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Why did Tom Lehrer swap fame for obscurity? Comments (

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‘My songs spread like herpes’: why did satirical genius Tom Lehrer swap worldwide fame for obscurity?

In the 1950s and 60s, his songs stunned and delighted listeners with their irreverence, wit and nihilism. Then he gave it all up to teach mathemati...

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Amber: A code search and replace tool Comments (

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GitHub

GitHub - dalance/amber: A code search / replace tool

A code search / replace tool. Contribute to dalance/amber development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Fossil fuels could have been left in the dust 25 years ago Comments (

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Tim Harford

Fossil fuels could have been left in the dust 25 years ago

Gordon Moore’s famous prediction about computing power must count as one of the most astonishingly accurate forecasts in history. But it may also...

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Making EC2 boot time faster Comments (

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) https://depot.dev/blog/faster-ec2-boot-time

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BB(3, 4) > Ack(14) Comments (

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sligocki

BB(3, 4) > Ack(14)

Pavel has found a new 3-state 4-symbol Busy Beaver champion which can compute an “Ackermann-level” function and halts with exactly

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Launch HN: Metriport (YC S22) – Open-source API for healthcare data exchange Comments (

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Launch HN: Metriport (YC S22) – Open-source API for healthcare data exchange | Hacker News

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Tom Waits vs. Frito-Lay, Inc (2003) Comments (

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Frito-Lay -

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Crows "count" the number of self-generated vocalizations Comments (

Crows "count" the number of self-generated vocalizations | Hacker News

) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl0984

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Cement recycling method could help solve one of the big climate challenges Comments (

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University of Cambridge

Cement recycling method could help solve one of the world’s biggest climate challenges

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have developed a method to produce very low emission concrete at scale – an innovation that coul...

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Show HN: Porter Cloud – PaaS with an eject button Comments (

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Show HN: Porter Cloud – PaaS with an eject button | Hacker News

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The Space Quest II Master Disk Blunder Comments (

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LANCE EWING

The Space Quest II Master Disk Blunder

There is nothing unusual about the outside of these disks, but there is something unique about the data that is stored on them, something that Sier...

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Ballerina: Functional programming framework for front end web development Comments (

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GitHub - Ballerina-Org/ballerina

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Growing a Bootie Comments (

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growing a bootie — wingolog

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WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics Comments (

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WinDirStat

Windows Directory Statistics

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Magic UI: UI Library for Design Engineers Comments (

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) https://magicui.design/

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Von Neumann's First Computer Program (1970) Comments (

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) https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/356580.356581

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OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show Comments (

OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show | Hacker News

) https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/22/openai-scarlett-johansson-chatgpt-ai-voice/

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One of the most unusual heists in America seems to be unfolding at Taco Bell Comments (

One of the most unusual heists in America seems to be unfolding at Taco Bell | Hacker News

) https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/taco-bell-ebay-mark-smith-paintings-19464177.php

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Images That Sound Comments (

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GitHub

GitHub - IFICL/images-that-sound: Official repo for Images that sound: a special spectrogram that can be seen as images and played as sound generated by diffusions

Official repo for Images that sound: a special spectrogram that can be seen as images and played as sound generated by diffusions - IFICL/images-th...

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Lessons learned from studying 4k YC companies Comments (

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