Solarpunk is happening in Africa(climatedrift.substack.com)
1103 points by JoiDegn | 536 comments
A Climate Drift Substack essay arguing that Africa is building a solarpunk future by leapfrogging legacy energy infrastructure with distributed solar.
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New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair(nottingham.ac.uk)
597 points by CGMthrowaway | 216 comments
University of Nottingham news page about a new gel that regrows dental enamel; the page returned a 504 Gateway Time-out error when captured.
Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model(book.sv)
544 points by costco | 223 comments
Book.sv, a web app that recommends books to read next using a model trained on billions of scraped Goodreads reviews, plus a tool to find users who read given books.
Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race(nbcnews.com)
541 points by jsheard | 572 comments
NBC News report projecting Zohran Mamdani as the winner of the 2025 New York City mayoral race, making him the youngest NYC mayor in a century.
Why aren't smart people happier?(theseedsofscience.pub)
460 points by zdw | 538 comments
A Seeds of Science post by psychologist Adam Mastroianni exploring why higher intelligence doesn't seem to make people happier.
Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser(github.com)
418 points by nazgulsenpai | 163 comments
GitHub repository for Dillo, a lightweight multi-platform graphical web browser built with FLTK and licensed under GPL-3.0.
Open Source Implementation of Apple's Private Compute Cloud(github.com)
409 points by adam_gyroscope | 91 comments
GitHub repository for OpenPCC, an Apache-2.0 open-source framework for provably private AI inference modeled on Apple's Private Cloud Compute.
NY school phone ban has made lunch loud again(gothamist.com)
382 points by hrldcpr | 279 comments
Gothamist news article reporting that New York's school smartphone ban has made school lunchrooms noisy and social again.
ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others(ctvnews.ca)
365 points by randycupertino | 399 comments
CTV News article reporting that OpenAI updated ChatGPT usage policies to disallow providing tailored legal and medical advice.
I’m worried that they put co-pilot in Excel(simonwillison.net)
340 points by isaacfrond | 242 comments
Simon Willison blog post quoting a TikTok monologue by @belligerentbarbies about Copilot in Excel and how AI hallucinations could undermine the finance staff who master spreadsheets.
Norway reviews cybersecurity after remote-access feature found in Chinese buses(scandasia.com)
332 points by dredmorbius | 187 comments
ScandAsia news article reporting that Norway is reviewing cybersecurity after a remote-access capability was found in Chinese-made buses.
The shadows lurking in the equations(gods.art)
296 points by calebm | 85 comments
Radiant Computer(radiant.computer)
212 points by beardicus | 149 comments
Fourier Transforms(continuummechanics.org)
172 points by o4c | 26 comments
![Screenshot of gandalf.fee.urv.cat: The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (1987) [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/11/6/31a167c4-6f81-40c8-a114-d694cd334aa9.jpg)
The kind of company I want to be a part of(dvsj.in)
129 points by ctxc | 144 comments
The Hacker’s Manifesto (1986)(phrack.org)
94 points by OuterVale | 38 comments
A P2P Vision for QUIC (2024)(seemann.io)
89 points by mooreds | 40 comments
Automating our home video imports(pierce.dev)
69 points by icyfox | 24 comments
Switching from GPG to Age(luke.hsiao.dev)
68 points by speckx | 43 comments
Shell Grotto, Margate(en.wikipedia.org)
41 points by Michelangelo11 | 5 comments
