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They have their own indexes. https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...

This seems to be the Casefile episode about the "Phantom of Heilbronn" https://casefilepodcast.com/case-178-the-woman-without-a-fac...

We can live in hot places if the air stays dry, which it usually does or historically did. If the air gets more humid we cannot anymore. > Humans may also experience lethal hyperth…

> Turbo and view transitions go so well together because they have kind of the same philosophy: write the HTML once to describe what the current state should look like, and let the…

'He remembers the quip from a former dean: “The endowment is the gift that keeps on taking.”'

Bad content reaching kids is not the issue. (Well, it is part of it…) The whole thing is bad. We don't give cigarettes to kids either.

> Currently, BirdyChat supports 1:1 chats, with group chat interoperability coming in a future update. I wondered whether it can be used with Whatsapp groups: Apprently not yet.

There is algorithmic art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_art > From one point of view, for a work of art to be considered algorithmic art, its creation must include a pr…

To summarize, a Jon Seager from Canonical says it’s for safety and resilience. > Performance is a frequently cited rationale for “Rewrite it in Rust” projects. While performance is…

> 2fa using an app that exists on the same device -- a second factor that secures nothing 2FA on the same device secures against your login credentials becoming known to another pa…

I always thought there should be a magnet to attract dust. Apparently it takes a "miniature wormhole that warps space-time around it" to pull that off: https://anycrap.shop/product…

Thank you! It always was astounding to me how people could argue with so much vigor and conviction that something as complicated as the immune system could not possibly be affected…

Well, not to be too obvious, but people do not pay for news anymore, they expect news to be free on Google or social media. Hence firing of journalists, loss of quality everywhere.…

I did in fact mishear, sorry for that. Where he says "and leave people with PTSD", I heard "in people who have PTSD".

It is at about 7:50 in a short aside. Notice that he only says psychedelics can be dangerous if you already have PTSD and he does not recommend it. The video seems not to say that …

Because they take a vote? I am not sure what you are hinting at here. I see some people who take a unanimous vote. They seem to be in agreement about an issue, maybe it was uncontr…

From the safety report ([0], p. 24): > 4.1.1.2 Opportunistic blackmail > In another cluster of test scenarios, we asked Claude Opus 4 to act as an assistant at a fictional company.…

I was interested in how attribution of emissions to individuals/groups is done > Emissions data are drawn from ref. 3 and include emissions from domestic consumption, public and pr…

Running this now. I like how they have a big "Number of counterexamples found: 0" in the UI. Imagine they would find a counterexample on your machine… From time to time I switch to…

> literally worse for the environment to try and recycle it For example? What products do you mean?

Can you give an example? Honestly don’t know who this is supposed to be.

I read to be moved by a story, to feel with the characters, to get a sense of a different country or time or culture, to get a sense of possible futures, a sense of what it might m…

This comment from a previous thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27846084 links to a two-part paper called "Believing the axioms", part 1: https://www.cs.umd.edu/~gasarch/B…