What people in AI, tech and science are talking about today.
2 November 2026 · Top 10
Ranked by how fast each item is picking up attention on X, Hacker News, GitHub and Hugging Face, with a short note on why it matters.
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Karpathy's HackerTube filters 43M HN comments into 6,454 YouTube picks
Andrej Karpathy used Claude to mine two decades of Hacker News comments for repeatedly recommended videos, then built HackerTube around that list in about two hours with Opus.
Source: X · @karpathyLink · Post on X · LinkedIn ·▲▲ +4,230 eng/h40,770 likes · 3,663 reposts
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Anthropic's Claude Ultra drops the five-hour limit for verified accounts
Theo covers Anthropic's Claude Ultra rebrand of the $200 tier and the removal of five-hour rate limits for verified accounts, with caveats on what still caps usage.
Source: YouTube · Theo - t3․ggLink · Post on X · LinkedIn ·▲ +6,830 views/h13,660 views · 634 ratings
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Ancient mosaic fragments sit just under the sea off southern Evia, Greece
Rainmaker1973 shares photos of mosaic pieces lying in shallow water near Archamboli on the Greek island of Evia.
Source: X · @Rainmaker1973Link · Post on X · LinkedIn ·▲ +64 eng/h87 likes · 16 reposts
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JWST picks up a strange isolated signal that resists easy explanation
Anton Petrov walks through a JWST detection of an isolated signal that does not match the usual astrophysical explanations so far.
Source: YouTube · Anton PetrovLink · Post on X · LinkedIn ·▲ +13,997 views/h178,638 views · 5,682 ratings
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Rauchg says Gemini on Cursor is handling two complex projects well
Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch says he has been running Gemini inside Cursor on two high-complexity projects and likes the results.
Source: X · @rauchgLink · Post on X · LinkedIn ·▲ +40 eng/h429 likes · 9 reposts
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The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks
Nolan Lawson's post measures how much extra work common JS frameworks create for coding agents compared with plainer stacks.
Source: Hacker News · discussionLink · Post on X · LinkedIn ·▲▲ +18 pts/h379 points · 293 comments
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thdxr's GitHub triage runs on a long-lived OpenCode agent session
thdxr describes a GitHub triage bot that keeps one OpenCode session alive so specialized sub-agents reuse prior context on similar issues.
Source: X · @thdxrLink · Post on X · LinkedIn ·– +34 eng/h378 likes · 8 reposts
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OmniDiff: a fast, content-aware Git diff tool written in Rust
A new open-source Rust difftool aims for speed and content-aware comparisons; it landed on HN with a few hundred points overnight.
Source: Hacker News · discussionLink · Post on X · LinkedIn ·– +13 pts/h250 points · 71 comments
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Memdoor: five Qwen3.8-27B agents beat Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard
A small workflow of five Qwen3.8-27B models collaborating through Memdoor tops Fable 5 on the hard slice of LiveCodeBench.
Source: Hacker News · discussionLink · Post on X · LinkedIn ·▲ +15 pts/h442 points · 214 comments
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stack-diagram: an agent skill that turns a stack description into a logo diagram
A new agent skill turns a one-sentence stack description into an architecture diagram that uses official product logos.
▲ +28 stars/h819 stars in 2d
AI & Agents
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DeepSeek open-sources dsh-superagent-prototype for more autonomous agents
DeepSeek published a prototype repo aimed at more autonomous multi-step agents; it passed ten thousand stars within days.
▲▲ +221 stars/h10,887 stars in 3d
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David Shapiro on the rise of the automated economy
David Shapiro sketches what an automated, post-labor economy could look like as agents take on more white-collar work.
Source: YouTube · David ShapiroLink · Post on X · LinkedIn ·– +1,992 views/h43,352 views
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Open Models Have Dropped to 12 Points Behind #artificialanalysis #localai
New video from Sam Witteveen, 5,883 views so far.
Source: YouTube · Sam WitteveenLink · Post on X · LinkedIn ·– +270 views/h5,883 views · 100 ratings
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Backdoored Claude Code VS Code extension reached the Cursor Marketplace
Security researchers say a malicious Claude Code for VS Code build was listed on the Cursor Marketplace before it was pulled.
Source: Hacker News · discussionLink · Post on X · LinkedIn ·▲ +17 pts/h1002 points · 553 comments
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Anthropic's New Study: You're Not Controlling AI as Much as You Think You Are
New video from Cole Medin, 12,408 views so far.
Source: YouTube · Cole MedinLink · Post on X · LinkedIn ·– +296 views/h12,408 views · 110 ratings
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REA: A Routed Embodied Agent Runtime for Asynchronous Brain-Cerebellum Control
From the source: Foundation models are becoming remarkably reliable at high-level reasoning, yet they remain too slow and costly to serve as fine-grained controllers. Conversely, fast policies like VLAs and whole-body…
▲ +0.2 votes/h11 upvotes
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patch-gg/pixelfx: 244 pixel art effects, every one a small piece of code. Plus a Claude Code skill to make your own.
From the source: 244 pixel art effects, every one a small piece of code. Plus a Claude Code skill to make your own.
▲ +41 stars/h3,142 stars in 4d
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elvarofficial/teardown: A Claude Code skill that turns any machine into a 3D simulator you can take apart
From the source: A Claude Code skill that turns any machine into a 3D simulator you can take apart
– +15 stars/h1,099 stars in 4d
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wangzan101/Mika: An on-device AI agent for Android that operates apps and the web to get things done for you.
From the source: An on-device AI agent for Android that operates apps and the web to get things done for you.
▲ +51 stars/h4,738 stars in 4d
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RoboArchitect: Automating the Design of Robotic Agents with Persistent Memory
From the source: Recent work shows that a frozen robot policy performs far better inside an agent harness, where control code decides when to query the policy, consult vision tools, or command the arm directly. Yet to…
– +0.1 votes/h5 upvotes
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Flide: Accelerating Decision Inference with Exact State Forking
From the source: Decision models such as Jev have emerged as a highly promising paradigm for LLM agent systems, providing lightweight and reliable categorical reasoning for rapid System One execution. However, existin…
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Latent Sparse Attention: Towards Subquadratic Ultra-Long Context Attention
From the source: Agentic workflows are increasingly shifting towards long-horizon tasks, such as open-ended scientific work, where models benefit from long context windows. However, at ultra-long context (above 1M tok…
▲▲ newnew paper
AI & Agents
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heydamir/unslop: A Claude skill that turns vibecoded, AI-looking UI into a designed interface
From the source: A Claude skill that turns vibecoded, AI-looking UI into a designed interface
▲▲ +59 stars/h5,345 stars in 4d
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Latent Reasoning in Continuous Space for Unified Multimodal Models
From the source: Unified Multimodal Models (UMMs) achieve remarkable success on diverse multimodal understanding and generation tasks, yet they still struggle to effectively leverage language-based chain-of-thought re…
▲ +0.2 votes/h17 upvotes
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WeFair: Fidelity-Aware Alignment from Human Feedback for Personalized Query Rewriting in Short-Video Search
From the source: Short-video search needs compact query rewriters that recover users' personalized intent from ambiguous queries under strict latency constraints. Existing LLM-based methods have improved rewriting by …
– +0.1 votes/h5 upvotes
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paipiange/nvzhuang: 1407 张 AI 女装参考图集与虚拟试穿网站,支持中英检索、OpenAI Images / Gemini / 豆包及自定义 Base URL、API Key、模型。https://github.com/paipiang
From the source: 1407 张 AI 女装参考图集与虚拟试穿网站,支持中英检索、OpenAI Images / Gemini / 豆包及自定义 Base URL、API Key、模型。https://github.com/paipiange/nvzhuang
▲ +20 stars/h2,014 stars in 5d
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Proving and Improving the Platonic Representation Hypothesis with JEPAs
From the source: Whether models trained on different modalities converge to the same representation of the world is central to AI. The Platonic Representation Hypothesis (PRH) conjectures that they do as they scale, b…
▲▲ +0.6 votes/h67 upvotes
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Latent Reasoning in Continuous Space for Unified Multimodal Models
From the source: Unified Multimodal Models (UMMs) achieve remarkable success on diverse multimodal understanding and generation tasks, yet they still struggle to effectively leverage language-based chain-of-thought re…
▲▲ newnew paper
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Counting on Dummies: Privacy Amplification with Observable Counts and Truncated Batches
From the source: In many practical deployments of Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD), the server processes data in batches. Randomly sampling these batches allows for better privacy bounds via…
▲▲ newnew paper
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Instance-dependent sequential limits as an exact information ledger
From the source: Instance-dependent limits for bandit regret, sequential tests, best-arm identification and Markov decision processes are proved by one chain. It runs from a divergence decomposition through data proce…
▲▲ newnew paper
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DecisionRank: On-Policy Distillation for Decision-Model Rerankers
From the source: Decision models target structured tasks by directly predicting choices or scores, avoiding autoregressive decoding latency. However, transferring a generative LLM's ranking knowledge to a decision mod…
▲▲ newnew paper
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Physiological Trajectories and Observation Patterns in ICU Mortality Prediction: Transportability Under Changing Measurement Conditions
From the source: Objective: To distinguish the transferable predictive value of physiological trajectories from that of observation patterns in ICU mortality prediction, and to assess whether measurement timing affect…
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Fast Privacy Loss Accounting for Random Allocation via Multiscale FFT
From the source: In the random allocation sampling scheme each user's data is used in $k$ steps chosen randomly and uniformly from a sequence of $t$ steps. This scheme is known to improve on Poisson sampling in privat…
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ACCT: Asymmetric Cross-LLM Context Transfer
From the source: In real-world deployments, large language model (LLM) systems are increasingly evolving from single-model invocation toward heterogeneous deployments in which different models are dynamically invoked …
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Twenty years on, Davy Jones is still the CG character gold standard
A look back at ILM's Davy Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean, still cited as a peak for creature CG two decades later.
Source: YouTube · Corridor CrewLink · Post on X · LinkedIn ·▲▲ +35,860 views/h1,533,482 views · 61,989 ratings
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VFX Artists React to Bad & Great CGi 249
New video from Corridor Crew, 667,189 views so far.
Source: YouTube · Corridor CrewLink · Post on X · LinkedIn ·▲ +15,601 views/h667,189 views · 16,108 ratings
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Which Voice Typing app is Worth your money?
New video from Olivio Sarikas, 2,095 views so far.
Source: YouTube · Olivio SarikasLink · Post on X · LinkedIn ·– +169 views/h2,095 views · 24 ratings
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Glasses That Make You Telepathic
New video from Matt Wolfe, 15,658 views so far.
Source: YouTube · Matt WolfeLink · Post on X · LinkedIn ·– +387 views/h15,658 views · 502 ratings
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AI ART Helloween LIVE STREAM - Interactive!
New video from Olivio Sarikas, 3,738 views so far.
Source: YouTube · Olivio SarikasLink · Post on X · LinkedIn ·– +147 views/h3,738 views · 20 ratings
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No Channels Left Behind: Understanding Diffusion Acceleration through Residual Gates
From the source: Training acceleration methods for diffusion transformers, such as REPA and dispersive regularization, are commonly explained by additional supervision, spatial-structure priors, or improved feature ge…
▲ +0.2 votes/h15 upvotes
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Hierarchical World Models with Implicit Dynamics
From the source: Planning with world models enables test-time adaptation for embodied agents, offering superior generalization over direct policy learning. However, long-horizon tasks remain hindered by cumulative err…
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A Better Critic Matters for Distribution Matching Distillation
From the source: Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) trains a few-step student using the difference between a teacher's score and an online critic's estimate of the student distribution's score. We investigate wh…
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Gradient Descent on Two ReLU Neurons: Global Landscape and Bifurcation Dynamics
From the source: Understanding how gradient descent learns features remains a central challenge in neural network theory. We study this question in a minimal multi-index setting that already exhibits rich multi-phase …
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Elastic boundaries in Stochastic Inflation
From the source: In the context of stochastic inflation, specifying boundary conditions is often a requirement to distinguish domains where quantum diffusion takes place from regions where stochastic effects are suppr…
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L3G-World: Real-Time Infinite World Generation with Latent 3D Gaussian Memory
From the source: Interactive world models generate visual content conditioned on user actions, yet maintaining spatial consistency over long-horizon exploration in real time remains challenging. Existing approaches re…
▲▲ +0.4 votes/h44 upvotes
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Primordial black holes and gravitational waves from aligned axion inflation
From the source: We study the production of primordial black holes (PBHs) and scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) in aligned axion inflation through the transition between two stages of inflation. The first sta…
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What are you adding to your #GitHubUniverse badge?
From the source: What are you adding to your #GitHubUniverse badge? Add 3D Maze app and more here:
Source: X · @githubLink · Post on X · LinkedIn ·– +7.4 eng/h89 likes · 4 reposts
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AI can do more than just generate text
New video from Tech With Tim, 5,687 views so far.
Source: YouTube · Tech With TimLink · Post on X · LinkedIn ·– +250 views/h5,687 views · 180 ratings
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Jev Python Tutorial: AI Decisions in 10 Minutes
New video from Tech With Tim, 18,993 views so far.
Source: YouTube · Tech With TimLink · Post on X · LinkedIn ·– +416 views/h18,993 views · 175 ratings
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Arjun-Ingole/hop: Install Linux next to Windows without a USB stick
From the source: Install Linux next to Windows without a USB stick
▲ +21 stars/h1,297 stars in 3d
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ReLift: Dense 3D Tracking as Lifted Trajectory Repair
From the source: Dense 3D tracking from monocular video requires establishing point correspondences over time, estimating their depth, and inferring their trajectories during occlusion. Existing methods typically lear…
▲ +0.2 votes/h11 upvotes
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The AI Agent That Teaches Itself
New video from Tech With Tim, 6,652 views so far.
Source: YouTube · Tech With TimLink · Post on X · LinkedIn ·– +142 views/h6,652 views · 159 ratings
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SATFRONT: Detecting Atmospheric Fronts with Satellite Data using Machine Learning
From the source: Atmospheric fronts are associated with much of the high-impact weather in the mid-latitudes, yet their identification and classification remain largely manual and subjective. Existing deep learning ap…
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Nonequilibrium Transient Centers in Continuous-Time Systems
From the source: Analysis of mathematical models in ecology and epidemiology often emphasizes asymptotic dynamics, such as stable equilibria, periodic orbits, and attractors. However, many biologically relevant trajec…
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Two-loop matter power spectrum from FFTLog and kite integrals
From the source: We present a fast and accurate method for computing the two-loop matter power spectrum in the Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structure (EFTofLSS). Using FFTLog, we decompose the linear power sp…
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HiFOR: Hierarchical Foresight with Action-Guided World Grounding for Vision-Language-Action Model
From the source: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated promising capabilities in robotic manipulation by integrating visual perception, language understanding, and action generation. Recent advances ha…
▲ +0.2 votes/h22 upvotes
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PhysInsert: Physically Plausible Object Insertion with Geometric Priors and Bidirectional Object-Scene Interactions
From the source: We present PhysInsert, a framework for physically plausible reference-based object insertion that jointly adapts objects and their surrounding scenes. Existing methods often rely on masked inputs, gen…
▲ +0.1 votes/h14 upvotes
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Training Foundation Models with a Single Algorithm
From the source: Foundation models are typically trained in stages: pretraining, midtraining, supervised fine-tuning (SFT), and reinforcement learning (RL), with changes in both data and learning algorithms. We show t…
▲ +0.1 votes/h12 upvotes
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How Did We Miss This Massive Object in Our Backyard?
New video from Anton Petrov, 256,437 views so far.
Source: YouTube · Anton PetrovLink · Post on X · LinkedIn ·▲ +6,976 views/h256,437 views · 7,596 ratings
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Spacecraft That Returned From The Dead! Transmissions From Beyond The Grave
New video from Scott Manley, 207,241 views so far.
Source: YouTube · Scott ManleyLink · Post on X · LinkedIn ·– +4,959 views/h207,241 views · 6,685 ratings
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Our Solar System is Mixing with Others
New video from Cool Worlds, 152,817 views so far.
Source: YouTube · Cool WorldsLink · Post on X · LinkedIn ·– +3,538 views/h152,817 views · 5,375 ratings
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This Spacecraft Came Back From Death 20 Years Later
New video from Scott Manley, 60,423 views so far.
Source: YouTube · Scott ManleyLink · Post on X · LinkedIn ·– +1,507 views/h60,423 views · 2,156 ratings
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Zinc creep in cable spelter sockets brought down the Arecibo telescope in 2020
From the source: Zinc creep in cable spelter sockets brought down the Arecibo telescope in 2020
Source: Hacker News · discussionLink · Post on X · LinkedIn ·– +3.4 pts/h176 points · 52 comments
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Probing Spatial State Representations in Visual Foundation Models
From the source: An observer sees only part of the surrounding world, yet must keep track of what lies beyond the current view. Spatial perception therefore involves more than recognizing individual images: it calls f…
▲ +0.1 votes/h11 upvotes
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Model-Independent Assessments of Tidal Alignment and Density-Weighting Dependence in Galaxy Intrinsic Alignments
From the source: Intrinsic alignments (IA) of galaxies are an important source of systematic uncertainty in weak gravitational lensing measurements and also serve as a test for models of galaxy formation and evolution…
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Tests of equivalence principle violation in doubly coupled dark energy
From the source: Recent work has shown that a simple form of coupled dark energy with a constant coupling produces a good fit to the DESI data. In this scenario, dark matter, but not baryons, couples to a scalar field…
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Microswimmers lose by swimming selfishly
From the source: At low Reynolds number, microswimmers are coupled by the flows they create, even when they are apart. The best way for each swimmer to push itself forward then depends on its neighbors, turning swimmi…
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Topological Multi-Natural Inflation
From the source: We investigate topological inflation in minimal multi-natural inflation, in which the axion potential consists of two cosine terms. Focusing on the high-scale regime, we perform a systematic parameter…
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Formation of Micron-sized Presolar Graphite Grains in Low-energy Supernova Ejecta
From the source: Presolar graphite grains with supernova isotopic signatures provide direct evidence that large graphite grains formed in supernova ejecta. However, theoretical calculations of dust formation in supern…
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Cosmology with post-EoR 21 cm Intensity Mapping surveys: power spectrum measurements in the last decade
From the source: The technique of 21 cm intensity mapping (IM) is emerging as a possible, cost-effective method to supplement optical surveys to map the large-scale structure, and extend their redshift reach, with pro…
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The Zanfretta Abductions
New video from Bedtime Stories, 187,376 views so far.
Source: YouTube · Bedtime StoriesLink · Post on X · LinkedIn ·– +5,276 views/h187,376 views · 5,863 ratings
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Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved
From the source: Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved
Source: Hacker News · discussionLink · Post on X · LinkedIn ·– +3.3 pts/h128 points · 57 comments
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