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Inca Stone Masonry

https://www.earthasweknowit.com/pages/inca_construction
13•jppope•1h ago

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jstanley•23m ago
Another pounding stone theory unfortunately.

We know that the Inca didn't build Sacsayhuaman because they said that they didn't.

Anyone who has ever built anything can tell you that pounding stones don't explain this superb stonework. Not only is it an incredibly laborious process that you would stop after 20% of the effort for 80% of the result, but you can't achieve a fit like that after any amount of time if you don't have a comparably precise method of measuring the fit. Putting the stones next to each other and eyeballing it won't do.

srean•2m ago
Thanks for sharing the marvellous article, is all I can say.

Homeless people used as mobile Wi-Fi hotspots (2012)

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna46714752
1•KomoD•3m ago•0 comments

Task Injection – Exploiting agency of autonomous AI agents

https://bughunters.google.com/blog/4823857172971520/task-injection-exploiting-agency-of-autonomou...
1•todsacerdoti•8m ago•0 comments

Text similarity search via normalized compression distance

https://discourse.haskell.org/t/vibe-coding-text-similarity-search-via-normalized-compression-dis...
1•todsacerdoti•8m ago•0 comments

Why tech billionaires are quietly bankrolling Europe's far-right [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHQAfk_5Ekk
1•baobun•9m ago•0 comments

Young Adults Making Good Money Say Life Is Unaffordable

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/middle-class-us-economy-affordability.html
1•ryan_j_naughton•10m ago•0 comments

Excel vs. Power BI vs. SQL vs. Python [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjVSnnFEVs4
1•senorqa•11m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why do small voting or ranking projects get flagged as spam so easily?

1•rankiwiki•17m ago•0 comments

The Efficiency Trap of the Food Supply Chain

https://adlrocha.substack.com/p/adlrocha-the-efficiency-trap-of-the
1•adlrocha•18m ago•0 comments

Current LLM tooling makes understanding optional

https://vladimirzdrazil.com/posts/current-llm-tooling-makes-understanding-optional/
2•vlzdr•25m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What counts as "original" in the age of AI?

2•meysamazad•26m ago•1 comments

The simplest thing that could possibly work (2004)

https://www.artima.com/articles/the-simplest-thing-that-could-possibly-work
1•sph•33m ago•0 comments

Why Can't Gemini Generate Images with Transparent Backgrounds?

https://ruky.me/nano-banana/
1•rukshn•35m ago•0 comments

5 ways of understanding the world at the end of 2025

https://blog.dougbelshaw.com/end-of-2025/
1•dajbelshaw•45m ago•0 comments

Nvidia 590 driver drops Pascal/lower support; main pkgs switch to Open Kern Mods

https://archlinux.org/news/nvidia-590-driver-drops-pascal-support-main-packages-switch-to-open-ke...
2•exploraz•48m ago•2 comments

The man who mistook his imagination for the truth

https://mariakonnikova.substack.com/p/the-man-who-mistook-his-imagination
2•lloydjones•49m ago•0 comments

Flock and Cyble Inc. Continue to File False Notices

https://haveibeenflocked.com/news/cyble-part2
1•GaryBluto•50m ago•0 comments

AI SAST

https://aisecurityscanners.dev/
1•AISAST•51m ago•1 comments

We started a phone company that doesn't collect personal data

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8SnNNq6MaI
1•tomcam•57m ago•0 comments

A Love Letter to Raycast

https://rmoff.net/2025/12/18/a-love-letter-to-raycast/
1•birdculture•57m ago•0 comments

Notabase

https://github.com/churichard/notabase
1•tomcam•59m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Like Discogs but for your physical video games (Buy, track and sell)

https://sumthings.com
1•cedel2k1•1h ago•0 comments

What went wrong (and right) while migrating a Qt Widgets app to QML

2•yongdohyun•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Ava – open-source AI voice assistant that runs in the browser

https://ava.muthu.co/
2•muthukrishnanwz•1h ago•0 comments

Compute price/performance is flat. Now what?

2•Animats•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a simple web server with ACME support

https://github.com/cozis/BlogTech
1•cozis•1h ago•1 comments

Thoughts on AI intimacy features: the real risk isn't ethics – it's rollout pace

1•OracleKitten•1h ago•1 comments

Are these AI prompts damaging your thinking skills?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd6xz12j6pzo
1•01-_-•1h ago•0 comments

Starlink satellite just exploded and left 'trackable' debris

https://www.engadget.com/science/space/a-starlink-satellite-just-exploded-and-left-trackable-debr...
1•ljf•1h ago•0 comments

Trump Media and TAE Technologies unite in a high-stakes mega fusion deal

https://comuniq.xyz/post?t=635
2•01-_-•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Contextual Engineering – Patterns for Building Offline-First AI Agents

https://github.com/tflux2011/contextual-engineering-patterns
1•tflux3011•1h ago•1 comments