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Buried underpants and a new definition of kissing win 2026 Ig Nobel prizes (feeds.nature.com)

2026-09-03 | by Simms | get Ig Nobel Prizes book Marc Abrahams → | tags: nobel prize, ig nobel, land use

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Why did 1,000 Swiss citizens bury their underpants? (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-27 | get Luster Leaf Rapitest soil test kit → | tags: swiss soil health, underpants burying, university of zurich

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What 2000 Buried Underpants Revealed About Where Soil Is Most Alive (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-27 | by Studyfinds Analysis | get Luster Leaf Rapitest soil test kit → | tags: soil health, agroscope, organic cotton

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Is Expensive Bottled Water Actually Better for You? (wired.com)

2026-08-23 | by Megan Tomos | get LARQ self-cleaning water bottle → | tags: svalbard glacier water, finewaters, mineral composition

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Seeing beyond BMI: Estimating cardiometabolic risk with smartphone imagery (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: smartphone imagery, wearable sensors, homa-ir

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Google built a camera-based tool to estimate body fat more accurately than wearables (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: google research, body composition, selfie analysis

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Composable Tests (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-18 | by Kent Beck | tags: xunit, isolation, composition

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Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: codex, gpu mode, core automation

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Who Vets AI’s Code? The Scale Challenge Facing Open Source Ingestion (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: open source, black hat, large language models

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The early History of the Singular Value Decomposition (1993) [pdf] (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-11 | tags: decomposition, decomposition pdf, early

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Why Entrepreneurs Who Master the Art of the Value Chain Have a Greater Advantage (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-08 | by Majeed Javdani | get Business Value Chain Book → | tags: ability, chain, composition

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The fall of the theorem economy (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-02 | by David Bessis | tags: theorem economy, billthurston, alexandergrothendieck

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Exercise intensity influences body composition in healthy older adults (2025) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-30 | tags: exercise, body composition, older adults

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Exercise intensity influences body composition in healthy older adults (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-30 | tags: exercise intensity, body composition, older adults

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Deriving the SVD (Single Value Decomposition) from scratch (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-28 | get SVD Matrix Decomposition Kit → | tags: svd, single value decomposition, math

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What do you mean my new smart scale is ‘built for GLP-1 users’? (theverge.com)

2026-06-05 | by Victoria Song | get Smart Scale for GLP-1 Users → | tags: body, composition, health

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Withings launches a cheaper version of its flagship scale (engadget.com)

2026-06-02 | by Daniel Cooper | get Withings Body Comp Scale → | tags: withings, bodyfit, smart scale

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The Best Smart Scales of 2026 Measure More Than Just Your Weight (cnet.com)

2026-05-19 | by See Full Bio | get Withings Body Scan → | tags: smart scale, virginia tech, dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry

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Physical Intelligence, a hot robotics startup, says its new robot brain can figure out tasks it was never taught (techcrunch.com)

2026-04-16 | by Connie Loizos | get Robotics Kit for Beginners → | tags: physical intelligence, robotics startup, π0.7

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Five years later, this underrated Galaxy Watch feature is still Samsung’s best (androidauthority.com)

2026-03-22 | get Samsung Galaxy Watch Bands → | tags: samsung galaxy watch 4, bioelectrical impedance analysis, body composition

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A universal concept for melting in mantle upwellings (feeds.nature.com)

2026-02-04 | by Schmidt | get Geothermal system → | tags: compositions, melt, melt compositions

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Show HN: Feature detection exploration in Lidar DEMs via differential decomp (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-01 | get Feature Detection → | tags: combinations, decomposition, feature

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Fabric Project (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-28 | get Smart Fabric → | tags: compositions, environment, fabric

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What It's Like to Work at a Body Farm (wired.com)

2025-10-31 | by Jess Thomson | get Microsoft Surface Pro → | tags: bodies, body, decomposition

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Last fifty years of integer linear programming: Recent practical advances (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by François Clautiaux | get leadership development book → | tags: challenges, decomposition, management