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thomasp85
3 hours ago
ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL
Introducing ggsql, a grammar of graphics for SQL that lets you describe visualizations directly inside SQL queries....
20 HOURS AGO
WALTERBELL
Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people
4 HOURS AGO
BOOKOFJOE
NASA Artemis Posters
5 DAYS AGO
DADO3212
Turning a Chinese IoT camera into an owl livestream
A DAY AGO
BRAJESHWAR
Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction
3 DAYS AGO
CAIERO
Who Is Blake Whiting?
3 HOURS AGO
1VUIO0PSWJNM7
AI chatbots could be making you stupider
5 DAYS AGO
AKASHWADHWANI35
Mechanical Keyboard Sounds – A listening Museum
4 DAYS AGO
PRISMATIC
Ben Lerner's Big Feelings
13 HOURS AGO
DEBUGGA
A cache-friendly IPv6 LPM with AVX-512 (linearized B+-tree, real BGP benchmarks)
21 HOURS AGO
JRUOHONEN
Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors
A DAY AGO
COLESANTIAGO
Vercel April 2026 security incident
21 HOURS AGO
JRUOHONEN
Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors
startages
an hour ago
I prompted ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini and watched my Nginx logs
What nginx logs actually prove about AI traffic from ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity, plus why Google's AI crawlers leave a different signal than the others.
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tuananh
4 hours ago
WebUSB Extension for Firefox
WebUSB for fopses. Contribute to ArcaneNibble/awawausb development by creating an account on GitHub....
breve
3 days ago
Focused microwaves allow 3D printers to fuse circuits onto almost anything
Engineers at Rice University have cracked one of printed electronics' most stubborn problems: how to cure freshly printed conductive ink without destroying the delicate surface underneath....
ndr
4 days ago
I Made the "Next-Level" Camera and I love it
There's A LOT of explaining to do if I want you to understand what's happening here. Hold tight....
kyriakosel
2 hours ago
Sauna effect on heart rate
We analyzed 59,000+ daily records from 256 sauna users to quantify what saunas actually do to your body. Using paired t-tests on same-day wearable data, we foun...
1659447091
a day ago
Chernobyl's last wedding: The couple who married as a nuclear disaster unfolded
Serhiy and Iryna married 40 years ago, unaware a nuclear reactor had exploded less than 3 miles away....
tee-es-gee
2 days ago
What if database branching was easy?
We usually think branching means copying the whole database. With copy-on-write, it doesn't. Let's compare workflows like seeding to DB branching....
Liriel
8 hours ago
GitHub's Fake Star Economy
Six million fake stars, $0.06 per click, and a VC funding pipeline that treats GitHub popularity as proof of traction. We ran our own analysis on 20 repos and found the fingerprints....
https://awesomeagents.ai/news/github-fake-stars-investigation/
twapi
15 hours ago
Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons
I upgraded my Claude Token Counter tool to add the ability to run the same count against different models in order to compare them. As far as I can tell …...
vinhnx
a day ago
A Brief History of Fish Sauce
A brief history of fish sauce, from Ancient Asian recipes, Roman times, and through to today's many (delicious) uses....
mikhael
38 minutes ago
I'm never buying another Kindle, and neither should you
Bricked hardware, ads, and control. The Amazon Kindle is no longer built for readers. Here’s why I’m done with it....
tibbar
11 hours ago
Stripe's Payment APIs: the first 10 years (2020)
Abstracting away the complexity of payments has driven the evolution of our APIs over the last decade. Learn more about Stripe payments APIs here....
pseudolus
3 days ago
Monumental ship burial beneath ancient Norwegian mound predates the Viking Age
Monumental ship burials in Scandinavia may have started around a century earlier than previously thought, according to a paper published in the journal Antiquity. It reports the discovery of...
crescit_eundo
a day ago
The Bromine Chokepoint
The U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, now in an unstable ceasefire, has exposed a structural failure in the global semiconductor memory supply chain, and it is...
Klaster_1
9 hours ago
IEA: Solar overtakes all energy sources in a major global first
Solar led global energy growth in 2025 as electricity demand surged, driven by EVs and data centers, the IEA says....
cebert
4 hours ago
Amazon's AI boom is creating mess of duplicate tools and data inside the company
Generative AI makes it easier to create your own apps and tools at work. The downside is "AI sprawl," something Amazon is grappling with internally....