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Cockroach Milk, How to Blow Your Nose, and Mosquito Printers: The Ig Nobels of 2026 (wired.com)

2026-09-08 | by Jorge Garay | get This Is Improbable Marc Abrahams book → | tags: ig nobel prizes, improbable research, zurich

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Show HN: TERMy – A fast terminal assistant that does not use LLMs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-04 | get NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card → | tags: termy, npc-forge, pjon

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Meet the 2026 Ig Nobel Prize winners (arstechnica.com)

2026-09-03 | get Ig Nobel Prizes book Marc Abrahams → | tags: ig nobel prizes, mosquito proboscis, splash-free urinal

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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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Apple TV reveals new crime thriller coming soon with major stars (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-26 | by Ryan Christoffel | get Apple TV 4K → | tags: apple tv, 12 12 12, anthony mackie

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The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech (1984) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-27 | by John Gordon | tags: coding theory, alice and bob, zurich seminar

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Building tech in the world’s secret R&D hub (technologyreview.com)

2026-06-30 | by Greater Zurich Area | get Raspberry Pi 4 Kit → | tags: swiss national ai institute, greater zurich area, google.org

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The AI boom is colliding with a new threat: Severe weather (cnbc.com)

2026-06-29 | by April Roach | get NOAA Weather Radio Receiver → | tags: nvidia, microsoft, zürich

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The AI boom is colliding with a new threat: severe weather (cnbc.com)

2026-06-29 | by April Roach | get NOAA Weather Radio → | tags: nvidia, microsoft, zürich

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Event About How to Adapt to Extreme Heat Canceled Due to Brutal Heatwave (futurism.com)

2026-06-27 | by Victor Tangermann | get Portable Fan for Heat → | tags: london school of economics, zurich climate resilience alliance, heatwave

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Researchers have developed pixels that can emit and analyse light together (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-27 | get Smart Light Pixel Kit → | tags: pixels, eth zurich, light analysis

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Oo oo, ha ha: why humans and great apes giggle alike when tickled (feeds.nature.com)

2026-06-25 | by Naddaf | get Giggling Ape Plush Toy → | tags: primatology, great apes, vocalization

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Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-23 | get Portable Fan Cooler → | tags: climate change, grantham research, adeline stuart-watt

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Historic co-determination helps monasteries navigate digital change (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-12 | by Who'S Behind This Story | get Digital Transformation for Monasteries → | tags: monasteries, university of zurich, digitalization

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500-year-old monasteries outperform at digital transformation (U. of Zurich) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-12 | by Who'S Behind This Story | get Digital Transformation for Monasteries → | tags: monasteries, university of zurich, digitalization

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Unix in East Germany (GDR) (1990) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-29 | tags: unix, german democratic republic, guenther fischer

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Perfect Randomness Realized For the First Time (slashdot.org)

2026-05-28 | get Quantum Random Number Generator → | tags: quantum bell-test, superconducting chips, eth zurich

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Google Security Engineer Arrested in Million-Dollar Polymarket Trading Scheme (wired.com)

2026-05-27 | by Kate Knibbs | get Cybersecurity Awareness Kit → | tags: google, polymarket, michele spagnuolo

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A new trick brings stability to quantum operations (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-10 | get Quantum Computing Starter Kit → | tags: quantum computers, qubits, superconducting circuits

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ETH Zurich demonstrates 17,000 qubit array with 99.91% fidelity (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-10 | get Quantum Computing Starter Kit → | tags: eth zurich, qubit array, quantum gates

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Scientists have designed a way to save our brains from fake AI videos (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-03-27 | get AI Video Deepfake Detector → | tags: eth zurich, generative ai, cryptographic seal

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Switzerland Built an Alternative to BGP (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-18 | by Kim Loohuis | get BGP Security Certification Kit → | tags: bgp, scion, eth zürich

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Video Friday: These Robots Were Born to Run (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-03-13 | by Evan Ackerman | get Robotic Running Shoes → | tags: ieee spectrum, icra 2026, rivr

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A Plain Anabaptist Story: The Hutterites (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-12 | get Hutterite Colony Tour Kit → | tags: hutterites, anabaptist, martyrs mirror

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New VMScape attack breaks guest-host isolation on AMD, Intel CPUs (bleepingcomputer.com)

2025-10-31 | get science reference book → | tags: branch, eth, guest