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A 19yo woman graduated from high school with honors even though she can't read

ky3.com

HARTFORD, Conn. (CNN) - A Connecticut college student is suing the Hartford Board of Education and...
HARTFORD, Conn. (CNN) - A Connecticut college student is suing the Hartford Board of Education and the city of Hartford for negligence.Nineteen-year-old Aleysha Ortiz says she graduated from high school with honors and earned a college scholarship, but she can’t read or write.In some ways, Ortiz is living an America...

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Kubernetes Home – what do you do if your ISP changes your IP addresses?

engen.priv.no
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Shef

github.com
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Seven39 – a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening

seven39.com
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What Happened to NAEP Scores?

astralcodexten.com

The NAEP is a nationwide standardized test of reading and math proficiency. The 2024 scores are...
The NAEP is a nationwide standardized test of reading and math proficiency. The 2024 scores are out, and they’re not good:There are four tests - 4th and 8th grade reading and math - but they all show basically this pattern.Most headlines have said something like New NAEP Scores Dash Hope Of Post-COVID Learning Recov...
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Asking LLMs to create my game Shepard's Dog

github.com
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Iroh – P2P that just works

iroh.computer
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HyperShell X Outdoor PowerSuit Exoskeleton

hypershell.tech
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Bending Spacetime in the Basement

fourmilab.ch

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Arranging invisible icons in quadratic time

wordpress.com

Near the end of January I was pointed to a twitter thread where a Windows user...
Near the end of January I was pointed to a twitter thread where a Windows user with a powerful machine was hitting random hangs in explorer. Lots of unscientific theories were being proposed. I don’t generally do random analysis of strangers’ performance problems but the case sounded interesting so I thought I’d tak...
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You suck at CSS (and that's okay)[2022]

rexriepe.com
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The shrouded sinister history of the bulldozer

noemamag.com

According to an 1881 obituary in a Louisiana newspaper, the word “bulldozer” was coined by a...
According to an 1881 obituary in a Louisiana newspaper, the word “bulldozer” was coined by a German immigrant named Louis Albert Wagner, who later committed suicide by taking a hefty dose of opium dissolved in alcohol. Little else is recorded about Wagner, but his term became a viral sensation in late 1800s America,...
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Cancer Institute Employees Can't Publish on These Topics Without Approval

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ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest...
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Employees at the National Cancer Institute, which is part of the National Institutes of Health, received internal guidance last week to flag manuscripts, presentations or other c...
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Trump Administration Seeks to Expel a Green-Card Holder over Student Protests

nytimes.com

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Immigration officers arrested a Columbia University graduate for helping lead campus protests against Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. President Trump said...

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These are the first images of humpbacks having sex, and they're both males

cbc.ca

When biologist Stephanie Stack first saw the photographs of two humpback whales mating in the warm...
When biologist Stephanie Stack first saw the photographs of two humpback whales mating in the warm waters of Hawaii, she says her mind was "completely blown.""When I realized that it was two males, it was not what I was expecting," she told As It Happens host Nil Köksal. "I thought, oh my gosh, this is incredible."S...
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Separation of Concerns in a Bug Tracker

greenend.org.uk
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US Green-Card Holder and Columbia Student Arrested by ICE for Protest

reuters.com
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Show HN: Llama-8B Teaches Itself Baby Steps to Deep Research Using RL

github.com
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Energy Conservation with Open Source Ad Blockers

mdpi.com

Open AccessEditor’s ChoiceArticle Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Department of Materials Science & Engineering,...
Open AccessEditor’s ChoiceArticle Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931, USA Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, School of Electrical Engineering, Aalto University, FI-00076 Espoo, Finland Te...
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Ask HN: What is the actual cost basis of the stock market?

ycombinator.com
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Internet shutdowns at record high in Africa as access 'weaponised'

theguardian.com
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An election forecast that's 50-50 is not "giving up."

columbia.edu
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What made the Irish famine so deadly

newyorker.com

In the first act of the wittiest Irish play of the nineteenth century, Oscar Wilde’s “Importance...
In the first act of the wittiest Irish play of the nineteenth century, Oscar Wilde’s “Importance of Being Earnest,” there is much ado about a shortage of food. The fearsome Aunt Augusta is coming to tea, but we have watched the feckless Algernon eat all the cucumber sandwiches prepared for her by his manservant, Lan...
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Ask HN: How to find intellectually challenging work?

ycombinator.com

Hi fellow HN-ers,After working (mostly) as a backend developer since 2013, I was recently burned (or...
Hi fellow HN-ers,After working (mostly) as a backend developer since 2013, I was recently burned (or bored?) out a bit, quit my job and went on a sabbatical for half a year. Now I need to start looking for a new job. However, I'm not sure how to find something that feels more meaningful and intellectually stimulatin...
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