Trucker built a scale model of NYC over 21 years(gothamist.com)

89 points by speckx 1 year ago | 13 comments

A lumberjack created more than 200 sculptures in Wisconsin's Northwoods(smithsonianmag.com)

91 points by noleary 1 year ago | 41 comments

In a milestone for Manhattan, a pair of coyotes has made Central Park their home(smithsonianmag.com)

176 points by sohkamyung 1 year ago | 168 comments

Spiral staircase with a single guardrail once led to the top of the Eiffel Tower(smithsonianmag.com)

38 points by bookofjoe 6 months ago | 23 comments

Seurat Most Famous for Paris Park Painting Yet Half His Paintings Were Seascapes(smithsonianmag.com)

23 points by bookofjoe 7 months ago | 7 comments

Bear-Sized Giant Beavers Once Roamed North America(smithsonianmag.com)

36 points by noleary 1 year ago | 37 comments

There Are over 1M New York City Street Signs. Here's How They Are Made.(nytimes.com)

50 points by bookofjoe 10 days ago | 23 comments

New York Times article about how New York City's more than one million street signs are made in the city's sign shop.

New York City should carefully measure a new tree(blog.willmeye.rs)

69 points by willmeyers 23 days ago | 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.

Phi-4: Microsoft's Newest Small Language Model Specializing in Complex Reasoning(techcommunity.microsoft.com)

399 points by lappa 1 year ago | 136 comments

Microsoft AI Platform Blog post announcing Phi-4, a small language model specializing in complex reasoning.

Trucking startup Convoy closes operations with no buyer(bloomberg.com)

321 points by infrawhispers 3 years ago | 541 comments

Bloomberg news article reporting that Bezos-backed digital freight startup Convoy has shut down operations after failing to find a buyer.

The recurring dream of replacing developers(caimito.net)

544 points by glimshe 9 months ago | 428 comments

Blog post by Stephan Schwab on why businesses have tried to replace software developers every decade since 1969, from COBOL to AI.

Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight(mohkohn.co.uk)

1183 points by edent 4 months ago | 536 comments

A blog post recounting how rebuilding a utility company's application form as an HTML-first site doubled its users overnight.