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New sphere-packing record stems from an unexpected source 250 ❤️
LookingGlass: Generative Anamorphoses via Laplacian Pyramid Warping 51 ❤️
Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion 395 ❤️
Epanet-JS 19 ❤️

Other // 1460 ❤️‍🔥

BBC staff: we're forced to do pro-Israel PR 233 ❤️
What Microchip doesn't (officially) tell you about the VSC8512 48 ❤️
I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links 323 ❤️
The Miyawaki Method of micro-forestry 113 ❤️
Trying to find meaning in owning an old Mac 32 ❤️
Show HN: NYC Subway Simulator and Route Designer 138 ❤️
Analysing Roman itineraries using GIS tooling 14 ❤️
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A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs 447 ❤️
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Nature & Environment // 329 ❤️‍🔥

The chemical secrets that help keep honey fresh for so long 92 ❤️
Neanderthals operated prehistoric “fat factory” on German lakeshore 237 ❤️

Programming & Software Development // 999 ❤️‍🔥

My first verified imperative program 130 ❤️
Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists 728 ❤️
Solving Wordle with uv's dependency resolver 141 ❤️

Innovation & Design // 224 ❤️‍🔥

When Figma starts designing us 224 ❤️

Miscellaneous // 458 ❤️‍🔥

CU Randomness Beacon 7 ❤️
François Chollet: The Arc Prize and How We Get to AGI [video] 167 ❤️
Lightfastness Testing of Colored Pencils 120 ❤️
You Should Run a Certificate Transparency Log 87 ❤️
The Era of Exploration 77 ❤️

Entertainment & Film // 63 ❤️‍🔥

Why are there no good dinosaur films? 63 ❤️

Historical Discoveries // 186 ❤️‍🔥

Hymn to Babylon, missing for a millennium, has been discovered 171 ❤️
Charles Babbage and deciphering codes (1864) 15 ❤️

Business & Entrepreneurship // 54 ❤️‍🔥

So you wanna build an aging company 54 ❤️

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