Hector Linares
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a gentleman and a scholar
Meet the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize winners arstechnica.com/science/2025...
September 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Meet the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize winners arstechnica.com/science/2025...
How to draw a Space Invader · Muffin Man muffinman.io/blog/invader...
How to draw a Space Invader · Muffin Man
This interactive post will show you how to build your own fleet of space invaders by mixing geometry with randomness and a splash of color.
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September 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
How to draw a Space Invader · Muffin Man muffinman.io/blog/invader...
Thousands of climbing catfish filmed scaling waterfalls | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Thousands of climbing catfish filmed scaling waterfalls
New footage provides rare insight into the daring migration of an enigmatic fish
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August 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Thousands of climbing catfish filmed scaling waterfalls | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Candle Flame Oscillations as a Clock cpldcpu.com/2025/08/13/c...
Candle Flame Oscillations as a Clock
Todays candles have been optimized for millenia not to flicker. But it turns out when we bundle three of them together, we can undo all of these optimizations and the resulting triplet will start t…
cpldcpu.com
August 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Candle Flame Oscillations as a Clock cpldcpu.com/2025/08/13/c...
how to cheat at settlers by loading the dice izbicki.me/blog/how-to-...
how to cheat at settlers by loading the dice
My copy of Settlers of Catan came with two normal wooden dice. To load these dice, I placed them in a small plate of water overnight, leaving the 6 side exposed.
izbicki.me
May 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
how to cheat at settlers by loading the dice izbicki.me/blog/how-to-...
LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable LEGO Designs from Text avalovelace1.github.io/LegoGPT/
LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable LEGO Designs from Text
LegoGPT generates a LEGO structure from a user-provided text prompt in an end-to-end manner. Notably, our generated LEGO structure is physically stable and buildable.
avalovelace1.github.io
May 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable LEGO Designs from Text avalovelace1.github.io/LegoGPT/
Getting things "done" in large tech companies www.seangoedecke.com/getting-thin...
Getting things "done" in large tech companies
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www.seangoedecke.com
May 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Getting things "done" in large tech companies www.seangoedecke.com/getting-thin...
Tracing the thoughts of a large language model
Tracing the thoughts of a large language model
Anthropic's latest interpretability research: a new microscope to understand Claude's internal mechanisms
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April 3, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Tracing the thoughts of a large language model
How Anime Fans Stumbled upon a Mathematical Proof https://buff.ly/rQgUdj9
April 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
How Anime Fans Stumbled upon a Mathematical Proof https://buff.ly/rQgUdj9
April 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights https://buff.ly/42PuI5S
April 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights https://buff.ly/42PuI5S
Benedict Cumberbatch Reads a Letter to a Man Blow-Drying His Balls at the Gym www.openculture.com/2025/01/bene...
Benedict Cumberbatch Reads a Letter to a Man Blow-Drying His Balls at the Gym
We have featured Benedict Cumberbatch reading letters by Kurt Vonnegut, Alan Turing, Albert Camus, and Nick Cave, along with passages from Kafka's Metamorphosis and Melville's Moby Dick. It's all pret...
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January 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Benedict Cumberbatch Reads a Letter to a Man Blow-Drying His Balls at the Gym www.openculture.com/2025/01/bene...
Great Art Explained: The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci https://buff.ly/40yPyDU
April 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Great Art Explained: The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci https://buff.ly/40yPyDU
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Sometimes a musician records a cover version of a song and it is so mind-blowing, you can never listen to the original in the same way again.
A nearly 80 year-old Al Green just released his new single, a cover of REM's "Everybody Hurts." And holy crap, can he still sing.
youtu.be/UEwPIfk6LpQ?...
A nearly 80 year-old Al Green just released his new single, a cover of REM's "Everybody Hurts." And holy crap, can he still sing.
youtu.be/UEwPIfk6LpQ?...
Al Green - Everybody Hurts (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Al Green
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November 24, 2024 at 1:52 AM
Sometimes a musician records a cover version of a song and it is so mind-blowing, you can never listen to the original in the same way again.
A nearly 80 year-old Al Green just released his new single, a cover of REM's "Everybody Hurts." And holy crap, can he still sing.
youtu.be/UEwPIfk6LpQ?...
A nearly 80 year-old Al Green just released his new single, a cover of REM's "Everybody Hurts." And holy crap, can he still sing.
youtu.be/UEwPIfk6LpQ?...
The Art and Science of Mess Management (1981) [pdf] | Hacker News https://buff.ly/3PP3NzA
April 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The Art and Science of Mess Management (1981) [pdf] | Hacker News https://buff.ly/3PP3NzA
Powell's Essential List: 25 Best Sci-fi and Fantasy Books of the 21st Century (So Far) | Powell's Books https://buff.ly/40C1iHd
April 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Powell's Essential List: 25 Best Sci-fi and Fantasy Books of the 21st Century (So Far) | Powell's Books https://buff.ly/40C1iHd
Reposted by Hector Linares
31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.
December 31, 2024 at 12:21 PM
31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.
Reposted by Hector Linares
Harvard Puts Online a Huge Collection of Bauhaus Art Objects
Harvard Puts Online a Huge Collection of Bauhaus Art Objects
You may have first encountered the word Bauhaus as the name of a campy, arty post-punk band that influenced goth music and fashion. But you'll also know that the band took its name from an even more i...
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November 28, 2024 at 12:23 AM
Harvard Puts Online a Huge Collection of Bauhaus Art Objects
Full article: The Identification of the Sacred “Chiton” (Sarapis) of Pharaoh Alexander the Great in Tomb II at Vergina, Macedonia, Greece https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00934690.2024.2409503#abstract
April 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Full article: The Identification of the Sacred “Chiton” (Sarapis) of Pharaoh Alexander the Great in Tomb II at Vergina, Macedonia, Greece https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00934690.2024.2409503#abstract
The British Pathe Archive https://buff.ly/4hHbxR5
April 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The British Pathe Archive https://buff.ly/4hHbxR5
After Colombia's FARC peace agreement, scientists found more new species - https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombias-peace-opened-wildlife-discovery-new-violence-frustrates-progress-2024-10-27/
April 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
After Colombia's FARC peace agreement, scientists found more new species - https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombias-peace-opened-wildlife-discovery-new-violence-frustrates-progress-2024-10-27/
Ephemeral tic tac toe ❌⭕ https://buff.ly/3MgiNF0
April 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Ephemeral tic tac toe ❌⭕ https://buff.ly/3MgiNF0
I Made the World's Best Foosball Robot! https://youtu.be/xrwXZXGiP1w?si=z1GIYtH6k4Lk7bSt via @YouTube
April 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I Made the World's Best Foosball Robot! https://youtu.be/xrwXZXGiP1w?si=z1GIYtH6k4Lk7bSt via @YouTube
Size XXXS, Miniature Sweaters https://buff.ly/3SPOus7
April 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Size XXXS, Miniature Sweaters https://buff.ly/3SPOus7