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Webb captures iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detail (www.esa.int)

Webb's images also reveal details of dust and gas structure and radiation interactions.

637 points by rbanffy 8 hours ago | 195 comments | Direct link
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I made a new backplane for my consumer NAS (codedbearder.com)

Design uses ASMedia IC for additional SATA ports and includes power circuits for safe hot-plugging.

246 points by granra 7 hours ago | 69 comments | Direct link
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You can't just assume UTF-8 (csvbase.com)

Heuristics are effective in determining encoding over assuming UTF-8.

48 points by calpaterson 17 hours ago | 120 comments | Direct link
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Are Ultra-Processed Foods All That Unhealthy? (www.openmindmag.org)

Critics point to lack of conclusive evidence; impact may depend on specific ingredients and processing methods.

30 points by Hary06 3 hours ago | 30 comments | Direct link
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93% of paint splatters are valid Perl programs (2019) (www.mcmillen.dev)

Study presented 7 paint splatters not parsing as valid Perl programs, with a gallery and unique evaluations.

271 points by ellieh 12 hours ago | 68 comments | Direct link
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Green Software Foundation's Software Carbon Intensity Spec Becomes ISO Standard (greensoftware.foundation)

Version 1.1 emphasizes real emission reductions and GSF aims to make SCI a standard developer tool.

15 points by wbeckler 2 hours ago | 4 comments | Direct link
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Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation (play.google.com)

Includes personalized design, integrated calendar with forecasts, statistics, and fertile day display

134 points by stormqueen 8 hours ago | 32 comments | Direct link
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Winner of $1.3B Powerball jackpot is a immigrant from Laos who has cancer (apnews.com)

Winner plans to use winnings for health and family, and worked as a machinist before winning.

13 points by silahyd 12 minutes ago | 1 comment | Direct link
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FC8 – Faster 68K Decompression (2016) (www.bigmessowires.com)

Explores on-the-fly decompression trade-offs and provides 68K decompressor code.

37 points by electricant yesterday | 5 comments | Direct link
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FireChat was a tool for revolution, then disappeared (www.fromjason.xyz)

App used peer-to-peer connections, included encryption, and was possibly shut down due to potential as resistance tool.

126 points by evah 2 hours ago | 59 comments | Direct link
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Project Habbakuk: Britain’s ice “bergship” aircraft carrier project (2017) (99percentinvisible.org)

Project used a mixture of ice and wood pulp called pykrete; had a 1,000-ton scale model built in Canada; initially planned due to German U-Boats threat.

107 points by not_a_boat 8 hours ago | 32 comments | Direct link
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Memary: Open-Source Longterm Memory for Autonomous Agents (github.com)

Memory modules store information and Memory Stream & Entity Knowledge Store track entities; ReAct agent used for query planning and execution.

178 points by james_chu 12 hours ago | 50 comments | Direct link
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Show HN: Kaytu – Optimizing cloud costs using actual usage data (github.com)

Uses 7 days of CloudWatch monitoring, supports customization, has open-core philosophy, future server-side open-sourcing, plans for Azure support and more features.

66 points by acx1729 7 hours ago | 12 comments | Direct link
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Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and poisonings across Europe (theins.ru)

Greek hotel owned by spies served as safehouse; Šapošnikovs granted Czech citizenship fraudulently; Elena likely director of Unit 29155's activities; Elena received Hero of Russian Federation award

533 points by dralley 8 hours ago | 314 comments | Direct link
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Haunting Sounds from the Largest Living Thing (www.sciencealert.com)

A sound artist recorded Pando's whispers and a thunderstorm's low rumbling through its root system.

10 points by neverenginelabs 18 hours ago | 2 comments | Direct link
18.
Exploit.education (exploit.education)

Platform also includes challenges on memory corruption, CTF events, and archived materials.

4 points by udev4096 17 hours ago | No comments | Direct link
19.
I Built an Ld_preload Worm (lcamtuf.substack.com)

Worm uses LD_PRELOAD to infect other systems, designed to hide and intercept su/sudo commands.

9 points by zdw 3 hours ago | No comments | Direct link
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Debugging Tech Journalism (asteriskmag.com)

Proposes solutions for improving tech journalism quality

22 points by ra7 5 hours ago | 1 comment | Direct link
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Functional semantics in imperative clothing (rtfeldman.com)

New operator '!' suffix improves I/O experience in Roc.

49 points by lwboswell 14 hours ago | 54 comments | Direct link
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The Voyage of Magellan – Chapter 5: Underway (analog-antiquarian.net)

Magellan bypasses Portuguese blockade and prepares for mutiny.

27 points by bookofjoe yesterday | 1 comment | Direct link
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Liu Cixin's War of the Worlds (2019) (www.newyorker.com)

Reflects geopolitical tensions, particularly US-China, with Chinese quest for parity.

52 points by bookofjoe 5 hours ago | 76 comments | Direct link
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Laser excitation of Th-229 nucleus (phys.org)

Researchers used lasers to switch thorium nuclei states and developed thorium-containing crystals.

23 points by shonenknifefan1 2 hours ago | 2 comments | Direct link
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GitHub Copilot Workspace: Technical Preview (github.blog)

Workspace lets users run code, share with teams, and use from any device.

215 points by davidbarker 7 hours ago | 247 comments | Direct link
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GPT-4.5 or GPT-5 being tested on LMSYS? (rentry.co)

New model `gpt2-chatbot` on LMSYS may be unreleased GPT-4.5 or GPT-5 with different rate limit.

202 points by atemerev 8 hours ago | 114 comments | Direct link
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Questioning the conventional wisdom on liability and open source software (www.lawfaremedia.org)

Malicious developers' responsibility, avoiding end-of-life software, and liability consequences for open source software scrutinized.

25 points by curmudgeon22 3 hours ago | 16 comments | Direct link
32.
The Internet Archive's last-ditch effort to save itself (lunduke.locals.com)

GNOME Foundation's financial struggles and diversity focus

358 points by rbanffy 6 hours ago | 296 comments | Direct link
33.
The Three Byte Fix (breckyunits.com)

Three-byte fix resolved array length check typo in 2011 k-means clustering algorithm JavaScript port.

34 points by breck 3 hours ago | 1 comment | Direct link
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FCC fines largest wireless carriers for sharing location data (docs.fcc.gov)

Carriers sold access to location data to third parties, disregarding ineffective safeguards.

275 points by coloneltcb 4 hours ago | 160 comments | Direct link
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Burnout – When does work start feeling pointless? – DW Documentary (www.youtube.com)

Prevention measures including work-life policies and mental health support.

6 points by thebeardisred one hour ago | No comments | Direct link
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PowerShell: The object-oriented shell you didn't know you needed (chriswarrick.com)

Two PowerShell versions and its object-oriented filesystem operations are highlighted.

35 points by todsacerdoti 2 hours ago | 48 comments | Direct link
37.
Atomic nucleus excited with laser: A breakthrough after decades (www.tuwien.at)

New high-precision technologies and nuclear clocks may result from the achievement.

409 points by geox 18 hours ago | 178 comments | Direct link
38.
Struve's Flat(ter) Earth (2023) (blog.datawrapper.de)

Struve's work improved geographic reference system for navigation and mapping.

22 points by PuddleOfSausage 10 hours ago | 4 comments | Direct link
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Claude Émile Jean-Baptiste Litre (en.wikipedia.org)

Fictional character created by Kenneth Woolner in 1978 for a hoax.

114 points by apollinaire yesterday | 8 comments | Direct link
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What's Going on with ‘Nonplussed’? (2017) (www.merriam-webster.com)

Explores the word's Latin origin, transformation into a noun and verb, and the later misinterpretation as 'unruffled'.

200 points by rglullis 11 hours ago | 282 comments | Direct link
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Pdf.tocgen (krasjet.com)

Software is free and open-source, with a GPLv3 license and available on GitHub.

162 points by nbernard yesterday | 38 comments | Direct link
45.
500 Byte Images: The Haiku Vector Icon Format (2016) (blog.leahhanson.us)

Format used in Haiku operating system, optimized for small size and efficiency, with example analyzed.

27 points by smartmic 14 hours ago | 6 comments | Direct link
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One bad apple can spoil your IPv6 privacy (2022) (arxiv.org)

Platform for collaborators and new features on arXiv's website introduced

71 points by whereistimbo on 2024-04-26 | 46 comments | Direct link
47.
Google lays off staff from Flutter, Dart, Python teams before dev conference (techcrunch.com)

Affected Python team managed internal runtimes and toolchains; Some layoffs confirmed in WARN notice

31 points by CharlesW 2 hours ago | 15 comments | Direct link
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Plato's final hours recounted in scroll found in Vesuvius ash (www.theguardian.com)

Scroll reveals Plato's slavery on Aegina and burial at Academy.

21 points by tjwds 3 hours ago | No comments | Direct link
49.
Three ways of handling user input (2022) (dubroy.com)

Includes comparison of three approaches, with code examples, and discusses use of Abro.js for process-oriented handling.

61 points by stcucufa yesterday | 19 comments | Direct link
50.
Angle-grinder: Slice and dice logs on the command line (github.com)

Functional programming language and various operators for data manipulation offered.

119 points by kqr 16 hours ago | 28 comments | Direct link
51.
A highly insulating, translucent aerogel glass brick for building envelopes (2022) (www.sciencedirect.com)

Suitable for specific applications, offers high compressive strength, and provides daylighting

5 points by simonebrunozzi 2 hours ago | No comments | Direct link
52.
Answering Legal Questions with LLMs (hugodutka.com)

System improves LLMs' ability to answer complex legal questions but has limitations in correctly answering subquestions and processing multiple documents.

148 points by hugodutka 9 hours ago | 120 comments | Direct link
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The Financial Times and OpenAI strike content licensing deal (www.ft.com)

FT's content used in AI models' development and training

30 points by kmdupree 6 hours ago | 48 comments | Direct link
55.
WeWork agrees restructuring deal that shuts out Adam Neumann's comeback bid (www.ft.com)

SoftBank supports restructuring with significant stock sales and gains majority control.

13 points by JumpCrisscross 3 hours ago | 1 comment | Direct link
56.
I found one of my first programs (Java, 2011) on the Wayback Machine and it runs (github.com)

program has key features of beam search and Java Swing UI, runs successfully on 2023 MacBook Air, and has a yellow color scheme

197 points by khiner on 2024-04-27 | 179 comments | Direct link
57.
Principles for Keyboard Layouts (2022) (anniecherkaev.com)

Author's personal experience and keyboard details are shared.

89 points by skilled yesterday | 94 comments | Direct link
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General Galactic emerges from stealth to make methane from carbon dioxide (techcrunch.com)

Founders are Halen Mattison and Luke Neise, company emerged from founder's time at SpaceX, raised $1.9M, produces 2,000 liters daily, plans to modularize and sell fuel only

3 points by PaulHoule 2 hours ago | No comments | Direct link
60.
EV fast-charging comes to condos and apartments (arstechnica.com)

DC fast charger installation can be more cost-effective in larger buildings.

27 points by PaulHoule 7 hours ago | 11 comments | Direct link
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