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How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes (🔥 Score: 151+ in 3 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vH2Z
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Gitlab
How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes
Learn how GitLab tracked a performance bottleneck to a 15-year-old Git function and fixed it, leading to enhanced efficiency that supports more robust backup strategies and can reduce risk.
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The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs (❄️ Score: 157+ in 2 days)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vAc7
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Quartz
The hidden time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs
A decades-old tax rule helped build America's tech economy. A quiet change under Trump helped dismantle it
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4-7-8 Breathing (Score: 152+ in 5 hours)

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Odyc.js – A tiny JavaScript library for narrative games (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vGFc
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odyc.dev
Odyc.js
Odyc.js is a simple JavaScript library to create interactive narrative games, even without coding experience.
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Researchers find a way to make the HIV virus visible within white blood cells (Score: 151+ in 5 hours)

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the Guardian
Breakthrough in search for HIV cure leaves researchers ‘overwhelmed’
Exclusive: Melbourne team demonstrates way to make the virus visible within white blood cells, paving the way to fully clear it from the body
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A masochist's guide to web development (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vGFH
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Sandia turns on brain-like storage-free supercomputer (Score: 150+ in 9 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vGY6
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Blocks and Files
Sandia turns on brain-like storage-free supercomputer – Blocks and Files
Sandia jumps into top five of brain-like supercompute with disk-free, DRAM-packed SpiNNaker 2
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A year of funded FreeBSD development (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)

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SaaS is just vendor lock-in with better branding (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)

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Rwsdk
SaaS Is Just Vendor Lock-In with Better Branding | RedwoodSDK
The pitch of modern SaaS is "don't reinvent the wheel." But every wheel you bolt on comes with some friction.
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Show HN: Claude Composer (Score: 150+ in 1 day)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vFfK
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Central feature is a something like "yolo mode" but with fine grained controls over how yolo you're feeling. Also makes it easy to use "presets" of tools and permissions.
Let me know if you have any questions and feel free to contact me on X at https://x.com/possibilities
GitHub
GitHub - possibilities/claude-composer: A tool for enhancing Claude Code
A tool for enhancing Claude Code. Contribute to possibilities/claude-composer development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Researchers develop ‘transparent paper’ as alternative to plastics (Score: 155+ in 4 hours)

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Falsehoods programmers believe about aviation (Score: 160+ in 8 hours)

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Angle of Attack
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Aviation
There are a lot of assumptions one could make when designing data types and schemas for aviation data that turn out to be inaccurate. In the spirit of Patrick McKenzie’s classic piece on names, here are some false assumptions one might make about aviation.
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The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Limitations of Reasoning LLMs [pdf] (Score: 151+ in 12 hours)

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Test Postgres in Python Like SQLite (Score: 150+ in 1 day)

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GitHub
GitHub - wey-gu/py-pglite: PGlite wrapper in Python for testing. Test your app with Postgres just as lite as SQLite.
PGlite wrapper in Python for testing. Test your app with Postgres just as lite as SQLite. - wey-gu/py-pglite
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Wendelstein 7-X sets new fusion record (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)

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heise online
Wendelstein 7-X sets new fusion record
A record has been set at the Wendelstein 7-X research facility. The researchers see this as progress towards the commercial use of nuclear fusion.
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I Read All of Cloudflare's Claude-Generated Commits (Score: 152+ in 14 hours)

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Max Mitchell
I Read All Of Cloudflare's Claude-Generated Commits
Max Mitchell's personal portfolio website showcasing his photography, YouTube videos, coding projects, and work history.
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Getting Past Procrastination (Score: 152+ in 10 hours)

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IEEE Spectrum
Getting Past Procastination
Create systems that allow you to be consistently productive
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Top researchers leave Intel to build startup with 'the biggest, baddest CPU' (Score: 150+ in 23 hours)

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OregonLive
Top researchers leave Intel to build startup with ‘the biggest, baddest CPU’
“We see this opportunity, this light,” said CEO Debbie Marr. “We took our chances.”
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United States Digital Service Origins (Score: 150+ in 18 hours)

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U.S. Digital Service Founding Archive
US Digital Service Origins
An oral history documenting how the United States Digital Service came to exist, and the initial days of building its foundation.
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Low-Level Optimization with Zig (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vJXE
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alloc.dev
Optimizations with Zig | alloc.dev
The power of Zig's comptime code execution
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