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Chimpanzees act as 'engineers', choosing materials to make tools

sciencedaily.com

A multidisciplinary team of researchers from the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University...
A multidisciplinary team of researchers from the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, the Jane Goodall Institute in Tanzania, the University of Algarve and the University of Porto in Portugal, and the University of Leipzig,...
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Show HN: Personal Time Tracking with Git

doocot.sh

Knowing how much time is spent changing code in component x, lets us reason about entropy...
Knowing how much time is spent changing code in component x, lets us reason about entropy in the system. Showing your team mates that your swanky new AI co-worker enables you to be faster, could help you improve overall team productivity. Maybe you want to see if you're more effective when using Vim or VSCode, how e...

agile developer git scrum time
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Manjaro Linux: Making Arch Linux More Accessible

manjaro.org
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Where Do the Bytes Go?

tedunangst.com

Or perhaps more precisely, how do they get there? What happens when you call write?trapThe write...
Or perhaps more precisely, how do they get there? What happens when you call write?trapThe write function in libc sets things up and makes the system call, which probably enters somewhere in locore.s like Xsyscall_meltdown, but eventually we end up in syscall in arch/amd64/amd64/trap.c. Or we might be in svc_handler...
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Show HN: Physical Pomodoro Timer with ESP32 and e-paper screen

github.com
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PCIe Endpoint on Xilinx 7-Series FPGAs with PCIe_2_1 Hard Block and GTP

github.com
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Building a search engine from scratch, in Rust: part 1

jdrouet.github.io

In the previous article, I introduced what project we're going to address in the following weeks:...
In the previous article, I introduced what project we're going to address in the following weeks: how to build a cross-platform search engine with encryption capabilities. Today, we'll have a look at the first technical challenge: how to store things on disk.You might be thinking that we start with a simple topic, t...
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Low responsiveness of ML models to critical or deteriorating health conditions

nature.com
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Postgres Language Server: Initial Release

github.com
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AI Accent Conversion for call centers

krisp.ai
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Trump's attacks on universities get darker, with shadows reaching our shores

substack.com

A colleague and I would like to write an academic paper on the potential impact of...
A colleague and I would like to write an academic paper on the potential impact of US funding cuts to global health programmes. Our ideal co-author is an international expert newly based in the US, and they would like to do it. But we are all worried that doing so will expose them to the risk of having their academi...
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You Need Subtyping

polybdenum.com

Ever since Stephen Dolan’s 2016 thesis Algebraic Subtyping showed how to combine type inference and subtyping,...
Ever since Stephen Dolan’s 2016 thesis Algebraic Subtyping showed how to combine type inference and subtyping, I’ve been developing increasingly sophisticated programming languages based on those ideas, first IntercalScript in 2019, then CubiML in 2020, PolySubML in 2025, and with my next language already in the pla...
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Today Google bricked my Chromebook by force-installing a hidden extension

cloudisland.nz
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The Curious Case of Beam CPU Usage (2019)

stressgrid.com

While benchmarking Go vs Elixir vs Node, we discovered that Elixir (running on the BEAM virtual...
While benchmarking Go vs Elixir vs Node, we discovered that Elixir (running on the BEAM virtual machine) had much higher CPU usage than Go, and yet its responsiveness remained excellent. Some of our readers suggested that busy waiting may be responsible for this behavior. Turns out, busy waiting in BEAM is an optimi...
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Scammers Steal $1T a Year – Mostly from Americans

wired.com

[transition dinging] [suspenseful music][Evelyn] I was on Hinge for just a couple of monthsand matched with...
[transition dinging] [suspenseful music][Evelyn] I was on Hinge for just a couple of monthsand matched with one of the profiles.Seemed like a nice guy.It escalated to him askingif I knew about cryptocurrency.He said he ran a studio on the sidethat did some currency exchanges.And I ended up taking all my savings,even...
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Window cleaner in quest to confirm priceless Shakespeare portrait

bbc.com

Eric Johnson & Louise ParryBBC News, HertfordshireMadoc RobertsArt experts are divided on whether this is a...
Eric Johnson & Louise ParryBBC News, HertfordshireMadoc RobertsArt experts are divided on whether this is a genuine contemporary portrait of ShakespeareWindow cleaner Steven Wadlow has spent more than a decade trying to prove he is in possession of a priceless, authentic Shakespeare portrait. His quest is now being ...
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Mathematical Compact Models of Advanced Transistors [pdf]

berkeley.edu
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Emulating the YM2612: Part 1 – Interface

jsgroth.dev

This is the first post in a series on emulating the main Sega Genesis sound chip,...
This is the first post in a series on emulating the main Sega Genesis sound chip, the Yamaha YM2612 FM synthesis chip, also known as the OPN2. To date, the YM2612 is pretty easily the most difficult-to-emulate sound chip that I have worked on. It’s not extremely complex in concept, but it has an incredible amount of...
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The Culture Shock of Flossing

theguardian.com

There are many established, regularly parodied cultural differences between France and the US: style, portion sizes,...
There are many established, regularly parodied cultural differences between France and the US: style, portion sizes, attitudes towards picking up after your dog.But there’s another – possibly bloodier – contrast: flossing.Sarah Diligenti, the director of the Alliance Française in Washington DC, had never heard of fl...
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The theft and recovery of a grisaille by Anthony Van Dyck (1599–1641)

britishartjournal.co.uk
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Upcoming Windows 11 builds cannot install without internet and Microsoft Account

infosec.exchange
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OpenWrt Two Approval

openwrt.org

2025-02-12-openwrt-two voting
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Pentagon to Remove Enola Gay

nbcwashington.com

References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped...
References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and the first women to pass Marine infantry training are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts marked for deletion as the Defense Department works to purge diversity, equity and inclusi...

military pentagon
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Show HN Pianoboi – displays sheet music as you play your piano

pianoboi.site
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