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What is the origin of the lake tank image that has become a meme? (2021)

(history.stackexchange.com)

Building Databases over a Weekend

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(www.denormalized.io)

Electrobun: Cross-platform desktop applications written in TypeScript

(electrobun.dev)

5h ago

Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking

(www.quantamagazine.org)

Weight-loss drug found to shrink heart muscle in mice, human cells

(www.ualberta.ca)

Z-Library Helps Students to Overcome Academic Poverty, Study Finds

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(torrentfreak.com)

AAA – Analytical Anti-Aliasing

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(blog.frost.kiwi)

21h ago

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The Matrix: Infinite-Horizon World Generation with Real-Time Interaction

(thematrix1999.github.io)

1h ago

AlphaQubit: AI to identify errors in Quantum Computers

(blog.google)

11h ago

Doxx/Darkflare: DarkFlare TCPoCDN (TCP over CDN)

(github.com)

Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT

(news.mit.edu)

Vapi (YC W21) Is Hiring Founding Senior Engineer (Front End)

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(jobs.ashbyhq.com)

January 1928: Dirac equation unifies quantum mechanics and special relativity

(www.aps.org)

3h ago

Show HN: Autotab – Programmable AI browser for turning web tasks into APIs

(HN)

9h ago

SQL, Homomorphisms and Constraint Satisfaction Problems

(www.philipzucker.com)

New Calculation Finds we are close to the Kessler Syndrome [video]

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(www.youtube.com)

9h ago

How good are American roads?

(www.construction-physics.com)

15h ago

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Bit-twiddling optimizations in Zed's Rope

(zed.dev)

3d ago

Fashion History Timeline

(fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu)

Does the Internet Route Around Damage? – Baltic Sea Cable Cuts

(labs.ripe.net)

11h ago

Gregglogger

(untested.sonnet.io)

Google stops letting sites like Forbes rule search for "Best CBD Gummies"

(arstechnica.com)

8h ago

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Why everyone missed solar's exponential growth

(www.exponentialview.co)

Pipe Viewer – A Unix Utility You Should Know About

(catonmat.net)

14h ago

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The Problem of Thinking Too Much (2002)

(www.jstor.org)

Between the Booms: AI in Winter – Communications of the ACM

(cacm.acm.org)

DOJ filed paperwork to US District Court to force Google to spin off Chrome [pdf]

(storage.courtlistener.com)

~31m ago

Apple fights to keep DOJ antitrust suit from reaching trial

(www.theverge.com)

5h ago

Exploring the Cost and Feasibility of Battery-Electric Ships

(newscenter.lbl.gov)

13h ago

Show HN: Cardo ‒ Open Source desktop podcast client

(cardo-podcast.github.io)

17h ago

La Basilica Di San Pietro

(unlocked.microsoft.com)

14h ago

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Bird flu in Canada may have mutated to become more transmissible to humans

(www.theguardian.com)

Europe's Internet resilience mitigates impact of submarine cable cuts

(blog.cloudflare.com)

FireDucks: Pandas but Faster

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(hwisnu.bearblog.dev)

7d ago

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Show HN: Rebuild of Blossom, an open-source social robot

(msgtn.xyz)

Using gRPC for (local) inter-process communication (2021)

(www.mpi-hd.mpg.de)

Native compilation of Prolog predicates with Cranelift [pdf]

(files.adrianistan.eu)

Science Talk – What Are Pulsar Planets? (2022)

/usr/bin/env -S uv run

(simonwillison.net)

8h ago

(www.spaceaustralia.com)

3d ago

Show HN: Unbug – Rust macros for programmatically invoking breakpoints

(github.com)

Show HN: Self-Host Next.js in Production

(github.com)

Discarded delights: The joy of ex-library books (2021)

(www.abebooks.com)

19h ago

Microsoft employees are doubtful of AI's capabilities and company's AI bet

(www.youtube.com)

A 15-minute intro to involute gears

(lcamtuf.substack.com)

4d ago

My Minimal MacBook Pro Setup Guide

(eugeneyan.com)

2h ago

Show HN: Retry a command with exponential backoff and jitter (+ Starlark exprs)

(github.com)

Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke

(bsky.app)

23h ago

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Lush: My favorite small programming language

(scottlocklin.wordpress.com)

23h ago

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Ensō: design constraints of a focussed writing tool

(untested.sonnet.io)

Boeing overcharged the U.S. Air Force 8,000% above market for soap dispensers

(www.reuters.com)

1h ago

GUI Agent

(github.com)

5h ago

How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment

(www.nytimes.com)

18h ago

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U of T computational imaging researchers harness AI to fly with light in motion

(web.cs.toronto.edu)

All Life on Earth Today Descended from a Single Cell. Meet LUCA

(www.quantamagazine.org)

11h ago

With Core One, Prusa's Open Source Hardware Dream Dies

(hackaday.com)

9h ago

SOYO – Stream on Your Own

(github.com)

The Political Afterlife of Paradise Lost

(www.newstatesman.com)

1d ago

PuppyGit: Git Client for Android

(github.com)