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I Kinda Hate the Internet Now

trend-mill.com

Badly edited by author*warning: I went off on a rant.*I was reminiscing the other day with...
Badly edited by author*warning: I went off on a rant.*I was reminiscing the other day with a friend about a long-forgotten period of time — the days when the internet was fun. Tightknit forums with positive vibes, the early viral videos on YouTube (looking at you, Star Wars Kid), MSN Messenger, the band pages on MyS...
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Signs of spiders from Mars

esa.int

ice spiders inca city mars express
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Western Music Isn't What You Think

honest-broker.com

Around 1990, I started researching the social history of music. I knew this was a big...
Around 1990, I started researching the social history of music. I knew this was a big topic, but I had no idea how big.As it turned out, this project kept me busy for the next 25 years.I was crazy to do this. I was trying to understand the role of music in human life going back to prehistoric times, and hoped to fol...
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A hydrocarbon molecule as supplier and energy storage solution for solar energy

phys.org

materials physics physics news science science news
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Camaraderie Between Two Soldier Poets

lithub.com

Wilfred Owen first mentioned the presence of a new star on his horizon on August 15,...
Wilfred Owen first mentioned the presence of a new star on his horizon on August 15, 1917. He had been busy acting, editing the hospital magazine, arguing with his mother by letter about whether Christianity and the war were compatible (he thought not, and he had hard words to say about the Archbishop of Canterbury,...
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Show HN: React for Circuits

github.com
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Clang's -O0 output: branch displacement and size increase

maskray.me

clang llvm x86
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Fyrox Game Engine

fyrox.rs

2d 3d fyrox game engine production-ready
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Ask HN: Has anyone else stopped playing video games as an adult?

ycombinator.com
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German ministers quizzed over nuclear phase out 'deception'

dw.com

Two German ministers on Friday defended their handling of the extension of Germany's three remaining nuclear...
Two German ministers on Friday defended their handling of the extension of Germany's three remaining nuclear power stations during the 2022-23 energy crisis, after a media report alleged the process was bungled. Cicero magazine reported a day earlier that officials from the environmentally friendly Green Party had a...
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China's New non-Teleoperated Robot [video]

youtube.com

science & technology
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Orca calf successfully returned to open water after bold rescue in Canada

theguardian.com

An orca calf, trapped for weeks in a remote lagoon in western Canada, has freed herself...
An orca calf, trapped for weeks in a remote lagoon in western Canada, has freed herself and is travelling towards open waters, hailed as “incredible news” by a growing body of human supporters.The move puts her one step closer to reuniting with her family one month after a tragic accident left her stranded.The two-y...
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The US has seen evidence of China attempting to influence upcoming elections

cnn.com

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the US has seen evidence of Chinese attempts to...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the US has seen evidence of Chinese attempts to “influence and arguably interfere” with the upcoming US elections, despite an earlier commitment from leader Xi Jinping not to do so. Blinken made the comments to CNN’s Kylie Atwood in an interview Friday at the close of a thre...
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We Dropped This Phone from 300 Feet. Here's Why It Survived

wsj.com
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Fischertechnik

wikipedia.org

Construction toy Fischertechnik 15×15×30 mm (plus peg) standard block in original gray color The fischertechnik da...
Construction toy Fischertechnik 15×15×30 mm (plus peg) standard block in original gray color The fischertechnik da Vinci construction set can be used to recreate inventions by Leonardo da Vinci such as this file cutting machine.[1] Fischertechnik is a brand of construction toy. It was invented by Artur Fischer and i...
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New £4M hub for metabolic psychiatry

lister-institute.org.uk

We caught up with Danny to discuss the new project and his ‘whole body’ perspective on...
We caught up with Danny to discuss the new project and his ‘whole body’ perspective on mental health. Congratulations on the new research centre. Can you describe in a nutshell what it will do? We’ve always known that weight gain for people with SMI like bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and severe depression is a big...
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CATL's 1,000-km LFP EV battery super-charges at 1 km/SEC

newatlas.com

battery battery technology catl electric vehicles lithium-ion
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Searchformer: Beyond a* Better Planning with Transformers via Search Dynamics

github.com
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Relational Graph Convolutional Networks for Sentiment Analysis

arxiv.org
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2.5x better performance: Rama vs. MongoDB and Cassandra

redplanetlabs.com

We ran a number of benchmarks comparing Rama against the latest stable versions of MongoDB and...
We ran a number of benchmarks comparing Rama against the latest stable versions of MongoDB and Cassandra. The code for these benchmarks is available on Github. Rama’s indexes (called PStates) can reproduce any database’s data model since each PState is an arbitrary combination of durable data structures of any size....
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Apple's OpenAI Talks Intensify as It Seeks to Add AI Features

bloomberg.com

alphabet inc-cl a apple inc artificial intelligence ios iphone
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Nvidia CEO hand-delivers fastest AI system to OpenAI

tomshardware.com
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Altman handpicked for Homeland Security's AI safety board

axios.com
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Tesla Autopilot feature was involved in 13 fatal crashes, US regulator says

theguardian.com

US auto-safety regulators said on Friday that their investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot had identified at least...
US auto-safety regulators said on Friday that their investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot had identified at least 13 fatal crashes in which the feature had been involved. The investigation also found the electric carmaker’s claims did not match up with reality.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA...
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