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The Weight of a Cell

news.ycombinator.com Niko Mccarty 2026-02-06 12:29:27

Ella Watkins-Dulaney Microbes are so small that tens of thousands could fit in the space of the period at the end of this sentence. And yet, for two of the most widely studied kinds — S. cerevisiae and E. coli — we know their weight with remarkable precision: A single yeast cell weighs about 100 picograms and a single E. coli bacterium weighs about one picogram, or 60 million times less than a grain of sand. At first blush, measuring the weight of a single cell seems an impossible task. How ca

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Launch HN: Reality Defender (YC W22) – API for Deepfake and GenAI Detection

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-06 12:16:34

All in one package, and two main instructions: just upload the media you want to analyze, and check the results.

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Valiant’s Bloodshot Relaunch Mired by Transphobic Dogwhistles

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2026-02-04 04:25:26

Update, 8/17/2025 @ 10:57 AM: After his old Twitter posts were discovered, Bloodshot writer Mauro Mantella has since deleted the account and posted an apology on Instagram. “I want to offer my most sincere apologies. I know I made a mistake, but at no point did I intend to spread a message of hate,” it begins. In his apology, he revealed he first wrote the issue’s script in Spanish, then “changed it a bit” when converting it to English. This conversion led to him “borrowing a common phrase used

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The Mandarin Strikes In Hasbro’s Newest Marvel Legends Reveal

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2026-02-06 12:00:48

The Mandarin is one of Iron Man’s oldest foes, with a history in the comics as long as it is fraught. But while the character has been adapted multiple times over the course of the MCU—first more controversially with Ben Kingsley’s Trevor Slattery character in Iron Man 3, then as Tony Leung’s Xu Wenwu in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings—and earned himself a few action figures from Hasbro inspired by those appearances along the way, the toymaker has yet to bring a comics version of the v

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Scientists Confirm What Every Beachgoer Secretly Fears About Seabirds

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2026-02-06 12:00:50

As a seabird researcher, Leo Uesaka spends most of his time reviewing hours of bird footage. That can get quite tedious and demanding at times, but every second is worth paying attention to—after all, that’s how you notice things like the penchant for seabirds to poop only while airborne. In a first-of-its-kind study published today in Current Biology, Uesaka and his team report that streaked shearwaters—large, unassuming seabirds common in East Asian waters—engage in a very specific type of ba

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This $320 Kit Brings the BlackBerry Classic Back From the Dead

gizmodo.com Raymond Wong 2026-02-06 12:10:15

People are bored of their phones. So bored of their big, boring glass and metal slabs that they can’t help but dump all over phones like Nothing’s Phone 3 that don’t look like boring-ass bricks. But apparently people are so bored of their phones that somebody went and made a whole-ass kit that replaces the guts of the long-dead BlackBerry Q20, or “Classic,” with new components and effectively modernizes it with Android. Beloved for its QWERTY keyboard and BlackBerry OS (who remembers BBM?), the

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These Chunks of Ice Move All By Themselves, Thanks to a Cool Engineering Trick

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2026-02-06 12:20:54

It looks like something straight out of a Ouija board horror movie, but frosty—researchers have figured out how to make ice move by itself. A video capturing the creepy dynamic features an ice disk melting on a metal surface etched with an asymmetrical herringbone pattern. The ice and its small puddle slowly start to move sideways before suddenly picking up speed and slingshotting across the metal plate. The researchers suggest that this sort of independent movement could one day generate power

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The Biggest Winners of China’s World Humanoid Robot Games

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2026-02-06 12:35:46

China just hosted the first-ever World Humanoid Robot Games—basically the Olympics, but for robots. The three-day event kicked off Thursday, August 14, inside Beijing’s 12,000-seat National Speed Skating Oval, a venue originally built for the 2022 Winter Olympics. Over 200 teams from 16 countries including Japan, Brazil, Germany, and the U.S., competed across 26 competitions. The contests ranged from classic track-and-field events and gymnastics to kickboxing, soccer, medicine sorting, and even

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Picking a Spot for NASA’s Lunar Nuclear Reactor Is Trickier Than It Sounds

gizmodo.com Clive Neal 2026-02-06 12:36:22

In a bold, strategic move for the U.S., acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy announced plans on Aug. 5, 2025, to build a nuclear fission reactor for deployment on the lunar surface in 2030. Doing so would allow the United States to gain a foothold on the Moon by the time China plans to land the first taikonaut, what China calls its astronauts, there by 2030. Apart from the geopolitical importance, there are other reasons why this move is critically important. A source of nuclear energy will be

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This Newly Launched Satellite Just ‘Bloomed’ a Record-Breaking Antenna in Orbit

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2026-02-06 12:55:42

A first-of-its-kind satellite recently launched into orbit to monitor Earth’s changing surfaces, detecting movement of the planet’s crust down to fractions of an inch. The satellite packed a giant radar antenna, folded like an umbrella, and it just unfurled the massive, drum-shaped structure through an intricate process that brought it to full bloom. The NISAR mission, a joint effort between NASA and the Indian space agency ISRO, launched on July 30 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in India. Mor

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The Apple Watch Ultra is on sale for a record low of $650

theverge.com Brandt Ranj 2026-02-06 12:30:00

If you’re interested in a long-lasting smartwatch, and like to stay within Apple’s hardware ecosystem, the Apple Watch Ultra 2 is the best choice. It’s Apple’s most durable, longest-lasting smartwatch, and it’s currently on sale for $649.99 ($150 off), an all-time low price at Amazon and Best Buy. The Apple Watch Ultra 2 comes in a single case size (49mm), material (titanium), and configuration (GPS + Cellular), so the only choice you have to make is which band best fits your style. The Apple W

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How the head of Obsidian went from superfan to CEO

theverge.com Casey Newton 2026-02-06 12:40:21

Welcome to Decoder! This is Casey Newton, founder and editor of Platformer and cohost of the Hard Fork podcast. I’ve had a lot of fun guest-hosting a few episodes of Decoder while Nilay is out on parental leave this summer. If you listened to the last couple of Monday shows, you know I’ve been doing a series with founders who are focused on productivity. This is my third and, sadly, last time joining the show during the break, but I’m very excited about this episode. Today I’m talking with Step

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Why Paradigm built a spreadsheet with an AI agent in every cell

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2026-02-06 12:00:55

Anna Monaco has been building AI agents since before the term “AI agents” was even a thing. After building numerous chatbots, she started looking for other types of interfaces that made sense for AI agents and landed on spreadsheets. “I had this personal pattern, and I noticed that a lot of other people had this pattern, of putting very important CRM data in spreadsheets just because it was the most flexible thing,” Monaco told TechCrunch. “But it was actually a pain to maintain. There’s so muc

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Unlocking Real-Time Supply Chain Analytics with GPU Technology: Q&A with Meher Siddhartha Errabolu

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2026-02-06 16:00:44

As supply chains generate ever-larger datasets and demand faster decisions, traditional central processing unit (CPU)-based systems are approaching their limits. To meet real-time requirements at scale, developers turn to accelerated computing powered by graphics processing units (GPUs). These massive parallel processors reshape how data is accessed, analyzed, and operationalized across the enterprise supply chain. One expert at the forefront of this transformation is Meher Siddhartha Errabolu.

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There’s Something Really Suspicious About the Way This Star Died

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-06 17:06:47

Stellar death is a complex and mysterious process — but in the case of a supernova known as 2023zkd, things were more gruesome than any astronomer had ever seen before. As its name suggests, this supernova — the fabulous astronomical term for the explosive death of a star — was first spotted back in 2023, when Southern California's Zwicky Transient Facility zeroed in on it thanks to new AI algorithms designed to detect such brilliant blasts. This supernova, however, was different. It appeared,

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Apple’s low-cost iPhone 17 option is getting nice upgrades, per leaker

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-02-06 17:11:52

The flagship iPhone 17 lineup is coming soon with four new models, most of which may have higher costs. But there’s a fifth iPhone 17 on the way for budget-conscious buyers, the iPhone 17e, and a new leak reveals it could come with several nice upgrades. iPhone 17e could pack several new features, including the Dynamic Island Earlier this year, Apple shipped the successor to its iPhone SE line. While the iPhone 16e was expected to be essentially a new SE model, Apple rebranded and upgraded it

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This vintage ‘Apple Watch’ face needs to exist

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2026-02-06 17:25:16

Apple has designed all sorts of Apple Watch faces in the 10+ years since the product launched. Still, there’s one face that Apple should build and release as soon as possible, please. That face, of course, is the one from the “Apple” watch that predated Apple Watch by two decades. The anonymous X account that goes by the name System Settings has designed their take on how it could look: i designed a watch face inspired by this vintage Apple Watch what do you think 👀 https://t.co/N6k4YCmw1u

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I love my Samsung Z Fold 7, but these Google Pixel upgrades would win me over

zdnet.com Prakhar Khanna 2026-02-06 10:30:18

The Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold (left) competed with the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 (right) last summer. Kerry Wan/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways The Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold is expected to launch on August 20, but it might not go on sale till October 9. It will be difficult for Google to beat Samsung in the foldable segment this year due to design differences. Unless there's an actually useful AI feature or significantly better battery life, I'll stick with my Galaxy Z Fold 7. Get more in-depth ZDNE

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Should you replace a traditional Wi-Fi router with mesh? I compared the two, and here's my verdict

zdnet.com Charlie Osborne 2026-02-06 16:59:00

Maria Diaz/ZDNET With the adoption of remote and hybrid working, having a reliable internet connection at home is imperative -- not just for one device, but for several. If you have a family, maybe even dozens. So what's better, one single access point, or a mesh network spread about the home? The answer depends on how your home and office are set up and what kind of connection you need. Wi-Fi routers are so good these days that a single access point is often the most straightforward solution.

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5 reasons to switch to an immutable Linux distro today - and which to try first

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-02-06 17:06:00

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Immutable Linux distributions are the future. There are several reasons why immutable is the way to go. From security to predictability, you can't go wrong with immutable. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Immutable Linux distributions sound complicated, right? You'd be surprised to know that it's actually quite simple. Essentially, an immutable distri

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Patients trust AI's medical advice over doctors - even when it's wrong, study finds

zdnet.com Tiernan Ray 2026-02-06 17:33:00

TEK IMAGE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Science Photo Library via Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways People can't tell AI-generated from doctor responses. However, people trust AI responses more than those from doctors. Integrating AI into clinical practice must be a nuanced approach. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. There's a crisis due to a lack of doctors in the US. In the October issue of the prestigious New England J

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Typechecker Zoo

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-03 09:11:16

This is a pet project of mine I’ve been working on for a while. We’re going to create minimal implementations of the most successful static type systems of the last 50 years. This will involve making toy implementations of programming languages and the core typechecking algorithms. These obviously have evolved a lot over the years, so we’ll start with the simple ones and proceed all the way up to modern dependent types. Basically a fun romp through half a century of programming language design.

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Texas law gives grid operator power to disconnect data centers during crisis

news.ycombinator.com Brian Martucci 2026-02-06 16:34:06

Dive Brief: Data centers and other large, non-critical power consumers connected to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas transmission grid must accept curtailment during firm load shed events under a landmark law Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed Friday. Senate Bill 6 pairs mandatory curtailment with a voluntary demand response procurement program under which loads of 75 MW or more could ramp down or switch to backup generation at utilities’ request. It also includes new interconnection

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95% of AI Pilots Failing

news.ycombinator.com Sheryl Estrada 2026-02-06 17:36:03

Good morning. Companies are betting on AI—yet nearly all enterprise pilots are stuck at the starting line. The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025, a new report published by MIT’s NANDA initiative, reveals that while generative AI holds promise for enterprises, most initiatives to drive rapid revenue growth are falling flat. Despite the rush to integrate powerful new models, about 5% of AI pilot programs achieve rapid revenue acceleration; the vast majority stall, delivering little to

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Class-action suit claims Otter AI records private work conversations

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-06 16:47:38

Class-action suit claims Otter AI secretly records private work conversations toggle caption Source: Otter A federal lawsuit seeking class-action status accuses Otter.ai of "deceptively and surreptitiously" recording private conversations that the tech company uses to train its popular transcription service without permission from the people using it. The company's AI-powered transcription service called Otter Notebook, which can do real-time transcriptions of Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft

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Show HN: A Minimal Hacker News Reader for Apple Watch Built with SwiftUI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-06 17:22:48

HackerNewsWatch (watchOS) A minimal Hacker News reader for Apple Watch built with SwiftUI. Scrollable top stories feed with title, points, and comments count Tap a story to view comments in a simple tree-style view "Open Article" link at the top opens the article in the watch browser HN-like styling (orange accent) Requirements Xcode 15 or newer macOS with command line tools Homebrew (for XcodeGen) or install XcodeGen manually Generate the Xcode project ./scripts/generate.sh This wil

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FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-06 16:39:53

Welcome to the FFmpeg School of Assembly Language. You have taken the first step on the most interesting, challenging, and rewarding journey in programming. These lessons will give you a grounding in the way assembly language is written in FFmpeg and open your eyes to what's actually going on in your computer. Required Knowledge Knowledge of C, in particular pointers. If you don't know C, work through The C Programming Language book High School Mathematics (scalar vs vector, addition, multipl

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Another ‘Lord of the Rings’ Icon May Return for ‘The Hunt for Gollum’

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2026-02-06 17:00:34

Alan Cumming teases his time filming Avengers: Doomsday. The team behind High School Musical: The Musical: The Series is returning to Disney for a new supernatural dramedy. Plus, Frank Grillo teases Rick Flag Sr.’s arc in Peacemaker season 2. Spoilers, assemble! Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum Speaking at a convention in London called For the Love of Fantasy, Ian McKellen seemingly confirmed that Frodo will appear alongside Gandalf in Andy Serkis’ Gollum prequel (although it wasn’t conf

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Logitech May Soon Prove if It Made the Best Mouse Even Better

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2026-02-06 17:24:50

Using Logitech’s MX Master mouse can feel like you’re slipping your hand into a cradle form-fitted to your palm. Even if the MX Master lineup has been consistently good, the MX Master 3 proved such a staple that some users continue to flit around on their 8-year-old mouse even as it disintegrates between their aging fingers. Logitech may finally have the update we’ve been waiting for with an MX Master 4. Logitech doesn’t have to change much for it to be one of the best productivity mice once aga

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Better than Ray-Bans? Meta Could Unveil 'Hypernova' Glasses Next Month

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-06 17:02:39

September is gearing up to be one of the most exciting months of the year for new technology launches, with Meta reportedly set to unveil its next-generation smart glasses. Codenamed Hypernova, according to Bloomberg, the glasses are set to start around $800 for the basic model -- that's at least $200 less than previously thought. This pair of glasses will reportedly differ from the current Meta Ray-Bans due to the addition of a small augmented-reality display in the right lens of the glasses,

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Scientists Confirm What Every Beachgoer Secretly Fears About Seabirds

This $320 Kit Brings the BlackBerry Classic Back From the Dead

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This Newly Launched Satellite Just ‘Bloomed’ a Record-Breaking Antenna in Orbit

The Apple Watch Ultra is on sale for a record low of $650

How the head of Obsidian went from superfan to CEO

Why Paradigm built a spreadsheet with an AI agent in every cell

Unlocking Real-Time Supply Chain Analytics with GPU Technology: Q&A with Meher Siddhartha Errabolu

There’s Something Really Suspicious About the Way This Star Died

Apple’s low-cost iPhone 17 option is getting nice upgrades, per leaker

This vintage ‘Apple Watch’ face needs to exist

I love my Samsung Z Fold 7, but these Google Pixel upgrades would win me over

Should you replace a traditional Wi-Fi router with mesh? I compared the two, and here's my verdict

5 reasons to switch to an immutable Linux distro today - and which to try first

Patients trust AI's medical advice over doctors - even when it's wrong, study finds

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FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons

Another ‘Lord of the Rings’ Icon May Return for ‘The Hunt for Gollum’

Logitech May Soon Prove if It Made the Best Mouse Even Better

Better than Ray-Bans? Meta Could Unveil 'Hypernova' Glasses Next Month

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