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OpenLogi▲ 236

OpenLogi

A native, local-first alternative to Logitech Options+, written in Rust. Remap buttons, drive DPI and SmartShift over HID++ — no account, no telemetry.

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University of Chicago▲ 341

Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation

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Cerebras▲ 177

Cerebras CS-4

The Cerebras CS-4 delivers revolutionary AI performance, replacing hundreds of GPUs with a single wafer-scale chip. Accelerate AI workloads like never before.

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BBC▲ 120

Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone

Children's lung capacity caught up with their peers in less polluted areas once a clean air zone came in, a study shows.

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The Economist▲ 154

Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco

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Terry Tao▲ 56

Palomar: A registry of Lean verified mathematics

In recent months there has been a proliferation of AI-generated proofs of various old and new results, some of which have been formalized in the proof assistant language Lean. However,…

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GitHub▲ 97

Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries

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University of Cambridge▲ 27

Tiny satellite will use the dark side of the Moon as a shield

A tiny UK-developed satellite, roughly the size of a small carry-on suitcase, could help answer one of the biggest questions in cosmology: what happened in the roughly 150 million years of…

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Lithub▲ 20

That Disgraceful, Disreputable, (Wonderful) Form of Punctuation: The Parenthesis

Shakespeare and friends would call punctuation “distinctions,” according to the Latin tradition, or “pointing,” because of the medieval practice of placing dots or points at different…

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GitHub1d ago

Show HN: Automatically detect and patch walking-dead states in Sierra games

Hi HN, I've become lazier in my old age and struggle to replay my favorite Sierra games from the 80s and 90s because I keep getting into those situations where I need an item from 3 acts…

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