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Arranging invisible icons in quadratic time

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Near the end of January I was pointed to a twitter thread where a Windows user...
Near the end of January I was pointed to a twitter thread where a Windows user with a powerful machine was hitting random hangs in explorer. Lots of unscientific theories were being proposed. I don’t generally do random analysis of strangers’ performance problems but the case sounded interesting so I thought I’d tak...
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You suck at CSS (and that's okay)[2022]

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The shrouded sinister history of the bulldozer

noemamag.com

According to an 1881 obituary in a Louisiana newspaper, the word “bulldozer” was coined by a...
According to an 1881 obituary in a Louisiana newspaper, the word “bulldozer” was coined by a German immigrant named Louis Albert Wagner, who later committed suicide by taking a hefty dose of opium dissolved in alcohol. Little else is recorded about Wagner, but his term became a viral sensation in late 1800s America,...
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Cancer Institute Employees Can't Publish on These Topics Without Approval

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ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest...
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Employees at the National Cancer Institute, which is part of the National Institutes of Health, received internal guidance last week to flag manuscripts, presentations or other c...
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Trump Administration Seeks to Expel a Green-Card Holder over Student Protests

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SKIP 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.Immigration officers arrested a Columbia University graduate for helping lead campus protests against Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. President Trump said...

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These are the first images of humpbacks having sex, and they're both males

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When biologist Stephanie Stack first saw the photographs of two humpback whales mating in the warm...
When biologist Stephanie Stack first saw the photographs of two humpback whales mating in the warm waters of Hawaii, she says her mind was "completely blown.""When I realized that it was two males, it was not what I was expecting," she told As It Happens host Nil Köksal. "I thought, oh my gosh, this is incredible."S...
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Separation of Concerns in a Bug Tracker

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US Green-Card Holder and Columbia Student Arrested by ICE for Protest

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Show HN: Llama-8B Teaches Itself Baby Steps to Deep Research Using RL

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Energy Conservation with Open Source Ad Blockers

mdpi.com

Open AccessEditor’s ChoiceArticle Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Department of Materials Science & Engineering,...
Open AccessEditor’s ChoiceArticle Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931, USA Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, School of Electrical Engineering, Aalto University, FI-00076 Espoo, Finland Te...
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Ask HN: What is the actual cost basis of the stock market?

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Internet shutdowns at record high in Africa as access 'weaponised'

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An election forecast that's 50-50 is not "giving up."

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What made the Irish famine so deadly

newyorker.com

In the first act of the wittiest Irish play of the nineteenth century, Oscar Wilde’s “Importance...
In the first act of the wittiest Irish play of the nineteenth century, Oscar Wilde’s “Importance of Being Earnest,” there is much ado about a shortage of food. The fearsome Aunt Augusta is coming to tea, but we have watched the feckless Algernon eat all the cucumber sandwiches prepared for her by his manservant, Lan...
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Ask HN: How to find intellectually challenging work?

ycombinator.com

Hi fellow HN-ers,After working (mostly) as a backend developer since 2013, I was recently burned (or...
Hi fellow HN-ers,After working (mostly) as a backend developer since 2013, I was recently burned (or bored?) out a bit, quit my job and went on a sabbatical for half a year. Now I need to start looking for a new job. However, I'm not sure how to find something that feels more meaningful and intellectually stimulatin...
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How to Implement a Cosine Similarity Function in TypeScript

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The legend of the 'Tesla killer' came true, and it's Elon Musk

electrek.co

The legend of the ‘Tesla killer’ is not a myth anymore. It came true, and it’s...
The legend of the ‘Tesla killer’ is not a myth anymore. It came true, and it’s not an electric vehicle from a legacy automaker or a new EV startup; it’s Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO. In the early days of Tesla, the media loved to use the term ‘Tesla killer’ every time a legacy automaker launched a new EV. At the time, we ...
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Dryers in the US consume ~3% of residential energy budget, 6x washing machines

umich.edu

Study: The Relative Benefits of Electrification, Energy Efficiency, and Line Drying Clothes in the United States...
Study: The Relative Benefits of Electrification, Energy Efficiency, and Line Drying Clothes in the United States (DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2025.108212) Researchers from the University of Michigan are hoping their new study will inspire some Americans to rethink their relationship with laundry. Because, no matter how...
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Ancient ocean coastal deposits imaged on Mars

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British tourist detained by US authorities for 10 days over visa issue

theguardian.com

A British tourist on a four-month backpacking trip around North America has been detained by Immigration...
A British tourist on a four-month backpacking trip around North America has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the US for 10 days after trying to enter the country via the Canadian border.Rebecca Burke, 28, a graphic artist from Monmouthshire, was trying to cross into the state of Washington whe...
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Help Me Help You, Maintainers

matduggan.com

open-source rant
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Firmware update bricks HP printers, makes them unable to use HP cartridges

arstechnica.com
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STEPS Toward the Reinvention of Programming [pdf]

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People are just as bad as my LLMs

wilsoniumite.com

Last year I created a fun little experiment where I asked a bunch of LLMs to...
Last year I created a fun little experiment where I asked a bunch of LLMs to rank 97 hackernews users using their comment history based on whether they would be good candidates for the role of “software engineer at google”. (you can read part 1 and part 2 but they are long). In it, I had a persistent problem of bias...
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