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Transverse Mercator with an accuracy of a few nanometers (2010)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.1417
5•nill0•1d ago

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brudgers•1d ago
More on Transverse Mercator

http://www.mibsar.com/LandNav/UTM/UTM.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transverse_Mercator_projection

HocusLocus•1h ago
Some things are just too cool for their shirt. Check out Dymaxion ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map ).

"Outside a globe, with a a dymaxion projection humans will see the true shapes of their world. Inside a globe, it's too dark to see."

~Apologies to Groucho Marx

FSF announces Librephone project

https://www.fsf.org/news/librephone-project
428•g-b-r•4h ago•165 comments

Disk Prices

https://diskprices.com/?locale=us
52•bookofjoe•2h ago•16 comments

New England's last coal plant has stopped operating, according to its owners

https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025-10-06/new-englands-last-coal-plant-has-stopped-operating-accord...
66•toomuchtodo•3h ago•34 comments

Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI

https://boydkane.com/essays/boss
277•beyarkay•9h ago•217 comments

Why The Pentagon run the best schools and the safest nuclear program

https://www.governance.fyi/p/the-pentagons-best-schools-and-safest
29•guardianbob•2h ago•13 comments

How bad can a $2.97 ADC be?

https://excamera.substack.com/p/how-bad-can-a-297-adc-be
206•jamesbowman•11h ago•113 comments

Can We Know Whether a Profiler Is Accurate?

https://stefan-marr.de/2025/10/can-we-know-whether-a-profiler-is-accurate/
16•todsacerdoti•2h ago•3 comments

Interviewing Intel's Chief Architect of x86 Cores

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/interviewing-intels-chief-architect
26•ryandotsmith•5d ago•0 comments

How AI hears accents: An audible visualization of accent clusters

https://accent-explorer.boldvoice.com/
180•ilyausorov•12h ago•70 comments

Nvidia DGX Spark: great hardware, early days for the ecosystem

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/14/nvidia-dgx-spark/
22•GavinAnderegg•3h ago•3 comments

Hacking the Humane AI Pin

https://writings.agg.im/posts/hacking_ai_pin/
95•agg23•6d ago•21 comments

Unpacking Cloudflare Workers CPU Performance Benchmarks

https://blog.cloudflare.com/unpacking-cloudflare-workers-cpu-performance-benchmarks/
145•makepanic•8h ago•20 comments

Printing Petscii Faster

https://retrogamecoders.com/printing-petscii-faster/
9•ibobev•4d ago•0 comments

Surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking

https://www.lighthousereports.com/investigation/surveillance-secrets/
338•_tk_•7h ago•79 comments

How to turn liquid glass into a solid interface

https://tidbits.com/2025/10/09/how-to-turn-liquid-glass-into-a-solid-interface/
93•tambourine_man•8h ago•72 comments

Beating the L1 cache with value speculation (2021)

https://mazzo.li/posts/value-speculation.html
22•shoo•4d ago•7 comments

GrapheneOS is ready to break free from Pixels

https://www.androidauthority.com/graphene-os-major-android-oem-partnership-3606853/
210•MaximilianEmel•5h ago•86 comments

SmolBSD – build your own minimal BSD system

https://smolbsd.org
149•birdculture•10h ago•11 comments

What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on

https://ourworldindata.org/does-the-news-reflect-what-we-die-from
454•alphabetatango•9h ago•251 comments

A 12,000-year-old obelisk with a human face was found in Karahan Tepe

https://www.trthaber.com/foto-galeri/karahantepede-12-bin-yil-oncesine-ait-insan-yuzlu-dikili-tas...
273•fatihpense•1w ago•111 comments

Astronomers 'image' a mysterious dark object in the distant Universe

https://www.mpg.de/25518363/1007-asph-astronomers-image-a-mysterious-dark-object-in-the-distant-u...
205•b2ccb2•13h ago•109 comments

CSS for Styling a Markdown Post

https://webdev.bryanhogan.com/miscellaneous/styling-markdown/
20•bryanhogan•1w ago•5 comments

Ally Petitt: Youngest OSCP at 16yo. Over 11 CVEs by 18

https://ally-petitt.com/en/posts/2024-05-07_how-i-became-a-hacker-before-i-finished-high-school/
34•nullbyte808•4h ago•6 comments

ADS-B Exposed

https://adsb.exposed/
289•keepamovin•17h ago•74 comments

AI and Home-Cooked Software

https://mrkaran.dev/posts/ai-home-cooked-software/
42•todsacerdoti•1w ago•24 comments

Preparing for AI's economic impact: exploring policy responses

https://www.anthropic.com/research/economic-policy-responses
31•grantpitt•9h ago•29 comments

Show HN: Metorial (YC F25) – Vercel for MCP

https://github.com/metorial/metorial
47•tobihrbr•13h ago•18 comments

Zoo of array languages

https://ktye.github.io/
151•mpweiher•17h ago•46 comments

AppLovin nonconsensual installs

https://www.benedelman.org/applovin-nonconsensual-installs/
144•jhap•8h ago•49 comments

Beyond the SQLite single-writer limitation with concurrent writes

https://turso.tech/blog/beyond-the-single-writer-limitation-with-tursos-concurrent-writes
62•syrusakbary•1w ago•55 comments