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Why is Good Friday called Good Friday?
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Why is Good Friday called Good Friday?
Every year Christians commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, when he suffered agonising pain on the cross, but they refer to that day as ‘good’. Jonny Wilkes explores the origin and meaning of the name, and how one of the most important days in Christianity…
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Curiosity rover finds large carbonate deposits on Mars
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Curiosity rover finds large carbon deposits on Mars
Research from NASA's Curiosity rover has found evidence of a carbon cycle on ancient Mars, bringing scientists closer to an answer on whether the red planet was ever capable of supporting life.
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How a yacht works: sailboat physics and design
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Show HN: I made a Doom-like game fit inside a QR code
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GitHub - Kuberwastaken/backdooms: A self-contained game that fits inside a QR code inspired by DOOM 1993 and The Backrooms
A self-contained game that fits inside a QR code inspired by DOOM 1993 and The Backrooms - Kuberwastaken/backdooms
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The most famous carbon dioxide absorber
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How Equipment Works
The world's most famous carbon dioxide absorber
The Apollo 13 astronauts were stranded in space. Their survival depended on if they could make a carbon dioxide absorber inside the spacecraft.
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Judge Rules Blanket Search of Cell Tower Data Unconstitutional
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404 Media
Judge Rules Blanket Search of Cell Tower Data Unconstitutional
Judge says tower dumps violate the 4th amendment, but will let the cops do it this one time, as a treat.
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Cyberpunk 1958: The Early Days of the Polish IT Industry
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Culture.pl
Cyberpunk 1958: The Early Days of the Polish IT Industry
Long before The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 made Poland's tech industry famous, Polish computer scientists and engineers had ambitions to make the country an IT superpower. Even if it didn’t always bring spectacular results, the Polish communist-era IT sector…
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15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python
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Jonathan Protzenko
15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python
In November 2022, I opened issue 99108 on Python’s GitHub repository, arguing that after a recent CVE in its implementation of SHA3, Python should embrace verified code for all of its hash-related infrastructure.
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Ink and Switch Constraint System (2023)
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Inkandswitch
Constraint System
At the beginning of phase 2, we weren’t sure what to do about constraints. Based on past exploration, constraints seemed to hold a lot of promise but were notoriously unreliable. A good constraint system could unify and power a number of key aspects of the…
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Show HN: Attune - Build and publish APT repositories in seconds
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GitHub - attunehq/attune: Faster builds, zero effort.
Faster builds, zero effort. Contribute to attunehq/attune development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi and Vim
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Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi & Vim
The history of Vi & Vim goes hand in hand with the history of open-source software. This article looks at the historical events that shaped the evolution of these text editors.
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Honest and Elitist Thoughts on Why Computers Were More Fun Before
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Full Text Search of US Court records
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Judyrecords
Free Public Records Search - judyrecords
Instantly search 750 million+ United States court cases.
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There's Life Inside Earth's Crust
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NOEMA
There’s Life Inside Earth’s Crust
Revelations about microbes living deep inside Earth’s crust are challenging scientists’ conceptions of life and how it evolves.
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Electric Propulsion's Dirty Secret: Why Lithium Can't Fly (Or Float) Profitably
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Kumar Thangudu
Electric Propulsion's Dirty Secret: Why Lithium Can't Fly (Or Float)
tldr: There's a lot of bullshit going on right now about Lithium propulsion boats and planes, don't trust the energy return on investment or viability of its profitability...it's fundamentally a net negative energy return on investment. Edits* - there...
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Show HN: (bits) of a Libc, Optimized for Wasm
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go-sqlite3/sqlite3/libc at main · ncruces/go-sqlite3
Go bindings to SQLite using wazero. Contribute to ncruces/go-sqlite3 development by creating an account on GitHub.
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UML diagram for the DDD example in Evans' book
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GitHub - takaakit/uml-diagram-for-ddd-example-in-evans-book: UML diagram for the DDD example—a cargo shipping system—from Eric…
UML diagram for the DDD example—a cargo shipping system—from Eric Evans' book - takaakit/uml-diagram-for-ddd-example-in-evans-book
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I passionately hate hype, especially the AI hype
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College Towns: Urbanism from a Past Era
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www.governance.fyi
College Towns: Urbanism from a Past Era with Ryan Allen
How Universities Accidentally Preserved the Walkable America We Demolished Everywhere Else
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Hypertext TV
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Hypertext TV
Daily programming for the handmade web. Airing now.
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OpenAI's new reasoning AI models hallucinate more
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TechCrunch
OpenAI's new reasoning AI models hallucinate more | TechCrunch
OpenAI's reasoning AI models are getting better, but their hallucinating isn't, according to benchmark results.
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