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South African diamond mines are closing due to weak sales and lab-grown stones

https://www.wsj.com/business/diamond-mines-are-closing-and-south-africans-have-few-alternatives-fa3b8cbf
28•bookofjoe•1h ago

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bookofjoe•1h ago
https://www.wsj.com/business/diamond-mines-are-closing-and-s...
ggm•49m ago
"The death of the diamond" Edward Jay Epstein (1983)
insamniac•39m ago
similar to the lab-grown intelligence impact
davidhyde•29m ago
Oh shame. The poor devils.
reid-rigo•20m ago
Hope to see these headlines some day for the meat industry
wewewedxfgdf•8m ago
Shorter:

"South African diamond mines are closing due to lab-grown stones"

AdmiralAsshat•5m ago
"Millennials are killing diamond mines!"

Finite time blowup for an averaged three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation (2014)

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/finite-time-blowup-for-an-averaged-three-dimensional-na...
47•gmays•2h ago•20 comments

Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/isar-aerospace-second-launch-norway-a...
224•bookmtn•2h ago•96 comments

Show HN: Fly By – retro biplane flying game

https://michaelteter.com/flyby.html
17•michaelteter•4d ago•12 comments

Learn Programming with OCaml

https://usr.lmf.cnrs.fr/lpo/
139•elvis70•6h ago•62 comments

The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)

https://devquasar.com/hardware/the-60-gaming-pc-amd-bc-250/
245•networked•9h ago•74 comments

LLMs as a Cognitive Virus

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.03344
127•canjobear•3h ago•100 comments

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About LANs

https://dreamstation.systems/personal/lanfalsehoods.html
12•robinpie•55m ago•0 comments

How Swiss tables work in Go built-in map

https://victoriametrics.com/blog/go-swiss-table-map/index.html
20•valyala•2d ago•0 comments

Balrogg: Demonically compacting (up to 15%) lossless Vorbis/Opus recompressor

https://github.com/iczelia/balrogg
46•palaiologos•2d ago•7 comments

Visualizing Rust's Vtables: How dyn Trait Works In Memory

https://sofiabelen.github.io/projects/visualizing-rusts-vtables-how-dyn-trait-works-in-memory/
109•torutofu•9h ago•14 comments

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

https://collusion.wiki/
2068•moultano•1d ago•1498 comments

Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2026-85046
730•negura•1d ago•429 comments

Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

https://codeberg.org/mv12star/shitter/wiki/Instances
598•Cider9986•22h ago•282 comments

Delidded Intel I9-14900KS CT Scan

https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/09/02/delidded-intel-i9-14900ks
45•willx86•3d ago•0 comments

Isar Aerospace launch into orbit [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss1DUqLjecc
65•stefan_•2h ago•18 comments

America's Two Largest School Districts Impose AI Moratoriums

https://www.techpolicy.press/americas-two-largest-school-districts-impose-ai-moratoriums/
22•cdrnsf•1h ago•10 comments

Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem

https://www.anthropic.com/research/formalizing-fermats-last-theorem
737•jlebar•1d ago•479 comments

Terpstra Keyboard

http://terpstrakeyboard.com/
108•cl3misch•12h ago•52 comments

Stopping the Unstoppable: When an unstoppable force meets a dashpot snubber

https://practical.engineering/blog/2026/9/1/stopping-the-unstoppable
42•crescit_eundo•4d ago•4 comments

How AI is breaking the British state

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/08/06/how-ai-is-breaking-the-british-state
6•tchalla•1h ago•0 comments

South African diamond mines are closing due to weak sales and lab-grown stones

https://www.wsj.com/business/diamond-mines-are-closing-and-south-africans-have-few-alternatives-f...
28•bookofjoe•1h ago•7 comments

Steffen's Polyhedron

https://www.gregegan.net/SCIENCE/Steffen/Steffen.html
44•pavel_lishin•2d ago•3 comments

A bizarre Commodore 64 peripheral, a mime, and some pretty bad ads

https://buttondown.com/suchbadtechads/archive/spartan-and-the-mime/
69•rfarley04•10h ago•8 comments

Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

https://www.statichost.eu/
436•p4bl0•1d ago•198 comments

Singapore subway (mrt) information display types

https://www.sgtrains.com/technology-infosys.html
40•gregorvand•3d ago•9 comments

Can AI design circuit boards yet?

https://eebench.org/blog/can-ai-design-circuit-boards-yet/
364•iopapa•1d ago•204 comments

ISAR Aerospace 5 Sept Mission Onward and Upward

https://isaraerospace.com/mission-updates-overview
6•t43562•3h ago•1 comments

Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA

https://wikiworkersunited.org/announcements/2026-09-04-us-wikimedia-foundation-workers-overwhelmi...
249•robin_reala•6h ago•112 comments

.gitignore Everything by Default

https://packagemain.tech/p/gitignore-everything-by-default
139•der_gopher•9h ago•145 comments

The Real Luxuries In Life

https://feld.com/archives/2026/09/the-real-luxuries-in-life/
413•tosh•5h ago•192 comments