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The handmade beauty of Machine Age data visualizations

Article URL: https://resobscura.substack.com/p/the-handmade-beauty-of-machine-age Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864011 Points: 6 # Comments: 1

benbreen 4 months ago

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Treetops glowing during storms captured on film for first time

Article URL: https://www.psu.edu/news/earth-and-mineral-sciences/story/treetops-glowing-during-storms-captured-film-first-time Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47863324 Points: 41 # Comments: 4

t-3 4 months ago

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Books Are Not Remotely Too Expensive

Article URL: https://www.millersbookreview.com/p/no-books-are-not-remotely-too-expensive Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47863248 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

gHeadphone 4 months ago

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Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model

Article URL: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-27b Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47863217 Points: 108 # Comments: 58

mfiguiere 4 months ago

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Columnar Storage Is Normalization

Article URL: https://buttondown.com/jaffray/archive/columnar-storage-is-normalization/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862626 Points: 11 # Comments: 6

ibobev 4 months ago

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The eighth-generation TPU: An architecture deep dive

Article URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/tpu-8t-and-tpu-8i-technical-deep-dive Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862608 Points: 27 # Comments: 2

meetpateltech 4 months ago

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Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era

Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/infrastructure-and-cloud/google-cloud/eighth-generation-tpu-agentic-era/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862497 Points: 13 # Comments: 5

xnx 4 months ago

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3.4M Solar Panels

Article URL: https://tech.marksblogg.com/american-solar-farms-v2.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862386 Points: 54 # Comments: 3

marklit 4 months ago

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GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry

Article URL: https://cli.github.com/telemetry Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862331 Points: 55 # Comments: 17

ingve 4 months ago

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Kernel code removals driven by LLM-created security reports

Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1068928/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862230 Points: 9 # Comments: 1

edward 4 months ago

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Iran claims US exploited networking equipment backdoors during strikes

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/iran-claims-us-exploited-networking-equipment-backdoors-during-strikes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47861881 Points: 10 # Comments: 6

pseudolus 4 months ago

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Nobody Got Fired for Uber's $8M Ledger Mistake?

Article URL: https://news.alvaroduran.com/p/nobody-got-fired-for-ubers-8-million Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47861731 Points: 37 # Comments: 12

ohduran 4 months ago

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CATL's new LFP battery can charge from 10 to 98% in less than 7 minutes

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/04/catls-new-lfp-battery-can-charge-from-10-to-98-in-less-than-7-minutes/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47861703 Points: 14 # Comments: 1

PotatoNinja 4 months ago

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Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux

Article URL: https://social.hails.org/@hailey/116446826733136456 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47861270 Points: 117 # Comments: 26

sohkamyung 4 months ago

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How the Heck Does GPS Work?

Article URL: https://perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck-does-gps-work Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47861087 Points: 22 # Comments: 3

alfanick 4 months ago

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Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-new-ai-tool-tracks-staff-activity-sparks-concern-2026-4 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47860961 Points: 12 # Comments: 4

latein 4 months ago

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Irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/22/meta_employee_surveillance_software/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47860742 Points: 38 # Comments: 2

jjgreen 4 months ago

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XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub?

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260421-00/?p=112247 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47859861 Points: 32 # Comments: 10

ingve 4 months ago

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What Async Promised and What It Delivered

Article URL: https://causality.blog/essays/what-async-promised/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47859442 Points: 11 # Comments: 1

zdw 4 months ago

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FBI looks into dead or missing scientists tied to NASA, Blue Origin, SpaceX

Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/04/21/scientists-disappear-die-nasa-space-blue-origin-spacex/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47858246 Points: 31 # Comments: 4

ineedasername 4 months ago

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Kuri – Zig based agent-browser alternative

Article URL: https://github.com/justrach/kuri Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47857964 Points: 7 # Comments: 1

sorcercode 4 months ago

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Global growth in solar "the largest ever observed for any source"

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/global-growth-in-solar-the-largest-ever-observed-for-any-source/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47857509 Points: 18 # Comments: 3

tambourine_man 4 months ago

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San Diego rents declined more than 19 of 20 top US markets after surge in supply

Article URL: https://www.kpbs.org/news/economy/2026/03/27/san-diego-rents-declined-more-than-19-of-nations-top-20-markets-following-surge-in-supply Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47857477 Points: 12 # Comments: 5

littlexsparkee 4 months ago

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I'm Sick of AI Everything

A while back, I stopped using Facebook because I just couldn't take it anymore. Just totally sick of it. I'm honestly getting there with AI. At this point, I would prefer to have anything AI related just be blocked at the browser level. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47857461 P...

jonthepirate 4 months ago

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