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Historic Engineering Wonders: Photos That Reveal How They Pulled It Off
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Rare Historical Photos
Historic Engineering Wonders: Photos That Reveal How They Pulled It Off - Rare Historical Photos
Historic engineering feats come to life through rare photos that reveal the techniques, tools, and ingenuity behind some of the most impressive constructions in human history.
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A vector graphics workstation from the 70s
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jaeblog
A vector graphics workstation from the 70s - jaeblog
A bit of history and a repair of a Tektronix 4051 graphical computer from 1975. What was this computer's place in history, what was it used for and what parts exploded when turning it on.
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The Penicillin Myth
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www.asimov.press
The Penicillin Myth
Competing theories seek to explain inconsistencies surrounding Alexander Fleming’s famed discovery.
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)
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Google *Unkills* JPEG XL?
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Google *unkills* JPEG XL?
A quick summary of the format's road to stardom
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A New AI Winter Is Coming
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Taranis
LLMs are a failure. A new AI winter is coming.
Though LLMs had a lot of promise, this has not been demonstrated in practice. The technology is essentially a failure, and a new AI winter is coming.
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Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
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Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI
OpenAI and Nvidia are both under threat from Google; I like OpenAI’s chances best, but they need an advertising model to beat Google as an Aggregator.
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Isn't WSL2 just a VM?
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Isn't WSL2 just a VM?
My take on Windows NT subsystems and the thin line between VMs and subsystems.
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India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app
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Reuters
India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app
India's telecoms ministry has privately asked smartphone makers to preload all new devices with a state-owned cyber security app that cannot be deleted, a government order showed, a move likely to antagonise Apple and privacy advocates.
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High-income job losses are cooling housing demand
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John Burns Research and Consulting
High-income job losses are cooling housing demand
Which local economies sustain housing? We analyze Charlotte's job boom vs. Austin/Denver slowdowns. High-wage contractions impact for-sale demand.
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DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]
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Response to Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language
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Robbyonrails
Why So Serious? | Robby on Rails
The question Sheon Han poses — “Is Ruby a serious programming language?” — says a lot about what someone thinks programming is supposed to feel like. For som...
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ImAnim: Modern animation capabilities to ImGui applications
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GitHub
GitHub - soufianekhiat/ImAnim: Animation Engine for Dear ImGui
Animation Engine for Dear ImGui. Contribute to soufianekhiat/ImAnim development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025)
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Ghostty compiled to WASM with xterm.js API compatibility
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GitHub
GitHub - coder/ghostty-web: Ghostty for the web with xterm.js API compatibility
Ghostty for the web with xterm.js API compatibility - coder/ghostty-web
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Intel could return to Apple computers in 2027
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The Verge
Intel could finally return to Apple computers in 2027
Is Intel making a comeback?
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Sycophancy is the first LLM "dark pattern"
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Seangoedecke
Sycophancy is the first LLM "dark pattern"
People have been making fun of OpenAI models for being overly sycophantic for months now. I even wrote a post advising users to pretend that their work was…
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Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026
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Business Insider
Read Instagram chief Adam Mosseri's memo ordering staff to the office five days a week in 2026
Instagram back-to-office policy: Adam Mosseri demands full-time in-person work in 2026, fewer meetings, and faster product prototypes.
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How to Attend Meetings – Internal guidelines from the New York Times
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Why Am I Paying $40k for the Birth of My Child?
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Aaronstannard
Why Am I Paying $40,000 for the Birth of My Child?
The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence.
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Amazon faces FAA probe after delivery drone snaps internet cable in Texas
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