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31.
What happens when a GPU reads memory (doubleword.ai)
116 points by ibobev 19 days ago | 19 comments
32.
Micron announces $10B research hub in Boise (micron.com)
131 points by osnium123 19 days ago | 72 comments
33.
Make a 6-Tesla-class high-temperature superconducting dipole magnet at 4.2 K (aps.org)
48 points by supermagnet 25 days ago | 12 comments
34.
Flat Chair by Sara Paculdo (paculdo.com)
114 points by surprisetalk 23 days ago | 39 comments
35.
The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb (1986) (philipdick.com)
91 points by wise_blood 19 days ago | 65 comments
36.
Copyright does not protect AI-generated content in EU (mathstodon.xyz)
190 points by u1hcw9nx 19 days ago | 212 comments
37.
 [flagged] There's no such thing as a small software team anymore (jacob.gold)
93 points by mooreslaw 19 days ago | 176 comments
38.
TigerBeetle Core System Architecture: Deconstructing Performance Engineering (ixuvo.com)
128 points by ksec 19 days ago | 41 comments
39.
Radiation damage to Hubble has been 4.3 years out of phase with the Solar cycle (arxiv.org)
112 points by pppone 19 days ago | 36 comments
40.
Seed: Minimal, self-modifying agent harness (github.com/vivekhaldar)
59 points by gandalfgeek 19 days ago | 20 comments
41.
The road to ACID transactions in Cassandra 6 (theconsensus.dev)
74 points by eatonphil 19 days ago | 25 comments
42.
Kino: A high-performance Ractor web server for Ruby 4.0 (github.com/yaroslav)
80 points by ksec 19 days ago | 22 comments
43.
Decayfmt – a file format that corrupts itself a little every time you open it (github.com/aravpanwar)
55 points by unprovable 19 days ago | 30 comments
44.
Using an old Android phone as a music player (monocyte.blog)
62 points by surprisetalk 23 days ago | 41 comments
45.
AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: Study (canews24.online)
166 points by Edymilson 19 days ago | 11 comments
46.
DuckDB V2 PEG-based SQL parser (duckdb.org)
81 points by karma_daemon 19 days ago | 8 comments
47.
Quantifying the honey bee dance floor (plos.org)
28 points by Ariarule 26 days ago | 1 comment
48.
What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x (catalystneuro.com)
130 points by bkd9 19 days ago | 139 comments
49.
Detecting scraper bots through scroll behaviour (niki.cat)
51 points by theanonymousone 19 days ago | 21 comments
50.
Galactic Compass 2: now with new augmented reality mode (interconnected.org)
23 points by bobbiechen 19 days ago | 3 comments
51.
Cancer-related mortality among US pilots and flight attendants (cnn.com)
100 points by jader201 19 days ago | 101 comments
52.
Better Batteries (matklad.github.io)
64 points by olexsmir 19 days ago | 25 comments
53.
What we lost when search stopped making us think (8ball.space)
88 points by speckx 19 days ago | 59 comments
54.
WPD won't replace stolen Flock cameras, citing public trust (winonapost.com)
113 points by erikschoster 19 days ago | 87 comments
55.
Omacom Foundation launches with $8M (omarchy.org)
197 points by djfergus 19 days ago | 196 comments
56.
Bringing the cybersecurity capabilities of Claude Mythos 5 to more defenders (claude.com)
50 points by garo-pro 18 days ago | 52 comments
57.
Version Control for Everything (tyoverby.com)
52 points by evakhoury 22 days ago | 54 comments
58.
I Just Want to Search (0xsid.com)
122 points by ssiddharth 19 days ago | 54 comments
59.
c100 (caligra.com)
114 points by tosh 19 days ago | 101 comments
60.
The Mystery of Dark Oxygen (newyorker.com)
57 points by rbanffy 24 days ago | 17 comments

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