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Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable
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github.com/ammaarreshi
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| 438 points by
asronline
9 hours ago
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If you're a button, you have one job
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aresluna.org
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| 59 points by
nozzlegear
3 hours ago
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15 comments
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GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance
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github.com/openai
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| 203 points by
maille
7 hours ago
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70 comments
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Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)
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annas-archive.gl
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| 392 points by
Cider9986
12 hours ago
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210 comments
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Jellyfish can heal wounds in minutes. Scientists want their secrets
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mbl.edu
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| 75 points by
hhs
6 hours ago
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16 comments
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Leaking YouTube creators' private videos
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javoriuski.com
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| 538 points by
javxfps
12 hours ago
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306 comments
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Atomic Force Microscope high-speed video, stainless etching, bacteria, and more
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youtube.com
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| 33 points by
mhb
3 hours ago
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1 comments
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Artful Cats: Feline-Inspired Art and Artifacts
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si.edu
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| 8 points by
jruohonen
1 hour ago
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discuss
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Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux (2019)
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peteris.rocks
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| 447 points by
theanonymousone
17 hours ago
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55 comments
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Better Models: Worse Tools
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pocoo.org
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| 132 points by
leemoore
8 hours ago
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41 comments
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Meta's Un-Stable Signature
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hackerfactor.com
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| 49 points by
ementally
5 hours ago
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2 comments
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Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts
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github.com/anthropics
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| 282 points by
chatmasta
15 hours ago
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129 comments
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Return of the Nigerian Prince Redux: Beware Book Club and Book Review Scams (2025)
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writerbeware.blog
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| 31 points by
Anon84
4 hours ago
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6 comments
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Zig: All Package Management Functionality Moved from Compiler to Build System
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ziglang.org
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| 165 points by
tosh
12 hours ago
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34 comments
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"Beyond the limit": Satellites and mirrors in space pose threat to the night sky
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eso.org
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| 118 points by
Breadmaker
11 hours ago
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208 comments
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Record-breaking solo rower Kelsey Pfendler arrives in Hawaii
(
hawaiinewsnow.com
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| 15 points by
MaysonL
3 hours ago
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1 comments
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Drone Autonomy Crash Course
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cggonzalez.com
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| 26 points by
cgg1
5 hours ago
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2 comments
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President pardons 9 for Clean Air violations for 'fixing their car'
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msn.com
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| 22 points by
OutOfHere
1 hour ago
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1 comments
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The Log Is the Agent
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arxiv.org
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| 7 points by
iacguy
2 hours ago
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discuss
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Backon – Python retry (zero deps, circuit breaker, async native)
(
github.com/Llucs
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| 4 points by
Llucs
2 hours ago
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What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)
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wozniak.ca
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| 146 points by
ciconia
15 hours ago
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185 comments
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University of Oxford Is Older Than the Aztec Empire and Other Facts of History (2013)
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smithsonianmag.com
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| 38 points by
thunderbong
2 hours ago
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9 comments
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Drone Physics
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iahmed.me
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| 99 points by
wrxd
10 hours ago
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29 comments
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As downtown Seattle offices empty, city facing years of 'zombie' towers
(
seattletimes.com
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| 93 points by
petethomas
10 hours ago
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126 comments
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The Vespa at 80
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cbc.ca
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| 154 points by
cf100clunk
19 hours ago
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140 comments
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Fable created novel 4D splat format
(
adamraudonis.github.io
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| 140 points by
adamraudonis
13 hours ago
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51 comments
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Windows CE Dreamcast Community Edition (wince-dc)
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github.com/maximqaxd
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| 98 points by
msephton
14 hours ago
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23 comments
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Protocol Prying: Vulnerability Research in AirDrop and Quick Share
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arxiv.org
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| 21 points by
logickkk1
8 hours ago
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1 comments
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Reflections on the Guillotine (1957)
(
theanarchistlibrary.org
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| 37 points by
halperter
5 hours ago
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13 comments
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Mapping with In-Memory Layers to Reduce LLM Overload
(
ridgetext.com
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| 14 points by
Buckwheat469
5 hours ago
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1 comments
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It's not me, it's the compiler
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parsa.wtf
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| 77 points by
SVI
10 hours ago
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12 comments
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Efficacy and Safety of Psilocybin in Treatment-Resistant Major Depression
(
jamanetwork.com
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| 19 points by
cpncrunch
3 hours ago
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5 comments
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Egg consumption inversely correlated with Alzheimer's
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nih.gov
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| 58 points by
natbennett
4 hours ago
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36 comments
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How to Enjoy John Ashbery
(
joshuacorey.substack.com
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| 3 points by
Caiero
2 hours ago
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discuss
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BareMetal RAM Dumper – Bare-metal x86 tool for Cold Boot Attack experiments
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github.com/pIat0n
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| 59 points by
liffik
11 hours ago
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40 comments
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Neural Render Proxies for Interactive and Differentiable Lighting
(
disneyresearch.com
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| 55 points by
tobr
13 hours ago
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Breaking the Bird Barrier: Scientist Decodes Zebra Finch Language
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freepressjournal.in
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| 112 points by
yyyk
16 hours ago
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39 comments
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CloudsLinker: Move and sync files across 50 cloud services
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cloudslinker.com
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| 10 points by
janandonly
5 hours ago
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2 comments
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Curveball
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mightyburger.net
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| 52 points by
toilet
12 hours ago
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11 comments
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$85,000 in tokens later: What I learned from scaling agentic coding at Lovable
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lovable.dev
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| 14 points by
aliclark
8 hours ago
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21 comments
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Verizon is about to break our Gizmo watches
(
jefftk.com
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| 149 points by
jefftk
11 hours ago
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96 comments
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Designing DB partitions you don't have to babysit
(
explainanalyze.com
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| 60 points by
rtolkachev
15 hours ago
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11 comments
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EndBASIC 0.14: Are we multimedia yet?
(
endbasic.dev
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| 28 points by
jmmv
11 hours ago
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3 comments
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Bugs happen: The easy way to compare solo PQ to ECC+PQ
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yp.to
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| 3 points by
zdw
4 hours ago
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discuss
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Cells, boundaries, and the emergence of biological order
(
embl.org
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| 5 points by
hhs
6 hours ago
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discuss
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I Accidentally Started a Small Business Three Weeks Ago
(
extelligence.substack.com
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| 6 points by
shpat
1 hour ago
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1 comments
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Tungsten – an expressive, fast programming language
(
tungsten-lang.org
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| 8 points by
jeffpeterson
5 hours ago
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2 comments
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Finland's last analogue landline phones go silent after 150 years
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euronews.com
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| 107 points by
ohjeez
12 hours ago
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30 comments
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Anthropic performing prompt injection on its users
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reddit.com
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| 12 points by
murderfs
3 hours ago
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discuss
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Recovering garbled Bitcoin addresses (2024)
(
purplesyringa.moe
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| 7 points by
zX41ZdbW
5 hours ago
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discuss
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Maybe you should learn something
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marginalia.nu
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| 431 points by
tylerdane
1 day ago
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193 comments
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Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb’s New Universe
(
quantamagazine.org
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| 198 points by
jnord
19 hours ago
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122 comments
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The Common Lisp Cookbook – LispWorks Review
(
lispcookbook.github.io
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| 101 points by
AlexeyBrin
17 hours ago
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Heuristics for lab robotics, and where its future may go
(
owlposting.com
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| 11 points by
abhishaike
8 hours ago
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2 comments
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Night Witches – all-female Soviet aviator regiment WW2
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wikipedia.org
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| 92 points by
gverrilla
18 hours ago
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26 comments
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Plein Air
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joonas.wtf
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×1.12
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| 59 points by
bookofjoe
12 hours ago
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9 comments
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Game Boy Advance Dev: Logging to the Console
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mattgreer.dev
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| 30 points by
jandeboevrie
11 hours ago
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3 comments
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New bacterial species discovered in NASA's cleanrooms (2025)
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nature.com
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| 25 points by
cybermango
6 hours ago
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2 comments
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Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring a Marketing Lead to Shift FinOps Left
(
ycombinator.com
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1 day ago
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discuss
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Costco is the anti-Amazon
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phenomenalworld.org
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| 547 points by
bookofjoe
1 day ago
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548 comments
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GTA 2 ported to JavaScript, with WebRTC P2P multiplayer
(
gta2js.vercel.app
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| 13 points by
possiblelion
8 hours ago
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1 comments
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Exploiting LLM Agent Supply Chains via Payload-Less Skills
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arxiv.org
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| 4 points by
_pdp_
7 hours ago
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discuss
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Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web
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archive.org
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| 113 points by
wslh
1 day ago
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47 comments
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The Reports of Jim Carrey's Death Are a Failure Mode
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tane.dev
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| 52 points by
taubek
17 hours ago
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31 comments
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Wordgard: In-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror
(
wordgard.net
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| 323 points by
indy
1 day ago
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106 comments
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National Institute of Standards and Technology | NIST | Official US Time
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time.gov
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| 11 points by
Bender
11 hours ago
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5 comments
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Australian influencer Lily Jay's tangled web of AI manipulation
(
abc.net.au
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| 41 points by
phs318u
7 hours ago
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5 comments
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The Ugly Phase
(
trishagee.com
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×1.18
45
| 7 points by
mooreds
6 hours ago
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discuss
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Agentic coding notes from Galapagos Island
(
danluu.com
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×1.13
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| 167 points by
gm678
1 day ago
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78 comments
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Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming
(
katamari64.se
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| 244 points by
stock_toaster
1 day ago
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370 comments
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Farmer, marketer at odds over sales of white nectarines
(
apnews.com
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| 131 points by
djoldman
1 day ago
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132 comments
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Mama Look a White Dove
(
extelligence.substack.com
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| 15 points by
Aloha
5 hours ago
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1 comments
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Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper
(
wafer.ai
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| 350 points by
latchkey
1 day ago
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135 comments
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Postgres data stored in Parquet on S3: LTAP architecture explained
(
databricks.com
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| 171 points by
andrenotgiant
22 hours ago
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52 comments
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Synthesis is harder than analysis
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surfingcomplexity.blog
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| 145 points by
azhenley
1 day ago
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35 comments
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Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray
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tamu.edu
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| 184 points by
cybermango
5 hours ago
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72 comments
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How the Biosphere 2 experiment changed our understanding of the Earth (2025)
(
bbc.com
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| 16 points by
taubek
15 hours ago
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4 comments
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Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all
(
mistral.ai
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| 359 points by
programLyrique
1 day ago
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98 comments
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Shipping post-quantum cryptography to Python – The Trail of Bits Blog
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trailofbits.com
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| 10 points by
rbanffy
11 hours ago
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3 comments
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FlashAttention-4: Algorithm and Kernel Pipelining Co-Design
(
colfax-intl.com
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×1.04
102
| 3 points by
skidrow
6 hours ago
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discuss
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Returning to Zig
(
gracefulliberty.com
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| 15 points by
birdculture
4 hours ago
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3 comments
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OpenScience: Workbench for scientific research using custom LLMs
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github.com/synthetic-sciences
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| 11 points by
ignoramous
12 hours ago
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1 comments
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Speck – AI spec-driven agents, inspired by compilers and build tools
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github.com/gi-dellav
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102
| 4 points by
gidellav
8 hours ago
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discuss
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Thundersnap 0.01: an undo button for everything
(
apenwarr.ca
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×1.49
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| 5 points by
yorwba
8 hours ago
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discuss
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Half-Baked Product
(
weli.dev
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| 1342 points by
weli
1 day ago
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397 comments
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PostgreSQL and the OOM killer: Why we use strict memory overcommit
(
ubicloud.com
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| 189 points by
furkansahin
1 day ago
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119 comments
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Show HN: Bramble – Local-first password manager
(
github.com/flythenimbus
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| 133 points by
MegagramEnjoyer
2 days ago
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38 comments
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Meta data center water discharges suspended for contaminating water supply
(
tomshardware.com
)
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| 220 points by
sensanaty
12 hours ago
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77 comments
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Xylem Surfactants Introduce a New Element to the Cohesion-Tension Theory(2017)
(
oup.com
)
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| 5 points by
rolph
9 hours ago
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discuss
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MITS - Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems
(
abortretry.fail
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| 7 points by
rbanffy
12 hours ago
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discuss
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