U.S. exempts oil industry from protecting Gulf animals, for ’national security’
Rice’s whales are among the most endangered whales on Earth. This photo, obtained from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by NPR through an open records act request, shows a Rice’s whale in the Gulf. NOAA/SEFSC NOAA/SEFSC A committee of Trump administration officials voted unanimously on Tuesday to exempt the oil and gas industry in the […]
Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data
Scientists researching the microplastics crisis may have unintentionally made it worse. Not by directly contributing to the problem, but by inadvertently skewing the data. The culprit, a new study published in the journal RSC Analytical Methods reveals, could be their gloves. Featured Video A team of researchers from the University of Michigan discovered that nitrile […]
A dot a day keeps the clutter away
Walk into my lab and the first thing you’ll notice is the dots. The walls are lined with clear boxes, each one labeled, dated, and covered in dot stickers. Some boxes are buried in dots of every color. Others have a few. Others are bare. You don’t know what they mean yet, but you can […]
Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bit LLMs
Large models can’t fit on smartphones. Datacenters can’t sustain them. PrismML is building ultra dense intelligence to solve both. 14× less memory 8× faster 5× less energy 1-bit Bonsai 8B The first commercially viable model with 1-bit weights. Requiring only 1.15GB of memory, 1-bit Bonsai 8B was engineered for robotics, real-time agents, and edge computing. […]
Ministack (Replacement for LocalStack)
Core AWS services plus real infrastructure — RDS runs actual databases, ElastiCache runs real Redis, ECS starts real Docker containers, Athena executes real SQL via DuckDB (when installed). 🪣 S3 Buckets, objects, versioning, encryption, lifecycle, CORS, Object Lock, replication REST/XML 📨 SQS Queues, FIFO, DLQ, batch, visibility JSON+Query 📢 SNS Topics, subscriptions, fanout to SQS, […]
I Traced My Traffic Through a Home Tailscale Exit Node
I set up Tailscale years ago but only used it for “reach my own devices” use cases. This week I finally set up a proper home exit node: a tiny dedicated LXC on my Proxmox box (1 vCPU, 512 MB RAM, basically just Tailscale). To verify it worked, I pinged my home servers and they […]
Why Inventing Color TV Was So Difficult [video]
Show HN: My open-world voxel game with a magic system, playable in the browser
Wildmagic is in early access. It’s playable, it’s growing, and buying now gets you everything that comes next. ✨ More Spells & Combos New ways to break things 🌍 New Biomes More places, more secrets ⚔ Tougher Rivals Smarter wizards who fight back harder 🌐 Multiplayer Shared worlds with friends
OkCupid gave 3M dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says
“An OkCupid spokeswoman said Clarifai contacted the company in 2014 ‘about collaborating to determine if they could build unbiased AI and facial recognition technology’ and that the dating site ‘did not enter into any commercial agreement then and ha[s] no relationship with them now.’ She did not address whether Clarifai had gained access to OkCupid’s […]
Costco sued for seeking refunds on tariffs customers paid
Customers are hoping that consumer protection laws will require Costco to refund money they paid due to tariffs. The proposed class includes “all persons in the United States who purchased goods from Costco during the period February 1, 2025, through February 24, 2026, that were subject to tariffs” that Donald Trump unlawfully imposed under the […]