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Ben Sless 2026-06-18T08:50:10.387349Z

So seems like Midjourney is doing transducers now?

Ludger Solbach 2026-06-18T08:59:28.525289Z

I agree, impressive

p-himik 2026-06-18T09:43:33.203919Z

I'm quite skeptical. :) I'm not in the know but to claim "subatomic precision" and then show an image with less accuracy than regular ultrasound doesn't inspire hope. And it would be more impressive if they did actually show their experimental setup. Their 1.4k m/s require a liquid medium, but it's a single ring and the body is said to be lifted through it. Given the images shown and, I assume, the need to reduce any bubbles and drips, it would have to be a at least 2+ m tank and you'd have to hold your breath. But maybe they don't care about bubbles and such. "Less than 12 of these systems can outperform all MRI machines on Earth" - riiiight. I don't have to be submerged in a liquid medium when doing an MRI though. Here just the preparation and the clean-up steps might easily take longer than an MRI. God I hate nothing burgers full of empty promises. It looks more like a Max Cooper video, sounds like one as well (which isn't a bad thing).

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p-himik 2026-06-18T09:49:49.015369Z

Right, they did release another video that kinda shows the setup. It is indeed a vertical column with a lift, but a person isn't lifted during the process - they are submerged. Still doesn't solve the bubbles problem though.

Martynas Maciulevičius 2026-06-18T10:41:03.154059Z

I think a nice thing about MRI is that you can keep your hearing after it

borkdude 2026-06-18T09:34:10.400089Z

I like reading books on my kindle e-reader, and kindle app in my iphone and laptop. However, currently I find buying DRM-free epubs more convenient since I can search through them locally using scripts, etc. And for making notes: kindle limits copying text (I only recently hit that limit), which sucks. But what I like about kindle is that it syncs my highlights, notes, progress. etc. I discovered that there's something like Readest + KOReader which may work to get this back. Anyone got experience with this? It won't work for my kindle e-reader obviously...

Kjetil Thuen 2026-06-18T09:58:20.722699Z

I ditched my kindle for an e-reader with KOReader a while back. KOReader takes some setting up, but once its set up its better than the kindle software imho. For sync you need some software running on a server somewhere. I've been happy with Kavita for accessing my library across devices and syncing reading progress. I have not tried syncing of notes and highlights. Maybe not as frictionless as the Kindle ecosystem, but not being under amazons thumb feels good! Oh, and you can install KOReader on you Kindle if you "jailbreak" it.

p-himik 2026-06-18T11:58:32.719159Z

Just in case - if the software readers that you use store notes/position/etc. in files, you might have luck syncing all that without any servers, via SyncThing.

borkdude 2026-06-18T11:59:57.679549Z

I don't think locations/notes etc are saved within epub files

p-himik 2026-06-18T12:01:10.078479Z

I didn't mean within the files that you're reading - just within some files that are machine-independent.

Kjetil Thuen 2026-06-18T12:04:02.564309Z

https://github.com/gitalexcampos/highlightsync.koplugin writes highlights and notes to a file that can be synced with thirdparty software

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Øyvind Jensen 2026-06-18T10:57:05.687709Z

LIMITS 2026 12th Workshop on Computing within Limits https://computingwithinlimits.org/2026/

arik 2026-06-18T13:22:08.524709Z

Reposting languge implementation course found from HN: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs6120/2025fa/self-guided/

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