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Rolls-Royce Merlin alternative uses

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Uses of the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine The Rolls-Royce Merlin, although designed as an aero engine, was...
Uses of the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine The Rolls-Royce Merlin, although designed as an aero engine, was used in other applications both on land and at sea. A derivative called the Meteor was developed for use in tanks. Michael Wilcock of Sussex, England, built the Swandean Spitfire Special,[1] using a Merlin XXV engi...
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Show HN: Ergonomically call LLM in bulk from CLI

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Building a keyboard for a 1985 Casio FX-451 calculator [video]

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science & technology
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Hardcore Engineer (2022) [video]

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film & animation
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Bambu denies their own documented restrictions [video]

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education
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Trump signs executive order withdrawing from the World Health Organization

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President signs order refusing to enforce TikTok ban for 75 days

theverge.com

President Donald Trump has issued an executive order telling the Department of Justice to not enforce...
President Donald Trump has issued an executive order telling the Department of Justice to not enforce a rule that demands TikTok spin off from its Chinese parent company ByteDance or face a ban.The order, issued on Trump’s first day of office, is meant to effectively extend the deadline for a sale by undercutting pe...
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Japan Offers Free Daycare to Boost Tokyo's Falling Birth Rate

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Japan has been grappling with its demographic statistics with a sense of urgency, particularly regarding its...
Japan has been grappling with its demographic statistics with a sense of urgency, particularly regarding its declining birth rate. In 2023, the country recorded its eighth consecutive year of decreasing births, with a 5.1% drop that has pushed its fertility rate to historic lows. In response, Tokyo authorities have ...

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United States Digital Service Renamed to DOGE

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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the...
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose. This Executive Order establishes the Department of Government Efficiency to implement the President’s DOGE Agenda, by modernizing Federal technology and software to m...
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It sure looks like Meta stole a lot of books to build its AI

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It’s a grim week for Meta. The company formerly known as Facebook, and before that Facemash,...
It’s a grim week for Meta. The company formerly known as Facebook, and before that Facemash, “designed to evaluate the attractiveness of female Harvard students,” now encompasses Facebook, Instagram, Threads, WhatsApp, and Meta, the failed vision for a remote workplace, fun-zone, and Zucker-verse where legs are alwa...
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Flocken Elektrowagen

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Motor vehicle The Flocken Elektrowagen is a four-wheeled electric car designed by Andreas Flocken (1845–1913), manufactured...
Motor vehicle The Flocken Elektrowagen is a four-wheeled electric car designed by Andreas Flocken (1845–1913), manufactured in 1888 by Maschinenfabrik A. Flocken in Coburg. It is regarded as the first real electric car.[1][2][3] In 1888, Flocken added a department for electrical engineering to his company Maschinenf...
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Flag drawing with Turtle

jtanx.github.io

28 Dec 2018 Yep, drawing the Flag of Wales using Turtle :P One of the first...
28 Dec 2018 Yep, drawing the Flag of Wales using Turtle :P One of the first units I ever took at UWA was CITS1200 - Java programming. There was this fairly basic lab task involving drawing flags using a limited set of drawing commands. If I recall correctly, you were only allowed to use drawLine, so you had to imple...
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Official DeepSeek R1 Now on Ollama

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Show HN: Humbug – an open source AI dev environment mostly built by AI

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New tech turns seawater into drinking water without tons of chemicals

umich.edu

Jovan Kamcev, an assistant professor of chemical engineering and macromolecular science and engineering at U-M, places...
Jovan Kamcev, an assistant professor of chemical engineering and macromolecular science and engineering at U-M, places a filter membrane between two electrodes, which measure how well the membrane conducts electricity. This helps his team predict how well it can purify water. Image credit: Marcin Szczepanski, Michig...
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Ruff: Python linter and code formatter written in Rust

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2025 Daily Surface Air Temperature Looking Bad

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climate data temperature visualizations weather
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Matt Mullenweg, Automattic's CEO, Seems Bound and Determined to Wreck WordPress

digitalcxo.com

CEOs often make bad mistakes, but it’s hard to fathom exactly what Automattic CEO and co-founder...
CEOs often make bad mistakes, but it’s hard to fathom exactly what Automattic CEO and co-founder Matt Mullenweg thinks he’s doing to his company and WordPress. For decades, one of the easiest decisions a company could make was to answer the question: “What content management system (CMS) should we use for our websit...
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417-Megapixel Andromeda Galaxy Panorama Took over a Decade to Make

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This photomosaic of the Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 million light-years from Earth, is the largest ever...
This photomosaic of the Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 million light-years from Earth, is the largest ever created using images from the Hubble Space Telescope. It features over 600 Hubble images and required over a decade to make. The composite features 200 million stars, a fraction of Andromeda’s estimated trillion...
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Bioinspired weather-responsive adaptive shading

uni-stuttgart.de
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An Astronomical View of Ancient Egyptian Star Clocks (2021)

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Reverse Engineering Call of Duty Anti-Cheat

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DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B Surpasses GPT-4o in certain benchmarks

huggingface.co

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US safety regulators expand Ford hands-free driving tech investigation

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A U.S. federal safety regulator has “upgraded” its investigation into Ford’s hands-free advanced driver assistance system...
A U.S. federal safety regulator has “upgraded” its investigation into Ford’s hands-free advanced driver assistance system known as BlueCruise — a required step before a recall can be issued. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Office of Defects Investigation launched a probe into Ford BlueCruise las...
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