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Swiss vs. UK approach to major tranport projects
https://www.freewheeling.info/blog/swiss-hs2
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jbyers
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2h ago
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28 comments
Simulating and Visualising the Central Limit Theorem
https://blog.foletta.net/post/2025-07-14-clt/
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gjf
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5h ago
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28 comments
Death and What Comes Next (2002)
https://www.lspace.org/books/dawcn/dawcn-english.html
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internet_points
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3d ago
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8 comments
Blurry rendering of games on Mac
https://www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/your-mac-game-is-probably-rendering-blurry/
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bangonkeyboard
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13h ago
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229 comments
Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemma-3-270m/
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meetpateltech
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20h ago
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269 comments
Tesorio (YC S15) Is Hiring a Senior GenAI Engineer (100% Remote)
https://www.tesorio.com/careers#job-openings
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FabioFleitas
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7m ago
We rewrote the Ghostty GTK application
https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-gtk-rewrite
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tosh
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14h ago
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147 comments
Why LLMs can't really build software
https://zed.dev/blog/why-llms-cant-build-software
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srid
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22h ago
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388 comments
The U.S. grid is so weak, the AI race may be over
https://fortune.com/2025/08/14/data-centers-china-grid-us-infrastructure/
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plastic-enjoyer
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1h ago
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44 comments
I used to know how to write in Japanese
https://aethermug.com/posts/i-used-to-know-how-to-write-in-japanese
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mrcgnc
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11h ago
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130 comments
Blood oxygen monitoring returning to Apple Watch in the US
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/08/an-update-on-blood-oxygen-for-apple-watch-in-the-us/
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thm
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22h ago
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297 comments
Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors (2003) [pdf]
http://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf
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vismit2000
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4d ago
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11 comments
I made a real-time C/C++/Rust build visualizer
https://danielchasehooper.com/posts/syscall-build-snooping/
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dhooper
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20h ago
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68 comments
Are you willing to pay $100k a year per developer on AI?
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/15/are_you_willing_to_pay/
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rntn
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1h ago
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6 comments
Show HN: OWhisper – Ollama for realtime speech-to-text
https://docs.hyprnote.com/owhisper/what-is-this
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yujonglee
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20h ago
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56 comments
Citybound: City building game, microscopic models to vividly simulate organism
https://aeplay.org/citybound
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modinfo
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13h ago
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43 comments
The new science of “emergent misalignment”
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-ai-was-fed-sloppy-code-it-turned-into-something-evil-20250813/
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nsoonhui
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12h ago
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32 comments
Show HN: I built a free alternative to Adobe Acrobat PDF viewer
https://github.com/embedpdf/embed-pdf-viewer
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bobsingor
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20h ago
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69 comments
Lessons learned from buying an open source repo
https://www.coplay.dev/blog/lessons-learned-from-buying-an-open-source-repo
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josvdwest
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2d ago
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24 comments
Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness
https://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23765914&cid=65583466
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MilnerRoute
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17h ago
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465 comments
Galileo's Telescopes: Seeing Is Believing
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/galileos-telescopes-seeing-believing
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Hooke
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3d ago
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3 comments
Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/aug/14/cant-pay-wont-pay-impoverished-streaming-services-are-driving-viewers-back-to-piracy
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nemoniac
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19h ago
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676 comments
Time to End Roundtripping by Big Pharma
https://www.cfr.org/blog/time-end-roundtripping-big-pharma
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luu
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11h ago
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57 comments
Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on Org Mode
https://github.com/tanrax/org-social
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tanrax
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1d ago
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62 comments
Good Justifications Write Themselves
https://oblique.security/blog/justification-fields/
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mooreds
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3d ago
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0 comments
DINOv3
https://github.com/facebookresearch/dinov3
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reqo
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16h ago
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24 comments
Launch HN: Cyberdesk (YC S25) – Automate Windows legacy desktop apps
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mahmoud-almadi
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20h ago
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45 comments
Is chain-of-thought AI reasoning a mirage?
https://www.seangoedecke.com/real-reasoning/
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ingve
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22h ago
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147 comments
Architecting large software projects [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSpULGNHyoI
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jackdoe
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3d ago
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53 comments
Some users report their Firefox browser is scoffing CPU power
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/13/firefox_ai_scoffing_power/
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homarp
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1h ago
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