| 241. | A Most Important Mustard | (asimov.press) |
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On the origins of Arabidopsis thaliana, the premier model for plant biology. | |
| 3 points by surprisetalk 5 days ago | 0 comments |
| 242. | Volcanic eruptions set off a chain of events that brought Black Death to Europe | (cam.ac.uk) |
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Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence that led to the devastation of the Black Death in Europe. | |
| 4 points by gmays 22 hours ago | 0 comments |
| 243. | YouTube increases FreeBASIC performance (2019) | (freebasic.net) |
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| 3 points by giancarlostoro 6 days ago | 0 comments |
| 244. | Dotfiles Management | (mitxela.com) |
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Tracking config files | |
| 3 points by mhb 22 hours ago | 1 comments |
| 245. | 100000 TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite | (andersmurphy.com) |
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A blog mostly about Clojure programming | |
| 22 points by speckx 4 days ago | 0 comments |
| 246. | Plane crashed after 3D-printed part collapsed | (bbc.com) |
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The aircraft was completely destroyed after a spare part bought at an air show in America collapsed. | |
| 45 points by toss1 2 days ago | 19 comments |
| 247. | Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB | (tomshardware.com) |
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The newly released beta version of Helldivers 2 delivers the same gameplay with far less disk usage, offering PC players a much leaner install without sacrificing performance or progression. | |
| 13 points by doener 3 days ago | 1 comments |
| 248. | What I don't like about chains of thoughts | (samsja.github.io) |
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Blog post of Samsja | |
| 4 points by jxmorris12 6 days ago | 0 comments |
| 249. | Tom Stoppard has died | (bbc.com) |
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The King and Queen pay tribute to a "dear friend who wore his genius lightly". | |
| 9 points by mstep 7 days ago | 0 comments |
| 250. | Bootloader Unlock Wall of Shame | (github.com) |
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Keeping track of companies that "care about your data 🥺" - zenfyrdev/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame | |
| 4 points by thunderbong 2 days ago | 0 comments |
| 251. | Kidney Recipient Dies After Transplant from Organ Donor Who Had Rabies | (nytimes.com) |
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| 5 points by quapster 12 hours ago | 6 comments |
| 252. | How to Synthesize a House Loop | (loopmaster.xyz) |
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loopmaster - Live Audio Programming. Create music with code in real-time. | |
| 6 points by stagas 9 days ago | 0 comments |
| 253. | Reverse math shows why hard problems are hard | (quantamagazine.org) |
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Researchers have used metamathematical techniques to show that certain theorems that look superficially distinct are in fact logically equivalent. | |
| 3 points by gsf_emergency_6 5 days ago | 0 comments |
| 254. | How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019) | (reverbmachine.com) |
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In 1978, Brian Eno released Ambient 1: Music for Airports, a landmark album in ambient and electronic music. Although it wasn't the first ambient | |
| 6 points by dijksterhuis 4 days ago | 0 comments |
| 255. | I cracked a $200 software protection with xcopy | (ud2.rip) |
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reverse engineering a $200 commercial protection system, only to discover they protected the installer instead of the software. the crack is copying files. | |
| 14 points by vmfunc 1 day ago | 2 comments |
| 256. | You Can't Fool the Optimizer | (xania.org) |
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Pattern recognition can see through obfuscated code to find the right instruction | |
| 26 points by HeliumHydride 3 days ago | 2 comments |
| 257. | What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2026? | (publicdomainreview.org) |
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At the start of each year, on January 1st, a new crop of works enter the public domain. Find our highlights of what lies in store for 2026 here. | |
| 4 points by herbertl 4 days ago | 0 comments |
| 258. | A $20 drug in Europe requires a prescription and $800 in the U.S. | (statnews.com) |
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Pharma analyst David Maris examines the FDA process used by Bausch & Lomb to achieve a 40-fold price increase on a dry-eye drug. | |
| 26 points by geox 1 day ago | 6 comments |
| 259. | Grok 4.20 beats all other AI models in Alpha Arena test | (sammyfans.com) |
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Grok 4.20, a new AI model from Elon Musk’s xAI, has surprised many people by winning the Alpha Arena test. While other big AI models | |
| 3 points by terryds 18 hours ago | 2 comments |
| 260. | Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days | (letsencrypt.org) |
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Let’s Encrypt will be reducing the validity period of the certificates we issue. We currently issue certificates valid for 90 days, which will be cut in half to 45 days by 2028. This change is being made along with the rest of the industry, as required by the CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements, which set the technical requirements that we must follow. All publicly-trusted Certificate Authorities like Let’s Encrypt will be making similar changes. Reducing how long certificates are valid for helps improve the security of the internet, by limiting the scope of compromise, and making certificate revocation technologies more efficient. | |
| 13 points by abraham 4 days ago | 0 comments |
| 261. | Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.0 available | (proxmox.com) |
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Latest announcements for Proxmox. | |
| 5 points by speckx 2 days ago | 0 comments |
| 262. | Comparing AWS Lambda ARM64 vs. x86_64 Performance Across Runtimes in Late 2025 | (chrisebert.net) |
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See how AWS Lambda arm64 stacks up against x86_64 in real-world benchmarks across CPU, memory, and I/O workloads using Node.js, Python, and Rust. | |
| 5 points by hasanhaja 4 days ago | 0 comments |
| 263. | Apple to beat Samsung in smartphone shipments for first time in 14 years | (sherwood.news) |
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Apple will ship about 243 million phones this year, compared to Samsung’s 235 million, according to CNBC.... | |
| 6 points by avonmach 4 days ago | 1 comments |
| 264. | Apple Releases Open Weights Video Model | (starflow-v.github.io) |
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| 6 points by vessenes 4 days ago | 0 comments |
| 265. | Interop and MathML Core | (conflor.es) |
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a tiny technical blog. | |
| 3 points by todsacerdoti 6 days ago | 0 comments |
| 266. | Some models of reality are bolder than others | (cjauvin.github.io) |
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Some models of reality are bolder than others Digital physics is the body of mathematical and philosophical work treating the universe and the way it works as a giant digital computer. This is often associated with cellular automata, and names like Konrad Zuse, John Von Neumann, Stephen Wolfram, etc. What I find fascinating about this field is that the models it suggests are making very deep metaphysical claims: if they are true, it means that the underlying structure of the world is much different than we think, and radically simpler in a sense. Take the lattice gas automaton for instance. A version of it is an hexagonal cellular automata with very simple collision rules, not more complicated than the famous Rule 30 or 110, for 1D cellular automata. The impressive thing about it is that a simulation running this rule with many particles can be shown to approximate the Navier-Stokes equations, which are the classical complicated mathematics to describe the dynamics of fluids. Following Wolfram, I find it very appealing to consider the idea that the world is not somehow running “hidden mathematics”, somewhere and somehow, to solve some complicated equations in a seemingly magical way, but rather, that things are radically simpler, in that the world is simply implementing a set of trivially simple rules. The world is not concerned with, or made with mathematics, mathematics just emerges, with inherent and irreducible complexity, from extreme simplicity. | |
| 2 points by cjauvin 4 days ago | 0 comments |
| 267. | Quad9 DOH HTTP/1.1 Retirement, December 15, 2025 | (quad9.net) |
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A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy | |
| 5 points by pickledoyster 3 days ago | 0 comments |
| 268. | The RAM Shortage Comes for Us All | (jeffgeerling.com) |
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| 51 points by speckx 2 days ago | 22 comments |
| 269. | Say Goodbye to the Billable Hour, Thanks to AI | (wsj.com) |
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| 4 points by ryan_j_naughton 10 hours ago | 1 comments |
| 270. | Interview with RollerCoaster Tycoon's Creator, Chris Sawyer (2024) | (medium.com) |
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| 6 points by areoform 3 days ago | 0 comments |