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Under Notre Dame, a 'dig of the century' unearths 1,700 years of history

https://apnews.com/article/notre-dame-dig-treasures-paris-archaeology-roman-dae41f792c1402faf32a87c154cc9a77
27•cobbzilla•1d ago

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make3•24m ago
It's surprising that they're not doing that systematically around the building, but then again I guess that applies to a large part of the city as well.

One always wonders which incredible books we lost, from amazing mysterious old philosophers. The burning of the library of Alexandria is such an incredible sadness

cubefox•12m ago
> One always wonders which incredible books we lost, from amazing mysterious old philosophers.

You might be interested in The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, a historical novel about such a lost work.

UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases

https://aoav.org.uk/2026/military-experts-or-arms-industry-insiders-uk-media-fails-to-disclose-de...
39•XzetaU8•51m ago•11 comments

They’re made out of weights

https://maxleiter.com/blog/weights
671•MaxLeiter•10h ago•247 comments

Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language

https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2026/06/03/elixir-v1-20-0-released/
764•cloud8421•14h ago•278 comments

Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes

https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/academics/failing-grades-soar-as-professors-see-greater-ai-u...
283•littlexsparkee•9h ago•218 comments

Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/introducing-gemma-4-12b/
832•rvz•17h ago•324 comments

I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it

https://kasra.blog/blog/i-spent-1500-seeing-if-llms-could-hack-my-app/
215•jc4p•8h ago•86 comments

Under Notre Dame, a 'dig of the century' unearths 1,700 years of history

https://apnews.com/article/notre-dame-dig-treasures-paris-archaeology-roman-dae41f792c1402faf32a8...
28•cobbzilla•1d ago•2 comments

Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang

https://www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2026/06/no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious/687378/
429•lordleft•15h ago•753 comments

The ways we contain Claude across products

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/how-we-contain-claude
124•jbredeche•9h ago•54 comments

I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis

https://burntsushi.net/encephalitis/
614•Tomte•19h ago•186 comments

Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/3/uber-caps-usage/
483•pdyc•21h ago•603 comments

Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years

https://fagnerbrack.com/learn-sql-once-use-it-for-30-years-9aceb0bdee03
90•karakoram•3d ago•48 comments

DaVinci Resolve 21

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/whatsnew
456•pentagrama•19h ago•204 comments

thunderbolt-ibverbs: We have InfiniBand at home

https://blog.hellas.ai/blog/thunderbolt-ibverbs/
11•zdw•1d ago•1 comments

Meteor Explodes over Massachusetts

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/meteor-explodes-over-massachusetts-what-we-know-and-where-it...
112•1970-01-01•2d ago•55 comments

CP/M-86 & MS-DOS Cross Development Environment

https://github.com/tsupplis/cpm86-crossdev
32•elvis70•3d ago•2 comments

A Post-Quantum Future for Let's Encrypt

https://letsencrypt.org/2026/06/03/pq-certs
264•SGran•18h ago•145 comments

A Man Who Reads Books for a Living

https://lithub.com/the-man-who-reads-books-for-a-living-one-every-two-days/
117•gmays•13h ago•88 comments

Ableton Extensions SDK

https://www.ableton.com/en/live/extensions/
120•bennett_dev•12h ago•46 comments

ESP32-S31

https://www.espressif.com/en/products/socs/esp32-s31
298•volemo•17h ago•163 comments

Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground

https://www.science.org/content/article/mathematicians-issue-warning-ai-rapidly-gains-ground
238•pseudolus•23h ago•270 comments

Journey to JPEG XL: open-source experiments shaped the future of image coding

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2026/06/journey-to-jpeg-xl-how-open-source-experiments-shaped-t...
86•ledoge•11h ago•46 comments

Gooey: A GPU-accelerated UI framework for Zig

https://github.com/duanebester/gooey
178•ksec•16h ago•69 comments

Dumbphone 2

https://dumb.co/
41•skogstokig•8h ago•36 comments

Launch HN: Hyper (YC P26) – Company brain to power agentic development

67•shalinshah•15h ago•60 comments

A Mathematician's Lament (2002) [pdf]

https://worrydream.com/refs/Lockhart_2002_-_A_Mathematician%27s_Lament.pdf
78•xeonmc•12h ago•5 comments

PlayStation Architecture

https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/playstation/
304•gregsadetsky•23h ago•60 comments

Patching my guitar amp's firmware

https://mforney.org/blog/2026-05-28-patching-my-guitar-amps-firmware.html
86•birdculture•3d ago•16 comments

U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/trump-ooi-amoc
479•rguiscard•8h ago•309 comments

Self-hosted dev sandboxes with preview URLs (Docker, Go, no K8s)

https://github.com/tastyeffectco/sandboxes
89•tastyeffectco•13h ago•24 comments