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Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more

plover.com
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Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s? (2009)

mit.edu

In an era when everything else is accelerating, airplanes are actually flying at slower speeds than...
In an era when everything else is accelerating, airplanes are actually flying at slower speeds than they used to… By Peter Dunn Specified cruising speeds for commercial airliners today range between about 480 and 510 knots, compared to 525 knots for the Boeing 707, a mainstay of 1960s jet travel. Why? “The main issu...
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We rewrote The NYT text editing library. Then we OSSd it. Then rewrote it again

smoores.dev
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The Anthropic Economic Index

anthropic.com

In the coming years, AI systems will have a major impact on the ways people work....
In the coming years, AI systems will have a major impact on the ways people work. For that reason, we're launching the Anthropic Economic Index, an initiative aimed at understanding AI's effects on labor markets and the economy over time.The Index’s initial report provides first-of-its-kind data and analysis based o...
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Show HN: HTML visualization of a PDF file's internal structure

github.com
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Steam makes its ban on in-game ads explicit

pcgamer.com

(Image credit: Valve, YouTuber Mora Madness) Update 10/02/2025: As noted by SteamDB on Bluesky, while this...
(Image credit: Valve, YouTuber Mora Madness) Update 10/02/2025: As noted by SteamDB on Bluesky, while this specific page on Steam's advertising policy is new, the policy itself is not. Valve has had a ban on these kinds of in-game ads in Steam games for the last five years at minimum, viewable on its pricing policy ...
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Explainable Linear Programs

jeremykun.com

Back in 2020, when I worked in the supply chain side of Google, I had a...
Back in 2020, when I worked in the supply chain side of Google, I had a fun and impactful side project related to human-level explanations of linear programs.A linear program is a mathematical model that defines some number of variables, linear constraints, and a linear objective function. When some variables are fo...

shortform
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I built an open source AI tool to find my autoimmune disease

reddit.com

selfhosted
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What about K?

xpqz.github.io

k is a family of concise, fast vector-oriented languages designed by Arthur Whitney. Calling k a...
k is a family of concise, fast vector-oriented languages designed by Arthur Whitney. Calling k a “family” is deliberate; there is no single definitive k, but instead a sequence of slightly incompatible versions. If you decide to stick with k, you’ll see mentions of k4, k5 etc. Exactly what those numbers mean aren’t ...
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Beavers finish seven-year dam project in two days saving – $1M

nationalgeographic.com
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Forget Psychedelics. Everyone's Microdosing Ozempic Now

hollywoodreporter.com

On a chilly January evening, Samira Shamoon, a 44-year-old health and beauty publicist, walked into an...
On a chilly January evening, Samira Shamoon, a 44-year-old health and beauty publicist, walked into an Italian restaurant to meet friends. They were stunned by the incandescence of her skin. Her cheekbones appeared more defined. After a flurry of questions about which dermatologist or plastic surgeon she had visited...
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PermitFlow (YC W22) Is Hiring Senior/Staff Engineers in NYC

ashbyhq.com
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Advertising Is a Cancer on Society

zlydach.pl

(last update: 2019-10-02) I frequently say that advertising is a cancer on modern society. This view...
(last update: 2019-10-02) I frequently say that advertising is a cancer on modern society. This view is met with various reactions, including requests for a more detailed explanation. In this post, I first explain why I believe the cancer analogy is apt, then continue with a nonexhaustive list of observable symptoms...
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Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction

arstechnica.com

On a recent WikiTok browsing run, I ran across entries on topics like SX-Window (a GUI...
On a recent WikiTok browsing run, I ran across entries on topics like SX-Window (a GUI for the Sharp X68000 series of computers), Xantocillin ("the first reported natural product found to contain the isocyanide functional group), Lorenzo Ghiberti (an Italian Renaissance sculptor from Florence), the William Wheeler H...
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Adding cooking oil to asphalt to create self-healing roads

thetimes.com

Potholes are the £14.4 billion problem blighting Britain’s roads and leaving behind many a frustrated motorist.Now...
Potholes are the £14.4 billion problem blighting Britain’s roads and leaving behind many a frustrated motorist.Now engineers believe “self-healing” roads may be the solution. Research suggests that asphalt roads could be made far more durable by adding a new ingredient: recycled cooking oil.Potholes typically appear...
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Man who lost Bitcoin fortune in Welsh tip explores purchase of entire landfill

theguardian.com

A computer expert who has battled for a decade to recover a £600m bitcoin fortune he...
A computer expert who has battled for a decade to recover a £600m bitcoin fortune he believes is buried in a council dump in south Wales is considering buying the site so he can hunt for the missing fortune.James Howells lost a high court case last month to force Newport city council to allow him to search the tip t...
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Euclid telescope captures Einstein ring revealing warping of space

theguardian.com

The Euclid space telescope has captured a rare phenomenon called an Einstein ring that reveals the...
The Euclid space telescope has captured a rare phenomenon called an Einstein ring that reveals the extreme warping of space by a galaxy’s gravity.The dazzling image shows a nearby galaxy, NGC 6505, surrounded by a perfect circle of light. The ring gives a glimpse of a more distant galaxy, sitting directly behind NGC...
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Out of Africa: celebrating 100 years of human-origins research

nature.com

100 years of Australopithecus

anthropology evolution
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Two Grand Canyon-size valleys on far side of the moon formed within 10 minutes

cnn.com

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries,...
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. About 3.8 billion years ago, two massive canyons likely formed on the moon in a span of less than 10 minutes, according to new research. The extraordinary formations, each ...
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Guiding Electricity with Sound

phys.org
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FOSDEM 2025: The state of Rust trying to catch up with Ada [video]

fosdem.org
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Apple's Best Option: Decentralize iCloud

mnot.net
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To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell

myteslaexperience.com

Written by My Tesla Experience on February 01, 2025 In October 2024 I decided to buy...
Written by My Tesla Experience on February 01, 2025 In October 2024 I decided to buy a Tesla Model 3. When I picked up the car, many of its features did not work (cameras, GPS navigation system, autopilot, software updates, etc.). It turned out to be a major issue with Tesla’s brand-new on-board computer. This is a ...
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I Like and Use Global Variables

codestyleandtaste.com
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