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1.
Egypt's pyramids may have been built on a long-lost branch of the Nile (nature.com)
322 points by gumby 1 day ago | 375 comments
2.
Slack AI Training with Customer Data (slack.com)
679 points by mlhpdx 20 hours ago | 339 comments
3.
D3 in Depth (d3indepth.com)
356 points by lobo_tuerto 1 day ago | 80 comments
4.
Llama 3 implemented in pure NumPy (likejazz.com)
438 points by orixilus 1 day ago | 48 comments
5.
Context caching guide (ai.google.dev)
221 points by tosh 2 days ago | 39 comments
6.
Things I won't work with: the higher states of bromine (2019) (blogs.sciencemag.org)
371 points by fanf2 1 day ago | 99 comments
7.
Deutsche Bahn introduces "MetaWindow" (railtarget.eu)
294 points by metters 21 hours ago | 410 comments
8.
Some notes on Rust, mutable aliasing and formal verification (graydon2.dreamwidth.org)
344 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 138 comments
9.
SSD death, tricky read-only filesystems, and systemd magic? (rachelbythebay.com)
172 points by ingve 1 day ago | 74 comments
10.
Build WebGPU apps with PlayCanvas (playcanvas.com)
143 points by pjmlp 1 day ago | 42 comments
11.
VCs aren’t your friends (openvc.app)
534 points by taubek 1 day ago | 366 comments
12.
F* – A Proof-Oriented Programming Language (fstar-lang.org)
225 points by montyanderson 1 day ago | 88 comments
13.
Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks to Local Governments (techdirt.com)
343 points by WarOnPrivacy 1 day ago | 212 comments
14.
The Downfall of DeviantArt (slate.com)
227 points by jfryusef 1 day ago | 158 comments
15.
Štar: an iteration construct for Common Lisp (tfeb.org)
96 points by Tomte 2 days ago | 32 comments
16.
Earth rotation limits in-body image stabilization to 6.3 stops (2020) (thecentercolumn.com)
156 points by pwnna 1 day ago | 102 comments
17.
Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Killed Wireless Price Competition in U.S. (techdirt.com)
284 points by rntn 1 day ago | 241 comments
18.
Using Llamafiles for embeddings in local RAG applications (future.mozilla.org)
131 points by tosh 1 day ago | 23 comments
19.
Localization in .NET console and desktop apps (axantum.com)
81 points by svantex 2 days ago | 32 comments
20.
ChatGPT-4o vs. Math (sabrina.dev)
283 points by sabrina_ramonov 1 day ago | 161 comments
21.
Swift sucks at web serving or does it? (wadetregaskis.com)
140 points by MBCook 1 day ago | 83 comments
22.
Parseback: A pure-Lua introspection library for LuaJIT's FFI ctype objects (github.com/javierguerragiraldez)
49 points by todsacerdoti 2 days ago | 11 comments
23.
A long list of (advanced) JavaScript questions, and their explanations (github.com/lydiahallie)
136 points by redbell 22 hours ago | 40 comments
24.
Forgotten APL Influences (2016) [pdf] (acm.org)
80 points by secwang 1 day ago | 6 comments
25.
Raspberry Pi prepares for London listing (ft.com)
81 points by denotational 2 days ago | 28 comments
26.
PHYS771 Lecture 17: Fun with the Anthropic Principle (2006) (scottaaronson.com)
60 points by Tomte 2 days ago | 15 comments
27.
My Sony HB-F1XV (thefoggiest.dev)
81 points by ingve 1 day ago | 33 comments
28.
Wind farms can offset their emissions within two years, new study shows (taylorandfrancisgroup.com)
157 points by geox 1 day ago | 171 comments
29.
Fast Tokenizers with StringScanner (2023) (tenderlovemaking.com)
51 points by FigurativeVoid 2 days ago | 8 comments
30.
Some lithium could come from wastewater (pitt.edu)
79 points by geox 1 day ago | 19 comments

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