"Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water" (2023) https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1002811

ScholarlyArticle: "Highly efficient and salt rejecting solar evaporation via a wick-free confined water layer" (2022) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28457-8

"Solar-powered system offers a route to inexpensive desalination" (2022) https://news.mit.edu/2022/solar-desalination-system-inexpens...

> Objective metrics and tools for video encoding and source signal quality: netflix/vmaf, easyVmaf, psy-ex/metrics, ffmpeg-quality-metrics,

netflix/vmaf: https://GitHub.com/netflix/vmwaf

gdavila/easyVmaf: https://github.com/gdavila/easyVmaf

psy-ex/metrics: https://github.com/psy-ex/metrics/

slhck/ffmpeg-quality-metrics: Calculate quality metrics with FFmpeg (SSIM, PSNR, VMAF, VIF) https://github.com/slhck/ffmpeg-quality-metrics

Something like this would be great too:

The Ardour Manual > Loudness Analyzer and Normalizer: https://manual.ardour.org/mixing/basic-mixing/loudness-analy...

OWASP Vulnerable Web Applications Directory: https://vwad.owasp.org/

vavkamil/awesome-vulnerable-apps: Awesome Vulnerable Applications https://github.com/vavkamil/awesome-vulnerable-apps

From SasanLabs/VulnerableApp: https://github.com/SasanLabs/VulnerableApp :

> OWASP VulnerableApp is a modular deliberately vulnerable application designed primarily for validating and benchmarking security scanners through reproducible test scenarios, while also supporting learning and experimentation.

/? deliberately vulnerable web application llm benchmark https://www.google.com/search?q=deliberately+vulnerable+web+...

UnionFS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnionFS

OverlayFS was built for Containers, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OverlayFS

LiveOS image/overlay - Fedora Project Wiki: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LiveOS_image/overlay

LiveOS image - Fedora Project Wiki https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LiveOS_image#Home_filesystem re: home.img

Why does ventoy say that selinux=0 is necessary for a persistent volume on a fedora liveusb?

"Ventoy Persistence Plugin" https://www.ventoy.net/en/plugin_persistence.html

livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size --home-size-mb NNN: https://github.com/livecd-tools/livecd-tools/blob/main/docs/...

Windows Media Player for XP and Powershell won't run on Windows 95 though; you need to buy a new computer for XP.

What are the causes of dedollarization? What does de-dollarization indicate?

Dedollarisation > Causes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedollarisation#Causes

Gold as an investment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_as_an_investment

Gold has intrinsic value at cost in printed circuit boards, medical equipment, medical devices, space shielding.

Does investing in gold cause growth?

Re: DNS security and NTP and Decentralized DNS/PKI with web standards like W3C DID and DID micro-ledgers for record signing:

"Cert Authorities Check for DNSSEC from Today" (2026-03-26) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47401716

"Additive-free and brine-discharge-free solar-thermal desalination with simultaneous complete mineral mining from ocean water" (2026) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41377-026-02315-4

> Colbert first performed professionally as an understudy for Steve Carell at Second City Chicago.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48267049

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

  - Organize the world's information
  
  - Don't be evil

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil :

> Between 21 April and 4 May 2018, Google removed the motto from the preface, leaving a mention in the final line: "And remember... don't be evil, and if you see something that you think isn't right – speak up!"

That sounds like NY to me.

The minimum overhead to doing it with the LLM is the useful question

/skill-creator [or /create-skill] Write an agent skill with code script(s) that use an existing user space IP library that works with your agent runtime, to [...]

ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills: https://github.com/ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills

anthopics/skills//skill-creator/SKILL.md: https://github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/skills/skill-...

/.agents/skills/skill-name/SKILL.md, scripts/{script_name.py,__init__.py}

https://agentskills.io/what-are-skills

Sleep-learning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep-learning

Also, Sleep and learning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_and_learning

/? header-only https://hn.algolia.com/?q=header-only

/? c header https://hn.algolia.com/?q=c+header

There are probably enough tests for a Rust rewrite of docutils and sphinx with Python extension compatibility; docutils.rs and sphinxdoc.rs?

Re: hyperparameter tuning and autoresearch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47444581

Parameter-free LLMs would be cool

- "Why are neural networks and cryptographic ciphers so similar? (2025)" https://reiner.org/neural-net-ciphers .. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983467

- "Show HN: ResonanceNet – Proof-of-Training Blockchain" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47386901

- "Cryptographic hashing as a transformer attention head" https://github.com/ffr1/unbounded-context-attention

- 'Implementation for NDSS'2025 paper: "TensorCrypt: Repurposing Neural Networks for Efficient Cryptographic Computation"' https://github.com/OSUSecLab/TensorCrypt :

> More specifically, with a program translation framework that converts traditional cryptographic algorithms into NN models, our proof-of-concept implementations in TensorFlow demonstrate substantial performance improvements: encryption speeds for AES, Chacha20, and Salsa20 show increases of up to 4.09×, 5.44×, and 5.06×, respectively, compared to existing GPU-based cryptographic solutions written by human experts.