celias
Re:DuckDB Ducklake
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @08:45PM (#50000675)
Motherduck is offering a free copy of O'reilly's "DuckLake: The Definitive Guide" book on their DuckLake web page
Re:Retired man plants trees on forgotten land, now it's Sao Paulo's la...
on Saturday August 01, 2026 @10:19PM (#49140460)
The Man Who Planted Trees
Captcha, Ergo Sum
Re:Talking About Dark Matter – Sixty Symbols [video]
on Thursday April 30, 2026 @12:17AM (#47958038)
Professor Ed Copeland discusses dark matter and an unexpected link with Lord Kelvin.
Talking About Dark Matter – Sixty Symbols [video]
Re:17,000 MCP Servers – and the Security Threats Nobody Is Talking About
on Sunday April 05, 2026 @12:05PM (#47650788)
The “S” in MCP Stands for Security (2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43600192
Your Frustration Is the Product
Captain Disillusion – Secrets of the Film Slate [video]
The Mac Malware of 2025 (Objective-See)
Re:Why Nearly Every Apple Has a Sticker–and What That Tiny Label Does
on Friday January 02, 2026 @04:52PM (#46469836)
I like the honeycomb stickers on Sugarbee apples
Re:What Happens When You Crash a Bicycle at 175mph [video]
on Saturday December 13, 2025 @10:15AM (#46255092)
Neil Campbell is attempting to become the first human to cycle at 200mph...
What Happens When You Crash a Bicycle at 175mph [video]
Re:Whatever Happened to NFTs?
on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @11:06PM (#46213968)
Robot dogs with human heads were recently pooping them out at Art Basel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZKj2gthm8M&t=731s
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/beeple-pooping-robot-d...
Treasure Trove (Zeeman Medal Lecture by Brady Haran) [video]
What's at [0,0] in space? – Sixty Symbols [video]
Re:What's at [0,0] in space? – Sixty Symbols [video]
on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @11:08AM (#44444694)
Professor Meghan Gray discusses space co-ordinates and what sits at position 0,0 in the sky?
Apple Research unearthed forgotten AI technique and using it to generate images
Re:Apple Research unearthed forgotten AI technique and using it to gen...
on Monday June 23, 2025 @02:19PM (#44358536)
Re:Chinese paraglider survives accidental 8k-metre-high flight above t...
on Friday May 30, 2025 @12:28AM (#44132853)
Reminds me of the story of William Rankin who "was the first person to survive a fall from the top of a cumulonimbus thunderstorm cloud"
Re:The Largest Sofa You Can Move Around a Corner
on Saturday February 15, 2025 @01:29PM (#43060849)
Up and Atom has a 2023 youtube video about the moving sofa problem
Re:The NK Headwind Cycling will take place next Saturday
on Saturday December 07, 2024 @07:00PM (#42353863)
Global Cycling Network has a couple of videos about the competition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynT_z3TEJic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60Q6oP9NiFk
Re:VirtualBox 7.1
on Saturday September 14, 2024 @11:39AM (#41540517)
There is a version for silicon Macs -
macOS/Arm host: Arm virtualization for Linux and BSD VMs
The Virtualbox Manager window still has BETA in the upper right corner. Installation of the arm64 version of ubuntu 24.04 server went without a hitch on a M2 Mac.
Re:A dishwasher can make or break a restaurant
on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @09:36AM (#41379370)
Reminds me of Dishwasher Pete -
Professional Dish-Washer Shares Tales From the Pit [2007] https://www.npr.org/2007/06/12/10991537/professional-dish-wa...
Dish Out Of Water https://www.thisamericanlife.org/74/conventions/act-two-17
Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States [book] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060896426?ie=UTF8&tag=thi...
Re:Vedangi Kulkarni, trying for women's record for bicycling around th...
on Saturday July 06, 2024 @11:14AM (#40890883)
In 2018, at just 19, Vedangi Kulkarni became the youngest female to cycle around the world. Now, she's back to break the world record as the fastest woman to do it... in under 124 days
Vedangi Kulkarni, trying for women's record for bicycling around the world [video]
The wacky, grueling bike race that captivates a Midwest college town
Washington Post article about the Little 500 bike racehttps://wapo.st/44E09PHhttps://iusf.indiana.edu/little500/
Re:'Our culture is dying': vulture shortage threatens Zoroastrian buri...
on Saturday May 04, 2024 @08:45AM (#40257243)
Radiolab and 99% Invisible have podcasts about this
Re:The blunder that changed chickens forever [video]
on Monday March 25, 2024 @02:21PM (#39819618)
The story of how Cecile Long Steele changed the chicken industry. More information here
https://www.agriculturalmuseum.org/cecile-long-steele