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The forgotten war on beepers (Score: 152+ in 7 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66axQ
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newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org
The Forgotten War on Beepers
30 years before parents and lawmakers sought to save youth from smartphones via age limits and bans in schools, a similar conversation took place about a pre-cursor to the cellphone: pagers Through the 1980s pagers became increasingly popular with teens,…
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libxev: A cross-platform, high-performance event loop (Score: 150+ in 9 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66a77
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GitHub
GitHub - mitchellh/libxev: libxev is a cross-platform, high-performance event loop that provides abstractions for non-blocking…
libxev is a cross-platform, high-performance event loop that provides abstractions for non-blocking IO, timers, events, and more and works on Linux (io_uring or epoll), macOS (kqueue), and Wasm + W...
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Hardest Problem in Computer Science: Centering Things (Score: 156+ in 6 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66biz
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tonsky.me
Hardest Problem in Computer Science: Centering Things
Somehow we forgot how to center rectangles and must find our way back
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AltStore PAL, the first alternative app marketplace on iPhone, is available now (Score: 150+ in 9 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66aE6
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Mastodon
Steve Troughton-Smith (@stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)
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🥳 AltStore PAL, the first alternative app marketplace on iPhone, is available now in the EU for a nominal <€2/yr subscription price (to cover the Core Technology Fee), which includes access to @rileytestut’s Delta (which plays NES, SNES…
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Short Stack: World’s smallest Nintendo Wii (🔥 Score: 152+ in 2 hours)

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GitHub
GitHub - loopj/short-stack: World's Smallest Nintendo Wii, using a trimmed motherboard and custom stacked PCBs
World's Smallest Nintendo Wii, using a trimmed motherboard and custom stacked PCBs - loopj/short-stack
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Cyc: History's Forgotten AI Project (Score: 156+ in 8 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66bdc
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Outsider Art
Cyc: history's forgotten AI project
Since 1984 a secretive AI project has been building a massive knowledge base to enable human-like reasoning. Will it work?
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Show HN: BiTE – Cross-platform executable viewer and reverse engineering tool (Score: 150+ in 21 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/669t5
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Hey everyone!
I’m excited to share a project I’ve been working on throughout my university studies. It’s called BiTE (https://github.com/WINSDK/bite) and it's a tool primarily focused on being an executable viewer with reverse engineering capabilities.
BiTE supports Windows, MacOS, and Linux, along with their associated executable formats. It’s also capable of parsing and displaying debug information using DWARF/PDB formats, which I hope will be useful even for just comparing codegen.
I’ve put a lot of effort into this and it's the first time I'm releasing something like this publicly. Any feedback, bug reports, or feature suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
GitHub
GitHub - WINSDK/bite: Disassembler focused on comprehensive rust support.
Disassembler focused on comprehensive rust support. - WINSDK/bite
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Goldene: A single atom layer of gold (Score: 152+ in 9 hours)

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liu.se
A single atom layer of gold – LiU researchers create goldene
For the first time, scientists have managed to create sheets of gold only a single atom layer thick. According to the researchers from LiU this has given the gold new properties that can make it suitable for use in various applications.
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Cosmic Desktop: Hammering Out New Cosmic Features (🔥 Score: 154+ in 3 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66cPZ
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Flying Aircraft Carriers (2019) (Score: 150+ in 17 hours)

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Never Was
Flying Aircraft Carriers
From the flying British aircraft carriers in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow to the helicarriers of S.H.I.E.L.D.
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Scammers are targeting teenage boys on social media and driving some to suicide (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)

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Bloomberg.com
Sextortion Scams Are Driving Teen Boys to Suicide
Criminal gangs are posing as flirty girls on Instagram and Snapchat to torment high school boys, drain their bank accounts and push them to the edge.
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Implementing Natural Conversational Agents with Elixir (Score: 153+ in 14 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66c2D
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Sean Moriarity
Implementing Natural Conversational Agents with Elixir
In my last post, I discussed some work I had done building Nero, the assistant of the future that I’ve always wanted. I ended up creating an end-to-end example which used Nx, OpenAI APIs, and…
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Feathers Are One of Evolution's Cleverest Inventions (Score: 153+ in 1 day)

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Scientific American
Why Feathers Are One of Evolution’s Cleverest Inventions
Fossil and living birds reveal the dazzling biology of feathers
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I Know the secret to the quiet mind. I wish I'd never learned it (2021) (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)

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The Atlantic
I Know the Secret to the Quiet Mind. I Wish I’d Never Learned It.
Of all the injuries we suffered, mine is the worst. My brain injury has shaken my confidence in my own personality, my own existence.
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How Antithesis finds bugs (Score: 150+ in 21 hours)

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Antithesis
How Antithesis finds bugs (with help from the Super Mario Bros.)
Can solving Super Mario Bros. help solve your distributed systems issues?
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Math Puzzles (Score: 150+ in 16 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66bTR
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JRMF
Puzzles Archives
Math puzzles for all ages and skill levels. JRMF puzzles are “low-floor, high-ceiling,” meaning students as young as 6 and as old as 100 can find our math fun and challenging. Play them in person with friends, or virtually at home.
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Meta Llama 3 (🔥 Score: 213+ in 32 minutes)

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Meta Llama
Meta Llama 3
Build the future of AI with Meta Llama 3. Now available with both 8B and 70B pretrained and instruction-tuned versions to support a wide range of applications.
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Halo 2 in HD: Pushing the Original Xbox to the Limit (🔥 Score: 154+ in 2 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66dt3
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I Code 4 Coffee
Halo 2 in HD: Pushing the Original Xbox to the Limit
Everything I went through to add support for HD resolutions to Halo 2 on the Original Xbox. From patching the game's rendering engine and memory allocator, to hot patching the Xbox OS, to overclocking the GPU and running performance benchmarks. This post…
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The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66dac
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The Verge
The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat
How one crew risked radiation, storms, and currents to save Japan from digital isolation.
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Linus Torvalds adds arbitrary tabs to kernel code (Score: 150+ in 1 day)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/669a7
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Ars Technica
Linus Torvalds reiterates his tabs-versus-spaces stance with a kernel trap
One does not simply suggest changing a kernel line to help out a parsing tool.
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You Need a "WTF Notebook" (🔥 Score: 160+ in 1 hour)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66e2u
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Simpler Machines
Why you need a "WTF Notebook"
There's a very specific reputation I want to have on a team: "Nat helps me solve my problems. Nat get things I care about done."
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