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NIH director launches "Scientific Freedom" lectures with non-scientist
First speaker minimizes climate change, COVID risks—and is a lab leak proponent.
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Why Do They Want to Get Rid of Software Engineers?
Article URL: https://jrswab.com/blog/why-do-they-want-to-get-rid-of-software-engineers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47338445 Points: 9 # Comments: 7
Show HN: Vanilla JavaScript refinery simulator built to explain job to my kids
Hi HN, I’m a chemical engineer and I manage logistics at a refinery down in Texas. Whenever I try to explain downstream operations to people outside the industry (including my kids), I usually get blank stares. I wanted to build something that visual
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Fungal Electronics
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.11231 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47338055 Points: 16 # Comments: 2
Launch HN: Sentrial (YC W26) – Catch AI Agent Failures Before Your Users Do
Hey HN! We're Neel and Anay, and we’re building Sentrial ( https://sentrial.com ). It’s production monitoring for AI products. We automatically detect failure patterns: loops, hallucinations, tool misuse, and user frustrations the moment they happen.
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Show HN: I built a tool that watches webpages and exposes changes as RSS
I built Site Spy after missing a visa appointment slot because a government page changed and I didn’t notice for two weeks. It watches webpages for changes and shows the result like a diff. The part I think HN might find interesting is that it can mo
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Launch HN: Prism (YC X25) – Workspace and API to generate and edit videos
Hey HN — we’re Rajit, Land, and Alex. We’re building Prism ( https://www.prismvideos.com ), an AI video creation platform and API. Here’s a quick demo of how you can remix any video with Prism: https://youtu.be/0eez_2DnayI Here’s a quick demo of how
Searching for the Agentic IDE
https://xcancel.com/karpathy/status/2031616709560610993 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47337168 Points: 8 # Comments: 7
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Temporal: A nine-year journey to fix time in JavaScript
Article URL: https://bloomberg.github.io/js-blog/post/temporal/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47336989 Points: 200 # Comments: 83
Why the global elite gave up on spelling and grammar
https://archive.ph/wlwcA Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47336806 Points: 48 # Comments: 121
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Wiz joins Google
Article URL: https://www.wiz.io/blog/google-closes-deal-to-acquire-wiz Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47336476 Points: 89 # Comments: 65
Faster asin() was hiding in plain sight
Article URL: https://16bpp.net/blog/post/faster-asin-was-hiding-in-plain-sight/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47336111 Points: 123 # Comments: 69
Show HN: I built an ISP infrastructure emulator from scratch with a custom vBNG
Demo: https://aether.saphal.me GitHub: https://github.com/saphalpdyl/Aether Aether is a multi-BNG (Broadband Network Gateway) ISP infrastructure lab built almost from scratch that emulates IPoE IPv4 subscriber management end-to-end. It supports IPoE/
Entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, growing (2025)
Article URL: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2420092122 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47335349 Points: 185 # Comments: 89
Lego's 0.002mm specification and its implications for manufacturing (2025)
Article URL: https://www.thewave.engineer/articles.html/productivity/legos-0002mm-specification-and-its-implications-for-manufacturing-r120/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47335237 Points: 280 # Comments: 220