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  2. Sydney retiree bids to be first to travel Australia on electric motorcycle (abc.net.au)
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  4. Nom Army: Don't trust coding agents when they say they're done (github.com/rayson-tech)
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  5. Language Model "Shape" (alexzhang13.github.io)
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  6. Rust for C#/.NET Developers (microsoft.github.io)
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  9. Show HN: PeerTalk.ai - Let your agent talk to a friend's agent (peertalk.ai)
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  10. Show HN: All/Some – A free logic puzzle game about set relationships (allsome.app)
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  11. Zipf's Law (wikipedia.org)
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  13. Deep cuts: Londoner's fake vinyl empire sheds light on 'industrial scale' fraud (theguardian.com)
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  14. Ucsd-Hacc/Nsnfsssfsfn: Nearly SNFS-Speed Signature Forgery Sans Factoring N (github.com/ucsd-hacc)
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  15. A perfect clone of 1993 game SimTower (github.com/phulin)
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  16. Auxo Linux (auxolinux.com)
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  17. CERN mug summarizes Standard Model, but is off by a factor of 2 (2011) (quantumdiaries.org)
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  18. Reflex: Rust library for control loops that act on observability data (github.com/datadog-labs)
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  19. What is the size of Yemen? (2024) (theborys.substack.com)
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  20. Problem: Closed Weights and Guild Monopolies (abdullah417161.substack.com)
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  21. David Goodsell (wikipedia.org)
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  22. Trump rejects Iran's conditional ceasefire proposal (cnbc.com)
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  23. Recogntion of Algebraic Matroids is Undecidable (gilkalai.wordpress.com)
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  24. Nice Play Anthropic
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  25. Show HN: FinderySearch – The AI powered smart search engine (run.app)
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  26. Ask HN: Are you unfollowing friends on GitHub because of AI slop?
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  27. Timeline of the Far Future (dmitrybrant.com)
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  28. Simulating Airband Am Radios (bitbashing.io)
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  30. Musk – Official Trailer [video] (youtube.com)
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What is the size of Yemen? (2024)

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This happens more frequently then one imagines. Quite a few things fail to start from scratch and instead rely on compounded errors over time. Projections, budgets, etc., are sometimes based on stale information.

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