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Saturday, July 4, 2026
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Exeter University▲ 159

Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches: new research

The world’s tallest tropical trees have no trouble pumping water to their topmost branches, new research reveals. Conventional scientific theory suggests that as trees grow, it becomes harder to transport water from roots to leaves

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Unknown▲ 109

Steam Controller Auto-Charge – pilot to magnetic charging puck using CV

Slam the controller into the magnetic puck until it charges - FossPrime/Steam-Controller-Auto-Charge

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Wafer▲ 184

Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper

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Leanstral▲ 157

Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all

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Unknown▲ 17

Maybe you should learn something

You can learn new things. Pixel art, touch typing, 3d modelling, music, calligraphy, wood working, knitting, a language. Whatever is practical and calls to you, you can learn. In the long…

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The Van der Heyden brothers▲ 63

The firefighting system of the Van der Heyden brothers in 17th century Amsterdam

Two Dutch brothers invented a system that transformed a city previously ravaged by fires

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Soatok▲ 57

Soatok's Informal Guide to Threat Models

After a long day of exhausting conversations about Hybrid Post-Quantum Cryptography, random jackasses trying to play gotcha with endpoint attacks against end-to-end encrypted messaging…

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Synthesis is harder than analysis

Over the years, mathematicians, logicians and computer scientists have developed various calculi. If you have a background in computer science, you’ve likely heard of the lambda…

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HN — Best of the Week

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Citizen Lab▲ 313

Espionage Against the European Parliament

We found that former Member of the European Parliament Stelios Kouloglou was hacked with Pegasus spyware while serving on the PEGA committee, which investigated Pegasus and other spyware abuses in Europe. Through forensic analysis of his device, we found that the attackers could have had access to confidential documents and committee deliberations.

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Weli▲ 1229

Half-Baked Product

A fable about ovens, founders, and the second-highest priority that never gets done.

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Gaming on Linux▲ 544

Valve open-source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own

While Valve will not be making and providing their own e-ink display for the Steam Machine, they have opened it up so anyone can now do it.

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Stefan Schueller▲ 529

Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't

The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn

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Phenomenal World▲ 358

Costco is the anti-Amazon

Costco's model and the future of retail

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GitHub▲ 312

Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally

Everything I know about running LLMs locally. Contribute to jamesob/local-llm development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Casey Liss▲ 554

CarPlay Is Additive

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Eshumar Nedd▲ 236

Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective

Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive: In retrospect, he said, the “trajectory of the agentic development over at least the last four months hasn’t really accelerated in the way that we…

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