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1.
How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues (smithsonianmag.com)
122 points by divbzero 5 hours ago | 75 comments
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An Engineer's Guide to USB Typе-С (2024) (ti.com)
163 points by gregsadetsky 6 days ago | 10 comments
3.
Pebble Mega Update – July 2026 (repebble.com)
107 points by crazysaem 5 hours ago | 29 comments
4.
The human-in-the-loop is tired (pydantic.dev)
201 points by haritha1313 8 hours ago | 109 comments
5.
M 3.9 Experimental Explosion – 147 Km ENE of Ponce Inlet, Florida (usgs.gov)
61 points by hnburnsy 8 hours ago | 39 comments
6.
GrapheneOS recommended for domestic abuse victims (privacypros.com.au)
144 points by aussieguy1234 7 hours ago | 116 comments
7.
EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams (plos.org)
71 points by giuliomagnifico 3 hours ago | 37 comments
8.
Show HN: Mojibake – A low-level Unicode library written in C (zaerl.com)
57 points by program 10 hours ago | 16 comments
9.
Solod: Go can be a better C (solod.dev)
125 points by koeng 3 days ago | 58 comments
10.
Simulating everything, sort of: The promise and limits of world models (arstechnica.com)
30 points by LorenDB 3 days ago | 2 comments
11.
Starlink from 1984 (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
31 points by ingve 5 days ago | 10 comments
12.
Old Icons (leancrew.com)
55 points by zdw 5 days ago | 12 comments
13.
 [flagged] Google Kills Custom Search API on Jan 1, 2027 (thenextgennexus.com)
50 points by alexey-salmin 8 hours ago | 28 comments
14.
UIUC AI Teaching Assistant (github.com/center-for-ai-innovation)
16 points by teleforce 6 hours ago | discuss
15.
In Praise of Exhaustive Destructuring (vandecreme.net)
14 points by avandecreme 5 days ago | 5 comments
16.
Trump Media to sell instant access to 'market-moving' social posts (bbc.com)
40 points by NikxDa 1 hour ago | 26 comments
17.
Count the Bytes, Not the FLOPs (thepragmaticquant.com)
9 points by sgilda 2 days ago | 1 comment
18.
Pushinka (wikipedia.org)
10 points by benbreen 1 hour ago | 2 comments
19.
Camera Chase Vehicle (transistor-man.com)
5 points by geerlingguy 7 days ago | discuss
20.
Lingbot-map: A 3D foundation model for reconstructing scenes from streaming data (github.com/robbyant)
17 points by olalonde 9 hours ago | discuss
21.
Canada says bridge tolls won't be split with U.S. until $6.4B of debt is repaid (cbc.ca)
57 points by geox 8 hours ago | 7 comments
22.
What loss.backward() actually does (oraziorillo.com)
11 points by oraziorillo 5 days ago | 3 comments
23.
Scaling to 1M concurrent sandboxes in seconds (modal.com)
57 points by thundergolfer 12 hours ago | 14 comments
24.
Google Ordered to Give A.I. Rivals More Access on Android Smartphones (nytimes.com)
17 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 5 hours ago | 2 comments
25.
FCC Officials Took $$$ Gifts from Paramount as Company Needed Approval for Deals (propublica.org)
17 points by WarOnPrivacy 6 hours ago | discuss
26.
Canada's Forests Will Burn and Burn (theatlantic.com)
16 points by littlexsparkee 7 hours ago | 10 comments
27.
LG Spyware TVs (youtube.com)
24 points by rythmshifter 5 hours ago | 5 comments
28.
Russian kamikaze drone C++ reconstruction of onboard autonomy stack (github.com/19h)
16 points by 19h 10 hours ago | 2 comments
29.
AI Data Centers and the Concentration of Wealth (schneier.com)
13 points by birdculture 9 hours ago | discuss
30.
BYO NOS: Building a maintainable, SRE-friendly switch (rezero.org)
8 points by mrngm 12 hours ago | discuss

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