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Behind the ballistics of the 'explosive' squirting cucumber

news.ycombinator.com Society For Experimental Biology 2026-01-16 03:20:58

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Squirting cucumber (Ecballium elaterium). Credit: Helen Gorges New research into the biomechanics of explosive seed dispersal in squirting cucumbers (Ecballium elaterium) reveals how these plants have adapted a suite of unique traits that help propel their high-speed seeds far and wide. Seed dispersal comes in many

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Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-19 06:04:02

antirez 6 hours ago. 31112 views. Frontier LLMs such as Gemini 2.5 PRO, with their vast understanding of many topics and their ability to grasp thousands of lines of code in a few seconds, are able to extend and amplify the programmer capabilities. If you are able to describe problems in a clear way and, if you are able to accept the back and forth needed in order to work with LLMs, you can reach incredible results such as: 1. Eliminating bugs you introduced in your code before it ever hits any

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Shark Week 2025: How to Watch and Stream the Toothy Programming Event

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-19 10:00:04

Looking for sharks? You've paddled to the right place. Discovery Channel's Shark Week programming event starts tonight, bringing loads of shark-centric content for those who want to celebrate the iconic top predator. It's the kind of annual tradition that really shines on the right screen. According to a press release, Shark Week 2025 will include 20 hours of new specials debuting Sunday, July 20, through Saturday, July 26. The first program up is Dancing with Sharks, which involves "an unprece

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The Switch 2’s next killer app is already here

theverge.com Jay Peters 2026-01-19 08:00:00

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 90, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, hope you’re staying cool, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) I also have for you a new Donkey Kong title, OpenAI’s next big AI agent, a customizable gamepad, and more. Let’s dive in. (As always, the best part of

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Tesla loses its charm for India’s loyalists — even as Musk finally delivers

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2026-01-19 10:00:00

Tesla opened the doors to its first showroom in India this week, and among the first visitors was Vishal Gondal — a longtime Tesla and Elon Musk loyalist who pre-booked a Model 3 in April 2016, just hours after reservations went live. But despite showing up on day one, Gondal says he has no plans to buy a Tesla now. “I felt a little bit underwhelmed,” said Gondal, founder and CEO of fitness-tech startup GOQii, after visiting the maiden Tesla showroom in Mumbai’s Bandra-Kurla Complex. Over the

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This Apple Watch model is my favorite and I use it daily - right now, it's over 30% off

zdnet.com Kayla Solino 2026-01-19 09:30:16

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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A Treatise for One Network – Anonymous National Deliberation [pdf]

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-14 21:21:20

Authoritarian regimes thrive by systematically dividing their opposition and silencing the populace, creating a crisis where citizens feel isolated and powerless. This paper proposes a technological solution: a new, secure feature within Telegram to bridge these divisions and forge a genuine national consensus. Executive Summary "The protocol is remarkably efficient, capable of distilling the views of a population of 100 million participants down to a core group of 100 in as few as six weeks.

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The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality

news.ycombinator.com Daniel Soufi 2026-01-19 09:10:51

It’s as if the smell of burnt plastic from a dollar store has permeated the world. Things are worse: chipboard furniture, T-shirts unrecognizable after a second wash, packaged foods with more preservatives than ingredients. Airplane seats turned into backrests. Automatic restroom lights that turn off at a whim. But also newspaper articles shamelessly written with ChatGPT and its algorithmic prose. Nothing is made to be loved. Only to be bought. In a study titled The Concept and Measurement of P

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What Makes Cheap Earbuds a Real Value? Here's How I Find the Hidden Gems

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-19 11:00:07

A few months ago, Final Audio, a boutique Japanese brand, sent me its new, relatively low-priced ZE3000 SV noise-canceling earbuds to test. I was curious: Would this be a hidden gem among the dozens, even hundreds, of budget headphone options out there? Even as a full-time reviewer of these products, I can't keep up with all of them. So I did what I always do. I charged them up, then swapped out the default medium-size tips for the largest set of included ear tips and hoped I'd get a tight seal

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The Catholic Church Reportedly Called in an Exorcist to Deal With "Yeti Cult" Running Bizarre Blood Rituals at Archdiocese of Denver

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-18 21:30:52

What started as a routine weekend getaway for seminarians from the St. John Vianney Theological Seminary in 2024 took a hard turn into the surreal. The archdiocese of Denver confirmed that an exorcist was called in after a bizarre series of events involving a ceremonial dagger, a mysterious blood oath, and a man in a yeti costume. As first reported in an extensive investigation by The Pillar, a publication covering the Catholic church, the incident is causing controversy and raising questions a

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The 43 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now (July 2025)

wired.com Matt Kamen 2026-01-18 14:00:00

Netflix has plenty of movies to watch. Maybe too many. Sometimes finding the right film at the right time can seem like an impossible task. Let us help you. Below is a list of some of our favorites currently on the streaming service—from dramas to comedies to thrillers. If you decide you’re in more of a TV mood, head over to our collection of the best TV series on Netflix. Want more? Check out our lists of the best sci-fi movies, best movies on Amazon Prime, and the best flicks on Disney+. If

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang sells an additional $12.94 million worth of shares

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias 2026-01-19 03:02:10

Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of Nvidia Corp., speaks during a news conference in Taipei on May 21, 2025. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang sold 75,000 shares on Friday, valued at about $12.94 million, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Friday's sale is part of a plan adopted in March for Huang to sell up to 6 million shares of the leading artificial intelligence company. Earlier this week, Huang sold 225,000 shares of the chipmaker, totaling about $37 million, ac

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Piano Keys

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-14 12:50:17

Piano Keys If you've ever looked closely at a piano keyboard you may have noticed that the widths of the white keys are not all the same at the back ends (where they pass between the black keys). Of course, if you think about it for a minute, it's clear they couldn't possibly all be the same width, assuming the black keys are all identical (with non-zero width) and the white keys all have equal widths at the front ends, because the only simultaneous solution of 3W=3w+2b and 4W=4w+3b is with b=0

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Local LLMs versus offline Wikipedia

news.ycombinator.com Evan Hahn 2026-01-19 02:49:02

Two days ago, MIT Technology review published “How to run an LLM on your laptop”. It opens with an anecdote about using offline LLMs in an apocalypse scenario. “‘It’s like having a weird, condensed, faulty version of Wikipedia, so I can help reboot society with the help of my little USB stick,’ [Simon Willison] says.” This made me wonder: how do the sizes of local LLMs compare to the size of offline Wikipedia downloads? I compared some models from the Ollama library to various downloads on Kiw

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Astronomer CEO resigns following Coldplay concert scandal

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2026-01-19 06:22:56

Andy Byron, the startup executive at the center of an extraordinary social media furor, has resigned as CEO of data operations startup Astronomer. Byron, who is married, was captured on a Coldplay concert “kiss cam” with his arms around the company’s chief people officer Kristin Cabot. After Byron and Cabot quickly tried to hide from the camera, Coldplay singer Chris Martin joked, “Either they’re having an affair or they’re just very shy.” Video of the awkward incident soon went spectacularly

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James Webb Spots Planets Forming Into Solar System in Real Time, Like an Organism's First Cells

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-19 02:30:53

Astronomers have spotted a planetary system being conceived from the swirl of gas and dust surrounding a star — giving us an unprecedented, real-time look at how our solar system would've formed some 4.6 billion years ago. The findings, published as a study in the journal Nature, are the first time we're seeing such an early stage of planets being formed anywhere in the cosmos. "We've captured a direct glimpse of the hot region where rocky planets like Earth are born around young protostars,"

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Doctors Say Ozempic Is Wildly Effective at Helping Addicts Beat Cravings

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-19 06:15:42

Image by Getty / Futurism Rx/Medicines Drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy already had a lengthening laundry list of physical health benefits, but now they're increasingly showing promise as treatments for neuropsychological conditions as well. Specifically, one of the most intriguing potential uses for these GLP-1 drugs is in addiction treatment, for vices ranging from alcohol to opioids to stimulants to gambling. And it's gaining momentum: as STAT News reports, one posh Pennsylvania rehabilitation

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ASUS ProArt 6K Display for Mac users will be available in August, at a compelling price

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2026-01-19 04:47:42

After initially being announced at Computex 2024 last summer, then again showcased at CES 2025 earlier this year – ASUS has finally given us a release timeline, pricing, and feature information for its new 6K 32-inch ProArt display. It’ll be available in late August, according to ASUS. If you’ve wanted a 6K 32-inch display for your Mac, there haven’t been many options outside of Apple’s $4999 Pro Display XDR. There’s been an offering from Dell as well, available at $2999. LG also teased a 6K 32

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N78 band 5G NR recordings

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-16 20:08:17

In my last post about 5G NR, which was part of a series in which I analyzed the signals in a short recording of an idle srsRAN gNB, I mentioned that I had already decoded all the signals that appear in the recording, and that to move on with my 5G series I would need to make and use some more complex real world recordings next. A 5G band I’m particularly interested in is n78 (3.3 – 3.8 GHz TDD). This is being used to deploy 5G in many European countries, including Spain, as showed by this list

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Babies made using three people's DNA are born free of mitochondrial disease

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-15 23:43:35

Babies made using three people's DNA are born free of hereditary disease 3 days ago Share Save James Gallagher • @JamesTGallagher Health and science correspondent Share Save Watch the moment DNA from a mum and dad is injected into the egg of another woman - the critical step in the creation of a baby made from three people Eight babies have been born in the UK using genetic material from three people to prevent devastating and often fatal conditions, doctors say. The method, pioneered by UK s

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Crypto Founder Ken DiCross on How He Uses AI: ‘I Don’t Trust AI,’ but ‘I Use It for Everything’

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-01-19 05:00:53

Ken DiCross is building the infrastructure to connect blockchains, and he’s doing it with AI. The founder of Wire Network, a blockchain interoperability company, DiCross says he uses AI for everything from pitching investors to stress-testing white papers. In this week’s edition of How Do You Use AI?, he explains how it saves him hours every day, why he doesn’t trust it blindly, and why decentralized AI could be the next big revolution. No TED Talk nonsense, just real life. Episode 2: Ken DiCro

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Prime Video: 18 of the Best Sci-Fi TV Shows to Watch

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-19 02:00:03

Prime Video has a lot to offer, and its library of sci-fi shows is truly impressive. When it comes to genre television, top streamers such as Disney Plus and Netflix usually dominate the conversation. However, the Amazon-owned streaming service is nothing to sleep on. In fact, its slate of science fiction content is pretty epic -- from entertainment thats high-concept and thought-provoking to shows that are light-hearted and fun. Whatever your mood is, Prime Video probably has the sci-fi TV sho

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The Best Protein Bar: 5 Dietitians Explain Which Ingredients to Look For

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-19 03:00:00

Even though many people already get all the protein they need every day, having on-the-go snacks such as protein bars can be helpful when you're in a pinch. With so many protein bars on store shelves, finding the best one for your tastes and preferences can be difficult and overwhelming. But whether you’re hiking, commuting or just packing light, a good snack -- and maybe a compact Bluetooth speaker -- can make the journey more enjoyable. To help narrow down the selection, I consulted dietitian

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Here’s how to save on a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 preorder

theverge.com Cameron Faulkner 2026-01-19 06:00:00

is an editor covering deals and commerce. He joined in 2018, and covers gaming, PCs, accessories, and more. The forthcoming Galaxy Z Fold 7 is Samsung’s thinnest foldable yet. Our own Allison Johnson just published her full review ahead of the phone’s launch on July 25th, and while there’s certainly no denying it’s a spendy device, know that various carriers and retailers are offering a host of preorder incentives, many of which will expire at launch. Although the Z Fold 7 isn’t miles ahead of

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The perfect pitch: This NEA partner says every founder should answer these 5 questions

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2026-01-19 08:00:00

Most founders eventually have to pitch venture firms in hopes of raising capital. Tiffany Luck, a partner at NEA, took the stage at TechCrunch’s All Stage event in Boston to answer how to craft the perfect one. “I like to think of a VC pitch as your initial way for assessing founder-investor fit,” she told the crowd before diving into her presentation. One of the most important slides to have in a pitch is “The What,” she said, meaning, “‘The What’ are you building.” That’s followed by “The Why

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Apple's latest AirPods models are still at their lowest price ever - get them while the deal lasts

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2026-01-19 04:30:15

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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Fibonacci(50) as a Fractal Sequence Diagram

news.ycombinator.com Ilograph Llc 2026-01-15 17:20:07

Enter the number of editors you will have in this subscription: Editors: Viewers: Based on your editor count ( 2 ), you will have an Ilograph Team subscription. Add 6 or more editors to upgrade to an Ilograph Team+ subscription.

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New embedding model leaderboard shakeup: Google takes #1 while Alibaba’s open source alternative closes gap

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2026-01-19 06:21:39

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Google has officially moved its new, high-performance Gemini Embedding model to general availability, currently ranking number one overall on the highly regarded Massive Text Embedding Benchmark (MTEB). The model (gemini-embedding-001) is now a core part of the Gemini API and Vertex AI, enabling developers to build applications such as sema

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I'm Rebelling Against the Algorithm

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-19 04:45:32

I'm rebelling against the algorithm 14 Jul, 2025 I grew up on the internet. I'm old enough to remember when my news feeds actually ended. Remember the times before infinite scroll was engineered? I remember when algorithms weren't good enough to keep me in a trance-like state for eternity. Fast forward to today, I experience firsthand the horrible effects of the algorithms. We weren't meant to read the thoughts of 100s of people all at once. It's also not possible to fully check out from soci

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Benchmark in talks to lead Series A for Greptile, valuing AI-code reviewer at $180M, sources say

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2026-01-19 11:21:29

Greptile, an AI-powered code review startup, is in the process of raising a Series A. Sources familiar with the deal tell TechCrunch it’s for $30 million at a $180 million valuation led by Benchmark partner Eric Vishria. But one person says that the deal hasn’t closed and terms may change. Founded by Dasksh Gupta after he graduated from Georgia Tech in 2023, the startup went through Y Combinator in the winter of 2024 cohort, and raised a $4 million seed round led by Initialized Capital after co

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Behind the ballistics of the 'explosive' squirting cucumber

Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update

Shark Week 2025: How to Watch and Stream the Toothy Programming Event

The Switch 2’s next killer app is already here

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This Apple Watch model is my favorite and I use it daily - right now, it's over 30% off

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The Catholic Church Reportedly Called in an Exorcist to Deal With "Yeti Cult" Running Bizarre Blood Rituals at Archdiocese of Denver

The 43 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now (July 2025)

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang sells an additional $12.94 million worth of shares

Piano Keys

Local LLMs versus offline Wikipedia

Astronomer CEO resigns following Coldplay concert scandal

James Webb Spots Planets Forming Into Solar System in Real Time, Like an Organism's First Cells

Doctors Say Ozempic Is Wildly Effective at Helping Addicts Beat Cravings

ASUS ProArt 6K Display for Mac users will be available in August, at a compelling price

N78 band 5G NR recordings

Babies made using three people's DNA are born free of mitochondrial disease

Crypto Founder Ken DiCross on How He Uses AI: ‘I Don’t Trust AI,’ but ‘I Use It for Everything’

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New embedding model leaderboard shakeup: Google takes #1 while Alibaba’s open source alternative closes gap

I'm Rebelling Against the Algorithm

Benchmark in talks to lead Series A for Greptile, valuing AI-code reviewer at $180M, sources say

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