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Rethinking Data Discovery for Libraries and Digital Humanities

Rethinking Data Discovery for Libraries and Digital Humanities

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🚀 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ Category: đź’ˇ Key idea: Woman using a Macey vertical filing cabinet (detail, 1903). Source: Wikimedia Commons. As part of our Public Data Project, LIL recently launched Data.gov Archive Search. In this post, we look under the hood and reflect on how and why we built this project the way we did. Rethinking the Old Trade-Off: Cost, Complexity, and Access Libraries, digital humanities projects, and cultural heritage organizations have long had to perform a balancing act when sharing their collections online, negotiating between access and affordability. Providing robust features for data…
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The profitable startup – Linear

The profitable startup – Linear

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✨ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ Category: âś… Here’s what you’ll learn: For years, startups have been taught to prioritize growth over everything else. Profitability was seen as unambitious or even wrong – something to worry about when you hit scale. Why focus on profits when money and valuations were easy to come by?But that thinking was always flawed.Profitability isn't unambitious; it's controlling your own destiny. It means you don't have to rely on investors for survival. It means you can focus on your unaltered vision and mission. And it means you as a founder decide…
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Intent to Deprecate and Remove: Deprecate and remove XSLT

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🔥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ Category: đź’ˇ Here’s what you’ll learn: Contact emailsmas...@chromium.orgExplainerNoneSpecificationNoneSummaryXSLT v1.0, which all browsers adhere to, was standardized in 1999. In the meantime, XSLT has evolved to v2.0 and v3.0, adding features, and growing apart from the old version frozen into browsers. This lack of advancement, coupled with the rise of JavaScript libraries and frameworks that offer more flexible and powerful DOM manipulation, has led to a significant decline in the use of client-side XSLT. Its role within the web browser has been largely superseded by JavaScript-based technologies such as JSON+React.Chromium…
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China solves ‘century-old problem’ with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs

China solves ‘century-old problem’ with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs

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🚀 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ Category: đź“Ś Key idea: Scientists in China have developed a new chip, with a twist: it's analog, meaning it performs calculations on its own physical circuits rather than via the binary 1s and 0s of standard digital processors.What’s more, its creators say the new chip is capable of outperforming top-end graphics processing units (GPUs) from Nvidia and AMD by as much as 1,000 times.In a new study published Oct. 13 in the journal Nature Electronics, researchers from Peking University said their device tackled two key bottlenecks: the energy and data…
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vindar/SARCASM: S.A.R.C.A.S.M : Slightly Annoying Automatic Rubik’s Cube Solving Machine

vindar/SARCASM: S.A.R.C.A.S.M : Slightly Annoying Automatic Rubik’s Cube Solving Machine

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🚀 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ Category: đź“Ś Key idea: Slightly Annoying Rubik's Cube Automatic Solving Machine S.A.R.C.A.S.M is a 3D-printed, Teensy-powered robot that scans, solves, and sassily comments on a Rubik’s Cube. This repository contains the code and schematics of the build. Teensy 4.1 main controller + ESP32-CAM for image capture. ILI9341 display with custom 2D&3D graphics, animations, and lip-sync. Stepper + servos for cube handling with position sensors to detect faults. RGBW lighting synchronized to audio. On-device TTS (espeak-ng) with a collection of sarcastic lines. ... A slight modification of Teensy's core is required…
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Fungus: the Befunge CPU | BedroomLAN

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🔥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ Category: đź“Ś Main takeaway: Fungus is a prototype hardware specification of a Funge machine, a microcoded CPU capable of interpreting funges at the (macrocode) machine code level. Why? Well, so far we've had Lisp machines and Fortran machines and these days, right about everything is a C machine. I want a funge machine (the doctors tell me I harmless). This is based on an incomplete paper describing the architecture. It's perverted, it's baroque, it's vector-based, it's 18 bits wide and it was originally available in PDF. Here it is, in…
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The 10-year effort to photograph the rare hyena stalking a diamond mining ghost town

The 10-year effort to photograph the rare hyena stalking a diamond mining ghost town

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✨ Explore this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ Category: âś… Here’s what you’ll learn: Van den Heever runs nature photography tours around the world and returns to the Namib Desert once a year. During his initial visits, he became convinced that a brown hyena was roaming the ghost town at night. "I would see either droppings or tracks of a hyena in the area," he says. He soon had the idea of photographing the hyena in the striking setting of the ghost town.After trying several different approaches, Van den Heever settled on waking between 02:00-03:00 to return to…
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Will Paramount Cancel Jon Stewart?

Will Paramount Cancel Jon Stewart?

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🚀 Read this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ Category: âś… Here’s what you’ll learn: That being said, I want to be clear. The victims of this Administration are not the comedians. We are a visible manifestation of certain things, but the victims are the victims—they’re the people who are struggling to have any voice and are being forcibly removed from streets by hooded agents. Those are the victims of this Administration.I’m not sure Hitler cared about satirists, but I think this guy does. I don’t think he likes being made fun of.Trump doesn’t like being made fun of?No.I’m…
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Strange Attractors | Shashank Tomar

Strange Attractors | Shashank Tomar

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🔥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ Category: đź“Ś Here’s what you’ll learn: A few months back, while playing around with , I came across something that completely derailed my plans. Strange attractors - fancy math that creates beautiful patterns. At first I thought I'd just render one and move on, but then soon I realized that this is too much fun. When complexity emerges from three simple equations, when you see something chaotic emerge into beautiful, it's hard not to waste some time. I've spent countless hours, maybe more than I'd care to admit, watching…
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ongoing by Tim Bray · Grokipedia

ongoing by Tim Bray · Grokipedia

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✨ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ Category: đź“Ś Key idea: Last night I had a very strange experience: About two thirds of the way through reading a Web page about myself, Tim Bray, I succumbed to boredom and killed the tab. Thus my introduction to Grokipedia. Here are early impressions. On Bray · My Grokipedia entry has over seven thousand words, compared to a mere 1,300 in my Wikipedia article. It’s pretty clear how it was generated; an LLM, trained on who-knows-what but definitely including that Wikipedia article and this blog, was told to go nuts.…
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