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• Title of work deciphered in sealed Herculaneum scroll via digital unwrapping

  https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/title-work-deciphered-sealed-herculaneum-scroll-digital-unwrapping

  65 points, 15 comments, namanyayg, 2 hours ago

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• Gonzalo Guerrero

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzalo_Guerrero

  18 points, 1 comment, akkartik, an hour ago

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• The most valuable commodity in the world is friction

  https://kyla.substack.com/p/the-most-valuable-commodity-in-the

  68 points, 28 comments, walterbell, 3 days ago

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• The Epochalypse Project

  https://epochalypse-project.org/

  115 points, 49 comments, maxeda, 6 hours ago

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• Show HN: GlassFlow – OSS streaming dedup and joins from Kafka to ClickHouse

  https://github.com/glassflow/clickhouse-etl

  35 points, 9 comments, super_ar, 3 hours ago

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• In 2025, venture capital can't pretend everything is fine any more

  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/03/in-2025-venture-capital-cant-pretend-everything-is-fine-any-more/

  132 points, 73 comments, namanyayg, 2 hours ago

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• A Rust Documentation Ecosystem Review

  https://www.harudagondi.space/blog/rust-documentation-ecosystem-review/

  47 points, 8 comments, hyperbrainer, 4 hours ago

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• DNS Piracy Blocking Orders: Google, Cloudflare, and OpenDNS Respond Differently

  https://torrentfreak.com/dns-piracy-blocking-orders-google-cloudflare-and-opendns-respond-differently-250511/

  22 points, 1 comment, DanAtC, an hour ago

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• Is there a balance to be struck between simple hierarchical models and

  https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/05/26/is-there-a-balance-to-be-struck-between-simple-hierarchical-models-and-more-complex-hierarchical-models-that-augment-the-simple-frameworks-with-more-modeled-interactions-when-analyzing-real-data/

  11 points, 1 comment, luu, 4 days ago

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• Writing an LLM from scratch, part 13 – attention heads are dumb

  https://www.gilesthomas.com/2025/05/llm-from-scratch-13-taking-stock-part-1-attention-heads-are-dumb

  8 points, 0 comments, gpjt, 3 days ago

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• Leaving Google

  https://www.airs.com/blog/archives/670

  229 points, 129 comments, todsacerdoti, 13 hours ago

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• An Introduction to Solid Queue for Ruby on Rails

  https://blog.appsignal.com/2025/05/07/an-introduction-to-solid-queue-for-ruby-on-rails.html

  66 points, 26 comments, amalinovic, 3 days ago

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• Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring Lead Fullstack Engineer

  https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/roame/jobs/S7ytgrb-founding-full-stack-engineer

  points, 0 comments, , 4 hours ago

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• Four years of running a SaaS in a competitive market

  https://maxrozen.com/on-four-years-running-saas-competitive-market

  170 points, 33 comments, mtlynch, 5 days ago

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• High-School Shop Students Attract Skilled-Trades Job Offers

  https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/skilled-trades-high-school-recruitment-fd9f8257

  11 points, 5 comments, lxm, 41 minutes ago

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• Crowd Sourcing Broken QR Codes

  https://www.humanqr.com/news/qr-code-not-scanning-well-try-to-help/

  59 points, 36 comments, devmandan, 4 days ago

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• Fandom sells gaming media brand Giant Bomb to long-term staff

  https://about.fandom.com/news/fandom-sells-giant-bomb-to-independent-creators

  177 points, 92 comments, minimaxir, 16 hours ago

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• Observations from people-watching

  https://skincontact.substack.com/p/21-observations-from-people-watching

  360 points, 186 comments, jger15, 18 hours ago

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• Fan Service

  https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/fan-service

  128 points, 27 comments, todsacerdoti, 12 hours ago

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• Dotless Domains

  https://lab.avl.la/dotless/

  151 points, 119 comments, wibbily, 15 hours ago

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• US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]

  https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.223205/gov.uscourts.dcd.223205.1300.1.pdf

  391 points, 827 comments, dave1629, a day ago

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• A brief history of the numeric keypad

  https://www.doc.cc/articles/a-brief-history-of-the-numeric-keypad

  50 points, 11 comments, ThomPete, 3 days ago

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• Sierpiński Triangle? In My Bitwise and?

  https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/sierpinski-triangle-in-my-bitwise

  187 points, 45 comments, guiambros, 18 hours ago

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• For $595, you get what nobody else can give you for twice the price (1982) [pdf]

  https://s3data.computerhistory.org/brochures/commodore.commodore64.1982.102646264.pdf

  228 points, 128 comments, indigodaddy, a day ago

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• A critical look at MCP

  https://raz.sh/blog/2025-05-02_a_critical_look_at_mcp

  537 points, 292 comments, ablekh, a day ago

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• Absolute Zero: Reinforced Self-Play Reasoning with Zero Data

  https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03335

  45 points, 15 comments, leodriesch, 9 hours ago

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• One-Click RCE in Asus's Preinstalled Driver Software

  https://mrbruh.com/asusdriverhub/

  358 points, 158 comments, MrBruh, 11 hours ago

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• Show HN: Xenolab – Rasp Pi monitor for my pet carnivourus plants

  https://github.com/blackrabbit17/xenolab

  119 points, 44 comments, malux85, 19 hours ago

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• Engineers develop wearable heart attack detection technology

  https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-wearable-heart-technology.html

  61 points, 23 comments, PaulHoule, 4 days ago

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• On thinkers and doers (2022)

  https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/on-thinkers-and-doers

  49 points, 30 comments, andrewrn, 10 hours ago

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