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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)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vJdt
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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)

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alloc.dev
Optimizations with Zig | alloc.dev
The power of Zig's comptime code execution
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What you need to know about EMP weapons (Score: 150+ in 1 day)

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www.aardvark.co.nz
Science and Technology News and Commentary: Aardvark Daily
Aardvark is New Zealand's leading Internet Industry online news publication, reaching thousands of professionals and enthusiasts every day
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The FAIR Package Manager: Decentralized WordPress infrastructure (Score: 150+ in 11 hours)

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Related: https://github.com/fairpm, https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-annou....
joost.blog
A new path forward for WordPress, and for the open web
Back in December, I wrote about the state of leadership in the WordPress ecosystem. I shared how too much power rests with one person, and how the lack of clear governance puts contributors and businesses alike in difficult positions. That post ended with…
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Supreme Court allows DOGE to access social security data (Score: 150+ in 20 hours)

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NBC News
Supreme Court allows DOGE to access Social Security data
The dispute concerns efforts by the Department of Government Efficiency, largely led by Elon Musk, to access sensitive data, including Social Security numbers.
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Bill Atkinson has passed away (🔥 Score: 181+ in 1 hour)

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Why We're Moving on from Nix (Score: 151+ in 7 hours)

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Railway Blog
Why We’re Moving on From Nix
Today we’re excited to release Railpack — the next iteration of the Railway builder, developed from the ground up based on everything we’ve learned from building over 14 million apps with Nixpacks.
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Too Many Open Files (Score: 150+ in 1 day)

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Mattrighetti
Too Many Open Files
Recently I’ve been working on a pretty big rust project and to my surprise Icouldn’t get tests to work properly.
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Why are smokestacks so tall? (Score: 151+ in 19 hours)

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Practical Engineering
Why are Smokestacks So Tall? — Practical Engineering
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] “The big black stacks of the Illium Works of the Federal Apparatus Corporation spewed acid fumes and soot over the hundreds of men and women who were lined up before the red-brick employment…
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Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex) (Score: 152+ in 4 hours)

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tech.slashdot.org
Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta's Apps (and Yandex)
Meta's Facebook and Instagram apps "were siphoning people's data through a digital back door for months," writes a Washington Post tech columnist, citing researchers who found no privacy setting could've stopped what Meta and Yandex were doing, since those…
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