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Analysing Roman itineraries using GIS tooling

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-025-02175-w
22•diodorus•3d ago

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ggm•4h ago
This made me think anachronistically about using RTT (Rount Trip Time) in IP networks to geolocate endpoints from multiple test sites, using approximations to the best possible speed, light speed (in fibre or copper) and circles of location.

The Two Towers MUD

https://t2tmud.org/
56•astronads•2d ago•33 comments

New sphere-packing record stems from an unexpected source

https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-sphere-packing-record-stems-from-an-unexpected-source-20250707/
289•pseudolus•12h ago•125 comments

Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17298
431•PaulHoule•17h ago•180 comments

LookingGlass: Generative Anamorphoses via Laplacian Pyramid Warping

https://studios.disneyresearch.com/2025/06/09/lookingglass-generative-anamorphoses-via-laplacian-pyramid-warping/
68•jw1224•8h ago•11 comments

The chemical secrets that help keep honey fresh for so long

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250701-the-chemical-secrets-that-help-keep-honey-fresh-for-so-long
124•bookofjoe•3d ago•56 comments

What Microchip doesn't (officially) tell you about the VSC8512

https://serd.es/2025/07/04/Switch-project-pt3.html
74•ahlCVA•3d ago•12 comments

I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links

https://noperator.dev/posts/o3-pocket-profile/
358•noperator•17h ago•136 comments

Launch HN: Morph (YC S23) – Apply AI code edits at 4,500 tokens/sec

176•bhaktatejas922•15h ago•126 comments

Epanet-JS

https://macwright.com/2025/07/03/epanet-placemark
50•surprisetalk•3d ago•3 comments

My first verified imperative program

https://markushimmel.de/blog/my-first-verified-imperative-program/
144•TwoFx•12h ago•59 comments

The Miyawaki Method of micro-forestry

https://www.futureecologies.net/listen/fe-6-5-the-method
128•zeristor•2d ago•27 comments

Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists

https://www.holovaty.com/writing/chatgpt-fake-feature/
808•adrianh•15h ago•295 comments

When Figma starts designing us

https://designsystems.international/ideas/when-figma-starts-designing-us/
236•bravomartin•1d ago•108 comments

What is going on in Unix with errno's limited nature

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/ErrnoWhySoLimited
27•ingve•3d ago•11 comments

CU Randomness Beacon

https://random.colorado.edu/
22•wello•2d ago•3 comments

Integrated photonic source of Gottesman–Kitaev–Preskill qubits

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09044-5
6•gnabgib•3d ago•0 comments

François Chollet: The Arc Prize and How We Get to AGI [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QcCeSsNRks
175•sandslash•4d ago•157 comments

Analysing Roman itineraries using GIS tooling

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-025-02175-w
22•diodorus•3d ago•1 comments

Why are there no good dinosaur films?

https://briannazigler.substack.com/p/why-are-there-no-good-dinosaur-films
80•fremden•3d ago•178 comments

Show HN: NYC Subway Simulator and Route Designer

https://buildmytransit.nyc
146•HeavenFox•16h ago•18 comments

Lightfastness Testing of Colored Pencils

https://sarahrenaeclark.com/lightfast-testing-pencils/
135•picture•3d ago•33 comments

SIMD.info – Reference tool for C intrinsics of all major SIMD engines

https://simd.info/
10•pabs3•4h ago•2 comments

Hymn to Babylon, missing for a millennium, has been discovered

https://phys.org/news/2025-07-hymn-babylon-millennium.html
182•wglb•4d ago•79 comments

Solving Wordle with uv's dependency resolver

https://mildbyte.xyz/blog/solving-wordle-with-uv-dependency-resolver/
153•mildbyte•2d ago•13 comments

The era of exploration

https://yidingjiang.github.io/blog/post/exploration/
87•jxmorris12•14h ago•6 comments

Trying to find meaning in owning an old Mac

https://blog.decryption.net.au/posts/macse30.html
66•decryption•3h ago•31 comments

Charles Babbage and deciphering codes (1864)

https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Babbage_deciphering/
23•pncnmnp•3d ago•0 comments

Running a Certificate Transparency log

https://words.filippo.io/run-sunlight/
104•Metalnem•9h ago•36 comments

Neanderthals operated prehistoric “fat factory” on German lakeshore

https://archaeologymag.com/2025/07/neanderthals-operated-fat-factory-125000-years-ago/
246•hilux•4d ago•184 comments

Why English doesn't use accents

https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/why-english-doesnt-use-accents
312•sandbach•1d ago•523 comments