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Make Map Icons with Orthographic Projections
https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-living-atlas/mapping/custom-orthographic-icons
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bryanrasmussen
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10h ago
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paisawalla
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3h ago
Very nice result. You can also do the same in QGIS, this blog post shows off using orthographic projection for other goals:
https://www.statsmapsnpix.com/2019/09/globe-projections-and-...
cheschire
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3h ago
The mercator projection on the macOS internet recovery loading screen stresses me.
Waterluvian
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2h ago
I have a friend/former colleague who kept that gif handy just to drive me nuts as the resident cartographer.
Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/20/microsoft-sharepoint-hack/
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spenvo
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Uv: Running a script with dependencies
https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/scripts/#running-a-script-with-dependencies
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Bluestein
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3h ago
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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/
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pseudolus
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1h ago
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What went wrong inside recalled Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks?
https://www.lumafield.com/article/what-went-wrong-inside-these-recalled-power-banks
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walterbell
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8h ago
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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
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whobre
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3h ago
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AccountingBench: Evaluating LLMs on real long-horizon business tasks
https://accounting.penrose.com/
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rickcarlino
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10h ago
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Don't bother parsing: Just use images for RAG
https://www.morphik.ai/blog/stop-parsing-docs
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Adityav369
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10h ago
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TrackWeight: Turn your MacBook's trackpad into a digital weighing scale
https://github.com/KrishKrosh/TrackWeight
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wtcactus
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12h ago
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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/
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roktonos
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6h ago
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Losing language features: some stories about disjoint unions
https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/318788.html
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Bogdanp
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3d ago
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A brief history of primary coding languages
https://eclecticlight.co/2025/07/19/a-brief-history-of-primary-coding-languages/
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ingve
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2d ago
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New records on Wendelstein 7-X
https://www.iter.org/node/20687/new-records-wendelstein-7-x
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greesil
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12h ago
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Erlang 28 on GRiSP Nano using only 16 MB
https://www.grisp.org/blog/posts/2025-06-11-grisp-nano-codebeam-sto
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plainOldText
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7h ago
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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/
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bdev12345
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7h ago
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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
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Bluestein
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4h ago
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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/
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rbanffy
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2d ago
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Occasionally USPS sends me pictures of other people's mail
https://the418.substack.com/p/a-bug-in-the-mail
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shayneo
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12h ago
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Spice Data (YC S19) Is Hiring a Product Associate (New Grad)
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/spice-data/jobs/RJz1peY-product-associate-new-grad
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richard_pepper
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5h ago
My favourite German word
https://vurt.org/articles/my-favourite-german-word/
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taubek
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2d ago
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The Fundamentals of Asyncio
https://github.com/anordin95/a-conceptual-overview-of-asyncio/blob/main/readme.md
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anordin95
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8h ago
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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/
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azalemeth
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12h ago
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The daily life of a medieval king
https://www.medievalists.net/2025/07/medieval-king-daily-life/
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diodorus
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4d ago
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Yoni Appelbaum on the real villians behind our housing and mobility problems
https://www.riskgaming.com/p/how-jane-jacobs-got-americans-stuck
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serviette
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6h ago
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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
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AlexandrBel
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14h ago
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Jqfmt like gofmt, but for jq
https://github.com/noperator/jqfmt
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Bluestein
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10h ago
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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
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Michelangelo11
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9h ago
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Show HN: Lotas – Cursor for RStudio
https://www.lotas.ai/
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jorgeoguerra
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9h ago
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Sutton SignWriting is a writing system for sign languages
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SignWriting
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janpot
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2d ago
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Gemini with Deep Think achieves gold-medal standard at the IMO
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/advanced-version-of-gemini-with-deep-think-officially-achieves-gold-medal-standard-at-the-international-mathematical-olympiad/
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meetpateltech
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10h ago
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In a major reversal, the world bank is backing mega dams (2024)
https://e360.yale.edu/features/world-bank-hydro-dams
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prmph
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6h ago
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paisawalla•3h ago