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Show HN: We built the simplest Online Unit Converter for everyday use

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Burial chamber of an ancient Egyptian priestess is discovered after 4k years

dailymail.co.uk

Published: 08:32 EST, 6 November 2024 | Updated: 03:38 EST, 7 November 2024 An 'extraordinary' burial...
Published: 08:32 EST, 6 November 2024 | Updated: 03:38 EST, 7 November 2024 An 'extraordinary' burial chamber containing the remains of an ancient Egyptian priestess has been unearthed after nearly 4,000 years. Idy, the daughter of a wealthy governor who lived around 1880 BC, was found in a coffin within another cof...

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Peng quadrotor autonomy framework visualized in the browser

rerun.io
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Instant (YC S22) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer to Help Build a Modern Firebase

ycombinator.com

We’re looking for a hacker to join our team of 3 on-site in San Francisco. You...
We’re looking for a hacker to join our team of 3 on-site in San Francisco. You would be one of the founding engineers; why join us, when you can start a company yourself or work at an OpenAI? Here’s our case:Instant is (a) a really hard problem (b) that users want (c) worked on by an excellent team (d) where you can...
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Don't Do This with PostgreSQL

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Egyptian priestess burial chamber unearthed after 4000 yrs Sensational discovery

nypost.com

A burial chamber containing the remains of an ancient Egyptian priestess has been unearthed after nearly...
A burial chamber containing the remains of an ancient Egyptian priestess has been unearthed after nearly 4,000 years. Named Idy, her remains were found in a coffin within another coffin in a tomb in the city of Asyut, Egypt, just about 200 miles south of Cairo. The excavations took place between Aug. 18 and Sept. 17...

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Enzymatic degradation, recycling, and upcycling of movable crosslinked polymers

cell.com
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US Senate to Revive Software Patents with PERA Bill Vote on Thursday

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Facebook and Instagram to Offer Subscription for No Ads in Europe

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Update on November 12, 2024 at 4:30 AM PT: Today, we are announcing important changes to...
Update on November 12, 2024 at 4:30 AM PT: Today, we are announcing important changes to Facebook and Instagram in the EU, including reducing the price of subscription for no ads by 40%. Going forward, people based in the EU will still have the option to choose between subscribing for an ad-free experience or contin...
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Intel reinstates free coffee for employees after mass layoffs

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Secret Service Says Users Agreed to Location Tracking in Terms and Conditions

404media.co

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A stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom

arstechnica.com

During my first semester as a computer science graduate student at Princeton, I took COS 402:...
During my first semester as a computer science graduate student at Princeton, I took COS 402: Artificial Intelligence. Toward the end of the semester, there was a lecture about neural networks. This was in the fall of 2008, and I got the distinct impression—both from that lecture and the textbook—that neural network...
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The Wired Guide to Protecting Yourself from Government Surveillance

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President-elect Donald Trump has promised to deport millions of undocumented immigrants. He’s vowed to jail his...
President-elect Donald Trump has promised to deport millions of undocumented immigrants. He’s vowed to jail his political foes and journalists. A Republican-controlled government could further restrict abortion and transgender rights. Influential conservatives have called for a crackdown on left-leaning activist gro...
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Method for the determination of the luminance of two-photon vision stimuli

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Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Product Innovation [pdf]

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YouTube in Android introduces UI bugs

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The EdTech Revolution Has Failed

afterbabel.com

Introduction from Jon Haidt and Zach Rausch:When smartphones and social media platforms swept into teens' lives...
Introduction from Jon Haidt and Zach Rausch:When smartphones and social media platforms swept into teens' lives in the early 2010s, schools experienced their own digital revolution, with 1-to-1 laptops, tablets, and iPads becoming staples in classrooms across the Western world. (1-to-1 means one device for every stu...
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Genetic Discrimination Is Coming for Us All

theatlantic.com

science
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FLUX1.1 [Pro] Ultra and Raw Modes

blackforestlabs.ai
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Jepsen: Bufstream 0.1.0

jepsen.io

Kafka is a popular streaming system which provides replicated, sharded, append-only logs. Bufstream is a drop-in...
Kafka is a popular streaming system which provides replicated, sharded, append-only logs. Bufstream is a drop-in replacement for Kafka designed to prioritize data governance and cost efficiency in cloud environments. Like Kafka, Bufstream provides a collection of named, partially ordered logs called topics. Each top...
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When muscles work out, they help neurons to grow, a new study shows

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There’s no doubt that exercise does a body good. Regular activity not only strengthens muscles but...
There’s no doubt that exercise does a body good. Regular activity not only strengthens muscles but can bolster our bones, blood vessels, and immune system.Now, MIT engineers have found that exercise can also have benefits at the level of individual neurons. They observed that when muscles contract during exercise, t...

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US Literacy Statistics 2022-2023

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TinyCC Memory and Bounds Checks

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Diagrams AI Can, and Cannot, Generate

ilograph.com

By now, generative artificial intelligence’s ability to create text and images is well known. Generating system...
By now, generative artificial intelligence’s ability to create text and images is well known. Generating system architecture diagrams would seem to be a natural extension of this. In this article, we examine three use cases for AI-generated system architecture diagrams. We will evaluate AI’s ability to create generi...
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