Year: 2026

More evidence of life on Mars but still no life

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✨ Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Listen to this articleEstimated 4 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.Scientists are excited over the latest geological evidence for the existence of life on Mars. But as we have seen many times in the past, the Red Planet guards its secrets closely with the possibility of non-life explanations for the formations.As geologist Joel Hurowitz said in our recent conversation on Quirks & Quarks, the rock in question…

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Trump says he is nominating former Oklahoma State Trooper Lance Schroer to be director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement

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✨ Explore this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Donald Trump news,immigration,immigration and customs enforcement 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump said Saturday he is nominating Lance Schroer, a former Oklahoma state trooper, as the next director of Immigration, Customs and Enforcement. Trump said on his platform, Truth Social, that his new choice for the immigration enforcement agency is a former US Marine and “a patriot with real operational experience.” He described Schroyer as a "proven leader with decades of experience taking on the worst of the worst." Schroyer comes from…

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vshakitskiy/armadillo: A DNS server in Gleam · GitHub

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🔥 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A self-hosted DNS server for homelab use, written in Gleam. armadillo.showcase.mp4 Configure it once on your router as the DNS resolver and every device on the network resolves your local domains automatically. When a DNS query arrives, the server checks its local record store first. If a matching record exists, it responds immediately with the configured IP. If no record matches, the query is forwarded to a configurable upstream resolver, the response is cached by TTL, and returned to the client. Local records are stored…

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Trump-backed Julia Letlow faces John Fleming in the Republican Senate runoff in Louisiana

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💥 Discover this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Julia Letlow,Louisiana,primary,Vote 2026 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: BATON ROUGE, La. — President Donald Trump's favorite candidate for U.S. Senate in Louisiana looks to clinch the Republican nomination Saturday and deliver another win for a president who has sought to replace Republicans who disagree with him with handpicked loyalists. U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow, who was endorsed by Trump, and state Treasurer John Fleming are competing in the runoff. The two finished ahead of Sen. Bill Cassidy in the May 16 primary after Trump denounced the two-term senator, whom…

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David Sedaris on his Duolingo obsession: ‘“Today is the last day,” I told myself – but I was powerless to stop’ | David Sedaris

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🚀 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: David Sedaris,Books,Culture,Languages,Education,AI (artificial intelligence),Computing,Technology,Apps 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Hugh and I were driving from Washington, DC, to the Sea Section, our house on the coast of North Carolina, when I noticed a dot with legs traversing the hem of my untucked shirt. “There’s a tick on me!” I said.He looked down at my lap. “Well, throw it outside. It’s nothing to get hysterical about.”“I’m not ‘hysterical’,” I told him. “I just didn’t expect to find a tick in a rental car, is all.”We had a long drive…

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amd-strix-halo-vllm-toolboxes/rdma_cluster/setup_guide.md at main · kyuz0/amd-strix-halo-vllm-toolboxes · GitHub

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🚀 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: This guide details how to configure a two-node AMD Strix Halo cluster linked via Intel E810 (RoCE v2) for distributed vLLM inference using Tensor Parallelism. TL;DR (Quick Start) Concepts & Architecture Hardware Prerequisites Host Configuration (Fedora) Toolbox Installation & Network Verification Running the Cluster Troubleshooting References & Acknowledgements On Both Nodes: Preparation: Install/Update Fedora 43 and the E810 NICs (Check firmware: ethtool -i ). BIOS/Kernel: Set iGPU to 512MB and apply kernel params (iommu=pt, pci=realloc, etc.). SSH: Configure passwordless SSH between nodes. Networking: Assign static…

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I am a psychiatrist who was afraid of horror movies – until I learned about “cinematoneurosis”. Horror movies

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🔥 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Horror films,Film,Culture,Psychiatry,Psychology ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: I I'm six years old, and I watch a man turn into a werewolf. The film is Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, a 1948 comedy. I stare at our black-and-white television as I focus on the werewolf transformation unfolding in slow motion and I begin screaming so unbearably that my parents have to carry me upstairs to calm me down.That night was the beginning of my constant fear of horror movies and supernatural phenomena, of the dark, and of being alone…

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Can China build its own ASML?

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🚀 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The company itself acknowledges that its lithography empire rests not only on its own know-how but on the support of thousands of suppliers. "This is a huge amount of competence, and different people work on different parts of the tool," ASML's CEO Christophe Fouquet, told Nikkei Asia. "Most of the time the people, for example, who worked on the light source don't know at all how the optic [system] is working, because these are very different domains of competence." Fouquet described the development as "basically…

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“I was only addicted to two things – funk and praise”: Eddie Marsan’s Honest Playlist | Eddie Marsan

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✨ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Eddie Marsan,Culture,Music,Pop and rock ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The first song I fell in love withWhen I was a little boy, we had a caravan on the Isle of Sheppey, and I remember hearing George Harrison's My Sweet Lord one summer's day. It's about the search for God, and I've always thought the way it goes from Hallelujah to Hare Krishna is really beautiful.First song I boughtBig Time by Rick James of Paul's Music on Cambridge Heath Road, London. Even at a young age, I loved…

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Turning music into a chore is how I became a musician – the scapegoat dev

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💥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: 06 Jul, 2022 In the summer of 2020, I took a 3 months sabbatical in order to finish an album. The experience deeply transformed how I make music – I now know I can make as many albums as I want without even needing to take time off work. Settling into the sabbaticalI had been making music since 2005, but never released anything besides a first album, a charming work of youthful innocence and ignorance. Up until that first COVID summer of 2020, I had…

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