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181. How to Short the Bubbliest Firms
182. How Does Microwaving Grapes Create Plumes of Plasma?
No kitchen appliances were harmed in the writing of this article.
183. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman
184. A Woman on a Mission to Photograph Every Species of Hummingbird
In less than a decade amateur photographer and Hummingbird Spot founder Carole Turek has photographed more than 250 hummingbird species, including one that was long considered extinct.
185. Flights disrupted as Airbus requests modifications to planes
The issue is thought to affect 6,000 planes, which will need to undergo an urgent software update or have computers replaced.
186. Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC
Goodbye ChromeOS, hello Aluminium OS: Here's everything we know about Google's plans to bring Android to PCs!
187. Ask HN: Which cloud provider do you like best and why?
188. Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled
In my recent analysis of YouTube’s information density I included the results from an advanced statistical analysis on the number of videos present on the home page, which projected that around May 2026 there would only be one lonely video on the home screen.
189. Fluent: A localization system for natural-sounding translations
190. Can you take an ox to Oxford?
Let's work out exactly when you need to pay Oxford's new congestion charge.
191. AI has a deep understanding of how this code works
DWARF v5 Debugging Support for OCaml Native Compiler This PR adds DWARF v5 debug information to the OCaml native compiler, allowing proper source-level debugging in GDB and LLDB. What's Implemented...
192. DSP 101 Part 1: An Introductory Course in DSP System Design
193. Mind-reading devices can now predict preconscious thoughts: is it time to worry?
Ethicists say AI-powered advances will threaten the privacy and autonomy of people who use neurotechnology. Ethicists say AI-powered advances will threaten the privacy and autonomy of people who use neurotechnology.
194. The Eleven-Faced Die That Emulates Two Six-Sided Dice
195. Statistical Process Control in Python
Your online textbook for learning reliability and six sigma techniques in R and Python! Made for Cornell University Course SYSEN 5300.
196. The Cloudflare outage was a good thing
The CloudFlare outage was a good thing. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
197. Dare (Digital Autonomy with RISC-V in Europe)
A new era for supercomputing in Europe The DARE project aims to boost European digital transformation by developing novel computing and AI technologies Latest updates from DARE Nothing Found Nothing Found Creating the next generation of processors Based on open source and highly adaptable tools
198. BebboSSH: SSH2 implementation for Amiga systems (68000, GPLv3)
199. Surprisingly, Emacs on Android is pretty good
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200. DuckDB 1.4.2 LTS
Today we are releasing DuckDB 1.4.2, the second patch release of our LTS edition. The new release ships several bugfixes and performance optimizations. We also fixed vulnerabilities in DuckDB's database encryption, and introduced some (opt-in) logger/profiler features that help users understand performance, and full write support through the Iceberg extension.
201. Mongolian Script
202. Brand New Layouts with CSS Subgrid
Subgrid allows us to extend a grid template down through the DOM tree, so that deeply-nested elements can participate in the same grid layout. At first glance, I thought this would be a helpful convenience, but it turns out that it’s so much more. Subgrid unlocks exciting new layout possibilities, stuff we couldn’t do until now. ✨
203. Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world
204. OpenAI won't make money by 2030 and needs another $207B, HSBC estimates
What company has a consumer base representing 44% of the world’s adult population and a $620 billion data center bill? OpenAI five years from now.
205. DRAM prices are spiking, but I don't trust the industry's why
206. Internet Handle
207. JOPA: Java compiler in C++, Jikes modernized to Java 6 with Claude
JOPA: Java compiler in C++. Contribute to 7mind/jopa development by creating an account on GitHub.
208. How the Atomic Tests Looked Like from Los Angeles
209. Africa's forests are now emitting more CO2 than they absorb
Logging and mining are destroying swathes of the Congo rainforest, with the result that African forests went from being  a carbon sink to a carbon source in 2010 to 2017
210. how to repurpose your old phone into a web server
farphone is a website running on a repurposed smartphone