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The Story of the The Soviet Z80 Processor

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Before we get into the fascinating story of the Soviet (specifically the Angstrem) Z80 clone it’s...
Before we get into the fascinating story of the Soviet (specifically the Angstrem) Z80 clone it’s good to understand a bit about the IC industry in the USSR. There were many state run institutions within the USSR that were tasked with making IC’s. These included analogs of various western parts, some with additional...

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Senate passes reauthorization of key US surveillance program after midnight

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What Is Wrong with Everyone?

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Feds hit coding boot camp with big fine for allegedly conning students

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U-M finds students with alphabetically lower-ranked names receive lower grades

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Knowing your ABCs is essential to academic success, but having a last name starting with A,...
Knowing your ABCs is essential to academic success, but having a last name starting with A, B or C might also help make the grade. An analysis by University of Michigan researchers of more than 30 million grading records from U-M finds students with alphabetically lower-ranked names receive lower grades. This is due...
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Migration of Bar-Tailed Godwit

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Species of bird The bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica) is a large and strongly migratory wader in...
Species of bird The bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica) is a large and strongly migratory wader in the family Scolopacidae, which feeds on bristle-worms and shellfish on coastal mudflats and estuaries. It has distinctive red breeding plumage, long legs, and a long upturned bill. Bar-tailed godwits breed on Arctic c...
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To Fight 'Shrinkflation,' France Will Force Retailers to Warn Shoppers

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U.S.WorldBusinessArtsLifestyleOpinionAudioGamesCookingWirecutterThe AthleticSKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access....
U.S.WorldBusinessArtsLifestyleOpinionAudioGamesCookingWirecutterThe AthleticSKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Merchants will be required to put signs in front of all products that have been re...

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Squarial

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Satellite dish used by British Satellite Broadcasting Not to be confused with the Ariel Square Four...
Satellite dish used by British Satellite Broadcasting Not to be confused with the Ariel Square Four ("Squariel") motorcycle. The Squarial The Squarial (a portmanteau of the words square and aerial) was a satellite antenna used for reception of the now defunct British Satellite Broadcasting television service (BSB). ...
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Tesla recalls nearly 4k Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal

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Elon Musk and X to fight Australian order to remove Sydney stabbing content

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Elon Musk and his social media company X have accused Australia’s eSafety commissioner of censorship and...
Elon Musk and his social media company X have accused Australia’s eSafety commissioner of censorship and say they will challenge in court an order to remove content on the site relating to Monday’s Sydney church stabbing.On Tuesday the eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, said that X and Meta were issued with a ...
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UN plastics treaty: don't let lobbyists drown out researchers

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We Run FreeBSD Current at Netflix [video]

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Fossils found in Somerset by girl, 11, 'may be of largest-ever marine reptile'

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Fossils discovered by an 11-year-old girl on a beach in Somerset may have come from the...
Fossils discovered by an 11-year-old girl on a beach in Somerset may have come from the largest marine reptile ever to have lived, according to experts.The fossils are thought to be from a type of ichthyosaur, a prehistoric marine reptile that lived in the time of dinosaurs. The newly discovered species is believed ...
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The Shark Whisperer

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In the 1970s, when a young filmmaker named Steven Spielberg was researching a new movie based...
In the 1970s, when a young filmmaker named Steven Spielberg was researching a new movie based on a novel about sharks, he returned to his alma mater, California State University Long Beach. The lab at Cal State Long Beach was one of the first places in the United States to study sharks in a rigorous way. Spielberg w...
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Phish turned Las Vegas' Sphere into the ultimate music visualizer

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Debugging the Doctor Brain: Who's teaching doctors how to think?

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I walked into the hospital room of “Gladys,” 54-year-old woman who, like practically a quarter of...
I walked into the hospital room of “Gladys,” 54-year-old woman who, like practically a quarter of ER patients, had belly pain, but something didn’t seem right. I’m not trying to be deliberately, annoyingly vague: something I couldn’t articulate kept me in her room.Her vital signs looked normal and she wasn’t in terr...
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Show HN: Empaithy – AI Microjournaling for Mental Wellness and Habit Building

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Meet empaithy - your intelligent AI companion, helping you reflect, understand, and enhance your mental wellbeing.Engage...
Meet empaithy - your intelligent AI companion, helping you reflect, understand, and enhance your mental wellbeing.Engage with an AI companion, dive into micro-journaling, explore personal analytics, and build positive habits, all within a privacy-centric environment.Effortless Micro-JournalingJournal your thoughts i...
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My 20-Year Experience of Software Development Methodologies

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Recently I read Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Harari. The basic thesis of...
Recently I read Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Harari. The basic thesis of the book is that humans require ‘collective fictions’ so that we can collaborate in larger numbers than the 150 or so our brains are big enough to cope with by default. Collective fictions are things that don’t describe solid ...
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Android 15 plans to show storage chip status

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Why did software become worse lately?

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Llama3 is the first open model that can also win text adventures

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Wax compiler – a tiny language designed to transpile to other languages

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Ask HN: Affording Accounting/SaaS for multiple side hustles?

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Like a few of us here, I run multiple side hustles/projects - only a couple make...
Like a few of us here, I run multiple side hustles/projects - only a couple make a profit. Enough to pay the bills. And I realised, whereas in 2011 only say 30% of my costs were tech/SaaS, now, 80% of them are. Is there a way to avoid this?The crux of the matter is that I find some SaaS completely invaluable, like w...
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Resend (YC W23) Is Hiring DevOps Engineers (Remote)

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As an infrastructure provider, DevOps Engineers are essential to ensure that millions of mission-critical emails sent...
As an infrastructure provider, DevOps Engineers are essential to ensure that millions of mission-critical emails sent using Resend are delivered to end users. You will spend your time improving reliability, uptime, security, scale, and performance. You will be responsible for provisioning data centers, scaling datab...
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