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Air is full of DNA (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-18 | by Irwin | get Air Purifier with HEPA Filter → | tags: environmental dna, university of washington, airborne dna

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College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-18 | by Jocelyn Gecker Ap Education Writer | get Royal Typewriter Classic → | tags: typewriters, cornell university, ai-written work

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Fructose Isn't Just Sugar. It Acts More Like a Hormone (slashdot.org)

2026-04-18 | by Posted | get Fructose Molecular Model Kit → | tags: fructose, university of colorado, hormone

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A comet gets destroyed by the sun, data centers endanger the Potomac River, and more science news (engadget.com)

2026-04-18 | get NASA Solar Observation Telescope → | tags: comet, nasa, esa

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Optimizing Tail Sampling in OpenTelemetry with Retroactive Sampling (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-18 | get OpenTelemetry Collector Plugin → | tags: opentelemetry, retroactive sampling, victoriametrics

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Amazon Delivery Drones Involve a Perilous 10-Foot Drop. Users Are Posting the Apparent Results (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-18 | get Drone Landing Pad → | tags: amazon, delivery drones, blue raspberry syrup

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For Dementia Patients, AI Can Be a Good, Non-Judgmental Listener (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-04-18 | get AI Companion for Dementia → | tags: dementia, sunny, telehealth

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Organ Transplants Without Lifelong Meds? New Trial Shows It’s Possible (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-18 | get Immunosuppressant Medication Guide → | tags: organ transplants, liver, anti-rejection drugs

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Health-Tracking Pet Collar Acts Like a Smartwatch for Dogs and Cats (cnet.com)

2026-04-18 | by See Full Bio | get FitBark GPS Dog Collar → | tags: tractive, pet collars, gps tracking

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Study Finds AI Use Eats Away at Users’ Confidence in Their Own Brains (futurism.com)

2026-04-18 | by Joe Wilkins | get AI Confidence Boosting Book → | tags: chatbots, middlesex university, time magazine

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Artificial neurons successfully communicate with living brain cells (sciencedaily.com)

2026-04-18 | get Neuroscience Brain Stimulation Kit → | tags: northwestern university, artificial neurons, brain-machine interfaces

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The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-18 | by Tal Ben-Shahar | get Kids' Outdoor Play Set → | tags: child protective services, atlanta, scooter

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State of Kdenlive (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-18 | get Kdenlive Video Editor → | tags: kdenlive, mlt, opentimelineio

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You Are Not Prepared to Learn the Size of Neanderthal Infants (futurism.com)

2026-04-18 | by Sharon Adarlo | get Neanderthal Infant Model → | tags: neanderthal, tel aviv university, current biology

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Backblaze silently redefines 'unlimited' backups and users discover it's not backing up Dropbox and OneDrive — as firm leans heavier into AI storage services, changes could signal shift away from home backups (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-18 | by Bruno Ferreira | get Backblaze Unlimited Backup → | tags: backblaze, ai storage, dropbox

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Backblaze silently redefines 'unlimited' and users discover it's not backing up Dropbox and OneDrive — as firm leans heavier into AI storage services, changes could signal shift away from home backups (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-18 | by Bruno Ferreira | get Backblaze Unlimited Cloud Storage → | tags: backblaze, ai storage, cloud backup

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There’s nothing like an RPG over vacation (theverge.com)

2026-04-18 | by Jay Peters | get RPG Board Game Set → | tags: annapurna interactive, iridium studios, people of note

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Physicists Have a Major Problem With the Universe (futurism.com)

2026-04-18 | by Victor Tangermann | get Quantum Physics Puzzle Kit → | tags: hubble constant, cosmology, edwin hubble

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Wild Video Shows Delivery Robots Causing Havoc, Getting Obliterated (futurism.com)

2026-04-18 | by Joe Wilkins | get Delivery Robot Toy Set → | tags: coco robotics, starship technologies, serve robotics

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I dug into the Postgres sources to write my own WAL receiver (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-18 | get PostgreSQL WAL Receiver Book → | tags: postgres, wal, receiver

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15 years after 'Video Games,' Lana Del Rey has an actual video game song (engadget.com)

2026-04-17 | get Lana Del Rey Vinyl Album → | tags: lana del rey, 007 first light, io interactive

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NIST Limits CVE Enrichment After 263% Surge In Vulnerability Submissions (slashdot.org)

2026-04-17 | get Cybersecurity Vulnerability Scanner → | tags: cisa, nist, cve

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Focused microwaves allow 3D printers to fuse circuits onto almost anything (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-17 | by Rice University Youtube | get Microwave Circuit Fusing Kit → | tags: rice university, meta-nfs, microwave energy

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Get the 1MORE S50 Fit earbuds at all-time low price! (androidauthority.com)

2026-04-17 | get 1MORE S50 Fit Earbuds → | tags: 1more, s50 fit, ai noise reduction

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Not Even the Largest Cosmic Objects Can Escape Newton and Einstein, Study Finds (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-17 | get Gravitational Wave Detector Kit → | tags: newton, einstein, dark matter

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Train-to-Test scaling explained: How to optimize your end-to-end AI compute budget for inference (venturebeat.com)

2026-04-17 | get Scikit-learn MinMaxScaler → | tags: large language models, inference costs, train-to-test

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Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Head of Engineering (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-17 | tags: kyber, guidewire, twilio sendgrid

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Gigs turns your concert history into a personal live music archive (techcrunch.com)

2026-04-17 | by Sarah Perez | get Gigs Concert History App → | tags: gigs, apple foundation models, setlist.fm

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Failed Companies Are Selling Old Slack Chats and Email Archives to Train AI (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-17 | get Slack Data Archive Tool → | tags: slack, email archives, ai training

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Geologists Uncover a Hidden Path That the Colorado River Hasn’t Taken in 5.6 Million Years (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-17 | get Colorado River Geological Map → | tags: colorado river, miocene epoch, grand canyon