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Reconstruction of Lomonosov's Discovery of Venus's Atmosphere (2012) [pdf]
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GOG's Preservation Program Is the DRM-Free Store Refocusing on the Classics
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Ars Technica
GOG’s Preservation Program is the DRM-free store refocusing on the classics
A firm literally named for “Good Old Games” is returning to that idea, spending its own resources to keep classic games running well on modern systems.
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Debian Junior Desktop live image
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NASA Investigates Laser-Beam Welding in a Vacuum for In-Space Manufacturing
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science.slashdot.org
NASA Investigates Laser-Beam Welding in a Vacuum for In-Space Manufacturing
NASA hopes to stimulate in-space manufacturing through a multi-year "laser beam welding collaboration" with Ohio State University. The project "seeks to understand the physical processes of welding on the lunar surface," according to NASA.gov, "such as investigating…
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WebVM 2.0: A complete Linux Desktop Environment in the browser via WebAssembly
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Leaning Technologies Developer Hub
WebVM 2.0: A complete Linux Desktop Environment in the browser via WebAssembly
WebVM is a full Linux environment running in the browser, client-side. It is a complete virtual machine, with support for persistent data storage, networking and, as of today’s release, Xorg and complete desktop environments.
This article will explain the…
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Gwern Branwen – How an Anonymous Researcher Predicted AI's Trajectory
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Dwarkesh
Gwern — Anonymous writer who predicted AI trajectory on $12K/year salary
Legacy & Anonymity in the Age of AGI
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Async Await Is the Worst Thing to Happen to Programming
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Medium
Async Await Is The Worst Thing To Happen To Programming
I recently saw this meme about async and await.
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Abusing Ubuntu 24.04 features for root privilege escalation
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Snyk Labs
Abusing Ubuntu 24.04 features for root privilege escalation | Snyk Labs
With the recent release of Ubuntu 24.04, we at Snyk Security Labs thought it would be interesting to examine the latest version of this Linux distribution to see if we could find any interesting privilege escalation vulnerabilities.
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Choose Boring Technology and LLMs
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www.maragu.dev
Choose boring technology and LLMs
I really like boring technology. Software that has been tested for decades, does what it is supposed to robustly and fast, and is known by every person and machine on the planet. Technology like relational databases and SQL, HTTP, HTML, a well-known programming…
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Lessons from My First Exit
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mtlynch.io
Lessons from my First Exit
My takeaways from selling TinyPilot
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Show HN: A simple image puzzle generator
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Puzzlip
Puzzlip - The funnest puzzler on the internet
Solve puzzles and brag about your score. Create puzzles from any widely available image on the internet.
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MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia
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Miksovsky
MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia
Today marks two years since I first set up an e-ink display in my mom’s apartment to help her live on her own with amnesia.
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Smaller Than Pixel Art: Sub-Pixel Art [video]
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YouTube
Smaller Than Pixel Art: Sub-Pixel Art!
A video about making sub-pixel art? I don't know what's wrong with me, ha ha.
[Sorry for the error at 2:33. I accidentally listed red as white. There's also no good reason why I kept all the graphics 1-bit instead of using "greyscale".]
I started making…
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DeepL Voice: Real-time voice translations for global collaboration
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Deepl
DeepL Voice: instant, secure voice translation for global teams
Boost business collaboration with DeepL Voice. AI-powered voice translations ensures team communication in meetings and conversations—without language barriers.
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Five Learnings from 15 Years in Perception
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Tangramvision
Tangram Vision Blog | Five Learnings From 15 Years In Perception
How has perception and computer vision changed in a decade and a half?
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Elite Overproduction
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BERTs Are Generative In-Context Learners
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arXiv.org
BERTs are Generative In-Context Learners
While in-context learning is commonly associated with causal language models, such as GPT, we demonstrate that this capability also 'emerges' in masked language models. Through an embarrassingly...
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The Onion Buys Alex Jones's Infowars Out of Bankruptcy
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NY Times
The Onion Wins Bid to Buy Infowars, Alex Jones’s Site, Out of Bankruptcy
The satirical news site intends to turn Infowars into a parody of itself. But the court overseeing the bankruptcy put a hold on the sale pending a hearing next week.
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The Onion wins Alex Jones' Infowars in bankruptcy auction
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NBC News
The Onion wins Alex Jones' Infowars in bankruptcy auction
The satirical news company plans to shutter Jones’ Infowars and rebuild the website featuring well-known internet humor writers and content creators, according to a person with knowledge of the sale.
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SQLite Index Visualization
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mrsuh.com
SQLite Index Visualization: Structure
Explores SQLite B-Tree index structure with visualizations, explaining on-disk and in-memory storage mechanisms
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Why is it so hard to find a job now? Enter Ghost Jobs
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arXiv.org
Why is it so hard to find a job now? Enter Ghost Jobs
This study investigates the emerging phenomenon of "ghost hiring" or "ghost jobs", where employers advertise job openings without intending to fill them. Using a novel dataset from Glassdoor and...
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