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Hacker News· cstadler1869
Usenet rewind archive search engine

Someone just cracked open the dusty attic of the internet and found a search engine that lets you rifle through every Usenet argument, flame war, and questionable life advice from 1981 to now—basically the archaeological dig every nostalgic nerd has been waiting for.

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Hacker News· rvz
Clay Mathematics Institute on the Navier-Stokes Problem

The Clay Mathematics Institute basically threw down a mathematical gauntlet in Paris back in 2000, wrapping some genuinely brutal unsolved problems in the language of "universality" — because nothing says celebration quite like reminding the world how much mathematicians still don't understand about fluid dynamics.

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Hacker News· 1e1a
Google no longer provides direct URLs in search results

Google's playing shell game with its search results, swapping direct links for redirect URLs that make scrapers work harder than an unpaid intern—and honestly, we're here for the chaos it's causing in the API ecosystem.

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Hacker News· __eddie__
Pandas Should Go Extinct

Looks like someone's ready to send pandas to the digital graveyard—the Python data analysis library, that is—though the article got cut off before explaining why this beloved workhorse might be getting the boot.

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Hacker News· waldrews
Ask HN: Did Google kill its enterprise workhorse model?

Google just yeeted its beloved Gemini 2.5 Pro into the sunset this October, leaving enterprise customers who depend on it for chewing through massive documents absolutely panicked—turns out the shiny new 3.x Flash model is great at party tricks but can't handle the heavy reasoning lifting that made Gemini special in the first place, so everyone's now frantically shopping around to OpenAI and Anthropic despite the wallet-bleeding costs.

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