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The 600-year-old origins of the word 'hello'
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Bbc
'Hullo, hillo, holla': The 600-year-old origins of the word 'hello'
It's 200 years since the word "hello" was first used in print - though its roots date back to the 15th Century. How has the language of greetings evolved - and what does it tell us?
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The recurring dream of replacing developers
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Caimito Agile Life
Why We've Tried to Replace Developers Every Decade Since 1969
Every decade brings new promises: this time, we'll finally make software development simple enough that we won't need so many developers. From COBOL to AI, the pattern repeats. Business leaders gro...
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We Put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon
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Ramp
AI Plays Rollercoaster Tycoon
AI autonomously manages a theme park in the classic game RollerCoaster Tycoon, placing rides, fixing infrastructure, and generating CFO reports, all via command line.
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Italy investigates Activision Blizzard for pushing in-game purchases
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TechCrunch
Italy investigates Activision Blizzard for pushing in-game purchases | TechCrunch
Italy has launched two investigations into Microsoft's Activision Blizzard, alleging the company has engaged in "misleading and aggressive" sales practices for two of its most popular smartphone games.
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Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland
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AP News
Trump says 8 European countries will face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland
President Donald Trump says he'll impose a 10% import tax starting in February on goods from eight European nations because of their opposition to American control of Greenland.
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Escaping the trap of US tech dependence
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Disconnect
Escaping the trap of US tech dependence
Canada needs real digital sovereignty, not our own digital colonizers
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AV1 Image File Format Specification Gets an Upgrade with AVIF v1.2.0
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Alliance for Open Media
AV1 Image File Format Specification Gets an Upgrade with AVIF v1.2.0
AVIF v1.2.0 includes support for sample transforms
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2025 was the third hottest year on record
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The Economist
2025 was the third hottest year on record
It should have been a relatively cool year; it was anything but
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Earth is warming faster. Scientists are closing in on why
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The Economist
Earth is warming faster. Scientists are closing in on why
Paradoxically, cleaner emissions from ships and power plants are playing a role
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Plunging US Birth Rate Leaves Too Many Colleges with Too Few Kids
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Bloomberg.com
Plunging US Birth Rate Pushes Colleges Off Enrollment Cliff
America’s tumbling birthrate is pushing colleges toward a “demographic cliff,” where a declining population in the late teens and early 20s could leave campuses empty
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Canada's deal with China signals it is serious about shift from US
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Bbc
Canada's deal with China signals it is serious about shift from US
Carney says Canada's relationship with China has become "more predictable" than that with the US, as his country searches for trade certainty.
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An Elizabethan mansion's secrets for staying warm
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Bbc
'The past is an underused tool': An Elizabethan mansion's secrets for staying warm
In a deadly cold period known as the Little Ice Age, clever Elizabethan designs kept a magnificent stately home unusually warm – with lessons for how we can heat our own homes better.
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Architecture for Disposable Systems
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tuananh.net
Architecture for Disposable Systems
As coding agents make software cheaper and lower quality, we're moving toward disposable software, and that changes everything about how we architect systems.
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OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions
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Ars Technica
OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions
Ads coming to free tier and new $8/month ChatGPT Go plan in US.
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Show HN: AsciiSketch a free browser-based ASCII art and diagram editor
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There's no single best way to store information
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Quanta Magazine
Why There’s No Single Best Way To Store Information
The math of data structures helps us understand how different storage systems come with different trade-offs between resources such as time and memory.
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The Olivetti Company – By Bradford Morgan White
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www.abortretry.fail
The Olivetti Company
Beautiful machines from a beautiful country
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M8SBC-486 (Homebrew 486 computer)
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maniek86.xyz
M8SBC-486 (Homebrew 486 computer) - maniek86.xyz
M8SBC-486 (Homebrew 486 computer) [Back to the homebrew computers page] The M8SBC-486 is a 486 homebrew computer motherboard made from scratch. From the schematic and PCB to the chipset! It is not based on existing designs, but rather on my experience with…
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Show HN: What if your menu bar was a keyboard-controlled command center?
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ExtraBar
ExtraBar - Custom Menu Bar for macOS
ExtraBar is a customizable bar for macOS with deep links, quick actions, and app-specific shortcuts. Take control of your Mac workflow.
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Counterfactual evaluation for recommendation systems
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eugeneyan.com
Counterfactual Evaluation for Recommendation Systems
Thinking about recsys as interventional vs. observational, and inverse propensity scoring.
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A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish
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GitHub
GitHub - kip-dili/kip: A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish.
A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish. - kip-dili/kip
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