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Adam Griffin is still in disbelief over how quickly he was robbed of nearly $500,000 in cryptocurrencies. A scammer called using a real Google phone number to warn his Gmail account was being hacked, sent email security alerts directly from…

Correction issued for black plastic study that had people tossing spatulas.

Historical Weather Forecast API. Leverage state-of-the-art NOAA, ECMWF and google deterministic and probabilistic weather models.

State Management and Multiplayer Networking for Turn-Based Games - boardgameio/boardgame.io

Fully documented and annotated source code for Elite on the Commodore 64 - markmoxon/elite-source-code-commodore-64

Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) data from NASA’s Global Differential GPS network is used by the GNSS-based Upper Atmospheric Realtime Disaster Information and Alert Network (GUARDIAN) to detect natural hazards.

I promised myself never again. Never again would I call a code-yellow. Code-yellows suck, drain team morale, and they leave a lingering distaste amongst all those involved. Yet, during my 8-years at Instacart, they were our most effective and consistent weapon…

A Lightweight Recommendation System. Contribute to bytedance/monolith development by creating an account on GitHub.

Artemis is a calm web reader.

Patrick Koppenburg and Marco Pappagallo survey the 23 exotic hadrons discovered at the LHC so far.

OpenAI o3 scores 75.7% on ARC-AGI public leaderboard.

I recently built a website that breaks down the cost of a UK electricity bill.

It's interactive, and I'd recommend visiting it before reading this post. Check it out here: electricitybills.uk

Here are three interesting things about the data.


#1: The wholesale…

Recipes to scale inference-time compute of open models - huggingface/search-and-learn

Kids who were in 8th grade at pandemic’s start have ushered in an era of abstaining.

Fifty years after a groundbreaking competition, two architects look back at the project that polarized the city — and gave it a new lease on life.

Digital fingerprinting is suddenly back and it will be everywhere—here's what you need to know.

“Quite simply, we want to find the birthplace of the solar wind.”…

With projects like “IMG_0001,” an online compendium of YouTube home videos, Riley Walz is calling attention to the hidden deposits of personal information that power our digital lives.