In 2017, consulting giant Booz Allen cut a deal with the government to extract junk fees from Americans who want to use Federal lands and waters for hunting or fishing. Will Congress or Biden act?

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by James Wallace Harris, Friday, January 6, 2017 I first read The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder just after it came out in 1981, before it won the Pulitzer and National Book awards in 1982. …

Deep learning models have become so good at generating images that, at this point, it is more than clear that they are here to stay. How did we end up here? This timeline traces some milestones – papers, architectures, models, datasets, experiments – starting…

The Data class helps define simple classes for value-alike objects that can be extended with custom methods.

Entire forests and enormous factories running 24/7 can barely keep up with demand. This is how the cardboard economy works.

We are closer to releasing Godot 4.0. No matter the amount of time dedicated to testing and profiling — bugs and issues are inevitable. Still, we intend to follow 4.0 with bug fix releases to ensure a stable experience as soon as possible.

Valve’s portable PC is more powerful than Nintendo’s hybrid console, and plays games better too

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Most popular libraries can be sped up by avoiding unnecessary type conversions or by avoiding creating functions inside functions.

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Introducing Wyldcard, a new paradigm for tabletop gaming, trading cards which can magically change as you play.

ffmpeg.wasm is a pure WebAssembly / JavaScript port of FFmpeg

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What you're looking at above is an excerpt from a moving conversation between tech artist Michelle Huang, and Michelle Huang as a young girl. "I trained an AI chatbot on my childhood journal entries - so that I could engage...

A userscript for Hacker News that adds archive links under submissions that include paywalled articles. - MostlyEmre/hn-anti-paywall

The scheduled increase in loan limits reflects a rise in home prices and stokes debate over Washington’s role in home lending.