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Living beings emit faint light that extinguishes upon death, according to study
Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2025-05-emit-faint-extinguishes-death.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44014480
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ThinkUp Tribute
Article URL: https://macwright.com/2025/05/16/thinkup-tribute
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44014455
Points: 1
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Coming to a Brain Near You: A Tiny Computer
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/brain-implant-musk-als-tbi-neuralink-f733998f
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44014272
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Show HN: X-RAY – A student-built tool to audit OS behavior via ISO comparison
GitHub: https://github.com/lixiasky/X-ray
I made a 3MB high-privilege system behavior auditor in Go. It compares your live Linux system to the original ISO, detects unexpected file/process changes, and can auto-eliminate anything suspicious — in real time.
It’s light enough to run on a MacBook Air (M1, Parallels VM), yet strong enough to intercept plugin installations and even kill VSCode mid-execution. Yes, that actually happened. No rootkits or malware got past it — even accidentally legit stuff didn’t survive.
The behavior chain is exported to Graphviz .dot, with full process trace. JSON/log export is still in progress (I'm learning). This is fully open source, free to fork, and made by a first-year student outside CS.
It’s not perfect — but it works. I’d love to hear what others think, break it, or build on it.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44014254
Points: 1
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Show HN: Insert-tools – bulk insert with schema check and column match in CH
Hi HN! I’ve built insert-tools, a Python CLI utility designed for easy and safe bulk data insertion into ClickHouse.
Features:
Inserts data via SELECT queries with automatic column name matching
Automatically casts types to ensure safe inserts and avoid errors
Supports JSON-based configuration and a user-friendly CLI interface
Comes with integration tests and basic argument validation
You can install it from PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/insert-tools/ Source code is available here: https://github.com/castengine/insert-tools
Looking forward to feedback, suggestions, and contributions!
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44014251
Points: 1
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Show HN: SRE Assistant – An AI-powered agent for Kubernetes and AWS operations
I built an interactive SRE assistant that helps manage Kubernetes clusters and AWS resources through natural language conversations. It uses Google's Agent Development Kit to provide: Comprehensive K8s management (pods, deployments, logs, scaling) AWS cost analysis and reporting Slack integration for team collaboration Demo videos show cost reporting and EKS cluster operations in action. Built for SREs who want to streamline operations through conversational AI.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44014240
Points: 1
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Community Stewardship of Faster CPython
Article URL: https://discuss.python.org/t/community-stewardship-of-faster-cpython/92153
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44014226
Points: 1
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The Day Grok Lost Its Mind
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/opinion/grok-ai-musk-x-south-africa.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44014217
Points: 2
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Focus Is Relaxing
Article URL: https://afarah.info/public/blog/focus/index.html?_r=hn
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44014211
Points: 2
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Psychedelics May Shift Brain Power to the Right Hemisphere
Article URL: https://neurosciencenews.com/psychedelics-right-hemisphere-28946/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44014197
Points: 1
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Windsurf SWE-1 AI coding model
Article URL: https://swe-1.surf/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44014167
Points: 2
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NHS rolls out 5-minute 'super-jab' for 15 cancers
Article URL: https://www.england.nhs.uk/2025/04/nhs-rolls-out-5-minute-super-jab-for-15-cancers/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44014164
Points: 3
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Debian 12.11 Released
Article URL: https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20250517
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44014162
Points: 1
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FDA Clears First Blood Test to Diagnose Alzheimer's
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-16/fda-approves-first-blood-test-to-diagnose-alzheimer-s-disease
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44014106
Points: 1
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The Common Lisp Cookbook: Scripting. Command Line Arguments. Executables
Article URL: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/scripting.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44014100
Points: 1
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Quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux VMs
Article URL: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44014090
Points: 1
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How Does Retrieval Improve New Learning? (2024)
Article URL: https://www.learningscientists.org/blog/2024/3/7/how-does-retrieval-improve-new-learning
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44014082
Points: 1
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Britain is now the biggest funder of solar-geoengineering research
Life Is Short (2016)
Article URL: https://paulgraham.com/vb.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44014051
Points: 4
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'Murderbot' is the best new comedy of 2025
Article URL: https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5393659
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44014049
Points: 4
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