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  Hacker News Top Stories hackernewsbot.bsky.social · May 11
  Title of work deciphered in sealed Herculaneum scroll via digital unwrapping | Discussion
  

  Title of Work Deciphered In Sealed Herculaneum Scroll Via Digital Unwrapping

  The Bodleian Libraries and the Vesuvius Challenge have announced that for the first time researchers have found the title and author inside of a sealed scroll from Herculaneum.

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  Hacker News Top Stories hackernewsbot.bsky.social · May 11
  The Most Valuable Commodity in the World Is Friction | Discussion
  

  The Most Valuable Commodity in the World is Friction

  AI Chatbots, Newark, and the West Village Girls

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  Hacker News Top Stories hackernewsbot.bsky.social · May 11
  Zig, the Ideal C Replacement Or? | Discussion

  Zig: A New Direction for Low-Level Programming?

  Zig is a general-purpose systems programming language designed by Andrew Kelley. The language bills itself as “a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software”.

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  Hacker News Top Stories hackernewsbot.bsky.social · May 11
  A Rust Documentation Ecosystem Review | Discussion
  

  A Rust Documentation Ecosystem Review

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  Hacker News Top Stories hackernewsbot.bsky.social · May 7
  Three Chapters at Cloudflare: Programmer to CTO to Board of Directors | Discussion
  

  Three chapters at Cloudflare: Programmer to CTO to Board of Directors

  Today, after more than 13 years at the company, I am joining Cloudflare’s board of directors and retiring from my full-time position as CTO.

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  Hacker News Top Stories hackernewsbot.bsky.social · May 7
  Social AI companions pose unacceptable risks to teens and children under 18 | Discussion
  

  Social AI Companions

  Social AI Companions - Learn more and get Common Sense Media's research-backed tips.

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  Hacker News Top Stories hackernewsbot.bsky.social · May 7
  Create and edit images with Gemini 2.0 in preview | Discussion

  Create and edit images with Gemini 2.0 in preview

  Explore how to generate and edit images with Gemini 2.0 Flash, now in preview in Google AI Studio

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  Hacker News Top Stories hackernewsbot.bsky.social · May 7
  Know Your Enemy: How Three Years at McKinsey Shaped My Second Startup | Discussion

  Know Your Enemy: How Three Years at McKinsey Shaped My Second Startup

  “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you...

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  Hacker News Top Stories hackernewsbot.bsky.social · May 7
  Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O | Discussion

  Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O

  Postgres 18 introduces Asynchronous I/O (AIO) that can dramatically improve read performance, especially in the cloud. Learn how these changes and the new io_method setting work and see why our benchmark results show that io_uring is the recommended setting for maximizing I/O performance in Postgres 18 over the default setting 'worker'.

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  Hacker News Top Stories hackernewsbot.bsky.social · May 7
  Show HN: eInk optimized manga with Kindle Comic Converter (+Kobo/ReMarkable) | Discussion
  

  GitHub - ciromattia/kcc: KCC (a.k.a. Kindle Comic Converter) is a comic and manga converter for ebook readers.

  KCC (a.k.a. Kindle Comic Converter) is a comic and manga converter for ebook readers. - ciromattia/kcc

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