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How the AI industry forgot two of its best ideas (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: ai industry, roman concrete, technological progress

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Fretboard Memorisation with Modular Arithmetic (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-22 | tags: fretboard, modular arithmetic, guitar

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How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-17 | by Sara Hashemi | tags: roman concrete, hadrian’s villa, carbonation

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Garbage collection (feeds.nature.com)

2026-06-24 | by Lawson | get Garbage Collection Book → | tags: mit, department of energy, universe-quine

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Amateur may have cracked Linear A (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-19 | get Linear A Decipherment Book → | tags: linear a, minoan script, linear b

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Amateur may have cracked Linear A, a 120-year-old puzzle (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-19 | get Linear A Deciphering Book → | tags: linear a, minoan script, linear b

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Around the World, These Building Solutions Keep Things Local (wired.com)

2026-06-16 | by Elizabeth Fazzare | get Smart Localized Building Sensors → | tags: concrete, embodied carbon, solar-powered pods

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Launch HN: Rudus (YC P26) – AI for concrete contractors (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-02 | get Concrete Contractor AI Tool → | tags: rudus, concrete, estimation

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Keychron K2 HE Concrete Edition Review: Rock-Solid Typing (wired.com)

2026-05-30 | by Henri Robbins | get Keychron K2 Mechanical Keyboard → | tags: keychron k2, concrete edition, mechanical keyboard

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Testing the WWI concrete ships and WWII concrete barges (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-29 | get Concrete Ship Model Kit → | tags: wwi concrete ships, wwii concrete barges, naval engineering

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An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-20 | get OpenAI Discrete Geometry Book → | tags: openai, discrete geometry, conjecture

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Your Walmart might be 3D printed — firm building more than a dozen 3D-printed Walmart expansions with concrete-printing robots (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-25 | by Denise Bertacchi | get 3D Printing Concrete Robot → | tags: 3d concrete printing, alquist 3d, walmart

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Video Shows Amazon Delivery Drone Dropping Package Directly Onto Concrete, Smashing Its Delicate Contents (futurism.com)

2026-04-16 | by Joe Wilkins | get Amazon Prime Drone Kit → | tags: amazon, prime, drone delivery

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Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-07 | by Sam Burns | get Concrete Laptop Stand → | tags: brutalist architecture, concrete, urbex

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Intel's next laptop chips could bring 28-core CPUs built for discrete GPUs (techspot.com)

2026-04-03 | get Intel Core i9-13900K → | tags: intel, nova lake-hx, pcie 5.0

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UFC-Que Choisir Takes Ubisoft To French Court Over the Crew Shutdown (slashdot.org)

2026-04-01 | get Ubisoft The Crew Game → | tags: ubisoft, the crew, ufc-que choisir

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AI for American-produced cement and concrete (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-01 | by Julius Kusuma | get Concrete AI Monitoring System → | tags: meta, american concrete institute, bayesian optimization

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AI for American-Produced Cement and Concrete (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-01 | by Julius Kusuma | get Concrete Tech AI Tool → | tags: meta, american concrete institute, bayesian optimization

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Anthropic leaks part of Claude Code's internal source code (cnbc.com)

2026-03-31 | by Ashley Capoot | get Claude Developer Toolkit → | tags: anthropic, claude, claude opus

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4 lessons from the mass timber movement (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-03-25 | get Mass Timber Construction Book → | tags: mass timber, green building, climate crisis

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Fets and Crosses: Tic-Tac-Toe built from 2458 discrete transistors (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-25 | get Electronic Tic-Tac-Toe Kit → | tags: tic-tac-toe, discrete transistors, logisim

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Creative's Sound Blaster Audigy FX Pro brings discrete audio back from the grave (techspot.com)

2026-03-16 | get Sound Blaster Audigy FX → | tags: creative, sound blaster, audigy fx pro

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Nexperia China begins making its own chips after split with Dutch parent (techspot.com)

2026-03-11 | get Nexperia Semiconductor Development Kit → | tags: nexperia, china, bipolar discrete

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Discrete Structures [pdf] (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-18 | get Discrete Structures → | tags: discrete, discrete structures, structures

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Cornell research shows that underwater 3D printing can be used to build or repair ocean structures in place — DARPA-funded project aims to make underwater construction faster, cheaper, and safer (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-04 | by Mark Tyson | get 3D Printing → | tags: concrete, construction, cornell

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Oxford’s giant new lab building has a secret hidden in its facade (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-28 | get Facade → | tags: actually, brain, brain scan

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This simple robot could drastically speed up data center construction (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-27 | get Robot → | tags: anchor, concrete, holes

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LG says it’s launching the world’s lightest 17-inch RTX laptop — also announces 16-inch ultra-portable laptop with 'dual-AI' functionality (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-02 | by Jowi Morales | get Laptop → | tags: discrete, gram, inch

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LG says that it’s launching the world’s lightest 17-inch RTX laptop — also announces 16-inch ultra-portable laptop with 'dual-AI' functionality (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-02 | by Jowi Morales | get Laptop → | tags: discrete, gram, inch

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You can't design software you don't work on (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-29 | get Database → | tags: advice, concrete, design