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Mathematician who reshaped number theory wins prestigious Abel prize (feeds.nature.com)

2026-03-19 | by Castelvecchi | get Number Theory Puzzle Book → | tags: abel prize, gerd faltings, diophantine equations

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Ig Nobels ceremony moves to Europe over security concerns (arstechnica.com)

2026-03-10 | get Nobel Prize → | tags: ig nobel prizes, boston, switzerland

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Xprize founder Peter Diamandis launches new contest to manifest a new ‘Star Trek’ (techcrunch.com)

2026-03-09 | by Julie Bort | get Neuralink → | tags: star trek, xprize, google

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Xprize founder Peter Diamandis launches new contest to manifest a new Star Trek (techcrunch.com)

2026-03-09 | by Julie Bort | get Neuralink → | tags: star trek, xprize, google

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Willingness to look stupid (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-09 | tags: nobel prize, richard hamming, shannon

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The stagnancy of publishing and the disappearance of the midlist (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-07 | by Ted Gioia | get Midlist → | tags: pulitzer prize, new york publishing, book club

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Talk to Your Own Personal Isaac Newton With Ailias’s Hologram Avatars (wired.com)

2026-02-25 | by Dulcie Godfrey | get Holographic avatars → | tags: ailias, aristotle, nobel prize

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The Wolfram S Combinator Challenge (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-23 | get Combinator → | tags: wolfram foundation, wolfram s combinator challenge, prize money

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Quantum computing firm dangles $22,500 Bitcoin prize — all you have to do is uncover a private key hidden inside a quantum-optimized problem (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-21 | by Mark Tyson | get Quantum computer → | tags: advantage, bluequbit, challenge

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Fortnite blocks creators from selling prize wheel spins (theverge.com)

2026-01-16 | by Jay Peters | get Game Wheel → | tags: allowed, allowed luck, bundle

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The Emmys Create a New ‘Legacy Award’ to Honor Old Favorites (gizmodo.com)

2026-01-08 | get Golden Globe → | tags: culture, designed, designed honor

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The winning $1.817 billion Powerball ticket was drawn on Christmas Eve. Here’s where it was sold (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-12-26 | get Ticket → | tags: christmas, jackpot, lottery

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Committee Unable to Contact Nobel Prize Winner Because He’s Too Chill, Had Phone on Airplane Mode (futurism.com)

2025-10-31 | by Rae Witte | get smartphone → | tags: committee, nobel, phone

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What’s so great about excellence? (1981) (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Michael Kinsley | get Emotional Intelligence book → | tags: fellowship, fred, george

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Nobel Prizes: 5 Unlikely Winner Reactions, From the Unbothered to the Downright Mad (gizmodo.com)

2025-10-31 | by Gayoung Lee | get Google Nest Mini → | tags: higgs, nobel, prize

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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 awarded to immune system researchers (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get computer monitor → | tags: cells, immune, nobel

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Pasta Sauce Physics, Eating Teflon, and Drunk Bats: The 2025 Ig Nobel Prizes Celebrate the Joy of Offbeat Science (gizmodo.com)

2025-10-31 | by Gayoung Lee | get Amazon Echo → | tags: ceremony, nobel, prize

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An antidote to fat, heavy cars? Check out these lightweighting awards. (arstechnica.com)

2025-10-31 | get science reference book → | tags: ai, cars, lucid

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Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Meta Quest → | tags: 2024, code, ioccc

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Call for Nominations – Computing’s Top 30 Early Career Professionals for 2025 (computer.org)

2025-10-31 | by Jennifer Salazar | get Microsoft Surface Laptop → | tags: contest, prize, rules

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A new AI coding challenge just published its first results — and they aren’t pretty (techcrunch.com)

2025-10-31 | by Russell Brandom | get Meta Quest → | tags: ai, bench, just

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A new AI coding challenge just published its first results – and they aren’t pretty (techcrunch.com)

2025-10-31 | by Russell Brandom | get Meta Quest → | tags: ai, bench, just