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188-Year-Old Mystery of Photography's First Human Subjects Solved

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/daguerre-photograph-subjects-location-2826596
22•bookofjoe•3d ago

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tocs3•3d ago
The photo depicted at the top of the page is flipped vs the one on the plaque?
justincormack•36m ago
I think a daguerrotype might be reversed, as its a direct positive image, so thats probably intentional to match the layout.
voidUpdate•36m ago
Did a bit of googling, it looks like the "traditional" view of the image is mirrored, and the plaque version is what you'd have actually seen.

https://mashable.com/archive/first-photograph-of-a-human

WhyComboNadir•31m ago
I wanted to mark it on Google Maps so I don't walk right past it someday in the future. Here's the exact spot/link:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/Fut9tktev2qR71tr6

pvo50555•10m ago
That is the spot where the shoe-shine boy was? Is there a marker for where Daguerre's studio was?

PHP2Shell: Exploitation Attempts and Remediation Trends

https://www.wiz.io/blog/php2shell-exploitation-so-far
63•acossta•58m ago•14 comments

Python's experimental JIT to be removed

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1102102/0c00e4d550f25f8c/
180•f311a•3h ago•87 comments

Giving chat feedback gives Anthropic your data

https://privacy.claude.com/en/articles/7996868-is-my-data-used-for-model-training
49•jonpizza•54m ago•16 comments

Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content

https://spectrum.ieee.org/wikipedia-wikiproject-ai-writing-cleanup
165•rbanffy•3h ago•74 comments

AI promised less work. I've never worked more

https://oioannou.com/blog/ai-promised-less-work/
333•oorestisime•3h ago•299 comments

New iMac with M6

https://www.apple.com/imac/
67•notfried•1h ago•46 comments

Here Be Monsters: What Do You Still Need to Know When Agents Do the Work?

https://blog.adrq.dev/here-be-monsters-what-do-you-still-need-to-know-when-agents-do-the-work
31•adrq•1h ago•10 comments

Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible

https://www.bitlog.com/2026/10/27/software-may-be-getting-worse-but-it-used-to-be-horrible/
171•jakevoytko•3h ago•127 comments

Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics

https://openai.com/index/building-scientific-understanding-with-academic-communities/
1035•jonluca•17h ago•573 comments

The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI

https://j11g.com/the-mythical-man-month-in-the-age-of-ai
304•ilreb•8h ago•195 comments

The US Government Is Hiding Secret Court Ruling About How It Spies on Americans

https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-government-is-hiding-a-secret-court-ruling-about-how-it-spies-...
51•helterskelter2•43m ago•2 comments

Gforth 1.0

https://gforth.org/manual/1.0/NEWS.html
81•joshcsimmons•4h ago•5 comments

Why Micron Is Suddenly Ditching 4F² DRAM as Rivals Double Down

https://hothardware.com/news/why-micron-is-suddenly-ditching-4f-dram
8•rbanffy•23h ago•0 comments

The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf]

https://github.com/openai/math/blob/main/preprints/The-Exponential-Time-Hypothesis-is-False-Octob...
711•vok•16h ago•257 comments

Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking

https://open3dlab.com/news/roblox-downloaded-145-gb-of-models-from-our-sites/
359•choult•4h ago•215 comments

Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/building-reasoning-models
781•sgiannopoulos•23h ago•105 comments

188-Year-Old Mystery of Photography's First Human Subjects Solved

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/daguerre-photograph-subjects-location-2826596
22•bookofjoe•3d ago•5 comments

Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11

https://blog.enlyth.com/posts/oldest-windows-gui-app-win-11/
490•enlyth•20h ago•287 comments

Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20261023-how-solar-became-bigger-than-nuclear
453•geox•23h ago•636 comments

Alleged Israeli spy company targeted Starlink users

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/alleged-israeli-spy-company-heavily-targeted-starl...
36•mmaia•1h ago•3 comments

I still teach OpenGL ES 3.0

https://eliasfarhan.ch/graphics/cpp/2026/01/27/why-i-teach-opengles.html
108•majorchord•12h ago•70 comments

Kauldron: Modular, scalable library to train ML models

https://github.com/google-research/kauldron
14•nateb2022•1d ago•2 comments

CSS-Tricks has a new owner

https://css-tricks.com/css-tricks-has-a-new-owner/
525•edent•22h ago•109 comments

Type Server Protocol

https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/blob/main/docs/tsp/type-server-protocol.md
258•adamnemecek•20h ago•172 comments

Writing about pratt parsing so I remember it

https://www.unix.dog/~yosh/blog/2026-10-25_pratt-parsing.html
68•dverlaeckt80•8h ago•6 comments

How to grow a cacao tree at home (2024)

https://www.cocoterra.com/guide-on-how-to-grow-chocolate-at-home/
121•felipevb•1d ago•37 comments

A Printer Printing onto Paper

https://twitter.com/macrofying/status/2112904628509528219
171•MrBuddyCasino•4d ago•41 comments

I will no longer upload to NEW

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2026/10/msg00263.html
204•edward•4h ago•110 comments

Cross-request KV cache exposure in the GLM-5.3 Workers AI model (155 responses)

https://blog.cloudflare.com/kv-cache-exposure-remediation/
160•wondersky•16h ago•60 comments

New iPad mini

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/10/apple-gives-ipad-mini-its-biggest-update-ever/
254•soheilpro•1d ago•571 comments