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Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/20/microsoft-sharepoint-hack/
434•spenvo•1d ago•200 comments

AI comes up with bizarre physics experiments, but they work

https://www.quantamagazine.org/ai-comes-up-with-bizarre-physics-experiments-but-they-work-20250721/
33•pseudolus•1h ago•5 comments

Uv: Running a script with dependencies

https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/scripts/#running-a-script-with-dependencies
124•Bluestein•3h ago•39 comments

If writing is thinking then what happens if AI is doing the writing and reading?

https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/234-if-writing-is-thinking
68•whobre•3h ago•46 comments

What went wrong inside recalled Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks?

https://www.lumafield.com/article/what-went-wrong-inside-these-recalled-power-banks
304•walterbell•8h ago•150 comments

AccountingBench: Evaluating LLMs on real long-horizon business tasks

https://accounting.penrose.com/
399•rickcarlino•9h ago•108 comments

Don't bother parsing: Just use images for RAG

https://www.morphik.ai/blog/stop-parsing-docs
186•Adityav369•9h ago•56 comments

TrackWeight: Turn your MacBook's trackpad into a digital weighing scale

https://github.com/KrishKrosh/TrackWeight
471•wtcactus•11h ago•121 comments

A brief history of primary coding languages

https://eclecticlight.co/2025/07/19/a-brief-history-of-primary-coding-languages/
18•ingve•2d ago•7 comments

Losing language features: some stories about disjoint unions

https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/318788.html
36•Bogdanp•3d ago•4 comments

The surprising geography of American left-handedness (2015)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/09/22/the-surprising-geography-of-american-left-handedness/
6•roktonos•5h ago•0 comments

Jujutsu for Busy Devs

https://maddie.wtf/posts/2025-07-21-jujutsu-for-busy-devs
64•Bogdanp•2h ago•48 comments

New records on Wendelstein 7-X

https://www.iter.org/node/20687/new-records-wendelstein-7-x
191•greesil•11h ago•83 comments

Scarcity, Inventory, and Inequity: A Deep Dive into Airline Fare Buckets

https://blog.getjetback.com/scarcity-inventory-and-inequity-a-deep-dive-into-airline-fare-buckets/
82•bdev12345•7h ago•30 comments

Erlang 28 on GRiSP Nano using only 16 MB

https://www.grisp.org/blog/posts/2025-06-11-grisp-nano-codebeam-sto
107•plainOldText•7h ago•6 comments

Spice Data (YC S19) Is Hiring a Product Associate (New Grad)

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/spice-data/jobs/RJz1peY-product-associate-new-grad
1•richard_pepper•5h ago

FCC to eliminate gigabit speed goal and scrap analysis of broadband prices

https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/fcc-to-eliminate-gigabit-speed-goal-and-scrap-analysis-of-broadband-prices.1508451/page-2
95•Bluestein•3h ago•34 comments

Occasionally USPS sends me pictures of other people's mail

https://the418.substack.com/p/a-bug-in-the-mail
157•shayneo•11h ago•154 comments

NASA's X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft Begins Taxi Tests

https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-x-59-quiet-supersonic-aircraft-begins-taxi-tests/
4•rbanffy•2d ago•0 comments

Game Genie Retrospective: The Best NES Accessory Ever Was Unlicensed

https://tedium.co/2025/07/21/the-game-genie-generation/
109•coloneltcb•8h ago•46 comments

The Fundamentals of Asyncio

https://github.com/anordin95/a-conceptual-overview-of-asyncio/blob/main/readme.md
106•anordin95•8h ago•21 comments

Yoni Appelbaum on the real villians behind our housing and mobility problems

https://www.riskgaming.com/p/how-jane-jacobs-got-americans-stuck
47•serviette•6h ago•46 comments

UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/uk-backing-down-on-apple-encryption-backdoor-after-pressure-from-us/
443•azalemeth•11h ago•304 comments

Sutton SignWriting is a writing system for sign languages

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SignWriting
23•janpot•2d ago•6 comments

The daily life of a medieval king

https://www.medievalists.net/2025/07/medieval-king-daily-life/
271•diodorus•4d ago•155 comments

What Will Become of the CIA?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/28/the-mission-the-cia-in-the-21st-century-tim-weiner-book-review
67•Michelangelo11•8h ago•96 comments

Show HN: Lotas – Cursor for RStudio

https://www.lotas.ai/
58•jorgeoguerra•8h ago•26 comments

Jqfmt like gofmt, but for jq

https://github.com/noperator/jqfmt
134•Bluestein•9h ago•41 comments

In a major reversal, the world bank is backing mega dams (2024)

https://e360.yale.edu/features/world-bank-hydro-dams
35•prmph•5h ago•50 comments

I've launched 37 products in 5 years and not doing that again

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/ive-launched-37-products-in-5-years-and-not-doing-that-again-0b66e6e8b3
97•AlexandrBel•14h ago•87 comments
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Scholars solved a 130-year literary mystery and it hinged on one word

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/07/250716000855.htm
26•robinhouston•3d ago

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WarOnPrivacy•4h ago

    Cambridge researchers have reinterpreted the long-lost Song of Wade,
    revealing it to be a chivalric romance rather than a monster-filled myth.

    The twist came when “elves” in a medieval sermon were correctly
    identified as “wolves,”
The article adds substantive detail; IMO it didn't need a teaser headline.
fsckboy•3h ago
what you have quoted leaves the wrong impression, a clearer picture emerges describd thus:

The breakthrough, detailed on July 15 in The Review of English Studies, involved working out that the manuscript refers to 'wolves' not 'elves', as scholars previously assumed.

jfengel•2h ago
In The Tempest, there is a word that is either "wise" or "wife". Even in different copies from the same pressing look different.

If it is "wife" then it is the only hint of Miranda's mother. That's not a massive plot change, but it substantially colors my reading of the play. Shakespeare has a tendency to dismiss mothers without a word. Death in child bed was surely common and there were plenty of widows, but the complete absence of any reference makes me wonder how it affects the widow and the children. (Compare Shylock, who has one utterly heartbreaking reference to a gift from his wife when they were courting.)