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Hippo Meat Nearly Became an American Food Staple
Visit our Ripley’s Believe It or Not! aquariums and attractions, today. Immerse yourself in a world of wonder and create memories with your friends and family.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 31,677 posts.
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Juice’s RIME antenna successfully unjammed
More than three weeks after efforts began to deploy Juice’s ice-penetrating Radar for Icy Moon Exploration (RIME) antenna, the 16-metre-long boom has finally escaped its mounting bracket.
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Chemotherapy drug reaches brain tumors using novel ultrasound technology
Northwestern Medicine scientists report results of the first in-human clinical trial in which they used a novel, skull-implantable ultrasound device to open the blood-brain barrier and repeatedly permeate large, critical regions of the human brain to deliver chemotherapy that was injected intravenously.
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Making GHC faster at emitting code (2022)
How we gained 2–3% improvements in compile times by making GHC better at printing code.
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Rails Cheat Sheet
A helpful list of resources for people who are just getting started out with Rails.
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TypeScript team released an explorer for performance tuning
Over the past few months, during the lead-up to the TypeScript 5.0 beta, our team spent a good portion of our time looking for ways to improve the
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I stopped worrying and learned to love denormalized tables
Glean is the Enterprise AI platform connected to your enterprise's data. Find, create, and automate anything. Explore what Glean can do for you!
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Drug shortages have worsened and may only increase in the future, experts say
COVID-19 snarled the US healthcare supply chain, but it was in trouble long before, experts say.
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What the data says about gun deaths in the U.S.
The number of gun deaths in the U.S. fell for the third consecutive year in 2024 but remained among the highest annual totals on record.
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Session recording for Tailscale SSH in beta
This guide shows you how to set up session recordings for Tailscale SSH. Learn how to record the terminal output whenever someone on your tailnet initiates a Tailscale SSH connection. Use these recordings to detect threats, investigate security incidents, and remain compliant with your network security policies.
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100K Context Windows
Claude's context window expands from 9K to 100K tokens, roughly 75,000 words, letting it process hundreds of pages in under a minute.
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Place mushrooms in sunlight to get your vitamin D (2012)
(Originally published online in Huffington Post's Healthy Living section.) Vitamin D is an essential vitamin that boosts the immune system and plays vital roles in human metabolism. Did you know that tasty mushrooms are one source for vitamin D, and that you can naturally multiply their levels by exposing them to sunli
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Majority of gig economy workers are earning below minimum wage: research
As the cost of living continues to spiral, a new report shows more than half of gig economy workers in the UK are paid below the minimum wage.
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Pharo 11
Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful environment focused on simplicity and immediate feedback.
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Baseline: a unified view of stable web features
MDN leads the way in implementing WebDX community group's efforts, delivering a clear and simple baseline for the web platform to developers.
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The Viterbi Algorithm at 50 (2017)
In a noisy world, it allows you to be heard.
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Google Earth 3D Models Now Available as Open Standard (GlTF)
Introducing new AI-powered products and tools from Google Maps Platform. Learn more
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Scientists regenerate hair cells that enable hearing
Researchers move closer to gene therapy solution for hearing loss
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Google I/O: Big changes coming for SEOs with ubiquitous AI
Google I/O 2023 makes AI ubiquitous across products. What SGE and generative search mean for SEOs and content marketers.
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Turn ideas into music with MusicLM
Starting today, you can sign up to try MusicLM, a new experimental AI tool that can turn your text descriptions into music.
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Helion’s fusion power purchase agreement with Microsoft
Microsoft has agreed to purchase electricity from Helion’s first fusion power plant.
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Extending web applications with WebAssembly and Python
How to leverage Python and WebAssembly to securely extend your web application capabilities using Suborbital and Wasm Labs tooling and language runtimes.
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How I developed a faster Ruby interpreter (2022)
Learn about 8 optimization techniques for a faster interpreter in Ruby which I developed using a dynamically specialized internal representation (IR).
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Julia 1.9
Highlights of the Julia 1.9 release.
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Internet disrupted in Pakistan amid arrest of former PM Imran Khan
NetBlocks metrics confirm the disruption of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube on multiple internet providers in Pakistan on Tuesday 9 May 2023. Additionally, total internet shutdowns have been observed on mobile ...
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Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report
Last year, our mighty donor base generously donated a record-breaking amount to the Thunderbird project! Here's our 2022 Financial Report.