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The only known trebuchet casualty in history
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Ars Technica
Meet the only known trebuchet casualty in history
It highlights the brutality of medieval warfare," said paleopathologist Jo Buckberry.
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Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis
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artificialanalysis.ai
Qwen3.8 27B (xhigh) - Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis | Artificial Analysis
Analysis of Alibaba's Qwen3.8 27B (xhigh) and comparison to other AI models across key metrics including quality, price, performance (tokens per second & time to first token), context window & more.
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Sun Clock
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sunclock.net
Sun Clock
A 24-hour clock that shows sunrise, sunset, golden hour, and twilight times for your current location. It also shows the current position and phase of the moon, and its rising and setting times.
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Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data
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The Lonely Men Who Work in Patagonia, at the End of the World
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The New Yorker
The Lonely Men at the End of the World
In Patagonia, los puesteros look after other peopleโs livestock for not very much money, and sometimes go months without seeing anyone else.
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Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices
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Tom's Hardware
Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices โ 128GB of DDR5 now $3,399
Analysis of historical price data trends indicates that the memory crisis has driven RAM prices to never-before-seen heights.
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GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast
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arXiv.org
GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast
High-performance GPU programming has traditionally forced a compromise between execution efficiency and memory safety. While Rust guarantees compile-time memory safety for host CPUs via its strict...
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Llama.cpp v0.1.0
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GitHub
Release v0.1.0 ยท ggml-org/llama.cpp
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How to ship a database every day
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Turbopuffer
How to ship a database every day
We deploy many database upgrades every day across ~100 public, single-tenant, and BYOC clusters. It would be insane to use Terraform or Helm to do that, so we built our own control plane.
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Roboflow Playground: Try and Compare 30 Computer Vision Models
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Roboflow Blog
Roboflow Playground: Try & Compare 130+ Vision Models
We are excited to announce a tool to help you try, compare, and evaluate over 130 computer vision models side by side for free without API keys or custom code.
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Meta faces 'astronomical' consequences as legal fight reaches critical moment
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CNBC
Meta faces โastronomicalโ consequences as legal fight reaches critical moment in California
Meta faces a federal trial over child safety claims that could bring major financial penalties and changes to Facebook and Instagram.
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Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI
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TechCrunch
Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI | TechCrunch
Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.
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AirTag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI
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Ars Technica
Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI
Amazonโs team uses a T. rex preparing to devour a book as its logo.
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AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
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Rickmanelius
AI;DR (AI; Didnโt Read)
I'm about as pro-AI as you can be, but this is becoming a pet peeve of mine (and I'm not alone). That's why I love the AI;DR acronym as my new solution for ignoring the walls of slop.
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India built the biggest digital payments miracle: Now comes the bill
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Bbc
India built the world's biggest digital payments miracle. Now comes the bill
India's UPI may finally face merchant fees, raising questions over who pays and whether users will resist.
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Will you have spent more of your life with computers than your family?
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BeachFront
Will you have spent more of your life with computers than your family?
I just had the realization that I spend more time facing my computer than family members, and now I feel haunted.
This is really screwed up. Like really s...
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Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative
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Cursor
Origin Code Hosting ยท Cursor
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Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
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Responsible Statecraft
Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
In just over a week, the Hanover Institute has published at least 100 articles that appear tailor-made to influence chatbots
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The Origin of Consciousness (2008)
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The Universe of Discourse : The Origin of Consciousness
The Origin of Consciousness
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
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moddedbear.com
An Update on Leaving Gmail for Fastmail
It's been a few months since my post on leaving Gmail which sparked a lot of discussion on Hacker News. Here's an update on how things have been going after my move to Fastmail.
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Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera
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Catcrafts
Fairphone 6 + PostmarketOS working main camera! โ Catcrafts
Today i bring the working main camera! Building on the work nondescriptpointer did on the wide lens camera i have written the driver for the main camera and now its working alongside auto focus and color correction. The color correction still a work in progressโฆ
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