Instant SQL for results as you type in DuckDB UI https://motherduck.com/blog/introducing-instant-sql/
MotherDuck
Instant SQL is here: Speedrun ad-hoc queries as you type - MotherDuck Blog
Type, see, tweak, repeat! Instant SQL is now in Preview in MotherDuck and the DuckDB Local UI. Bend reality with SQL superpowers to get real-time query results as you type.
Scientists Develop Artificial Leaf, Uses Sunlight to Produce Valuable Chemicals https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2025/04/24/scientists-develop-artificial-leaf-that-uses-sunlight-to-produce-valuable-chemicals/
Berkeley Lab News Center
Scientists Develop Artificial Leaf That Uses Sunlight to Produce Valuable Chemicals
Researchers built a device made of perovskite and copper that mimics a green leaf.
A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen https://www.theverge.com/electric-cars/655527/slate-electric-truck-price-paint-radio-bezos
The Verge
Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen
Would you buy a truck this bare-bones?
Reproducibility project fails to validate dozens of biomedical studies https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01266-x
Nature
Huge reproducibility project fails to validate dozens of biomedical studies
Nature - Unique reproducibility effort in Brazil focuses on common methods rather than a single field ― and prompts call for reform.
Lossless LLM compression for efficient GPU inference via dynamic-length float https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.11651
arXiv.org
70% Size, 100% Accuracy: Lossless LLM Compression for Efficient...
Large Language Models (LLMs) have grown rapidly in size, creating significant challenges for efficient deployment on resource-constrained hardware. In this paper, we introduce Dynamic-Length Float...
Your phone isn't secretly listening to you, but the truth is more disturbing https://newatlas.com/computers/smartphone-listening-conversations-ads-facebook/
New Atlas
Your phone isn’t secretly listening to you, but the truth is more disturbing
A longstanding conspiracy is the tale of how Facebook is listening in on your conversations, but the way it is actually serving you ads is much more unsettling.
Australian who ordered radioactive materials walks away from court https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/australian-who-ordered-radioactive-materials-over-the-internet-walks-away-from-court/4021306.article
Chemistry World
Australian who ordered radioactive materials over the internet walks away from court
Emmanuel Lidden had been attempting to collect every element on the periodic table
An end to all this prostate trouble? https://yarchive.net/blog/prostate/
The Friendship Recession: The lost art of connecting https://www.happiness.hks.harvard.edu/february-2025-issue/the-friendship-recession-the-lost-art-of-connecting
The Leadership & Happiness Laboratory
The Friendship Recession: The Lost Art of Connecting — The Leadership & Happiness Laboratory
February 2025 Issue Carolyn Bruckmann, Harvard Kennedy School MPP ‘25 The so-called “Friendship Recession” is making its way into the vernacular—a profound shift in how Americans experience and sustain friendships. The data paints a stark picture.…
Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/o3-photo-locations/
Simon Willison’s Weblog
Watching o3 guess a photo’s location is surreal, dystopian and wildly entertaining
Watching OpenAI’s new o3 model guess where a photo was taken is one of those moments where decades of science fiction suddenly come to life. It’s a cross between the …
Show HN: My self-written hobby OS is finally running on my vintage IBM ThinkPad https://github.com/joexbayer/RetrOS-32
GitHub
GitHub - joexbayer/RetrOS-32: A x86 32bit Hobby Operatingsystem with graphics, multitasking, networking and 32bit C-Compiler for…
A x86 32bit Hobby Operatingsystem with graphics, multitasking, networking and 32bit C-Compiler for i386 architecture. - joexbayer/RetrOS-32
Reverse geocoding is hard https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/04/reverse-geocoding-is-hard/
Terence Eden’s Blog
Reverse Geocoding is Hard
My wife and I run OpenBenches - a crowd-sourced database of nearly 40,000 memorial benches. Every bench is geo-tagged with a latitude and longitude. But how do you go from a string of digits to something human readable? How do I turn -33.755780,150.603769…
Read the Obits https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-creativity-hack-no-one-told-you-about-read-the-obits/
The MIT Press Reader
The Creativity Hack No One Told You About: Read the Obits
Reading obituaries can boost creativity by exposing you to distant ideas, fueling the associations that lead to unexpected breakthroughs.