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Ultrasonic espresso: sound waves brew a full-strength shot cold, cutting energy 75%
Researchers have built an espresso brewer that swaps boiling water and high pressure for high-frequency sound. A transducer pressed against a standard espresso
VocabOwl: a web tool that estimates your English vocabulary against 170k words
This is a Hacker News submission pointing to VocabOwl, an interactive web app hosted on Google Cloud Run rather than a written article. The tool frames a single
Why AI export controls on Anthropic's Mythos echo decades of failed crypto crackdowns
The White House last week ordered Anthropic to block exports of its frontier models Fable and Mythos to anyone outside the U.S., including foreign nationals on
Why atproto Has No 'Instances' — and Why Mastodon Brains Keep Asking
Dan Abramov tackles a question that surfaces in every Hacker News thread about the AT Protocol: where are all the Bluesky instances? His answer is that the ques
Why bigger server fleets get lower latency at the same utilization
Marc Brooker poses a deceptively simple queuing puzzle: take c single-threaded servers behind a load balancer, scale the offered traffic linearly so each server
Why Your Screen Has Never Shown You a True Cyan — and Where to See One
Human color vision runs on just three types of cone cells, and the brain reconstructs every shade from the relative intensity of their signals. That biological
Windows 11's New Media Player Eats 3.5x the RAM and Paywalls HEVC Playback
Microsoft's modern Media Player, now the default on Windows 11 in place of Groove Music and the classic Windows Media Player, is far heavier than the app it rep
After a Decade, Java's Project Valhalla Lands in JDK 28 — But Only Halfway
Oracle engineer Lois Foltan confirmed on June 15 that JEP 401, the long-promised Value Classes and Objects work at the heart of Project Valhalla, is merging int
ClickHouse at 10: the analytics database that built itself in the open
ClickHouse marked a decade as open source on June 15, 2026, having grown into the most widely used open-source analytical database with over 2,000 contributors.
Datasette Apps sandbox untrusted HTML inside your database tool
Simon Willison has released datasette-apps, a plugin that lets self-contained HTML and JavaScript applications run directly inside a Datasette instance. The app
Gribouille 0.3.0 adds one-argument guide control to Typst's ggplot-style plotting
Gribouille, a spare-time, unfunded port of the grammar-of-graphics idea to the Typst typesetting system, has shipped version 0.3.0. The release is smaller in sc
How Always-On Earbuds Are Quietly Eroding Everyday Conversation
Ubiquitous wireless earbuds have crept far beyond the gym and the commute into offices, checkout lines, and even social settings like a round of golf, turning a