Generation of harmful slow electrons in water is a race between intermolecular energy decay and proton transfer
When high-energy radiation interacts with water in living organisms, it generates particles and slow-moving electrons that can subsequently damage critical molecules like DNA. Now, Professor Petr Slavíček and his bachelor’s student Jakub Dubský from UCT Prague (University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague) have described in detail one of the key mechanisms for the creation … ⌘ Read more
Automating stateful apps with Kubernetes Operators
Member post originally published on the Middleware blog by Keval Bhogayata, covering Automating Stateful Apps with Kubernetes Operators. If you’ve ever had issues with scaling databases or automating upgrades in Kubernetes, Operators can help by saving… ⌘ Read more
Apple M5 chip
Article URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-unleashes-m5-the-next-big-leap-in-ai-performance-for-apple-silicon/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45591799
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Analysis of 4.4-million-year-old ankle exposes how earliest ancestors moved and evolved
For more than a century, scientists have been piecing together the puzzle of human evolution, examining fossil evidence to understand the transition from our earliest ancestors to modern humans. ⌘ Read more
next-20251015: linux-next
Version:next-20251015 (linux-next)Released:2025-10-15 ⌘ Read more
6.6.112: longterm
Version:6.6.112 (longterm)Released:2025-10-15Source:linux-6.6.112.tar.xzPGP Signature:linux-6.6.112.tar.signPatch:full ⌘ Read more
6.1.156: longterm
Version:6.1.156 (longterm)Released:2025-10-15Source:linux-6.1.156.tar.xzPGP Signature:linux-6.1.156.tar.signPatch:full ( incremental)ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.1.156 ⌘ Read more
Five Ways the Department of Education Is Upending Public Schools
Megan O’Matz and Jennifer Smith Richards, - ProPublica
_Stephan: A successful democracy requires a literate, numerate, educated citizenry. Everyone, going back to the Athenians of the fifth century BCE, has recognized this. That is why I have been closely following what the Trump Republican fascist coup has been doing to public education. It is getting worse and worse, as this article describ … ⌘ Read more
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Jason Beeferman and Emily Ngo, Staff Writers - Politico
Stephan: There is a very serious crisis in the United States involving male culture and psychology. It involves both men and boys; they are overwhelmingly White and Republican. Read this article, and you will see what these men and boys actually say amongst themselves. It is horrifying.
![Various blue, green and gray chat bubbl … ⌘ Read more
‘Bombshell!’ Ex-clerk to Clarence Thomas sends shockwaves with Supreme Court warning
Travis Gettys, Senior Editor - Raw Story
_Stephan: Even the most respected “originalist” scholar is now on record against Trump and his Republican coup are trying to do with their dismantling of American democracy. Since this is the scholar the Supreme Court majority cites over and over, as this article describes, it will be very revealing to see how they n … ⌘ Read more
GOP spreads increasingly desperate and dangerous lies to shirk blame for their shutdown
Emily Singer, Staff Writer - Daily Kos
_Stephan: Today I listened to one Republican congress member after another claiming that the coming Saturday “No King” rallies are really “Hate America” rallies, and I thought how cowardly do you have to be to say something that dishonest and stupid about rallies that will involve millions of American who actu … ⌘ Read more
A rare variety of wheat with three ovaries—gene discovery could triple production
University of Maryland researchers discovered the gene that makes a rare form of wheat grow three ovaries per flower instead of one. Since each ovary can potentially develop into a grain of wheat, the gene could help farmers grow much more wheat per acre. Their work is published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ⌘ Read more
10 Popular (and Weird) Ancient Foods
Many foods cherished by our ancestors continue to find a place on tables worldwide. From the staple presence of bread to the remarkable status of beer, countless ancient delights have withstood the test of time. But other foods have faded into oblivion and been mostly uneaten for centuries. Whether due to animal extinction or shifting […]
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Indonesia’s Lewotobi Laki Laki volcano unleashes new burst of hot ash
Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki, one of Indonesia’s most active volcanoes, erupted for a second straight day Wednesday, spewing towering columns of hot ash that later blanketed villages. No casualties were immediately reported. ⌘ Read more
World’s largest rays may be diving to extreme depths to build mental maps of vast oceans
Many marine species are no strangers to the depths of the oceans. Some animals, like certain sharks, tuna, or turtles, routinely perform extreme dives, whereas for other species, such behavior has been observed less frequently. ⌘ Read more
Can we hear gravitational-wave ‘beats’ in the rhythm of pulsars?
Pulsars suggest that ultra–low-frequency gravitational waves are rippling through the cosmos. The signal seen by international pulsar timing array collaborations in 2023 could come from a stochastic gravitational-wave background—the sum of many distant sources—or from a single nearby binary of supermassive black holes. ⌘ Read more
macOS Tahoe Battery Life Worse? Tips to Help Reduction in Battery Performance with macOS 26
A fair number of Mac users have found that macOS Tahoe has notably reduced the battery life and battery performance of their MacBook hardware. Looking around online, you’ll find a variety of complaints from MacBook Pro and MacBook Air users about quickly draining battery and significant reductions in battery life on their Mac in general, … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/10/14/macos-tahoe-battery-l … ⌘ Read more
Nezabudnuteľný vzdelávací zájazd
V období od 6. – 14. 10. 2025 vyrazili na nezabudnuteľný vzdelávací zájazd víťazi kvízu “Koliko se poznajemo” Hanna Drieňovská, Ksenija Vujačić, Matej Marčok a David Andrášik a členovia víťazných tímov Kempu multikulturalizmu Ján Pavelka a Branislav Cesnak po krásach strednej Európy. Sprievodkyňou bola profesorka Tatiana Topoľská. Navštívili mesto České Budějovice, s dominantným námestím, ktoré patrí medzi najväčšie v strednej Európe a je obklopené kr … ⌘ Read more
Poorer health linked to more votes for Reform UK, 2024 voting patterns suggest
Poorer health is linked to a higher proportion of votes for the populist right wing political party, Reform UK, indicates an analysis of the 2024 general election voting patterns in England, published online in the open access journal BMJ Open Respiratory Research. ⌘ Read more
The tools for overcoming the top 10 DevOps challenges
DevOps is a way of working that reduces waste. It uses smart tools and practices to build, test, and ship software faster. It makes teams quicker, systems stronger and problems smaller when done right. It’s not… ⌘ Read more
next-20251014: linux-next
Version:next-20251014 (linux-next)Released:2025-10-14 ⌘ Read more
Almost 75,000 farmed salmon in Scotland escaped into the wild after Storm Amy. Why this may cause lasting damage
When Storm Amy battered the Scottish Highlands in early October, it tore through a salmon farm’s sea pens, releasing around 75,000 fish into open water in Loch Linnhe. The scale of the escape is alarming. It comes at a time when wild Atlantic salmon—already classified as “endangered” in Great Britain—are in decline. ⌘ Read more
SigCore UC Industrial Control Module Prepares for Crowd Supply Launch
The OK153-S SBC from Forlinx Embedded is a compact industrial platform based on the Allwinner T153 processor. It supports Linux 5.10 and offers up to 1 GB of DDR3 RAM and 8 GB of eMMC storage. Key interfaces include triple Gigabit Ethernet, dual CAN-FD, and a Local Bus for PSRAM or FPGA expansion. The Allwinner […] ⌘ Read more
[2022] JSONSki: Streaming Processing of JSONPath Queries with Fast Forwarding
Relevant Paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3503222.3507719
I am sure this is impressive engineering, but I am not sure if this solves a meaningful problem. If you do need to access the data in this manner, maybe you shouldn’t have stored it as JSON in the first place?
Majestic wild horses are trampling Mono Lake’s otherworldly landscape: Feds plan a roundup
Several dozen horses calmly graze along the shores of Mono Lake, a sparkling saline expanse spread out before the jagged Sierra Nevada mountains. The September sun is blazing. A pair of brown horses come up side by side and stare intensely at an approaching visitor. ⌘ Read more
Greenland is shrinking slightly and drifting slowly toward the northwest, GNSS stations reveal
Greenland is being twisted, compressed, and stretched. This happens due to plate tectonics and movements in the bedrock, caused by the large ice sheets on top melting and reducing pressure on the subsurface. ⌘ Read more
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Ten Bizarre Creatures from Beneath the Waves
Our oceans and seas are a hotbed of weird and wonderful nature, home to some of the most remarkable species known to science. In these extreme ecosystems, bizarre creatures thrive and perform feats that scientists once thought were impossible. In this list, we plunge beneath the waves to explore some of the most surprising life […]
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SpaceX launches the 11th test flight of its mega Starship rocket with another win
SpaceX launched another of its mammoth Starship rockets on a test flight Monday, successfully making it halfway around the world while releasing mock satellites like last time. ⌘ Read more
Nobel economist warns of AI dangers
A winner of this year’s Nobel prize in economics warned Monday that artificial intelligence offers “amazing possibilities” but should be regulated because of its job-destroying potential. ⌘ Read more
3rd Beta of iOS 26.1, macOS Tahoe 26.1, iPadOS 26.1 Available for Testing
Beta testing for iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, and macOS Tahoe 26.1 is accelerating pace, with the third beta release now being available for those participating in the beta testing programs for Apple system software. Beta 3 comes just a week after beta 2, and Apple usually goes through several beta versions before issuing a final … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/10/13/3rd-beta-of-ios-26-1 … ⌘ Read more