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Wormhole Tunnels in Spacetime May Be Possible, New Research Suggests
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Scientific American
Wormhole Tunnels in Spacetime May Be Possible, New Research Suggests
There may be realistic ways to create cosmic bridges predicted by general relativity
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Five Oregon counties vote to leave state, create 'Greater Idaho'
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UPI
Five Oregon counties vote to leave state, create 'Greater Idaho'
May 19 (UPI) -- On Tuesday, voters in five counties in eastern Oregon urged county officials to begin to promote border relocation and joining Idaho.
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Scaleway announces measures against abusive Chia plotting and farming
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Scaleway
Scaleway and Chia
Chia is a few months old, and we are already witnessing the impact of Chia on all our products. Speculative farmers are forcing their way in to make as much money as possible, as quickly as possible.
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Ask HN: How do I learn more about entrepreneurship/startups?
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A fungus that infects cicadas and pushes their mating into hyperdrive
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NPR
A Fungus Is Pushing Cicada Sex Into Hyperdrive And Leaving Them Dismembered
A fungus called Massospora produces an amphetamine in some cicadas and makes them lose control. Cicadas that are infected lose their genitals — and they don't even notice.
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Reflow, a language for distributed, incremental data processing in the cloud
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GitHub
GitHub - grailbio/reflow: A language and runtime for distributed, incremental data processing in the cloud
A language and runtime for distributed, incremental data processing in the cloud - grailbio/reflow
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Extreme HTTP Performance Tuning: 1.2M API req/s on a 4 VCPU EC2 Instance
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talawah.io
Extreme HTTP Performance Tuning: 1.2M API req/s on a 4 vCPU Instance
This post will walk you through the performance tuning steps that I took to serve 1.2 million JSON 'API' requests per second from a 4 vCPU AWS EC2 instance.
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America’s Dead Souls
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The Paris Review
America’s Dead Souls
Shortly after I picked up ‘Dead Souls,’ my mother died a gruesome, absurd death, and I quickly found that Gogol’s surrealism was not so surreal after all.
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Ant parasites that prolong the life of their host
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The Atlantic
The Never-Aging Ants With a Terrible Secret
A parasite gives its hosts the appearance of youth, and an unmatched social power in the colony.
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Marriott Files Lawsuit Against Unknown Robocalls Perpetrators
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Nasdaq
Marriott Files Lawsuit Against Unknown Perpetrators Responsible For Fraudulent Robocalls
(RTTNews) - Marriott International, Inc. (MAR) announced Tuesday that it has filed a lawsuit in federal court in Virginia against the unknown perpetrators (John Does) responsible for illegal and fraudulent "robocalls" misusing Marriott's name.The suit claims…
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Face masks effectively limit the probability of SARS-CoV-2 transmission
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Science
Face masks effectively limit the probability of SARS-CoV-2 transmission
Face masks are highly effective at preventing SARS-CoV-2 transmission because, in most environments, airborne virus abundance is limited.
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Launch HN: YSplit (YC W19) – Automatically split and pay any bill
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Why RISC-V doesn't yet support KVM
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lwn.net
Why RISC-V doesn't (yet) support KVM
The RISC-V CPU architecture has been
gaining prominence for some years; its relatively open nature makes it an
attractive platform on which a number of companies have built products.
Linux supports
RISC-V well, but there is one gaping hole: there is no support…
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A brief introduction to esoteric programming languages
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Hillel Wayne
A Brief Introduction to Esoteric Languages
This is the companion reference for A Brief Introduction to Esoteric Languages, my lecture for a friend’s college class. The video should be legible to other viewers, and the material here should be (mostly) understandable without watching the video.
The…
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No safe level of alcohol for brain health: observational cohort study [pdf]
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Red Cross honors Igiugig woman for helping light runway during nighttime medevac
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Alaska Public Media
Red Cross honors Igiugig woman for helping light runway during late-night medevac - Alaska Public Media
Ida Nelson says lighting up the runway is just another example of the community coming together. "It’s something that we in Igiugig do constantly, like almost every day.”
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The Anus Is an Evolutionary Marvel
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The Atlantic
The Body’s Most Embarrassing Organ Is an Evolutionary Marvel
And yet we have very little idea where anuses come from.
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SimpleVisor – Intel VT-x hypervisor in 500 lines of C code
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ionescu007.github.io
Simplevisor
Simplevisor : SimpleVisor is a simple, portable, Intel VT-x hypervisor with two specific goals: using the least amount of assembly code (10 lines), and having the smallest amount of VMX-related code to support dynamic hyperjacking and unhyperjacking (that…
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What to do about GPU packages on PyPI?
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Discussions on Python.org
What to do about GPUs? (and the built distributions that support them)
I just rejected a request for a 2.5GB file size limit on PyPI and think it’s probably time we have a discussion about why and the future of the ecosystem here. File sizes on PyPI have been slowly increasing in size for a while now, mostly driven by certain…
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Next.js Conference Site Is Multiplayer
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Next.js Conf 2025
Next.js Conf by Vercel
Join us in SF or online on October 22
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SimuLand, a lab environment to simulate attacker tradecraft
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Microsoft Security Blog
SimuLand: Understand adversary tradecraft and improve detection strategies | Microsoft Security Blog
At Microsoft, we continuously collaborate with customers and the InfoSec community to learn more about the latest adversary tradecraft so that we can improve our detection strategies across all our security services. To help the broader security community…
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