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Gamma-ray pulsations reveal extreme 3.2-ms pulsar 3,900 light-years away(phys.org)
4 points by wglb 2mo ago|2 comments
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by wglb 2mo ago
Also https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/99-old-mathemati... . Someone who has been at this problem for 60 years.
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The Burau representation of the braid group is faithful for n = 4(arxiv.org)
53 points by wglb 2mo ago|18 comments
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by wglb 3mo ago
Paper published in Biogenetics https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-026-12959-6
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Tapeworm hijacks worker ants, giving them queen-like metabolism and longer lives(phys.org)
3 points by wglb 3mo ago|1 comments
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That post never existed. Stop listening to that thing(rachelbythebay.com)
157 points by wglb 3mo ago|171 comments
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by wglb 3mo ago
Not hard to find: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies
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by wglb 3mo ago
In my youth, I openly railed against this type of thinking. I was near quitting one gig when the VP said that all work done on our Dec 10 had to be done in batch mode. Fortunately, this dictum was shortly reveresed. To further answer why I
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by wglb 3mo ago
Other articles: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48823719 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848899 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48825942 https://news.ycombina
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by wglb 3mo ago
The Guardian also has an article about this: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/08/telst... It seems like the US is beginning to think about how to back up GPS and be less reliant: htt
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Star Just Ate a Planet, and It's Not Done Yet(nytimes.com)
43 points by wglb 3mo ago|62 comments
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by wglb 3mo ago
Isn't it true that OED say that "cipher" is the primary, preferred spelling in modern British English?
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JWST discovers a new barred spiral galaxy(phys.org)
4 points by wglb 3mo ago|0 comments
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Ovaries may take on job in immune system after tenure as reproductive organs(medicalxpress.com)
3 points by wglb 3mo ago|0 comments
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by wglb 3mo ago
Study published in Nature Physics: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-026-03301-8
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Scientists find molecular-level evidence for two structures in liquid water(phys.org)
110 points by wglb 3mo ago|93 comments
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by wglb 3mo ago
Paper in Current Biology https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(26)...
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Australian ballista spider builds a spring-loaded snare for a single ant species(phys.org)
4 points by wglb 3mo ago|1 comments
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NASA Aims to Catch a Falling Space Telescope and Push It Back Up(nytimes.com)
6 points by wglb 3mo ago|0 comments
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Carl de Marcken: Inside Orbitz (2001)(paulgraham.com)
2 points by wglb 3mo ago|0 comments
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Vibecoding is becoming a deal-breaker test for software acquisitions(the-decoder.com)
4 points by wglb 4mo ago|0 comments
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Lithp.py (~2008)(fogus.me)
40 points by wglb 4mo ago|5 comments
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by wglb 4mo ago
I never got a class in compilers. When I was a senior, I wanted to take the graduate course, but the prof thought it would be too hard for me. So my next gig was writing a compiler on a team of three of us. It was highly successful for its
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Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware for breach of contract (2025)(theregister.com)
133 points by wglb 4mo ago|38 comments
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Gravitational-wave detections double with new catalog(news.northwestern.edu)
2 points by wglb 4mo ago|0 comments
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Spin separates giant planets from 'failed stars'(news.northwestern.edu)
7 points by wglb 4mo ago|0 comments
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by wglb 4mo ago
Reminds me of my first exposure to Lisp. It was in a survey course in my final year. This was using punched card input and output on a line printer. You could turn on paren counting, but it was clumsy at best. This was in 1970
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by wglb 4mo ago
It's also used in security defense, where there is a search for how to stop the many steps of attack.
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AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter(theregister.com)
158 points by wglb 4mo ago|145 comments
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by wglb 4mo ago
The register article is better.

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