Unix: An Oral History(princeton.edu)
105 points by zdw | 20 comments
First screen, captured .
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LK-99: The live online race for a room-temperature superconductor(forums.spacebattles.com)
489 points by fofoz | 492 comments
A SpaceBattles forum thread discussing claims of the LK-99 room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor and the online efforts to replicate it.
The Eleuther AI Mafia(latent.space)
70 points by swyx | 38 comments
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A third of North America’s birds have vanished(nautil.us)
478 points by geox | 392 comments
Nautilus zoology article reporting that roughly a third of North America's bird population has disappeared in recent decades.
New York City should carefully measure a new tree(blog.willmeye.rs)
69 points by willmeyers | 13 comments
Blog post arguing New York City should measure new candidate trees, since its tallest carefully measured tree, the Queens Giant, was last measured in 2004.
China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990(e360.yale.edu)
611 points by Brajeshwar | 527 comments
Yale Environment 360 digest article reporting that China has added forest area roughly the size of Texas since 1990.
Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world(news.ucsc.edu)
414 points by XzetaU8 | 284 comments
UC Santa Cruz news article reporting research suggesting early developing human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world.
Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)
453 points by bx376 | 663 comments
An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.
Cold-blooded software(dubroy.com)
499 points by arbesman | 198 comments
Patrick Dubroy's blog essay using cold-blooded animals as a metaphor for software that can sit untouched for long periods and still work when revived.