbluth•12h ago