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A Theory of Deep Learning (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-05 | by Elon Litman | get Deep Learning Textbook → | tags: deep learning, neural networks, parameters

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IEEE Smart Village Is Helping to Electrify Rural Cameroon (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-05-04 | by Natalie Zundel | get Portable Solar Power Bank → | tags: ieee smart village, renewable energy innovators cameroon, photovoltaic technology

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We've Got Live Star Wars Day Deals for All, Not Just for Men, but for the Women and the Children (cnet.com)

2026-05-04 | by See Full Bio | get Star Wars Lightsaber Set → | tags: lego star wars, smart brick, x-wing

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Consequences of passing too few register parameters to a C function (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-28 | by Raymond Chen | get C Function Register Parameter Guide → | tags: calling conventions, register parameters, stack imbalance

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Critical infrastructure giant Itron says it was hacked (techcrunch.com)

2026-04-27 | by Zack Whittaker | get Itron Smart Meter → | tags: itron, cyberattack, utility meters

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Which one is more important: more parameters or more computation? (2021) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-24 | get NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU → | tags: parameters, computation, transformers

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Why Japan has such good railways (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-18 | by Matthew Bornholt | get Shinkansen Bullet Train Model → | tags: jr east, japan railways, shinkansen

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MZI-based transistorlessness might finally be here (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-14 | get Photonic Integrated Circuit Kit → | tags: mzi interferometers, photonic computing, silicon photonics

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Why, After All These Years, MZI-Based Transistorlessness Might Finally Be Here (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-14 | get MZI-Based Photonic Switch → | tags: mzi interferometers, photonic computing, silicon photonics

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The Shinkansen (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-14 | by Works In Progress | get Shinkansen Bullet Train Model → | tags: shinkansen, jr east, railway network

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MegaTrain: Full Precision Training of 100B+ Parameter LLMs on a Single GPU (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-08 | get NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU → | tags: mega train, 100b parameters, gpu

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Disequilibrium response to tapping crustal magma reveals storage conditions (feeds.nature.com)

2026-03-25 | by Birnbaum | get Seismic Monitoring Device → | tags: krafla, iceland deep drilling project, magma

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Archaeologists find a supersized medieval shipwreck in Denmark (arstechnica.com)

2026-01-16 | get Navy Ship → | tags: archaeologists, cargo, denmark

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The United States Needs Fewer Bus Stops (slashdot.org)

2026-01-15 | by Posted | get Traffic Management System → | tags: buses, cities, costs

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AI researchers are now studying LLMs as if they were living organisms (techspot.com)

2026-01-13 | get Language Model → | tags: billions, billions parameters, build

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Reproducing DeepSeek's MHC: When Residual Connections Explode (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-12 | by Taylor Kolasinski | get DeepSeek → | tags: connections, depth, layer

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LLMs contain a LOT of parameters. But what’s a parameter? (technologyreview.com)

2026-01-07 | by Will Douglas Heaven | get Neural Network → | tags: model, model parameters, parameters

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Tube trains could navigate the Underground using the rules of Quantum Physics (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-06 | get Quantum Tunnel → | tags: accelerometers, atoms, location

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NASA Will Soon Find Out If the Perseverance Rover Can Really Persevere On Mars (slashdot.org)

2025-12-25 | get Perseverance Rover → | tags: health, kilometers, mars

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No assembly required: Proposed space station fits into one launch (techspot.com)

2025-12-22 | get Satellite → | tags: cubic, cubic meters, designed expand

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Titan’s strong tidal dissipation precludes a subsurface ocean (feeds.nature.com)

2025-12-17 | by Petricca | get Ocean Tides → | tags: frac, gravity, parameters

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Show HN: Mirror_bridge – C++ Reflection powered Python binding generation (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-04 | get Reflection → | tags: automatic, double, faster

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Checked-size array parameters in C (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-03 | get Array Parameters → | tags: array, const, const const

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Astronomer Explores Possibility of Launching Bad People Into Sun (futurism.com)

2025-11-18 | by Frank Landymore | get Solar Sail → | tags: brown, earth, gravity

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Apple is paying Google $1bn to upgrade Siri with… Gemini (androidauthority.com)

2025-11-06 | get Gemini AI → | tags: apple, gemini, google

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The Faroes (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get digital camera → | tags: atlantic, dropping, ll

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Faroes (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get digital camera → | tags: atlantic, dropping, ll

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Record-Breaking Great White Shark Spent the Summer Near Popular Beaches (gizmodo.com)

2025-10-31 | by Margherita Bassi | get Microsoft Surface Pro → | tags: contender, large, meters

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Just how resilient are large language models? (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Meta Quest → | tags: model, models, networks

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Just How Resilient Are Large Language Models? (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Meta Quest → | tags: model, models, networks