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Scientists discover guidance system for migratory songbirds

https://news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-environment-science-and-economy/scientists-discover-guidance-system-for-migratory-songbirds/
12•bit_economist•2h ago

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daneel_w•12m ago
So the Earth's magnetic poles are not involved at all then?
hailwren•4m ago
Am I crazy? This doesn't actually say anything about their guidance system? Just that its "genetic"?

> In a groundbreaking new study published in the journal Science, researchers have found that a combination of genetics and environment determines where migratory birds fly to for the winter.

Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches

https://news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-environment-science-and-economy/giant-trees-have-no-trouble-...
85•hhs•3h ago•39 comments

Leanstral 1.5: Proof Abundance for All

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85•programLyrique•3h ago•22 comments

MSI Center – How to gain SYSTEM privileges in seconds

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22•MrBruh•1h ago•6 comments

GLM5.2 on AMD MI355X at 2626 tok/s/node at over 2x lower cost than Blackwell

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92•latchkey•4h ago•25 comments

Steam Controller Auto-Charge – pilot to magnetic charging puck using CV

https://github.com/FossPrime/Steam-Controller-Auto-Charge
68•zdw•3h ago•11 comments

SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine

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133•theanonymousone•5h ago•41 comments

The circuit that lets your brain think and see

https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/about/news/circuit-lets-your-brain-think-and-see
38•hhs•3h ago•4 comments

Amsterdam invented the fire department

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-amsterdam-invented-the-fire-department/
38•zdw•3h ago•9 comments

Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally

https://github.com/jamesob/local-llm
277•livestyle•11h ago•125 comments

Applied Category Theory Course (2018)

https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/act_course/index.html
54•measurablefunc•5h ago•7 comments

CueBench for Developers is live: score how well you drive coding agents

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3•DillonMehta•33m ago•0 comments

Espionage Against the European Parliament

https://citizenlab.ca/research/member-of-committee-investigating-spyware-hacked-with-pegasus/
274•ledoge•5h ago•67 comments

New serious vulnerabilities spiked around release of Claude Mythos Preview

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45•cubefox•4h ago•8 comments

Scientists discover guidance system for migratory songbirds

https://news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-environment-science-and-economy/scientists-discover-guidance...
12•bit_economist•2h ago•2 comments

Costco is the anti-Amazon

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309•bookofjoe•10h ago•281 comments

Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring a Marketing Lead to Shift FinOps Left

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1•akh•5h ago

Dispersion loss counteracts embedding condensation in small language models

https://chenliu-1996.github.io/projects/LM-Dispersion/
21•E-Reverance•3h ago•5 comments

We put a Redis server inside our runtime

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35•faza•4h ago•7 comments

Factories are just rooms

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196•arbesman•10h ago•76 comments

International chess federation sanctions Kramnik

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123•DarkContinent•9h ago•66 comments

Africans Are Turning to Starlink

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108•bookofjoe•4h ago•108 comments

Notes from Building Tinkerfont

https://mighil.com/notes-from-building-tinkerfont
11•surprisetalk•2d ago•0 comments

You can get Unicode working on DOS

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10•vkaku•2d ago•3 comments

Hunting a 16-year-old SQLite WAL bug with TLA+

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171•peterparker204•3d ago•14 comments

FreeBSD ate my RAM

https://crocidb.com/post/freebsd-ate-my-ram/
86•theanonymousone•6h ago•38 comments

GitFut – Your GitHub stats turned into a World-Cup-style player card

https://gitfut.com
18•redbell•3h ago•9 comments

Wordgard: In-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror

https://wordgard.net/
266•indy•17h ago•90 comments

PostgreSQL and the OOM killer: Why we use strict memory overcommit

https://www.ubicloud.com/blog/postgresql-and-the-oom-killer-why-we-use-strict-memory-overcommit
158•furkansahin•13h ago•86 comments

I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (2025)

https://inpreparation.substack.com/p/opinion-i-was-not-allowed-to-type
162•theanonymousone•8h ago•75 comments