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by wglb 5mo ago
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/293/2068/202...
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Universal patterns emerge across 22 languages, mapping how vocabularies evolve(phys.org)
35 points by wglb 5mo ago|3 comments
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by wglb 5mo ago
Paper link in Arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.06504
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Two blazing quasars caught waltzing into a merger(phys.org)
3 points by wglb 5mo ago|1 comments
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by wglb 5mo ago
Paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2525919123
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Snowball Earth may hide a far stranger climate cycle than anyone expected(sciencex.com)
109 points by wglb 5mo ago|66 comments
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by wglb 5mo ago
Here is a typical day's posting tally job 2 flagged 204 dead 336 story 1664 delayed 687 comment 12312 That is approximately 513 comments each hour or 8.55 each minute. Not humanly possible for two moderators to v
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by wglb 5mo ago
Let's not post down announcements. They are not interesting in the sense of HN.
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The IBM Granite 4.1 family of models(research.ibm.com)
88 points by wglb 5mo ago|16 comments
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by wglb 6mo ago
While I was at Mark Williams back in the day, the engineers wrote 8087 emulation floating point for the Mark Williams 8086 compiler. This involved some quality time with the Volume 2 of Knuth in the log division section.
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by wglb 6mo ago
Article in npj Heritage Science https://www.nature.com/articles/s40494-026-02475-x Crypto is older than you thought!
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Scraped from ancient Roman toilets, remains expose a pathogen found earlier(phys.org)
2 points by wglb 6mo ago|2 comments
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by wglb 6mo ago
From Physical Review of Letters: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/v6jq-m6sk
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Physicists revive 1990s laser concept to propose a next-generation atomic clock(phys.org)
64 points by wglb 6mo ago|10 comments
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by wglb 6mo ago
Interesting. I don't recall any of my submissions had an auto title change.
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by wglb 6mo ago
I submitted and had to edit the title for length—no other changes.
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by wglb 6mo ago
Paper in Science: https://phys.org/news/2026-04-colorado-river-geological-mill...
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Colorado River disappeared record for 5M years: now we know where it was(phys.org)
58 points by wglb 6mo ago|13 comments
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by wglb 6mo ago
> It seems to me LL and LR parser generators are overrated, and hand-written recursive descent is best in practice I would now agree with that. My compiler experience was on a team that happened to have a LALR expert, Jeanne Musinski PhD
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by wglb 6mo ago
A significant fraction of my technical library is used just this way--as a reference, checking out the parts to answer a specific question.
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by wglb 6mo ago
When I was professionally writing a compiler professionally (see https://ciex-software.com/intro-to-compilers.html ) the Dragon book was the second book that I read. I found it very helpful. That was the first Dragon book. I
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The asteroid Ryugu has all of the main ingredients for life(newscientist.com)
4 points by wglb 6mo ago|3 comments
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by wglb 6mo ago
This is why these postings are not interesting or useful.
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WireGuard developer can't ship software updates after Microsoft locks account(techcrunch.com)
2 points by wglb 6mo ago|1 comments
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Cell Phone Networks Are Just Microservices(cape.co)
1 points by wglb 6mo ago|0 comments
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by wglb 6mo ago
No problem with that. However, at one point in my career, I was frustrated with limitations in a language (Fortran II) and my curiosity got the better of me and I studied compilers thoroughly. This led to a new job and the understanding of
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Claude Wrote a Full FreeBSD Remote Kernel RCE with Root Shell (CVE-2026-4747)(blog.calif.io)
4 points by wglb 6mo ago|2 comments
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New Spider Mimics 'The Last of Us' Zombie Fungus Cordyceps(nytimes.com)
2 points by wglb 7mo ago|0 comments
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After This Fungus Turns Ants into Zombies, Their Bodies Explode (2019)(nytimes.com)
3 points by wglb 7mo ago|0 comments
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by wglb 7mo ago
Paper at arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.11171

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