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Charles Proteus Steinmetz, the Wizard of Schenectady (2011)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/charles-proteus-steinmetz-the-wizard-of-schenectady-51912022/
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mooreds
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Includes the story about knowing where to put the chalk mark (and charging dearly for such knowledge).
The Demographic Crisis [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouC7yLLZqkc
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The April Fools joke that might have got me fired
https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-april-fools-joke-that-might-have.html?m=1
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leonry
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Ask HN: The Rise of Cross-Cultural Political Commentary
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haebom
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Super Fast Reader Mode for the Entire Web, with Dillo Plus
https://duncanlock.net/blog/2024/01/04/super-fast-reader-mode-for-the-entire-web-with-dillo-plus
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phil294
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Show HN: A tool that makes numbers pop, flip, shrink, or emoji-fy using Unicode
https://fontgenerator.cool/number-font-generator
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liquid99
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8m ago
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Easy Mentalism Tricks You Can Do
https://www.vanishingincmagic.com/easy-magic-tricks/mentalism/articles/easy-mentalism-tricks/
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andrewinardeer
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Garmin Grafana
https://github.com/arpanghosh8453/garmin-grafana
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_____k
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AI researcher launches startup to replace all human workers everywhere
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/19/famed-ai-researcher-launches-controversial-startup-to-replace-all-human-workers-everywhere/
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dxs
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We were warned about Orwell. But we're living in Huxley
https://adadithya.medium.com/we-were-warned-about-orwell-but-were-living-in-huxley-a1813b305c1f
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trojanalert
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What ChatGPT told me when I confronted it for making things up
https://imgur.com/a/T5vgCvW
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delduca
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Rates of infection with other pathogens after a pos. COV-19 test vs. a neg. test
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(24)00831-4/abstract
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To Make Language Models Work Better, Researchers Sidestep Language
https://www.quantamagazine.org/to-make-language-models-work-better-researchers-sidestep-language-20250414/
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jxmorris12
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Show HN: Learn bird calls with audio flashcards
https://bird-sound-flashcards.vercel.app/
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sonny177
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24m ago
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How OneNote Sync and Storage works, in-depth
https://danielsada.tech/blog/carreer-part-6-the-artisan-phase/
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dshacker
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Airbus Promised a Green Aircraft. That Bet Is Now Unraveling
https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/airbus-promised-a-green-aircraft-that-bet-is-now-unraveling-bc1907bb
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nradov
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Ask HN: Would you give up equity for a place in a hacker house?
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designorant
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The Second Brain: The Art of the Strategic Technical Advisor
https://keavy.com/work/art-of-being-technical-advisor/
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mooreds
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Doing Founder mode at a larger org
https://autobehave.substack.com/p/direct-responsible-individual-founder
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vivekjuneja2010
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(All) Databases Are Just Files. Postgres Too
https://tselai.com/all-databases-are-just-files
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mooreds
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Ask HN: How to develop a brand and distribution network as a developer?
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findingMeaning
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Home galleries are hiding in plain sight across Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/arts/home-galleries-are-hiding-in-plain-sight-across-canada-1.7503886
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Get your Minitel back, the COMPUTEL videotex BBS is back
https://cq94.medium.com/get-your-minitels-back-the-computel-videotex-bbs-is-back-1d8c42f1ea17
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rbanffy
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Show HN: TikTrotter – TikTok but for obscure travel trivia to beat doomscrolling
https://www.tiktrotter.com/
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gostak
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50m ago
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Goodwill to close 11 Bay Area locations and lay off staff after major merger
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/goodwill-bay-area-closures-20285046.php
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iancmceachern
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Turing-Drawings
https://github.com/maximecb/Turing-Drawings
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laurenth
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54m ago
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Things Zig Comptime Won't Do
https://matklad.github.io/2025/04/19/things-zig-comptime-wont-do.html
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JadedBlueEyes
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LLMs Reduce Development Friction. Is That a Good Thing?
https://blog.ollien.com/posts/llm-friction/
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todsacerdoti
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For any multiple of 37, reverse and interleave with 0s, you get a multiple of 37
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4889230/for-any-multiple-of-37-why-does-reversing-it-and-interleaving-it-with-zeros-p
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Barack Obama says AI isn't just disrupting coders – it's disrupting meaning
https://twitter.com/vitrupo/status/1913783566384943341
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hakaneskici
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Management "Science"
https://mrmeta.blogspot.com/2018/11/elements-of-software-management.html.com/2018/11/elements-of-software-management.html
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tonestones
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