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Understanding Is Compression

https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.07723
2•liamdgray•13h ago

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compressedgas•9h ago
It is quite telling that they don't include any compression time or decompression time values. Only the compression ratios achieved.

They're Made out of Meat (1991)

https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html
1•lawrenceyan•2m ago•0 comments

MCP Is Mostly Bullshit

https://medium.com/thoughts-on-machine-learning/mcp-is-mostly-bullshit-a42e59a09b04
1•9woc•2m ago•1 comments

ChatGPT as Economics Tutor:Capabilities and Limitations [pdf]

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/efm/media/workingpapers/working_papers/pdffiles/dp25786.pdf
1•Anon84•9m ago•0 comments

Wide Models and Active Record custom validation contexts

https://island94.org/2025/04/wide-models-and-active-record-custom-validation-contexts
1•todsacerdoti•12m ago•0 comments

Machine Learning: The High-Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt (2014) [pdf]

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/43146.pdf
1•aw1621107•18m ago•0 comments

Burpee Parenting

https://www.rauschermate.com/articles/burpee-parenting
3•rauschermate•25m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Built an AI agent with 1-click MCP integration for 15 apps

https://saidar.ai
1•soumilrathi•27m ago•0 comments

Eclipsed Symmetry

https://codepen.io/donotfold/pen/qEBvOKx
1•bookofjoe•29m ago•0 comments

Retro Computing

http://retro.hansotten.nl/
2•ibobev•31m ago•0 comments

Pascal for Small Machines

http://pascal.hansotten.com/
3•ibobev•31m ago•0 comments

How reliable is fingerprint evidence? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__nlupHISg0
1•gmays•35m ago•0 comments

Latest dark energy study suggests the Universe is even weirder than we imagined

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-evolving-dark-energy-worries-some-physicists/
2•namanyayg•35m ago•0 comments

A PostgreSQL planner semi-join gotcha with CTE, LIMIT, and RETURNING

https://www.shayon.dev/post/2025/119/a-postgresql-planner-gotcha-with-ctes-delete-and-limit/
2•namanyayg•35m ago•0 comments

Netscape Communicator Datasheet (1997)

https://web.archive.org/web/19970709132943fw_/http://home.netscape.com/comprod/products/communicator/datasheet.html
2•Lammy•39m ago•0 comments

Monetary Inflation vs Conservation Law

https://github.com/systemaccounting/mxfactorial
3•mxfactorial•42m ago•0 comments

Surface carbonates can transport heavy boron isotopes into deep mantle

https://phys.org/news/2025-04-scientists-surface-carbonates-heavy-boron.html
1•PaulHoule•43m ago•0 comments

Adam Becker takes aim at Silicon Valley nonsense

https://www.techpolicy.press/adam-becker-takes-aim-at-silicon-valley-nonsense/
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•46m ago•0 comments

Why Balcony Solar Panels Haven't Taken Off in the US

https://www.wired.com/story/why-balcony-solar-hasnt-taken-off-in-the-us/
1•wawayanda•46m ago•0 comments

Buffett devotees say farewell at poignant Omaha 'pilgrimage'

https://www.ft.com/content/ee1a8e1c-fd3f-44aa-9828-dacd7b62fa3e
1•TheAlchemist•48m ago•0 comments

First Solar, a Tariff Winner, Became a Tariff Loser

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/first-solar-tariffs-industrial-policy-mark-widmar-donald-trump-solar-panels-785ce1da
1•wawayanda•48m ago•0 comments

The Tragic Story Behind the Infamous '4 Children for Sale' Photograph (2023)

https://allthatsinteresting.com/4-children-for-sale
2•kolanos•48m ago•0 comments

Why does Switzerland have so many bunkers?

https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/issue-27/switzerland-civilian-bunkers
1•pseudolus•54m ago•0 comments

Refactoring Rhythm

https://choly.ca/post/refactor-rhythm/
1•todsacerdoti•59m ago•0 comments

Embedding Models for Information Retrieval in 2025

https://www.datastax.com/blog/best-embedding-models-information-retrieval-2025
1•handfuloflight•1h ago•0 comments

Hello My Perverted Friend

https://hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/1066-Hello-my-perverted-friend.html
2•todsacerdoti•1h ago•0 comments

Plate Chase – Click on states as you spot their license plates on the road

https://www.platechase.com
2•very_good_man•1h ago•0 comments

Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development

https://www.simplypsychology.org/zone-of-proximal-development.html
5•Anon84•1h ago•1 comments

Costs of Graphical User Interfaces [pdf]

1•nativeit•1h ago•0 comments

Topology of Musical Data

https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.1201
3•pizza•1h ago•0 comments

The Frightening Precedents for Trump’s ‘Legal Abyss’

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/world/trump-dual-state.html
8•decimalenough•1h ago•1 comments