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A Brief History of the Bloomberg Terminal
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ieee.org
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| 74 points by
rbanffy
2 hours ago
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Let's Ditch Google (Verb)
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farkas.pro
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| 35 points by
speckx
15 minutes ago
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You Said No MCP
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earendil.com
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| 462 points by
yarapavan
7 hours ago
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I Could've Accessed 17T Microsoft Records
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faav.net
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| 113 points by
luispa
4 hours ago
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54 comments
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SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering
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alphapixeldev.com
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| 73 points by
ibobev
3 hours ago
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35 comments
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Moist-Electric Wallpaper for Indoor Energy Harvesting and Humidity Management
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wiley.com
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| 21 points by
croes
1 hour ago
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12 comments
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Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Product Engineer
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ycombinator.com
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33 minutes ago
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Burning Man Death Rates – A Short Lesson in Statistics
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ihavenapkinthoughts.substack.com
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| 21 points by
viraj_shah
1 hour ago
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Reverse-engineering a $35 backup camera display (AMT630A)
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github.com/mogrinz
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| 30 points by
mogrinz
2 hours ago
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7 comments
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SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987
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sdf.org
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| 23 points by
kmstout
2 hours ago
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Commit Description as a Thinking Tool
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yedhu.me
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| 3 points by
yedhukrishnan
15 minutes ago
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discuss
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Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
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github.com/ninjahawk
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| 823 points by
bryan0
18 hours ago
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341 comments
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Show HN: JBR-001 – An open-source 3D printable desktop robot
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arduino.cc
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| 103 points by
gvuksic
7 hours ago
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23 comments
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What TLA+ can and can't check
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buttondown.com
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| 20 points by
b-man
3 hours ago
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3 comments
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Mathematical Origami
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mathigon.org
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| 81 points by
signa11
7 hours ago
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17 comments
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Solving Factorio Quality
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exyr.org
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| 216 points by
laurenth
12 hours ago
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79 comments
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Show HN: I created a BGP-based blackhole system that you can set up in minutes
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setecastronomyinc.com
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| 6 points by
jkalbfeld
2 hours ago
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discuss
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Getting out of the way: my robotics crash course
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thisismypersonalblog.com
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| 34 points by
systemerror
5 hours ago
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Dots: Always-on agents
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openai.com
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| 717 points by
alvis
1 day ago
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Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries
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bbc.com
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| 330 points by
devonnull
20 hours ago
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248 comments
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NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart
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aviationweek.com
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| 278 points by
ilamont
18 hours ago
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America.gov
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america.gov
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| 726 points by
plesiv
1 day ago
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Show HN: Ledge.sh – Runnable Markdown Notes
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ledge.sh
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| 25 points by
dancablam
4 hours ago
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12 comments
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Show HN: Parrot – Open-Source Smart Meeting Recorder with Co-Pilot on Mac
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openparrot.app
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| 3 points by
turantekin
2 hours ago
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discuss
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U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels
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postalemployeenetwork.com
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| 263 points by
ilamont
22 hours ago
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155 comments
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Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites
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bl2.net
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| 349 points by
wanick
22 hours ago
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93 comments
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Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display
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jagi.studio
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| 328 points by
evakhoury
1 day ago
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Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026
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backblaze.com
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| 283 points by
HieronymusBosch
1 day ago
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92 comments
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How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent
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ieee.org
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| 567 points by
rbanffy
1 day ago
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310 comments
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Floppy Emu Hardware Failure Analysis Results
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bigmessowires.com
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| 45 points by
zdw
10 hours ago
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RSS Feeds for Last.fm
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xiffy.nl
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| 113 points by
Baljhin
14 hours ago
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38 comments
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Testing WebGPU data layouts with Facet
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mattkeeter.com
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| 78 points by
luu
13 hours ago
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6 comments
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Language models for text classification: From bag-of-words to Jev
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sebastianraschka.com
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| 186 points by
Anon84
20 hours ago
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Show HN: Using 2D DFT, dithering, etc. to maximize eInk manga image quality
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github.com/ciromattia
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| 69 points by
seam_carver
12 hours ago
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19 comments
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A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work
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sujithjay.com
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| 353 points by
amortize
1 day ago
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77 comments
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GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
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openai.com
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| 1033 points by
crorella
1 day ago
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Needed 1+1, built a functional programming language
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hereticpleb.vercel.app
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| 142 points by
birdculture
18 hours ago
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61 comments
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Ask HN: What are you reading?
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| 393 points by
dan-bailey
1 day ago
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September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy
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tomwojcik.com
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| 462 points by
marjancek
10 hours ago
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347 comments
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FTC opens probe into AI giants including Anthropic and OpenAI
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reuters.com
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| 5 points by
sdlkj-
33 minutes ago
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When oil prices spike, where does the money go?
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theconversation.com
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| 141 points by
thelastgallon
19 hours ago
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137 comments
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NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor
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gevernova.com
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| 110 points by
papa-whisky
18 hours ago
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93 comments
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Minitel
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wikipedia.org
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| 8 points by
GuinansEyebrows
2 hours ago
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discuss
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NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates
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somethingbig.ai
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| 162 points by
rossant
1 day ago
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95 comments
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Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux
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frostyard.github.io
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| 149 points by
bketelsen
1 day ago
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96 comments
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Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use
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nltimes.nl
)
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| 178 points by
Thom2503
6 hours ago
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177 comments
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Tobacco – Smoking Cigarettes – Radiation Dose
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nuclear-power.com
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| 5 points by
thunderbong
1 hour ago
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discuss
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Built Dental Scope
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dental-scope.com
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| 76 points by
Zeruxe
9 hours ago
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47 comments
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Why copyright makes no sense
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youtube.com
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| 3 points by
mnaimd
1 hour ago
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2 comments
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PS5 Relapse Exploit
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github.com/ntfargo
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| 336 points by
therepanic
1 day ago
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226 comments
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Tcl/Tk 9.1
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tcl-lang.org
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| 291 points by
dmux
1 day ago
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Ukraine Can't Stop Russia's Jet-Powered Shahed Drone
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ieee.org
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| 7 points by
rbanffy
2 hours ago
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13 comments
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We’re forgetting what darkness feels like
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theguardian.com
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| 192 points by
pseudolus
19 hours ago
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103 comments
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For the First Time in a Century, the Atlantic May See No Hurricanes
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yale.edu
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| 8 points by
Brajeshwar
2 hours ago
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discuss
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Muse.ai gets me kicked off fb marketplace
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| 18 points by
zcalvin
5 hours ago
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9 comments
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Stuck in the Suez Canal – the short version (2021)
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cathsenker.co.uk
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| 58 points by
joebig
22 hours ago
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Commodore 64: Mercenary
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gamesexplained.com
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| 59 points by
a1r
21 hours ago
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10 comments
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Show HN: A working 3D model of an Enigma machine
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enigma.design
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| 78 points by
primitivesuave
20 hours ago
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A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf]
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jorgegarciaherrero.com
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| 420 points by
damaru2
1 day ago
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136 comments
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Sustainable energy without the hot air (2008)
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withouthotair.com
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| 148 points by
0sake_rs
1 day ago
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89 comments
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Walking Men
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bookofjoe2.blogspot.com
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| 85 points by
surprisetalk
1 day ago
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26 comments
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Kuala Lumpur is the world's most polluted city due to haze, Singapore third
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scmp.com
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| 3 points by
bookofjoe
2 hours ago
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discuss
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PSSA: A non-transformer language model written from scratch in Rust
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github.com/Sparticle62ops
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| 84 points by
sparticle62
14 hours ago
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37 comments
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Digital Audio on the ZX Spectrum's 1-Bit Beeper
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wordpress.com
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| 66 points by
ibobev
1 day ago
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Cold War espionage added $4.6B to East Germany's economy
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popsci.com
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| 9 points by
snarky-comments
4 hours ago
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1 comments
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Deser: Rethinking Rust Serialization
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pocoo.org
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| 66 points by
tosh
19 hours ago
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Ice Age Spear Points Tell a Story of Human Progress
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nautil.us
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| 3 points by
Brajeshwar
2 hours ago
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discuss
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Virus Stole a Human Gene and Won't Let Go of It
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nytimes.com
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| 98 points by
gumby
1 day ago
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36 comments
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When did Google get so weird?
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bearblog.dev
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| 1987 points by
sancho-panza
2 days ago
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Singapore Govt Dating App Uses Gale-Shapley Stable Marriage Algorithm
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twitter.com/tuakdotsol
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| 32 points by
rzk
8 hours ago
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5 comments
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Pilot of Israel-bound FlyDubai flight tried to crash plane
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ft.com
)
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| 3 points by
alephnerd
2 hours ago
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discuss
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What if Jev spoke Arrow?
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columnar.tech
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| 43 points by
ianmcook
1 day ago
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5 comments
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Ballmer Peak
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wikipedia.org
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| 80 points by
thunderbong
14 hours ago
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23 comments
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Flydubai B38M, first officer under investigation for suspected suicide attempt
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avherald.com
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| 36 points by
haunter
7 hours ago
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5 comments
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Show HN: TurboGPT: train 22KiB transformer in 13s
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github.com/lostmsu
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| 53 points by
lostmsu
22 hours ago
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10 comments
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Software occlusion culling in Block Game
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enikofox.com
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| 105 points by
airhangerf15
1 day ago
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9 comments
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Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
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petervijeh.com
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| 299 points by
p-s-v
2 days ago
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390 comments
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1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds
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cbc.ca
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| 277 points by
colinprince
1 day ago
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146 comments
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Systems that no one will test
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christianperone.com
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| 150 points by
perone
1 day ago
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81 comments
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Solving a corn puzzle with CP-SAT
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thill.me
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| 35 points by
luu
23 hours ago
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19 comments
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Strange Parodies of Atari 2600 Video Game Box Cover Art (2008)
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mightygodking.com
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| 54 points by
peter_d_sherman
15 hours ago
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29 comments
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The AI Race Just Got Awkward
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insufferable.dev
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| 331 points by
allisdust
1 hour ago
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310 comments
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Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017)
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computerworld.com
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| 190 points by
doener
1 day ago
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107 comments
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Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models
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github.com/PostHog
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| 239 points by
nicowaltz
1 day ago
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93 comments
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GPT-6.1 Sol replaces GPT-6 Sol after just 7 days, with near-Astra intelligence
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artificialanalysis.ai
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| 76 points by
theanonymousone
7 hours ago
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94 comments
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ChatGPT Pro 500
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openai.com
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| 214 points by
prodigycorp
1 day ago
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255 comments
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Galaxy Game
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icm.museum
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×0.44
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| 19 points by
rbanffy
22 hours ago
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2 comments
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Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over
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derekthompson.org
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| 804 points by
barry-cotter
1 day ago
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718 comments
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California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
(
kqed.org
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| 383 points by
randycupertino
1 day ago
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Google ending ChromeOS support two years early
(
theregister.com
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| 209 points by
rbanffy
1 day ago
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141 comments
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