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Claude 4

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-4
1277•meetpateltech•6h ago•649 comments

Show HN: Defuddle, an HTML-to-Markdown alternative to Readability

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25•kepano•55m ago•7 comments

That fractal that's been up on my wall for 12 years

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237•chriskw•6h ago•19 comments

Does Earth have two high-tide bulges on opposite sides? (2014)

http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/121830/does-earth-really-have-two-high-tide-bulges-on-opposite-sides
87•imurray•3h ago•27 comments

Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket
666•phantomathkg•6h ago•434 comments

How to cheat at settlers by loading the dice (2017)

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62•jxmorris12•4h ago•48 comments

Loading Pydantic models from JSON without running out of memory

https://pythonspeed.com/articles/pydantic-json-memory/
61•itamarst•4h ago•17 comments

Improving performance of rav1d video decoder

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240•todsacerdoti•10h ago•80 comments

Fast Allocations in Ruby 3.5

https://railsatscale.com/2025-05-21-fast-allocations-in-ruby-3-5/
155•tekknolagi•8h ago•42 comments

Trade Secrecy in Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory (2009)

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1430463
15•NaOH•1h ago•1 comments

When good pseudorandom numbers go bad

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17•chewxy•3d ago•0 comments

Launch HN: WorkDone (YC X25) – AI Audit of Medical Charts

49•digitaltzar•7h ago•45 comments

A South Korean grand master on the art of the perfect soy sauce

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103•n1b0m•1d ago•64 comments

Show HN: Hsdlib – A C Library for Vector Similarity with SIMD Acceleration

9•habedi0•3d ago•0 comments

Problems in AI alignment: A scale model

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I Built My Own Audio Player

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142•nexo-v1•8h ago•71 comments

Planetfall

https://somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/planetfall/
294•milliams•13h ago•75 comments

Show HN: SQLite JavaScript - extend your database with JavaScript

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132•marcobambini•9h ago•39 comments

We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch

https://blog.glitch.com/post/changes-are-coming-to-glitch/
55•js4ever•5h ago•33 comments

The Annotated Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (Kan)

https://alexzhang13.github.io/blog/2024/annotated-kan/
12•jxmorris12•1h ago•1 comments

Research Uncovers Parthenon Spectacular Lighting Effects for Athena in Antiquity

https://arkeonews.net/research-uncovers-the-parthenons-spectacular-lighting-effects-for-athena-in-antiquity/
19•bookofjoe•3d ago•0 comments

Practicing graphical debugging using visualizations of the Hilbert curve

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18•akkartik•4h ago•0 comments

Async from scratch 3: Pinned against the wall

https://natkr.com/2025-05-22-async-from-scratch-3/
12•todsacerdoti•2h ago•0 comments

The Next Abstraction

https://substack.com/inbox/post/164096497
17•mbs348•4h ago•2 comments

Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/trump-harvard-international-students.html
488•S0y•4h ago•457 comments

Near-infrared spatiotemporal color vision enabled by upconversion contact lenses

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51•ArnoVW•7h ago•32 comments

Adventures in Symbolic Algebra with Model Context Protocol

https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/computer_algebra_mcp/
76•freediver•8h ago•19 comments

Show HN: DockFlow – Switch between multiple macOS Dock layouts instantly

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49•pugdogdev•5h ago•34 comments

Four years of sight reading practice

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128•chthonicdaemon•3d ago•64 comments

Kangaroo: A flash cache optimized for tiny objects (2021)

https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/26/core-infra/kangaroo/
10•PaulHoule•3h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Ice Theft in Antarctica

https://nautil.us/ice-theft-in-antarctica-1210083/
11•simonebrunozzi•6h ago

Comments

johnisgood•5h ago
The term "theft" and "steal" feels really odd to me when referring to ice or glaciers, or anything that is inanimate (?).

For example this sentence: "Usually, when glaciers come into contact they merge and continue flowing together. They have also been recorded stealing ice from one another" just left me more confused than before. What does it mean for glaciers to "steal ice" from one another? I understand "merge" but not "steal" in this context.

detourdog•5h ago
I just think the author needs a better vocabulary.
dfxm12•5h ago
Another way to put it, as the article does, is transfer of ice to one glacier from another.
hangonhn•4h ago
Yeah. I think that would have been much more appropriate but a lot less exciting.

Before I read the article I was thinking maybe some researchers were stealing ice from each other and was really excited to understand why.

bbarnett•5h ago
I think it's just an extension of clickbait.

Theft! Stealing! More emotionally laden terms.

lupire•4h ago
Don't anthropomorphize glaciers. They hate that.
JCattheATM•4h ago
Why is it giving you trouble, though? The idea is that the glacier is taking ice that 'doesn't belong' to it, putting the other glacier at some sort of disadvantage.

Anthropomorphization isn't exactly an uncommon writing tool.

pryelluw•4h ago
The fact that you don’t understand why he doesn’t understand makes me understand that in this whole conversation you’re the person with the greater misunderstanding.
JCattheATM•4h ago
So witty!

Or, actually he understands just fine but chose to say he doesn't understand as a way to protest something he disagrees with. There's a chance you understood that and just wanted to try and be snarky though, isn't there? Such a valuable contribution!

johnisgood•4h ago
I actually did not understand what it means for a glacier to steal something: take [what exactly] and [why]?

I do not disagree with something I have no idea about.

JCattheATM•3h ago
How can you truly not understand from context? I mean, you guess merge, which indicates you do understand the point being made, but just strongly disagree with the language for some reason.

If you truly didn't understand, you wouldn't have been able to suggest your preferred language use of 'merge' instead.

pryelluw•3h ago
Of all the hills in this little pale blue dot, the decision to pick this one as the location to commit seppuku over someone else’s interpretation of an analogy not only seems wasteful, it begets the question: why?

But this is the Internet. A modern marvel built for the purpose of inflating one’s ego at the cost of others. Me included, of course.

Now, do me. Please.

JCattheATM•2h ago
> Of all the hills in this little pale blue dot, the decision to pick this one as the location to commit seppuku over someone else’s interpretation of an analogy

That's not at all what's happening. I just made an observation because I truly doubted how someone couldn't understand, especially when their text indicated they did.

What's weird is when people like you involve themselves for no reason at all though.

> Now, do me. Please.

How about you do us both a favor and just never reply to me again? You don't have that in you though, you're one of those need to have the last word types, so have it, so at least I can then be done with you :)

MegaButts•2h ago
> What's weird is when people like you involve themselves for no reason at all though.

They made it so much better with a witty reply. I was just thinking this is one of my favorite HN threads I've seen in a long time. And now you've ended it with the HN trope of "I have no sense of humor but I still need to point out why I'm better than you."

Different strokes for different folks.

JCattheATM•2h ago
> Different strokes for different folks.

Indeed. Personally I thought the unwelcome interjection was asinine and combative with less than pure motivations, but glad you were able to enjoy it.

pryelluw•1h ago
Thank you, that’s very kind.
pryelluw•1h ago
Ok. Only because I don’t want to ruin Dang’s Memorial Day weekend. Lord knows he doesn’t need yet another man-baby emailing him with complaints about some idiot on the internet making fun of him.
JCattheATM•1h ago
You'd be the one here being dealt with since you're brazenly breaking the guidelines due to your not-exactly-veiled insults, themselves a result of you inserting yourself into a mild disagreement just so you could fight in the first place. Some people, eh?

Fantastic bait though. Well done :)

johnisgood•1h ago
Wait, I did not suggest anything, I quoted that sentence from the article which mentioned "merge". I just understood what "merge" meant, but not "steal".
JCattheATM•1h ago
That's honestly just hard for me to believe. Is English a second language for you?
johnisgood•1h ago
Yes, it is.
JCattheATM•1h ago
I guess that explains it, thank you for responding, and sorry about the off-topic nonsense from the other user.

To maybe try and explain, as I said earlier anthropomorphization is a pretty common writing tool, which means to treat a non-person being or object as though it were a person in limited contexts. In this case the glacier is being anthropomorphized to help describe its behavior, otherwise, sure, the use of steal wouldn't really make sense.

Does that help you understand it at all?

DonHopkins•9m ago
Humans are 60% water, so it's not that far off, because that means a glacier is only 40% non-human.
madaxe_again•4h ago
There’s plenty of this kinda stuff in the parlance - for instance, bees “rob” each other. Are they criminals? No, but the behaviour can be described as theft.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbing

IAmBroom•3h ago
That is much closer to the concept of ordinary human theft.

This is clickbait.

OutOfHere•4h ago
This is another case of the theft of the word theft for something that wasn't a theft.
metalman•4h ago
the title could just be an example of how a person ends up thinking after bieng on station in antartica......glaciation starts to become personal
bell-cot•4h ago
IIR, "capture" is the geological term used when one river or stream starts taking water from another. (Generally due to erosion shifting their courses.)

No idea if there is a correct geological term for what's happening here - but "theft", "steal", and "piracy" get the clicks, so...