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Climate Change:Venomous Species could close in from every Side by 2050

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According to a recent report, countries such as Niger, Namibia, China, Nepal, and Myanmar could provide...
According to a recent report, countries such as Niger, Namibia, China, Nepal, and Myanmar could provide a habitat for the survival of the most venomous snake species by 2070, from changes to current habitats.According to another study, Europe and North Africa could provide a more conducive environment for the surviv...
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PHP Doesn't Suck Anymore

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Folding and One Straight Cut Suffice [pdf]

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LocalAI: Self-hosted OpenAI alternative reaches 2.14.0

github.com

We're excited to announce that our AIO image has been upgraded with the latest LLM model,...
We're excited to announce that our AIO image has been upgraded with the latest LLM model, llama3, enhancing our capabilities with more accurate and dynamic responses. Behind the scenes uses https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Hermes-2-Pro-Llama-3-8B-GGUF which is ready for function call, yay! 💬 WebUI enhancements: U...
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Open-Source Lucidchart Alternative

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The Internet Is Like a City (But Not in the Way You'd Think)

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Pictograms by Yona Friedman (1976)In the days of the early internet, the language to describe it...
Pictograms by Yona Friedman (1976)In the days of the early internet, the language to describe it was still an open question. Cultural critic Howard Rheingold, credited with coining the term “virtual community,” likened it to a great frontier. “The pioneers are still out there exploring,” he wrote, with its borders u...
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You May Not Know Where You're Going Until You've Got There(2014)

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Content Standards in Design Systems

nngroup.com

Efficiency and consistency are always at the top of UX practitioners' minds, especially for teams facing...
Efficiency and consistency are always at the top of UX practitioners' minds, especially for teams facing tight deadlines or resource constraints. While design systems commonly prioritize UI design components and patterns, incorporating content standards is equally important for producing high-quality, consistent con...
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Show HN: My HomeLab (and other cool stuff)

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Video of sun's surface shows solar rain, eruptions and coronal moss

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The sun’s otherworldly landscape, including coronal moss, solar rain and 6,000-mile-tall spires of gas, is revealed...
The sun’s otherworldly landscape, including coronal moss, solar rain and 6,000-mile-tall spires of gas, is revealed in footage from the Solar Orbiter spacecraft.The observations, beamed back by the European Space Agency probe, reveal feathery, hair-like structures made of plasma and also capture eruptions and shower...
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It's getting harder to tell ChatGPT and Google Apart

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Microsoft plans to lock down Windows DNS like never before

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Translating human-readable domain names into numerical IP addresses has long been fraught with gaping security risks....
Translating human-readable domain names into numerical IP addresses has long been fraught with gaping security risks. After all, lookups are rarely end-to-end encrypted. The servers providing domain name lookups provide translations for virtually any IP address—even when they’re known to be malicious. And many end-u...
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How the Kindness of Sega Saved Nvidia from Going Under

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Fairytales much older than previously thought, say researchers (2016)

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Fairy stories such as Beauty and the Beast and Rumpelstiltskin can be traced back thousands of...
Fairy stories such as Beauty and the Beast and Rumpelstiltskin can be traced back thousands of years to prehistoric times, with one tale originating from the bronze age, academics have revealed.Using techniques normally employed by biologists, they studied common links between 275 Indo-European fairy tales from arou...
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A love letter to bicycle maintenance and repair

tegowerk.eu

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Show HN: An open-source tool that semantically profiles your data using LLMs

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Tesla retreat from EV charging leaves growth of U.S. network in doubt

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Show HN: Bloom – A shadcn like UI library for Elixir and Phoenix

bloom-ui.fly.dev
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Figma's Journey to TypeScript

figma.com

Skew began as a side project in the early days of Figma. At the time, Skew...
Skew began as a side project in the early days of Figma. At the time, Skew fulfilled a critical need at Figma: to build out our prototype viewer with support on both the web and mobile. What started as a way to quickly spin this up became an entire compile-to-JavaScript programming language that enabled more advance...
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WordNet

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Computational lexicon of English WordNet WordNet is a lexical database of semantic relations between words that...
Computational lexicon of English WordNet WordNet is a lexical database of semantic relations between words that links words into semantic relations including synonyms, hyponyms, and meronyms. The synonyms are grouped into synsets with short definitions and usage examples. It can thus be seen as a combination and ext...
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Bay Area restaurants react to new Calif. law with anger, shock

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Nintendo blitzes GitHub with over 8k emulator-related DMCA takedowns

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Nintendo sent a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notice for over 8,000 GitHub repositories hosting code...
Nintendo sent a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notice for over 8,000 GitHub repositories hosting code from the Yuzu Switch emulator, which the Zelda maker previously described as enabling “piracy at a colossal scale.” The sweeping takedown comes two months after Yuzu’s creators quickly settled a lawsuit wit...

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Insects and other animals have consciousness

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In 2022, researchers at the Bee Sensory and Behavioral Ecology Lab at Queen Mary University of...
In 2022, researchers at the Bee Sensory and Behavioral Ecology Lab at Queen Mary University of London observed bumblebees doing something remarkable: The diminutive, fuzzy creatures were engaging in activity that could only be described as play. Given small wooden balls, the bees pushed them around and rotated them....
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A Clock in the Forest

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In his studio on the east coast of Vancouver Island, the master clockmaker Phil Abernethy is...
In his studio on the east coast of Vancouver Island, the master clockmaker Phil Abernethy is crafting a timepiece that will be calibrated in a manner that no horologist has ever attempted. It won’t show the minutes and hours of an ordinary human day. Instead, his clock will display time as experienced by some of the...
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