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AI Is Like a Crappy Consultant
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Why are coffee stains darker at the edges?
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The Icelandic Web of Science
Why are coffee stains darkest at the edges when they dry?
There are many things around us that are so taken for granted that it never occurs to us to give them a second thought until we look a little closer. Coffee stains are one such thing. When coffee dries it leaves stains that are dark at the edges and lighter…
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Revisiting Image Maps
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CSS-Tricks
Revisiting Image Maps | CSS-Tricks
Let’s run through a quick refresher. Image maps date all the way back to HTML 3.2, where, first, server-side maps and then client-side maps defined clickable regions over an image using map and area elements.
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In a high-stress work environment, prioritize relationships
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In a high-stress work environment, prioritize relationships
How high is the stress I am talking about? You are commuting all you think is that you might snap today, you might quit today. That is what I am calling a hi...
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Why I'm Resigning from the National Science Foundation
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TIME
Why I’m Resigning from Positions at the National Science Foundation and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
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I learned Snobol and then wrote a toy Forth
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Trial by Fire: The crash of Aeroflot flight 1492
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Medium
Trial by Fire: The crash of Aeroflot flight 1492
Six years after 41 people died aboard a Sukhoi Superjet on a Moscow runway, the full story of that horrible day can finally be told.
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Launch HN: Miyagi (YC W25) turns YouTube videos into online, interactive courses
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As US vuln-tracking falters, EU enters with its own security bug database
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The Register
As US vuln-tracking falters, EU enters with its own security bug database
: EUVD comes into play not a moment too soon
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One hundred and one rules of effective living
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Substack
101 Rules of Effective Living
In more than thirty years as a writer, editor, and publisher, I have, to my best reckoning, introduced, abridged, issued or reissued, and read nearly every major work of inspirational literature produced or translated into English.
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Microsoft is Cutting 3% of All Workers
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CNBC
Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce
It's likely Microsoft's largest job purge since it said goodbye to 10,000 employees in 2023.
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Show HN: A5
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GitHub
GitHub - felixpalmer/a5: Pentagonal geospatial indexing system DGGS
Pentagonal geospatial indexing system DGGS. Contribute to felixpalmer/a5 development by creating an account on GitHub.
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PDF to Text, a Challenging Problem
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www.marginalia.nu
PDF to Text, a challenging problem
The search engine has recently gained the ability to index the PDF file format. The change will deploy over a few months.
Extracting text information from PDFs is a significantly bigger challenge than it might seem. The crux of the problem is that the file…
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OpenAI's Stargate project struggling to get off the ground, due to tariffs
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TechCrunch
OpenAI's Stargate project reportedly struggling to get off the ground, thanks to tariffs | TechCrunch
OpenAI's ambitious Stargate data center project is facing delays thanks to tariff-related economic uncertainty, reports Bloomberg.
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ETH Zurich researchers discover new security vulnerability in Intel processors
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ETH Zurich
ETH Zurich researchers discover new security vulnerability in Intel processors
Computer scientists at ETH Zurich discover new class of vulnerabilities in Intel processors, allowing them to break down barriers between different users of a processor using carefully crafted instruction sequences. Entire processor memory can be read by…
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Show HN: Basecoat – shadcn/UI components, no React required
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GOP sneaks decade-long AI regulation ban into spending bill
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Ars Technica
GOP sneaks decade-long AI regulation ban into spending bill
Sweeping provision would halt all local oversight of AI by US states.
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Membrane, Media Framework for Elixir
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membrane.stream
Membrane framework
Reliable & scalable multimedia streaming framework for Elixir
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It Awaits Your Experiments
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Google’s unfinished DeX-like desktop mode for Android
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Yahoo Tech
First Look at Google’s Unfinished DeX-Like Desktop Mode for Android
It's long overdue.