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New species of methane-producing archaea discovered in the human gut
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Microbiologists discover new species of methane-producing archaea in the human gut
An international team of microbiologists from the Medical University of Graz, the DSMZ—German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures (Braunschweig, Germany)—and the University of Illinois ...
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Show HN: I built a synthesizer based on 3D physics and launched the product
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Anukari
Anukari 3D Physics Synthesizer
The official website for the Anukari 3D Physics Synthesizer
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The un-celebrity president: Jimmy Carter shuns riches, lives modestly (2018)
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The un-celebrity president: Jimmy Carter shuns riches, lives modestly in his Georgia hometown
The un-celebrity president: Thirty-seven years after leaving office, Jimmy Carter shuns riches, lives modestly in his Georgia hometown
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Building Burstables: CPU slicing with cgroups
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Building Burstables: cpu slicing with cgroups
Burstable VMs run on a fraction of CPU and burst to a higher level of CPU usage to support occasional usage spikes. To implement them, we leveraged Control Groups v2 (cgroups v2), a Linux kernel feature that helps manage resource usage. We thought our open…
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Strings Just Got Faster
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Strings Just Got Faster
In JDK 25, Strings used as keys in immutable Maps can be much faster.
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Images of Soviet Venus lander falling to Earth suggest its parachute may be out
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Show HN: Blast – Fast, multi-threaded serving engine for web browsing AI agents
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GitHub
GitHub - stanford-mast/blast: Browser-LLM Auto-Scaling Technology
Browser-LLM Auto-Scaling Technology. Contribute to stanford-mast/blast development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Rams is a documentary portrait of Dieter Rams (2018)
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Gary Hustwit
Rams — Gary Hustwit
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VR Design Unpacked: The Secret to Beat Saber's Fun Isn't What You Think
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Road to VR
VR Design Unpacked: The Secret to Beat Saber’s Fun Isn’t What You Think
Our series Inside XR Design highlights and unpacks examples of great XR design. Today we’re looking at Beat Saber (2019) and why its most essential design element can be used to make great VR games that have nothing to do with music or rhythm. Editor’s Note: It’s…
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The History of Album Art
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Matthew Ström
The history of album art
Album art didn’t always exist.
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Driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes
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CNN
The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes
Driverless trucks are officially running their first regular long-haul routes, making roundtrips between Dallas and Houston.
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The Totalitarian Buddhist Who Beat SIM City (2010)
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The Totalitarian Buddhist Who Beat Sim City
Yes, you can beat Sim City. Yes, you've got to be really intense to do it.
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The Art of Managing Skunks
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mahesh’s blog
The Art of Managing Skunks
Since moving from academic research to industry in 2017, I’ve worked on two software projects. Each one started as a small, clean-slate1 skunkworks effort involving 2-3 people and gradually expanded to a large, conventional software engineering effort with…
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Fast(er) regular expression engines in Ruby
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Fast(er) regular expression engines in Ruby
Performance-oriented comparison of alternative regexp engines that may (or may not) speed up your Ruby code.
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Relational Graph Transformers
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kumo.ai
Relational Graph Transformers: A New Frontier in AI for Relational Data
Relational Graph Transformers represent the next evolution in Relational Deep Learning, allowing AI systems to seamlessly navigate and learn from data spread across multiple tables. By treating relational databases as the rich, interconnected graphs they…
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Doom GPU Flame Graphs
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Derivation and Intuition behind Poisson distribution
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antaripasaha on Notion
Derivation and Intuition behind Poisson distribution | Notion
Cutting out all the bs, let's jump on deriving the Poisson distribution in an intuitive way using a simple example, applying the concepts of Bernoulli's distribution, the Binomial theorem, L'Hôpital's rule and Taylor Series. A classic way to approach this…
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Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis
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Achieving human-level speed and performance on real world tasks is a north star for the robotics research community. This work takes a step towards that goal and presents the first learned robot agent that reaches amateur human-level performance in competitive…
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You could just choose optimism
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You Could Just Choose Optimism — Quarter Mile
You Could Just Choose Optimism There’s something strange and a little awe-inspiring about hearing someone ask for champagne on a two-hour domestic flight....
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A proof of concept tool to verify estimates
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A proof of concept tool to verify estimates
This post was inspired by some recent discussions with Bjoern Bringmann. Symbolic math software packages are highly developed for many mathematical tasks in areas such as algebra, calculus, and num…