What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix? (2014)(unix.stackexchange.com)

212 points by tosh 4 months ago | 74 comments

What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph(data.stackexchange.com)

386 points by secretslol 3 months ago | 479 comments

A Stack Exchange Data Explorer query graphing Stack Overflow activity over time, but the capture shows only a Cloudflare bot verification page.

CoCom regulations and GPS receivers for balloons and cubesats(space.stackexchange.com)

18 points by vinnyglennon 3 months ago | 7 comments

The Silent Frequency That Makes Old Buildings Feel Haunted(scienceblog.com)

18 points by jnord 6 months ago | 4 comments

I Built a Telegram Client for Pi(npmjs.com)

60 points by atharva-again 3 months ago | 26 comments

Pushed by Trump policies, top U.S. battery scientist is moving to Singapore(science.org)

30 points by Metacelsus 5 months ago | 3 comments

Why is my dryer radioactive?(physics.stackexchange.com)

629 points by jpitz 3 years ago | 148 comments

Physics Stack Exchange question asking why a Geiger counter reads elevated radiation inside a clothes dryer right after a drying cycle.

I don't understand quantum physics (2018)(southampton.ac.uk)

367 points by rramadass 2 days ago | 296 comments

Index page for Douglas Ross's introductory article on quantum physics, with PDF chapters covering wave-particle duality, uncertainty, superposition, and interpretations.

Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is(forum.level1techs.com)

417 points by felineflock 2 months ago | 171 comments

A Level1Techs forum post presenting technical experiments on how quantization and implementation differences make locally run LLMs perform worse than reference versions.

Why Math Dumped OpenAI(raymyers.org)

11 points by xeonmc 9 days ago | 0 comments

A blog post by Ray Myers arguing why the mathematics community moved away from OpenAI.

Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight?(ux.stackexchange.com)

414 points by wscourge 2 years ago | 271 comments

A User Experience Stack Exchange question asking why the mouse pointer cursor is tilted rather than straight, and whether it is a legacy design choice.

There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy(experimental-history.com)

59 points by luu 1 month ago | 31 comments

An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.