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The Einstein-Szilard Refrigerator

https://invention.si.edu/invention-stories/einstein-szilard-refrigerator
16•EndXA•3d ago

Comments

juliangamble•48m ago
This is the fridge that is used in the book and movie 'The Mosquito Coast'.
westurner•31m ago
> Einstein and Szilard eliminated the risk of leakage by jettisoning the mechanical pump

Einstein–Szilard refrigerator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_refrigerator :

> The three working fluids in this design are water, ammonia, and butane. [1] The Einstein refrigerator (co-invented with Leó Szilárd) was actually a modification of an earlier three-fluid absorption design created by Swedish engineers Baltzar von Platen and Carl Munters

tingletech•15m ago
(2020)

Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07389
12•joebig•1h ago•2 comments

RISC-V is now officially supported by CPython

https://blog.python.org/2026/08/riscv-now-officially-supported/
158•lumpa•5d ago•32 comments

Hy4 preview

https://www.tencent.com/tencent-releases-and-open-sources-tencent-hy4-preview/
296•shenli3514•13h ago•187 comments

Bug Blindness

https://danluu.com/bug-blind/
248•davidmckenna•9h ago•137 comments

Xcena and Samsung's Near Memory Compute CXL Device

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/hot-chips-2026-xcena-and-samsungs
5•klelatti•1h ago•0 comments

FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued

https://freecore.org/
93•sashk•7h ago•55 comments

California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-lawmakers-unanimously-pass-linux-exemption...
268•shscs911•6h ago•99 comments

Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux

https://zackbartel.com/blog/2026/08/tether/
457•zackb•6d ago•180 comments

Benjamin Franklin's Alter Egos Gave Him the Most Freedom

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/among-all-great-things-benjamin-franklin-invented-discover...
61•cisc•8h ago•23 comments

The Einstein-Szilard Refrigerator

https://invention.si.edu/invention-stories/einstein-szilard-refrigerator
16•EndXA•3d ago•3 comments

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/roman-space-telescope/
193•JumpCrisscross•17h ago•77 comments

Benchmarking Pocket-Scale Inference

https://artificialanalysis.ai/hardware-inference-stack/mobile-phones
44•sys42590•2d ago•4 comments

Creating Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (Or, "Size Is Everything") (1999)

https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.html
42•Bluestein•4d ago•10 comments

Iceland rejects reopening talks on EU entry

https://www.ft.com/content/53b5abd8-2919-4dc6-8dd6-81fc054e8b6f
16•JumpCrisscross•1h ago•5 comments

The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations

https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/openai-huggingface
103•consumer451•9h ago•46 comments

Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/08/28/texas-flock-cameras-auto-insurance-fee-mvcpa-grants/
295•DeepLogin•10h ago•168 comments

SQLite as a Document Database (2020)

https://dgl.cx/2020/06/sqlite-json-support
210•lioeters•5d ago•49 comments

Functional State Machines in Rust: Typestate and Newtype Patterns

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3830438.3830958
87•matt_d•14h ago•35 comments

EVE Online moves to Python 3

https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/the-move-to-python-3-begins
352•TylerJaacks•4d ago•195 comments

Open Oscar Server: open-source server compatible with AIM and ICQ clients

https://github.com/mk6i/open-oscar-server
37•gregsadetsky•8h ago•13 comments

Glacier Mice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier_mice
297•ostacke•5d ago•59 comments

Is it safe to call print in a Python signal handler?

https://iafisher.com/2026/08/sigprint
46•hellerve•3d ago•25 comments

Calibrate Before You Accelerate: Bias Toward Action in a New Role

https://tucker.wales/writing/bias-towards-action/
157•tuckerwales•15h ago•58 comments

Pop-2000, a lingua-franca POP-2 dialect

https://hitogata.neocities.org/POP-2000
13•surprisetalk•3d ago•1 comments

Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM)

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/hot-chips-2026-samsungs-processing
260•ingve•1d ago•103 comments

Show HN: I missed the moving blocks, so I built a real Linux disk defragmenter

https://github.com/gbin/defragger
65•gbin•4d ago•45 comments

Algorithmic rent-pricing litigation expands under new state and local laws

https://www.morganlewis.com/pubs/2026/08/algorithmic-rent-pricing-litigation-expands-under-new-st...
77•toomuchtodo•6h ago•44 comments

Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework

https://github.com/Lakr233/vphone-cli
401•hentrep•1d ago•108 comments

Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI

https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/good-culture-is-the-biggest-productivity
386•gpi•16h ago•93 comments

A few feral cats in an ALGOL trenchcoat.

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/pop2.html
14•bmacho•1d ago•2 comments