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1. Apple’s Persona technology uses Gaussian splatting to create 3D facial scans (www.cnet.com)
   97 points by dmarcos 6 days ago | 27 comments
2. Government Urges Total Ban of Our Most Popular Wi-Fi Router (www.cnet.com)
   16 points by galaxyLogic 4 days ago | 5 comments
3. Neuralink brain implant working in a pig (www.cnet.com)
   2 points by stOneskull about 9 hours ago | 1 comments
4. The Rapper 50 Cent, Adjusted for Inflation (50centadjustedforinflation.com)
   816 points by gaws 19 days ago | 196 comments
5. Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025 (fortune.com)
   248 points by ryan_j_naughton 28 days ago | 228 comments
6. The World Trade Center under construction through photos, 1966-1979 (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
   240 points by kinderjaje 29 days ago | 110 comments
7. SpaceX disables 2,500 Starlink terminals allegedly used by Asian scam centers (arstechnica.com)
   235 points by jnord 13 days ago | 221 comments
8. Myanmar military shuts down a major cybercrime center, detains over 2k people (apnews.com)
   183 points by bikenaga 10 days ago | 57 comments
9. The murky economics of the data-centre investment boom (www.economist.com)
   162 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 28 days ago | 115 comments
10. For centuries massive meals amazed visitors to Korea (2019) (www.atlasobscura.com)
    143 points by carabiner 23 days ago | 112 comments
11. NORAD’s Cheyenne Mountain Combat Center, c.1966 (flashbak.com)
    142 points by zdw 15 days ago | 77 comments
12. A century of reforestation helped keep the eastern US cool (2024) (news.agu.org)
    136 points by softwaredoug 6 days ago | 20 comments
13. How the Mayans were able to accurately predict solar eclipses for centuries (phys.org)
    131 points by pseudolus 9 days ago | 147 comments
14. Data centers contribute to high prices as energy bills electrify local politics (www.wsj.com)
    104 points by moose_man 4 days ago | 65 comments
15. Researchers demonstrate centimetre-level positioning using smartwatches (www.otago.ac.nz)
    73 points by geox 16 days ago | 22 comments
16. OpenDesk by the Centre for Digital Sovereignty (www.opendesk.eu)
    69 points by athousandsteps 3 days ago | 4 comments
17. Life next to 199 data centres (www.bbc.com)
    67 points by easton 9 days ago | 64 comments
18. NASA is sinking its flagship science center during the government shutdown (www.space.com)
    58 points by HappyRobot 4 days ago | 9 comments
19. Micro Center and iFixit Team Up to Make Tech Repair More Accessible (www.microcenter.com)
    50 points by giuliomagnifico 28 days ago | 7 comments
20. Microsoft Releases AI Call Center Stack with Voice, SMS, and Memory (github.com)
    43 points by bakigul 8 days ago | 62 comments
21. Berty – an encrypted and offline peer-to-peer messenger with no central server (berty.tech)
    42 points by HelloUsername 16 days ago | 8 comments
22. A Tiny Typo May Explain Centuries-Old Mystery Bout Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' (www.smithsonianmag.com)
    35 points by keepamovin 22 days ago | 14 comments
23. AI data centers have an impossibly short runway to achieve profitability (futurism.com)
    35 points by stalfosknight 25 days ago | 9 comments
24. ProEnergy repurposes jet engines to power data centers (www.datacenterdynamics.com)
    33 points by JumpCrisscross 10 days ago | 41 comments
25. Startup plans to cool data centers by converting heat to light (spectrum.ieee.org)
    26 points by pseudolus 19 days ago | 2 comments
26. Data Centers Are Getting Big (www.distilled.earth)
    26 points by smartmic 7 days ago | discuss
27. Show HN: Centia.io – Open PostgreSQL/PostGIS back end for developers (centia.io)
    24 points by mhoegh 11 days ago | 6 comments
28. Argentina joins OpenAI's Stargate project with a 500MW data center (www.bnamericas.com)
    24 points by mromanuk 25 days ago | 1 comments
29. Ruby Central – Source of Truth Update (rubycentral.org)
    23 points by gpi 11 days ago | 3 comments
30. Using jet engines for power generation at AI centers.
    14 points by testrun 11 days ago | 5 comments