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1.Egypt's pyramids may have been built on a long-lost branch of the Nile (nature.com)
354 points by gumby on May 16, 2024 | 404 comments
2.Slack AI Training with Customer Data (slack.com)
784 points by mlhpdx on May 16, 2024 | 401 comments
3.D3 in Depth (d3indepth.com)
380 points by lobo_tuerto on May 16, 2024 | 81 comments
4.Llama 3 implemented in pure NumPy (likejazz.com)
476 points by orixilus on May 16, 2024 | 50 comments
5.Context caching guide (ai.google.dev)
227 points by tosh on May 15, 2024 | 39 comments
6.Deutsche Bahn introduces "MetaWindow" (railtarget.eu)
334 points by metters on May 16, 2024 | 444 comments
7.Things I won't work with: the higher states of bromine (2019) (blogs.sciencemag.org)
385 points by fanf2 on May 16, 2024 | 103 comments
8.Some notes on Rust, mutable aliasing and formal verification (graydon2.dreamwidth.org)
357 points by todsacerdoti on May 16, 2024 | 145 comments
9.SSD death, tricky read-only filesystems, and systemd magic? (rachelbythebay.com)
176 points by ingve on May 15, 2024 | 76 comments
10.Build WebGPU apps with PlayCanvas (playcanvas.com)
147 points by pjmlp on May 16, 2024 | 43 comments
11.The Downfall of DeviantArt (slate.com)
286 points by jfryusef on May 16, 2024 | 237 comments
12.VCs aren’t your friends (openvc.app)
553 points by taubek on May 16, 2024 | 374 comments
13.F* – A Proof-Oriented Programming Language (fstar-lang.org)
236 points by montyanderson on May 16, 2024 | 102 comments
14.Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks to Local Governments (techdirt.com)
365 points by WarOnPrivacy on May 16, 2024 | 220 comments
15.Štar: an iteration construct for Common Lisp (tfeb.org)
100 points by Tomte on May 15, 2024 | 35 comments
16.Earth rotation limits in-body image stabilization to 6.3 stops (2020) (thecentercolumn.com)
166 points by pwnna on May 16, 2024 | 105 comments
17.Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Killed Wireless Price Competition in U.S. (techdirt.com)
299 points by rntn on May 16, 2024 | 250 comments
18.Using Llamafiles for embeddings in local RAG applications (future.mozilla.org)
141 points by tosh on May 16, 2024 | 23 comments
19.Localization in .NET console and desktop apps (axantum.com)
81 points by svantex on May 15, 2024 | 33 comments
20.ChatGPT-4o vs. Math (sabrina.dev)
302 points by sabrina_ramonov on May 16, 2024 | 170 comments
21.Swift sucks at web serving or does it? (wadetregaskis.com)
146 points by MBCook on May 16, 2024 | 84 comments
22.Parseback: A pure-Lua introspection library for LuaJIT's FFI ctype objects (github.com/javierguerragiraldez)
49 points by todsacerdoti on May 15, 2024 | 11 comments
23.A long list of (advanced) JavaScript questions, and their explanations (github.com/lydiahallie)
148 points by redbell on May 16, 2024 | 43 comments
24.Forgotten APL Influences (2016) [pdf] (acm.org)
90 points by secwang on May 16, 2024 | 7 comments
25.Raspberry Pi prepares for London listing (ft.com)
81 points by denotational on May 15, 2024 | 29 comments
26.PHYS771 Lecture 17: Fun with the Anthropic Principle (2006) (scottaaronson.com)
60 points by Tomte on May 15, 2024 | 15 comments
27.Wind farms can offset their emissions within two years, new study shows (taylorandfrancisgroup.com)
173 points by geox on May 16, 2024 | 186 comments
28.My Sony HB-F1XV (thefoggiest.dev)
86 points by ingve on May 16, 2024 | 35 comments
29.Fast Tokenizers with StringScanner (2023) (tenderlovemaking.com)
51 points by FigurativeVoid on May 14, 2024 | 8 comments
30.Some lithium could come from wastewater (pitt.edu)
82 points by geox on May 15, 2024 | 20 comments

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