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Scientists rediscover how to make ancient Roman colour-changing glass

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/oct/25/scientists-rediscover-ancient-roman-colour-changing-glass
24•teleforce•2h ago

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voidnullvalue•1h ago
For those who don't care to be held hostage by the journalist as he forces you through a long winded narrative: gold and silver nano particles are embedded into the glass
abainbridge•47m ago
The ancient artefact described also featured in a Jonathon Blow lecture, as an example of an engineering skill we lost for 1600 years: https://youtu.be/ZSRHeXYDLko?t=402

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

https://imaginationlibrary.com/
122•jumploops•1h ago•22 comments

I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27

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207•Tomte•2h ago•93 comments

A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis

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208•sungam•2h ago•106 comments

Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop

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151•tdeck•1h ago•33 comments

JetBrains Thinkrail

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42•hmokiguess•3h ago•8 comments

VCF Southwest 2026, but Edited on Silicon Graphics for '90s TV [video]

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28•zdw•1d ago•6 comments

AI use leads UC Berkeley math professor to see 'no point' in grading homework

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104•romanhn•3h ago•159 comments

We should be more ambitious with the software we build

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686•ltratt•21h ago•639 comments

Active incident at Dreamhost forcing password reset

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63•greenchair•6h ago•25 comments

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11•Gcarter08•18h ago•4 comments

Recreate the Apollo Guidance Computer

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19•Brajeshwar•3d ago•0 comments

Dijkstra vs. A* vs. Contraction Hierarchies

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Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models

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331•gmays•18h ago•117 comments

Sabre Wulf Remastered

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49•adunk•2h ago•6 comments

Bring Back the Cool Save File Screens

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54•surprisetalk•3d ago•18 comments

Root shell on Samsung TV

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658•testing22321•1d ago•522 comments

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146•vfxGer•4h ago•45 comments

UTS #39: Unicode Security Mechanisms

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fheroes2: A recreation of Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine

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The Goose Programming Language

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538•bobbydigitales•1d ago•333 comments

How Japanese Dried Bonito Is Made

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166•bookofjoe•3d ago•45 comments

All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces"

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24•bootlegbilly•1h ago•4 comments

Fuck Nuance (2015)

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21•bariumbitmap•2h ago•2 comments

SpeedCrunch 1.1

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214•LordNibbler•1d ago•47 comments

Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you

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1653•sohkamyung•2d ago•253 comments

Reverse engineer of PC-98 Touhou games retires

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61•mimasama•3d ago•39 comments

Scientists rediscover how to make ancient Roman colour-changing glass

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/oct/25/scientists-rediscover-ancient-roman-colour-changi...
24•teleforce•2h ago•2 comments

Small Programs and Languages

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177•andsoitis•22h ago•28 comments

I don't understand quantum physics (2018)

https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~doug/quantum_physics/index.html
367•rramadass•1d ago•296 comments

Nikon photography contest winner loses title after scientists spot signs of AI

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116•thunderbong•9h ago•51 comments