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12421.

How the Mayans were able to accurately predict solar eclipses for centuries (phys.org)

134 points by pseudolus 10 months ago | 151 comments

12422.

U.S. Navy turns down Hormuz escort requests because of high risk (maritime-executive.com)

134 points by mytailorisrich 6 months ago | 150 comments

12423.

Mathematics is hard for mathematicians to understand too (science.org)

134 points by mmaaz 9 months ago | 148 comments

12424.

OpenAI ‘in early talks to give 5% stake to US government’ (theguardian.com)

134 points by tosh 2 months ago | 144 comments

12425.

Is mathematics about to enter the conservatory? (mbmccoy.dev)

134 points by _alternator_ 2 weeks ago | 141 comments

12426.

Missouri town fires half its city council over data center deal (politico.com)

134 points by impish9208 5 months ago | 141 comments

12427.

AI optimism is a class privilege (joshcollinsworth.com)

134 points by ragall 7 months ago | 137 comments

12428.

How the Chorleywood Bread Process transformed British bread (edconway.substack.com)

134 points by baud147258 1 week ago | 132 comments

12429.

UN declares that the world has entered an era of 'global water bankruptcy' (smithsonianmag.com)

134 points by pseudolus 7 months ago | 128 comments

12430.

Rotten Dot Com (theparisreview.org)

134 points by lordgrenville 4 months ago | 126 comments

12431.

Claude.ai down (status.claude.com)

134 points by rob 5 months ago | 126 comments

12432.

RFC 454545 – Human Em Dash Standard (gist.github.com)

134 points by jdauriemma 6 months ago | 126 comments

12433.

US expected to send thousands more soldiers to Middle East, sources say (reuters.com)

134 points by cdrnsf 5 months ago | 125 comments

12434.

How functional programming shaped and twisted front end development (alfy.blog)

134 points by jicea 11 months ago | 124 comments

12435.

Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot (jointhefreeworld.org)

134 points by jjba23 2 months ago | 121 comments

12436.

Learning another language may be one of the best ways to keep your brain healthy (theconversation.com)

134 points by nativeit 2 days ago | 118 comments

12437.

What I love about Django (buttondown.com)

134 points by j4mie 1 month ago | 116 comments

12438.

Matrix Conference 2025 Highlights (element.io)

134 points by Arathorn 11 months ago | 114 comments

12439.

Arenas in Rust (russellw.github.io)

134 points by welovebunnies 11 months ago | 114 comments

12440.

World Happiness Report 2026 (worldhappiness.report)

134 points by ChrisArchitect 6 months ago | 107 comments

12441.

AURpocalypse now: a look at the recent AUR attacks (lwn.net)

134 points by jwilk 3 months ago | 101 comments

12442.

The Dragon Hatchling: The missing link between the transformer and brain models (arxiv.org)

134 points by thatxliner 10 months ago | 99 comments

12443.

Resident Evil 4 (GameCube) – complete byte-identical decompilation to C/C++ (github.com)

134 points by metrofun 1 day ago | 96 comments

12444.

Claude may require identity verification in some cases (support.claude.com)

134 points by zxilly 5 months ago | 95 comments

12445.

Berlin: Record harvest sparks mass giveaway of free potatoes (theguardian.com)

134 points by novaRom 7 months ago | 95 comments

12446.

Most Americans don't trust AI – or the people in charge of it (2025) (theverge.com)

134 points by cdrnsf 4 months ago | 89 comments

12447.

When Kitty Litter Caused a Nuclear Catastrophe (practical.engineering)

134 points by tape_measure 8 months ago | 88 comments

12448.

The Government Is Monitoring Anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram Accounts (404media.co)