Hacker News headlines

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Hawking Archive made available to historians and researchers (cam.ac.uk)

5 days ago | timthorn | cam.ac.uk | newest

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Professor Roger Griffin and the Cambridge 36-inch telescope (squarewheels.org.uk)

6 days ago | timthorn | squarewheels.org.uk | newest

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Spacefinder (github.com/cambridge-collection)

4 weeks ago | timthorn | github.com | newest

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Flown to the US in chains, now Mike Lynch is free and talking (thetimes.com)

a month ago | timthorn | thetimes.com | newest

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Soft, stretchy 'jelly batteries' inspired by electric eels (cam.ac.uk)

a month ago | timthorn | cam.ac.uk | newest

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When British Railways deliberately crashed a train (therailwayhub.co.uk)

a month ago | timthorn | therailwayhub.co.uk | best

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The Flexipede Revisited (chilton-computing.org.uk)

3 months ago | timthorn | chilton-computing.org.uk | best

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Ron Ayers obituary, designer of the world's fastest car (thetimes.com)

4 months ago | timthorn | thetimes.com | newest

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Cement recycling method could help solve one of the big climate challenges (cam.ac.uk)

4 months ago | timthorn | cam.ac.uk | best

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(Pi5) M.2 HAT+ on sale now at $12 (raspberrypi.com)

4 months ago | timthorn | raspberrypi.com | best

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Quarterhorse Mk 1 puts Hermeus on route to hypersonic flight (theengineer.co.uk)

5 months ago | timthorn | theengineer.co.uk | newest

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Talking on the Moon: The quest to establish a lunar mobile phone network (bbc.com)

6 months ago | timthorn | bbc.com | frontpage

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AI and Scholarship: A Manifesto (cam.ac.uk)

6 months ago | timthorn | cam.ac.uk | newest

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Air traffic chaos went on for hours as engineers were WFH (thetimes.co.uk)

6 months ago | timthorn | thetimes.co.uk | newest

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Ban ransoms to stop hackers, says ex-cybersecurity chief (thetimes.co.uk)

6 months ago | timthorn | thetimes.co.uk | newest

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Welding method drastically cuts time to make mini nuclear reactors (thetimes.co.uk)

7 months ago | timthorn | thetimes.co.uk | newest

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Expert Q&A: space based solar power (theengineer.co.uk)

8 months ago | timthorn | theengineer.co.uk | newest

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The Apple advert that brainwashed America (telegraph.co.uk)

8 months ago | timthorn | telegraph.co.uk | newest

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Researchers develop hedgehog safety test for robotic lawnmowers (ox.ac.uk)

8 months ago | timthorn | ox.ac.uk | newest

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The New ROM Antics – Building the ZX Spectrum 128 (theregister.com)

8 months ago | timthorn | theregister.com | frontpage

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Autophage rocket engine consumes plastic fuselage for fuel (theengineer.co.uk)

8 months ago | timthorn | theengineer.co.uk | best

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Britain's got some of Europe's toughest surveillance laws. Now it wants more (politico.eu)

8 months ago | timthorn | politico.eu | best

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Poor children's school struggles not about character, attitude or growth mindset (cam.ac.uk)

9 months ago | timthorn | cam.ac.uk | newest

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SaxaVord granted spaceport licence by UK Civil Aviation Authority (caa.co.uk)

9 months ago | timthorn | caa.co.uk | newest

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Redesigning mRNA therapeutics to prevent potentially harmful immune responses (cam.ac.uk)

9 months ago | timthorn | cam.ac.uk | newest

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Boy, 10, starts petition to get Apple to change 'nerd' glasses emoji (bbc.co.uk)

10 months ago | timthorn | bbc.co.uk | newest

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AI system self-organises to develop features of brains of complex organisms (cam.ac.uk)

10 months ago | timthorn | cam.ac.uk | best

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SAP HANA Cloud Now Supports AWS Graviton (sap.com)

10 months ago | timthorn | sap.com | newest

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Driverless car users will not be prosecuted for fatal crashes in UK (telegraph.co.uk)

10 months ago | timthorn | telegraph.co.uk | frontpage

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Engineering Icons Tube Map (tfl.gov.uk)

10 months ago | timthorn | tfl.gov.uk | best

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EU Grabs ARM for First ExaFLOP Supercomputer (hpcwire.com)

11 months ago | timthorn | hpcwire.com | best

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Britain to build world’s most powerful laser (thetimes.co.uk)

12 months ago | timthorn | thetimes.co.uk | frontpage

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History of WWII British Cloth Escape Maps (escape-maps.com)

12 months ago | timthorn | escape-maps.com | newest

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How Rishi Sunak convinced the world to worry about AI (politico.eu)

12 months ago | timthorn | politico.eu | newest

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The right to data ownership is the only way to take on Big Tech (telegraph.co.uk)

12 months ago | timthorn | telegraph.co.uk | best

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Has the UK government surrendered in its war on WhatsApp? (capx.co)

a year ago | timthorn | capx.co | newest

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NATS Major Incident Preliminary Report [pdf] (caa.co.uk)

a year ago | timthorn | caa.co.uk | newest

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Air Traffic Control System Update: Statement from NATS CEO (nats.aero)

a year ago | timthorn | nats.aero | newest

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We built a spaceport on a Scottish island (bbc.co.uk)

a year ago | timthorn | bbc.co.uk | newest

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AI girlfriend ‘told crossbow intruder to kill Queen Elizabeth at Windsor Castle’ (telegraph.co.uk)

a year ago | timthorn | telegraph.co.uk | frontpage

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Application deep-dive into the AWS Graviton3E-based Amazon EC2 Hpc7g instance (amazon.com)

a year ago | timthorn | amazon.com | newest

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Reel to Reel (The Cambridge University Tape Recording Society) (cam.ac.uk)

a year ago | timthorn | cam.ac.uk | newest

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An incomplete history of London’s television studios (tvstudiohistory.co.uk)

a year ago | timthorn | tvstudiohistory.co.uk | frontpage

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Open innovation: Licensing and access to Oak National Academy's new resources (thenational.academy)

a year ago | timthorn | thenational.academy | newest

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The Times view on hobby engineers: In Praise of Tinkering (thetimes.co.uk)

a year ago | timthorn | thetimes.co.uk | newest

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The End of Online Privacy (spiked-online.com)

a year ago | timthorn | spiked-online.com | newest

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Fulham proposing AI-powered cameras that will record drivers who break rules (telegraph.co.uk)

a year ago | timthorn | telegraph.co.uk | newest

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Royal Society digital archive puts letters of Galileo and Newton online (thetimes.co.uk)

a year ago | timthorn | thetimes.co.uk | newest

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Science in the Making (royalsociety.org)

a year ago | timthorn | royalsociety.org | newest

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ZX Spectrum trolls’ game of deepfake vengeance (thetimes.co.uk)

a year ago | timthorn | thetimes.co.uk | newest

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Sony invests in Raspberry Pi to promote sensory AI development at the edge (siliconangle.com)

a year ago | timthorn | siliconangle.com | newest

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Sony deal bakes machine learning into Raspberry Pi (thetimes.co.uk)

a year ago | timthorn | thetimes.co.uk | newest

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UK Government signs £2.9M Moon base nuclear power deal with Rolls-Royce (bbc.co.uk)

a year ago | timthorn | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Who’s Going to Build the UK’s Homegrown Exascale Supercomputer? (nextplatform.com)

a year ago | timthorn | nextplatform.com | newest

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Rare 'snow tornado' spotted by Shetland crofter (bbc.co.uk)

a year ago | timthorn | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

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Where Was the Only Nuclear Reactor to Be Constructed Inside a Listed Building? (historicengland.org.uk)

a year ago | timthorn | historicengland.org.uk | newest

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Discovering the 'secret of life' – 70th anniversary of DNA breakthrough (cam.ac.uk)

a year ago | timthorn | cam.ac.uk | newest

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Virgin Orbit update on UK mission anomaly (virginorbit.com)

a year ago | timthorn | virginorbit.com | newest

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Loyalty card data spots ovarian cancer eight months before diagnosis (thetimes.co.uk)

a year ago | timthorn | thetimes.co.uk | newest

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Hydrogen-powered planes take off with startup’s test flight (technologyreview.com)

a year ago | timthorn | technologyreview.com | frontpage

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Largest hydrogen-electric aircraft completes 10-minute flight (engadget.com)

a year ago | timthorn | engadget.com | newest

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Pouria Hadjibagheri and the UK’s abandoned open data revolution (spectator.co.uk)

a year ago | timthorn | spectator.co.uk | frontpage

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UK orders sale of Newport microchip plant by Chinas Nexperia on security grounds (politico.eu)

a year ago | timthorn | politico.eu | frontpage

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Absolutely Fab-ulous – Europe’s microchips success is also its pitfall (politico.eu)

a year ago | timthorn | politico.eu | newest

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UK’s first prototype fusion energy plant to be built by 2040 (belfasttelegraph.co.uk)

a year ago | timthorn | belfasttelegraph.co.uk | newest

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PayPal has restored my accounts – Toby Young/FSU (spectator.co.uk)

a year ago | timthorn | spectator.co.uk | frontpage

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PayPal could be banned from blocking accounts for political reasons (telegraph.co.uk)

a year ago | timthorn | telegraph.co.uk | frontpage

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Energy usage plunges as Britain stops in its tracks to watch the Queen’s funeral

a year ago | timthorn | telegraph.co.uk | newest

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Typo directs mourners to join the royal queue 5k miles away in California

a year ago | timthorn | telegraph.co.uk | frontpage

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UK Law Commission Breaks New Ground on Crypto

2 years ago | timthorn | cityam.com | newest