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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences [pdf]

Article URL: https://web.njit.edu/~akansu/PAPERS/The%20Unreasonable%20Effectiveness%20of%20Mathematics%20(EP%20Wigner).pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49225676 Points: 10 # Comments: 2

pseudolus 2 weeks ago

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Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse

Article URL: https://eclipsefan.org/?v=2&t=max&layers=eclipse%2Cbesselian%2Cumbra-live%2Cshadow-3d%2Ccloud-projection%2Cosm&lat=43.4623&lon=-3.8099&opacity=besselian%3A0.2%2Cumbra-live%3A0.2&zoom=6&palier=minute Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49225139 Points: 29 # Comments: 5

MarcoDewey 2 weeks ago

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Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating

Article URL: https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/ca117584_denmark_requires_oral/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49224294 Points: 166 # Comments: 77

theanonymousone 2 weeks ago

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TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS

Article URL: https://classicbits.net/coding-and-software/my-software/monosol/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49224020 Points: 13 # Comments: 3

skibz 2 weeks ago

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Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country

Article URL: https://newrepublic.com/post/214111/amazon-data-center-biggest-pollution-source-entire-country Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223845 Points: 59 # Comments: 17

geox 2 weeks ago

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LinkedIn Feed Blocker

Article URL: https://github.com/andrewpollack/linkedin-feed-blocker Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223475 Points: 12 # Comments: 6

andrewpollack 2 weeks ago

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Wireblast a 100 Gbps packet generator in Go using AF_XDP

Article URL: https://toonk.io/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223105 Points: 3 # Comments: 1

bgpdude 2 weeks ago

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Fastmail offers EU data region

Article URL: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-offers-eu-data-region/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223082 Points: 40 # Comments: 8

groomlake 2 weeks ago

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Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?

Article URL: https://hackaday.com/2026/08/08/want-energy-efficiency-dude-youre-getting-a-dell/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223079 Points: 59 # Comments: 16

gumby 2 weeks ago

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Message your other Claude Code sessions

Article URL: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/cross-session-messaging Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222824 Points: 14 # Comments: 6

mfiguiere 2 weeks ago

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"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers

Article URL: https://blog.senko.net/code-was-never-the-hard-part-is-an-insult-to-all-programmers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222189 Points: 11 # Comments: 4

senko 2 weeks ago

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Sensitive Info Goes into 'No Reply' Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/sensitive-info-goes-into-no-reply-emails-constantly-this-guy-sees-it-all/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221947 Points: 17 # Comments: 3

sbulaev 2 weeks ago

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Don't use your phone while you poop

Article URL: https://nate.spot/no-phone-while-poop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221939 Points: 15 # Comments: 11

ExMachina73 2 weeks ago

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Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload

Article URL: https://social.treehouse.systems/@mgorny/117058483039362779 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221864 Points: 15 # Comments: 1

happosai 2 weeks ago

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Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU

Article URL: https://blog.getutm.app/2026/introducing-triton-directx-11-driver-for-qemu/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221711 Points: 22 # Comments: 0

electricant 2 weeks ago

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Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator

Article URL: https://zaneham.github.io/voyager-fds-emulator/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221679 Points: 8 # Comments: 0

rahen 2 weeks ago

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A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS

Article URL: https://specification.website/spec/foundations/for-sale-dns/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221668 Points: 40 # Comments: 16

shaunpud 2 weeks ago

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Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II)

Article URL: https://buttondown.com/suchbadtechads/archive/gateway-2000-part-2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221220 Points: 12 # Comments: 1

rfarley04 2 weeks ago

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A Tome of Forbidden Technologies

Article URL: https://ecosophia.net/a-tome-of-forbidden-technologies/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221124 Points: 6 # Comments: 1

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The USSR in 100 Photographs

Article URL: https://trinixy.ru/7039-sssr_v_fotografijakh_100_foto.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221041 Points: 40 # Comments: 14

decimalenough 2 weeks ago

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Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/openai-timeline/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220609 Points: 43 # Comments: 60

882542F3884314B 2 weeks ago

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Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/976880/microsoft-edge-extensions-ad-blockers-mv2-mv3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220392 Points: 52 # Comments: 44

eternalreturn 2 weeks ago

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Apple Introduces Leasing Program for iPhones and Other Devices

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/technology/apple-leasing-program.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220390 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

Korwell 2 weeks ago

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New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/climate/amazon-data-center-texas-pollution.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220350 Points: 9 # Comments: 1

sbulaev 2 weeks ago

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