Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaScript — Google to invest up to $2B in Anthropic — and The fun factor of the video game Uplink

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Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaScript goose.icu \| points: 440 \| comments: 279

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Google to invest up to $2B in Anthropic reuters.com \| points: 374 \| comments: 353

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The fun factor of the video game Uplink vertette.github.io \| points: 330 \| comments: 83

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Large Balloon Reflector: a potentially game-changing antenna design nasa.gov \| points: 226 \| comments: 74

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Algebra feynmanlectures.caltech.edu \| points: 226 \| comments: 71

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MagicaVoxel – A free voxel art editor and interactive path tracing renderer ephtracy.github.io \| points: 223 \| comments: 38

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When gradient descent is a kernel method cgad.ski \| points: 189 \| comments: 36

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Google can turn ANC earbuds into a heart rate monitor with no extra hardware 9to5google.com \| points: 179 \| comments: 70

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Android 14’s user-profile data bug arstechnica.com \| points: 179 \| comments: 86

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Visualizing quaternions (2018) eater.net \| points: 177 \| comments: 40

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Samsung disables customer phones remotely, holds data hostage [video] youtube.com \| points: 177 \| comments: 94

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Cortex X2: ARM aims high chipsandcheese.com \| points: 173 \| comments: 102

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A small warning about UDP based protocols boston.conman.org \| points: 172 \| comments: 118

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Getting my library cards onto my phone the hard way iliana.fyi \| points: 166 \| comments: 79

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Images from the 2023 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition nikonsmallworld.com \| points: 158 \| comments: 33

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Writing for Professional and Technical Audiences pnewman.org \| points: 139 \| comments: 43

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New Study Says Maybe Helicopter Parenting Is Making Kids Depressed techdirt.com \| points: 134 \| comments: 159

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WinterJS wasmer.io \| points: 133 \| comments: 77

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The convolution empire strikes back gonzoml.substack.com \| points: 130 \| comments: 46

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Staring at a Wall: Embracing Deliberate Boredom ch3ngl0rd.com \| points: 130 \| comments: 95

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