Despite Ukraine's imposition of compulsory military service, some draft-age Ukrainian men have crossed the border illegally and subsequently received temporary protection in EU countries.

C++ implementation of a fast hash map and hash set using hopscotch hashing - Tessil/hopscotch-map

Using artificial analysis benchmarks we try to predict when an open source LLM will be released that matches frontier LLMs.

Movies like Rambo: First Blood, Bridget Jones' Diary and The Deer Hunter are all being unceremoniously removed

Ignoring EFF’s warnings about the dangers and impossibility of implementing a new mandate for 3D print surveillance software, the California State Assembly has signed off on legislation to do just

Newly revealed guidance issued by the Department of the Interior reportedly prohibits National Park staff from publicly releasing information about deaths across 435 sites nationwide. Experts say this puts visitors at risk.

Letter: the US lifts its block on Mythos 5, allowing Anthropic to release it to more than 100 US institutions; sources: talks about Fable 5 are ongoing (Semafor)

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As Wikipedia says:
[...] the kinetic energy of a non-rotating object of mass $m$ traveling at a speed $v$ is $\frac{1}{2}mv^2$.
Why does this not increase linearly with speed? Why does it take so...

Either a Simple lisp compiler, or Steve's lisp compiler - skx/slisp

Researchers debate motivation, purpose, and the field’s future

But campaigners want the LW masts in Worcestershire to be given listed status.

This is going to sound cornier than a bucket of Jiffy-Pop, but it is a profound irony that a man with such a big and beautiful figurative heart could have such a lousy literal one.

This is the third part (I, IIa, IIb, III) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are recruited, raised, equipped and paid. In th…

The top 20 stories on Hacker News, rendered on a split-flap departures board. Rank, points and headline on real mechanical flaps, refreshed by a scheduled cloud function. A remix of the Quickish flipboard.

Author of 24 bestselling novels including The Oppenheimer Alternative and FlashForward

IBM MCGA reverse engineered chips. Contribute to schlae/IBM_MCGA development by creating an account on GitHub.

An open source simulator based on the classic game Transport Tycoon Deluxe. It attempts to mimic the original game as closely as possible while extending it with new features.

International investment and local rules push prices up faster than supply

A new book spots a real problem and offers terrible solutions