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Impedance Matching

https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27238
16•muti•1h ago

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Metacelsus•26m ago
Whatever happened to Edge? They haven't really published since 2018
nmadden•10m ago
Speculation, but Edge was John Brockman’s thing and he was heavily connected to Epstein, so probably has become a bit toxic for potential contributors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brockman_(literary_agent)...
mschuster91•24m ago
> On a larger scale, we can think of atmospheric carbon dioxide as an undesired impedance matcher, coupling the infrared light waves of the sun into the planet. Someday, we may decide to cool our earth by adding tiny particles of dust to our stratosphere, tuning the optical surface to reflect away a tiny portion the infrared waves coming from the sun. The impedance mismatch between the atmosphere and sunlight would create a kind of half-silvered mirror to keep us cooler by reflecting away the unwanted energy flowing into our planet.

Good old geoengineering. The principle has been shown to work - in 536 AD [1], volcanic ashes and/or a cosmic impact event caused decades worth of cooling, causing or contributing to millions of deaths, pest spreads and massive migration movements.

The problem is... if we screw it up and overhit our target, we're in for a repeat, just this time with billions of deaths.

The question is... aren't we in for the same if we let human-caused climate change run its course anyway, just with us frying ourselves to death?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_winter_of_536

Keep Our Servers Running

https://blog.archive.org/2026/09/01/keep-our-servers-running-your-recurring-donation-goes-3x-this...
545•sonicrocketman•7h ago•116 comments

Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics

https://mathathonchallenge.com/index.html
32•astroanax•1h ago•1 comments

Live map of public transport in Belgium

https://openbaarvervoerbelgie.be/
52•coinfused•2h ago•22 comments

Speculative Decoding in vLLM on AMD GPUs

https://vllm.ai/blog/2026-08-23-speculative-decoding-amd-gpus
24•ankitg12•1h ago•4 comments

Impedance Matching

https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27238
16•muti•1h ago•4 comments

LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices

https://www.notebookcheck.net/LG-smart-TVs-caught-logging-audio-with-screen-off-and-snooping-on-l...
240•chris_overseas•4h ago•132 comments

'You Can See Everything' Review: Nathan Fielder's Doc About Elizabeth Holmes

https://variety.com/2026/film/reviews/nathan-fielder-surprise-film-telluride-elizabeth-holmes-123...
67•cianmm•1h ago•27 comments

Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes

https://austinhenley.com/blog/python1024.html
243•azhenley•12h ago•86 comments

Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?

159•imadtaieber•15h ago•132 comments

It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis

https://anubis.techaro.lol/blog/2026/anubis-wasm/
285•xena•14h ago•136 comments

Programming is Art

https://orchidfiles.com/programming-is-art/
85•theorchid•3h ago•86 comments

I Connected My Withings Body+ to Home Assistant with an ESP32

https://didac.dev/blog/i-made-my-withings-scale-sync-to-home-assistant-without-the-cloud
4•sabatesduran•3d ago•0 comments

Show HN: GET Together – A social network where you don't need POST to Post

https://gettogether.dev
70•nchudleigh•9h ago•30 comments

Show HN: Engrim – A universal, local-first SQLite memory engine for AI CLIs

https://github.com/timgordontg/engrim
43•timgordontg•6h ago•10 comments

Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?

172•jmpman•1d ago•107 comments

Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/commit/1428b4c2b4246f92a7e5b2673438e5fb39fcc4a3
764•zImPatrick•17h ago•336 comments

GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117225539756835649
306•Cider9986•15h ago•216 comments

Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers

https://itsfoss.com/news/switzerland-replace-microssoft-pilot/
185•ivell•5h ago•142 comments

Is mathematics about to enter the conservatory?

https://mbmccoy.dev/posts/mathematical-conservatory/
60•_alternator_•12h ago•77 comments

Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12540
83•ur-whale•14h ago•30 comments

Has anybody seen my keys? A key-hierarchy strategy for rack-level security

https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0301
37•cyb0rg0•9h ago•3 comments

TiVo to charge money for skipping commercials in your own recordings

https://cordcuttersnews.com/tivo-plans-to-end-free-automatic-commercial-skipping-in-november-test...
91•dmitrygr•6h ago•48 comments

Show HN: Think Turing Complete, but you write the circuits in TypeScript (WIP)

https://play.simten.dev
6•charlesfrisbee•4d ago•2 comments

Asahi Linux on M3

https://asahilinux.org/2026/09/m2-episode-1/
497•mdp2021•21h ago•303 comments

Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI

https://openai.com/index/research-acceleration-view-inside-openai
184•iamsyr•20h ago•132 comments

I'm a seeing-eye dog for a computer

https://claytonwramsey.com/blog/seeing-eye/
74•claytonwramsey•3d ago•74 comments

Babylonian Lamb Stew with Beets (1750–1730 BCE)

https://babylonian-collection.yale.edu/about/babylonian-cooking
150•yubblegum•3d ago•120 comments

An Alien Mind

https://openai.com/index/an-alien-mind/
419•tosh•18h ago•377 comments

NetBSD 9.5 released and EOL for NetBSD-9

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_9_5_released_and
136•jaypatelani•19h ago•12 comments

Show HN: Mador – Make any DOM reactive with a tiny 80-line Proxy state tuple

https://github.com/marsbos/mador
92•bosmarcel•14h ago•31 comments