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Karen Wynn Fonstad, Who Mapped Tolkien's Middle-Earth (nytimes.com)

2 weeks ago | indigoabstract | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Spherical egg sells at auction for £200 (bbc.com)

a month ago | indigoabstract | bbc.com | newest

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Where Humans Still Have the Edge on AI (hbr.org)

a month ago | indigoabstract | hbr.org | newest

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Mnemotechnics and Ultima Underworld II (2011) (rockpapershotgun.com)

a month ago | indigoabstract | rockpapershotgun.com | frontpage

5

Stimulants in Germanic communities of the Roman period (degruyter.com)

a month ago | indigoabstract | degruyter.com | frontpage

2

Fil-C: memory safe C/C++ compiler (github.com/pizlonator)

3 months ago | indigoabstract | github.com | newest

2

AnyChat – a tool which brings together ChatGPT, Google Gemini and more (venturebeat.com)

3 months ago | indigoabstract | venturebeat.com | newest

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A summer intern once saved Valve from a near-fatal lawsuit (pcgamer.com)

3 months ago | indigoabstract | pcgamer.com | best

1

Hafele–Keating Experiment (wikipedia.org)

3 months ago | indigoabstract | wikipedia.org | newest

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Gen AI doesn't have a coherent understanding of the world, researchers suggest (techxplore.com)

3 months ago | indigoabstract | techxplore.com | frontpage

1

First wheel may have been invented 6k years ago in the Carpathian Mountains (livescience.com)

4 months ago | indigoabstract | livescience.com | newest

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Colorful cars are becoming a thing of the past (businessinsider.com)

4 months ago | indigoabstract | businessinsider.com | frontpage

4

Why do humans have near-equal numbers of male and female babies? (theconversation.com)

4 months ago | indigoabstract | theconversation.com | newest

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ChatGPT o1-preview excels at code generation (infoworld.com)

4 months ago | indigoabstract | infoworld.com | newest

1

Why do sunrises and sunsets look slightly different? (reddit.com)

6 months ago | indigoabstract | reddit.com | newest

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$4.7B valuation targeted in Tokyo Metro IPO (reuters.com)

6 months ago | indigoabstract | reuters.com | newest

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Self-Awareness Might Not Have Evolved to Benefit the Self After All (sciencealert.com)

7 months ago | indigoabstract | sciencealert.com | best

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Apple approves Epic Games Store app for iOS (arstechnica.com)

7 months ago | indigoabstract | arstechnica.com | frontpage

3

Pro comedians tried using ChatGPT and Google Gemini to write their jokes (techradar.com)

8 months ago | indigoabstract | techradar.com | newest

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Hey ChatGPT, finish this building (2023) (twitter.com/_akhaliq)

8 months ago | indigoabstract | twitter.com | newest

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AI Building in Minecraft [video] (youtube.com)

9 months ago | indigoabstract | youtube.com | frontpage

2

Falling into a black hole simulation by NASA [video] (youtube.com)

9 months ago | indigoabstract | youtube.com | newest

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Smart Pointers in (GNU) C (snai.pe)

9 months ago | indigoabstract | snai.pe | best

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How to Be Your Best Despite the Passing Years (theatlantic.com)

9 months ago | indigoabstract | theatlantic.com | newest

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Living Worlds – 8 bit palette cycling engine (effectgames.com)

9 months ago | indigoabstract | effectgames.com | newest

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Why captchas are getting harder (thehustle.co)

10 months ago | indigoabstract | thehustle.co | newest

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The Making of Dune II (readonlymemory.com)

10 months ago | indigoabstract | readonlymemory.com | best

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[flagged] Difficulty levels of most European languages for Americans (atlasobscura.com)

10 months ago | indigoabstract | atlasobscura.com | frontpage

4

Blissymbols – Ideographic Writing System (wikipedia.org)

10 months ago | indigoabstract | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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How the Finale of the D&D '80s Cartoon Became a Pop-Culture Mystery (gizmodo.com)

11 months ago | indigoabstract | gizmodo.com | newest

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Developers don't need performance reviews (infoworld.com)

11 months ago | indigoabstract | infoworld.com | newest

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John Walker, Tech Executive Who Popularized AutoCAD, Dies at 74 (obituary) (nytimes.com)

11 months ago | indigoabstract | nytimes.com | newest

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P a u l B o u r k e – Personal Pages (paulbourke.net)

12 months ago | indigoabstract | paulbourke.net | newest

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The Autodesk File: Bits of History, Words of Experience (fourmilab.ch)

12 months ago | indigoabstract | fourmilab.ch | newest

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Sam Altman was asked what humans would still do better than AI (fortune.com)

a year ago | indigoabstract | fortune.com | newest

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A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years (techradar.com)

a year ago | indigoabstract | techradar.com | best

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The Last Frontier of Machine Translation (theatlantic.com)

a year ago | indigoabstract | theatlantic.com | newest

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The actors who are the best (and worst) at their job (thehustle.co)

a year ago | indigoabstract | thehustle.co | newest

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Leaf blowers are a scourge. Why is it hard to get rid of them? (thehustle.co)

a year ago | indigoabstract | thehustle.co | best

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Eliminating a memory is fairly simple, once you have the right tools (elpais.com)

a year ago | indigoabstract | elpais.com | frontpage

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Consciousness-what it is, where it comes from and whether machines can have it (nature.com)

a year ago | indigoabstract | nature.com | newest

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Swift 5.9 Brings a Macro System and C++ Interoperability (infoq.com)

a year ago | indigoabstract | infoq.com | newest

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Laying the foundations of programming and system design (nature.com)

a year ago | indigoabstract | nature.com | newest

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Final comments from banned HN users (github.com/kelukelugames)

a year ago | indigoabstract | github.com | frontpage

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UltraRAM (tomshardware.com)

a year ago | indigoabstract | tomshardware.com | best

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Groundbreaking Study Uncovers Origin of Conscious Awareness (scitechdaily.com)

a year ago | indigoabstract | scitechdaily.com | newest

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Fuzzy Match in C and JavaScript (github.com/forrestthewoods)

a year ago | indigoabstract | github.com | newest

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Man buys metal detector for fun and makes the gold find of the century in Norway (nbcnews.com)

a year ago | indigoabstract | nbcnews.com | frontpage

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Land of Lisp Minigames (github.com/kofno)

a year ago | indigoabstract | github.com | newest

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The Wavefunction Collapse Algorithm (github.com/mxgmn)

a year ago | indigoabstract | github.com | newest

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Ask HN: Has anybody succesfully blocked YouTube's Hero Wars ads? (twitter.com/dark1x)

a year ago | indigoabstract | twitter.com | newest

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(Life) Advice From The Creator of C++ [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | indigoabstract | youtube.com | newest

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Ultraram (pcgamer.com)

a year ago | indigoabstract | pcgamer.com | newest

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Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls (bookofhook.blogspot.com)

a year ago | indigoabstract | blogspot.com | newest

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Paul Graham on Remote Work (yahoo.com)

a year ago | indigoabstract | yahoo.com | frontpage

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Where Imagination Lives in Your Brain (scientificamerican.com)

a year ago | indigoabstract | scientificamerican.com | newest

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Matriphagy (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | indigoabstract | wikipedia.org | newest

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What is the nature of consciousness? (quantamagazine.org)

a year ago | indigoabstract | quantamagazine.org | frontpage

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How System Shock balanced faithful recreation and design (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | indigoabstract | arstechnica.com | newest

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System Shock Remake Review (vg247.com)

a year ago | indigoabstract | vg247.com | newest

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System Shock Remake set for release on May 30th (twitch.tv)

a year ago | indigoabstract | twitch.tv | newest

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Ask HN: Can ChatGPT be trained on a specific project's codebase?

a year ago | indigoabstract | ycombinator.com | newest

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The Wreck of the Titan (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | indigoabstract | wikipedia.org | newest

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Lego’s Turnaround Story (theguardian.com)

a year ago | indigoabstract | theguardian.com | newest