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Cerebrum: Simulate and infer synaptic connectivity in large-scale brain networks

https://svbrain.xyz/2024/12/20/cerebrum

Ants vs. Humans: Putting Group Smarts to the Test

https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/an...

Open source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports written by AI

https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/10/ai_slop_bug...

What happened to the world's largest tube TV? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfZxOuc9Qwk

DeepSeek v3 beats Claude sonnet 3.5 and way cheaper

https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3

Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

item?id=42506506

Survival Amid Tragedy: Dozens Dead in Kazakhstan Plane Crash, but Many Survive

https://zonweb.github.io/news/kazakhstan-plane-cra...

Are Immutable Linux Distros right for you?

https://linuxblog.io/immutable-linux-distros-are-t...

I Saved an Electron Microscope from the Trash [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqx9blbYDB0

Demystifying Debuggers, Part 2: The Anatomy of a Running Program

https://www.rfleury.com/p/demystifying-debuggers-p...

Hoarder: Self-hostable bookmark-everything app

https://github.com/hoarder-app/hoarder

What would it take to add refinement types to Rust?

https://yoric.github.io/post/rust-refinement-types...

Show HN: Complete decompilation of Lego Island

https://github.com/isledecomp/isle

Adversarial policies beat superhuman Go AIs (2023)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.00241

Masks, Smoke, and Mirrors: The story of EgyptAir flight 804

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/masks-smoke-an...

Firefox releases tab groups for nightly

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19381...

From Papyrus to Preprints

https://joinreboot.org/p/from-papyrus-to-preprints

Racket School 2019: The "How to Design Languages" Track

https://school.racket-lang.org/2019/plan/

Exploring LoRA – Part 1: The Idea Behind Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning

https://medium.com/inspiredbrilliance/exploring-lo...

Automating the search for artificial life with foundation models

https://sakana.ai/asal/

Converting shopping malls into apartments [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1GIF6VNipE

A Taping of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' Saved an Innocent Man from Death Row (2017)

https://innocenceproject.org/how-curb-your-enthusi...

Gordon Mah Ung has died

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2564783/gordon-mah...

How to Handle Go Security Alerts

https://jarosz.dev/code/how-to-handle-go-security-...

Parsing millions of URLs per Second (2023)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spe.32...

The number pi has an evil twin

https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/11370344423...

Reflecting on Life

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2024/12/26/reflecting-on-...

OpenOffice security issues unfixed in over 365 days, security status Amber

https://whimsy.apache.org/board/minutes/Security_T...

Giant sloths and mastodons lived with humans for millennia in the Americas

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-giant-sloths-mastodo...

ECAL – Enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer / Pub-Sub Middleware

https://github.com/eclipse-ecal/ecal