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A poet's long-forgotten daughter created the first algorithm

https://adamgrant.micro.blog/2025/08/13/how-a-poets-longforgotten-daughter.html

2•hidelooktropic•1h ago

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pinewurst•1h ago

She’s hardly long forgotten or forgotten at all.

hidelooktropic•1h ago

She was long forgotten. Her notoriety is actually a recent phenomenon.

dc396•1h ago

Yep. She didn't reappear in history until the 1950s when Babbage's papers were reviewed with the increased development of computing as a field of study (and really took off in the 80s when US DOD sponsored the development of the Ada programming language).

After losing company stock Philz Coffee baristas get $525 'thank you' payments

https://missionlocal.org/2025/08/philz-coffee-baristas-thank-you-payments/

2•lando2319•1m ago•0 comments

A commitment to our customers: never being acquired (2024)

https://www.planningcenter.com/blog/2024/06/a-commitment-for-our-customers-never-being-acquired

1•mooreds•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Blue Dwarf – text-only social site that runs on old browsers

https://bluedwarf.top/cackle/index.php

1•lardbgard•2m ago•0 comments

In a World That's Conscious

1•kwie•3m ago•0 comments

AskOra – Your terminal gateway to AI for any dev workflow

https://github.com/jetroni/askora

1•jetroni•4m ago•1 comments

Alternative to Htmx and Alpine.js

https://hmpl-lang.dev/

2•aanthonymax•4m ago•0 comments

What to Know About Medical Insurance When Traveling Abroad

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/travel/travel-medical-insurance.html

2•bookofjoe•7m ago•1 comments

ResurrectedGod: The Ruby Framework for Process Management

https://github.com/mishina2228/resurrected_god

1•arguflow•8m ago•0 comments

Pruned expert GPT-OSS 6.6B

https://huggingface.co/AmanPriyanshu/gpt-oss-6.6b-specialized-all-pruned-moe-only-8-experts

3•privacyhateai•10m ago•0 comments

Helping Farms from Space

https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2025/07/researchers-create-technology-nasa-mission

1•rmason•13m ago•0 comments

Value Creation Through Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Disclosures

https://www.mdpi.com/1911-8074/18/8/415

1•PaulHoule•17m ago•0 comments

AI Proves P != NP

https://mvcalder-01701.medium.com/ai-proves-p-np-2bb9dc5ce9bc

1•mvcalder•19m ago•3 comments

Steam Debanked?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJDdt6EgygQ

2•SilverElfin•19m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT5 Wow Moments

1•randomname4325•24m ago•0 comments

Swarm of jellyfish shuts nuclear power plant in France

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/11/swarm-of-jellyfish-shuts-nuclear-power-plant-in-france

1•campuscodi•25m ago•0 comments

Installing PyTorch with hardware detection via a variant-enabled build of uv

https://astral.sh/blog/wheel-variants

1•apples2apples•28m ago•0 comments

Engineer raises $100k pre-seed to build app store for AI tools in Africa

https://techcabal.com/2025/08/13/yamify-raise-100k-pre-seed/

1•devcamcar•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: OpusTools – Free, No-Ads Online File Converter

https://opustools.xyz

1•divinetking•30m ago•0 comments

"Why Are We Funding This?"

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/%E2%80%9Cwhy-are-we-funding-this%E2%80%9D

5•billybuckwheat•35m ago•0 comments

I asked 5 AI agents to code euchre

https://rxhl.notion.site/The-Zero-Shot-AI-Coding-Showdown-24e7e647613e808aba9bee09d4bbd6af

1•baxkl•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I made a site that lets you talk to the original GPT-1

https://www.retrogpt.io/

1•Tenobrus•38m ago•1 comments

Iconic US film company Kodak warns it may go out of business

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/08/12/kodak-may-go-out-of-business-stock-down/85626375007/

2•notfried•39m ago•0 comments

US embeds trackers in AI chip shipments to catch diversions to China sources say

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-embeds-trackers-ai-chip-shipments-catch-diversions-china-sources-say-2025-08-13/

1•jnord•40m ago•0 comments

Grok is now automatically editing the content of posts on X

https://twitter.com/NickJFuentes/status/1955693435102335142

4•TheFreim•41m ago•4 comments

NYC office visits hit pre-pandemic levels

https://www.axios.com/2025/08/13/nyc-offices-rto-covid

1•jerlam•46m ago•0 comments

Plan 9 Desktop Guide

https://web.archive.org/web/20250725161816/https://pspodcasting.net/dan/blog/2019/plan9_desktop.html

1•todsacerdoti•48m ago•1 comments

Tell HN: Sell your startup shares while you can

2•thesellre•51m ago•2 comments

Mothers are leaving the workforce, erasing pandemic gains

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/08/11/mothers-leaving-workforce-large-numbers/

7•danielam•51m ago•4 comments

Greystar Makes Deal with DOJ to Settle Price-Fixing Claims in RealPage Case

https://www.propublica.org/article/greystar-realpage-doj-settlement-landlords-apartments-software

5•toomuchtodo•55m ago•1 comments

Demystifying NCCL: An In-Depth Analysis of GPU Communication Protocols and Algos

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04786

1•charleshn•57m ago•0 comments