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The Day Hobie Made Nixon a Surfboard

surfer.com
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Computers and Mice – Mister Rogers Neighborhood

misterrogers.org

Computers and mice Mister Rogers enters carrying a box and a book; inside the box is...
Computers and mice Mister Rogers enters carrying a box and a book; inside the box is a computer mouse. Mister Rogers explains what a computer mouse is and hooks the mouse up to his computer. Then he goes to the Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood website on his computer and navigates around the site to show how it works (Ed...
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For climate and livelihoods, Africa bets big on solar mini-grids

knowablemagazine.org

To the people of Mbiabet Esieyere and Mbiabet Udouba in Nigeria’s deep south, sundown would mean...
To the people of Mbiabet Esieyere and Mbiabet Udouba in Nigeria’s deep south, sundown would mean children doing their homework by the glow of kerosene lamps, and the faint thrum of generators emanating from homes that could afford to run them. Like many rural communities, these two villages of fishermen and farmers ...
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Sketch-Programming: A Minimalist Paradigm for Code Design

github.com
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Show HN: Fashion Shopping with Nearest Neighbors

vibewall.shop
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Milk Kanban

brodzinski.com

When people say Kanban, they tend to think of a specific set of practices. Whiteboards &...
When people say Kanban, they tend to think of a specific set of practices. Whiteboards & sticky notes (both almost universally virtual). Tasks moving through columns that represent workflow. Every now and then, WIP limits even. As often as we do it with other things, it reduces a broader principle to a set of oversi...
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Lemma for the Fundamental Theorem of Galois Theory

susam.net
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Sunset Geometry (2016)

shapeoperator.com
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Is our universe trapped inside a black hole? This JWS Telescope discovery

space.com

Without a doubt, since its launch, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revolutionized our view...
Without a doubt, since its launch, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revolutionized our view of the early universe, but its new findings could put astronomers in a spin. In fact, it could tell us something profound about the birth of the universe by possibly hinting that everything we see around us is sealed...
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The Nokia N900: the future that wasn't

osnews.com

In what seems like several lifetimes ago, the mobile devices market seemed like it would be...
In what seems like several lifetimes ago, the mobile devices market seemed like it would be wide open. Even as the window for platforms that weren’t Android or iOS was closing rapidly, we were all hoping we wouldn’t end up with another duopoly. While there were several contenders – BlackBerryos 10, Windows Phone, to...
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Peirce Edition Project

iu.edu
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Deepnote (YC S19) is hiring to build a better data science notebook (Europe)

deepnote.com
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Cradle – Open-Source Collaborative Threat Intelligence Hub

cradle.sh
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Arbitrary-Scale Super-Resolution with Neural Heat Fields

therasr.github.io

anti-aliasing arbitrary scale deep learning neural heat fields super-resolution
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'Microlightning' in water droplets may have sparked life on Earth

phys.org

materials physics physics news science science news
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Show HN: Metacheck – preview how any link appears on social media and chat apps

appstate.co

link preview tool meta tag analyzer open graph checker seo metadata checker social media link preview
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Finland's National Allergy Program Successfully Reduces Allergic Diseases

ersnet.org
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Nubmq: A high performant key-value store engine built from first principles

ycombinator.com
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Fitness Trackers Are Only 67% Accurate, New Research Finds

wellnesspulse.com
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So Long and Thanks for All the Words: A Toast to Douglas Adams

multiverseemployeehandbook.com

Today marks what would have been Douglas Adams’ 73rd birthday—or depending on which timeline you’re accessing...
Today marks what would have been Douglas Adams’ 73rd birthday—or depending on which timeline you’re accessing this from, his 3042nd, or perhaps his perpetual 42nd in the universe where time loops infinitely around that particular number. Regardless of your dimensional coordinates, we at The Multiverse Employee Handb...
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Tesla is done in Germany: 94% say they won't buy a Tesla car

electrek.co

A survey of over 100,000 Germans revealed that 94% won’t buy a Tesla vehicle. It doesn’t...
A survey of over 100,000 Germans revealed that 94% won’t buy a Tesla vehicle. It doesn’t bode well for the automaker, whose sales had already been falling off a cliff in the important European market. In 2024, Tesla saw a 41% reduction in sales in Germany compared to 2023 despite EV sales surging 27% during the year...
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Why do some birds mimic the sounds of other species?

allaboutbirds.org
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Amazon Is Discontinuing the "Do Not Send Voice Recordings" Feature on Echo

resetera.com

shopping
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Switching to BunnyCDN in Less Than 2 Hours

jonathan-frere.com

ContentsContentsGiven some recent, uh, instability in US politics, and given that everyone likes an underdog, I’ve...
ContentsContentsGiven some recent, uh, instability in US politics, and given that everyone likes an underdog, I’ve been looking at European alternatives to my current hosting situation, which is Cloudflare.After looking through european-alternatives.eu, and reading some opinions on Bluesky, I figured I’d try out Bun...
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