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March 15

'Microlightning' in water droplets may have sparked life on Earth

phys.org

materials physics physics news science science news
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March 15

Show HN: Metacheck – preview how any link appears on social media and chat apps

appstate.co

link preview tool meta tag analyzer open graph checker seo metadata checker social media link preview
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March 15

Finland's National Allergy Program Successfully Reduces Allergic Diseases

ersnet.org
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March 15

Nubmq: A high performant key-value store engine built from first principles

ycombinator.com
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March 15

Fitness Trackers Are Only 67% Accurate, New Research Finds

wellnesspulse.com
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March 15

So Long and Thanks for All the Words: A Toast to Douglas Adams

multiverseemployeehandbook.com

Today marks what would have been Douglas Adams’ 73rd birthday—or depending on which timeline you’re accessing...
Today marks what would have been Douglas Adams’ 73rd birthday—or depending on which timeline you’re accessing this from, his 3042nd, or perhaps his perpetual 42nd in the universe where time loops infinitely around that particular number. Regardless of your dimensional coordinates, we at The Multiverse Employee Handb...
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March 15

Tesla is done in Germany: 94% say they won't buy a Tesla car

electrek.co

A survey of over 100,000 Germans revealed that 94% won’t buy a Tesla vehicle. It doesn’t...
A survey of over 100,000 Germans revealed that 94% won’t buy a Tesla vehicle. It doesn’t bode well for the automaker, whose sales had already been falling off a cliff in the important European market. In 2024, Tesla saw a 41% reduction in sales in Germany compared to 2023 despite EV sales surging 27% during the year...
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March 15

Why do some birds mimic the sounds of other species?

allaboutbirds.org
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March 15

Amazon Is Discontinuing the "Do Not Send Voice Recordings" Feature on Echo

resetera.com

shopping
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March 15

Switching to BunnyCDN in Less Than 2 Hours

jonathan-frere.com

ContentsContentsGiven some recent, uh, instability in US politics, and given that everyone likes an underdog, I’ve...
ContentsContentsGiven some recent, uh, instability in US politics, and given that everyone likes an underdog, I’ve been looking at European alternatives to my current hosting situation, which is Cloudflare.After looking through european-alternatives.eu, and reading some opinions on Bluesky, I figured I’d try out Bun...
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March 15

Noloco (YC S21) Is Hiring a Product Designer in Barcelona

ycombinator.com

Build the custom app your business needs — in minutes, without codeBarcelona, CT, ES / Barcelona,...
Build the custom app your business needs — in minutes, without codeBarcelona, CT, ES / Barcelona, Catalonia, ES / Remote (Barcelona, CT, ES; Barcelona, Catalonia, ES)Connect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups.Apply to role ›From internal tools to company-wide workflows, Noloco turns your data into...
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March 15

Using a graphics tablet as a programming tool (2018)

jeandavidmoisan.com
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March 15

Can a Geothermal Startup Vaporize Rock to Drill the Deepest Holes?

msn.com
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March 15

Meta's Response to Explosive Tell-All Is Ripped from a Familiar PR Playbook

vanityfair.com

Meta’s formidable public relations apparatus whirred to life this week, as details of a salacious new...
Meta’s formidable public relations apparatus whirred to life this week, as details of a salacious new tell-all memoir about the company and its top executives hit shelves Tuesday.The book, Careless People, was authored by Facebook’s former director of global public policy, Sarah Wynn-Williams. In it, she accuses the...

book facebook mark zuckerberg memoir social media
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March 15

Tj-actions/changed-files GitHub Action Compromised – used by over 23K repos

stepsecurity.io

We are actively investigating a critical security incident involving the tj-actions/changed-files GitHub Action. While our investigation...
We are actively investigating a critical security incident involving the tj-actions/changed-files GitHub Action. While our investigation is ongoing, we want to alert users so they can take immediate corrective actions. We will keep this post updated as we learn more. StepSecurity Harden-Runner detected this issue th...
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March 15

Open source payments and billing infrastructure

github.com
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March 15

Ask HN: What do you use to create diagrams?

ycombinator.com
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March 15

A Proof of the Collatz Conjecture

arxiv.org
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March 15

Transformers Without Normalization

jiachenzhu.github.io
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March 15

Some Geniuses Are Swapping 200-Mile Battery Packs into BMW I3s

theautopian.com

BMW sold over 250,000 i3s between 2013 and 2022, and with those cars having carbon fiber...
BMW sold over 250,000 i3s between 2013 and 2022, and with those cars having carbon fiber bodies and aluminum frames that don’t rust; plastic and carbon fiber panels that don’t dent; and interiors that hold up to abuse, there are naturally many i3s still on the road, looking good. The issue is that many of these cars...
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March 15

Carmakers Are Reinventing the Gear Shifter and Drivers Are Lost

wsj.com
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March 15

How to Use a TPM on Linux

github.com
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March 15

The Ozempocalypse Is Nigh

astralcodexten.com

Three GLP-1 drugs are approved for weight loss in the United States: Semaglutide (Ozempic®, Wegovy®, Rybelsus®)Tirzepatide...
Three GLP-1 drugs are approved for weight loss in the United States: Semaglutide (Ozempic®, Wegovy®, Rybelsus®)Tirzepatide (Mounjaro®, Zepbound®)Liraglutide (Victoza®, Saxenda®)…but liraglutide is noticeably worse than the others, and most people prefer either semaglutide or tirzepatide. These cost about $1000/month...
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March 15

Experts warn about the 'crumbling infrastructure' of federal government data

npr.org

The stability of the federal government's system for producing statistics, which the U.S. relies on to...
The stability of the federal government's system for producing statistics, which the U.S. relies on to understand its population and economy, is under threat because of budget concerns, officials and data users warn. And that's before any follow-through on the new Trump administration and Republican lawmakers' pledg...
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