Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines

White noise machines are widely used for sound masking, increasing privacy in offices and helping people sleep. The classic approach is a fan in a box, though in the past ten years people have mostly switched over to electronic ones. But a fan is really a great approach; you just need to put it to better use: have the fan clean the air. Instead of spinning a fan in free air to make noise, you ca

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LISP Comes of Age (1980)

Show HN: Impossible Machines: declaratively program the physical world

An interactive world where missing mechanisms appear between cause and effect.

Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you

Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you.

Show HN: Swurf – Swipe through the real web

Swurf shows you one real website at a time. Swipe to the next. It learns what you like, never repeats a page, and needs no account.

Docker is weird

The Real Kevin Bacon

Demystifying the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon: the past, present, and future centers of Hollywood

Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22

Canada’s Parliament is debating a massive expansion of surveillance powers that will threaten the privacy and security of millions of people. Bill C-22, also called the Lawful Access Act, has already passed the House of Commons, and is now before the Canadian Senate. Canadians still have an...,Canada’s Parliament is debating a massive expansion of surveillance powers that will threaten the privacy and security of millions of people. Bill C-22, also called the Lawful Access Act, has already passed the House of Commons, and is now before the Canadian Senate. Canadians still have an...

The Missed Opportunities of Sonic 06

Most people know Sonic 06 has cut content, but few realise just how much...

Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone

Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone.

Reforming English Spelling

Anatoly Liberman, President of the English Spelling Society, argues that English spelling can be reformed one small, painless step at a time.

Total Historian

Reviewing Peter Schöttler’s new intellectual biography of Marc Bloch, co-founder of the Annales school, Mulder revisits Bloch’s ambitious vision for the study of history. Bloch rejected the discipline’s traditional focus…

I turned my TV into a Game Boy Color with a Pokemon town as my home screen

I turned my TV into a Game Boy Color with a Pokemon town as my home screen. Walk into a building to open an app. Want to change a setting? Beat the gym leader first. Opus 5.5 is the goat.

How is music possible

If you take a scene from a horror movie and add funny music, the killer suddenly looks hilarious. Isn’t it strange that that happens?

Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed

Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro, our most capable 3T-class open-weight model with 1M-token context and major advances in coding, 3D modeling, and financial research.

Dessa: the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built

You learned to talk by listening. So did Dessa. A research preview of a full-duplex speech model.

Kimi K3.1 scores 55 on Artificial Analysis, placed on the Pareto line

Analysis of Kimi's Kimi K3.1 Pro and comparison to other AI models across key metrics including quality, price, performance (tokens per second & time to first token), context window & more.