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SVG Favicons in Action
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CSS-Tricks
SVG Favicons in Action | CSS-Tricks
Ever heard of favicons made with SVG? If you are a regular reader of CSS-Tricks, you probably have. But does your website actually use one?
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Show HN: Lazy Tetris
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Lazytetris
Lazy Tetris
No stress, memory-optimized 3D Tetris variant.
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Rock, Paper, Scissors that learns how you play using Markov chains
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Luduxia
Rock Paper Scissors Showdown
The bandit has come to town for a Rock Paper Scissors Showdown!
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Most leading chatbots routinely exaggerate science findings
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Utrecht University
Most leading chatbots routinely exaggerate science findings
It seems so convenient: asking ChatGPT or another chatbot to summarise a text to quickly get a gist of it. But how accurate are they really?
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Ruffle – open-source Flash player
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ruffle.rs
Ruffle - Flash Emulator
Ruffle is a Flash Player emulator written in Rust. Ruffle targets both desktop and the web using WebAssembly.
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The Myth of Developer Obsolescence
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Alonso Network
The Recurring Cycle of 'Developer Replacement' Hype
AI isn't replacing developers, it's transforming them. Just as NoCode created specialists and cloud turned sysadmins into DevOps engineers, AI elevates engineers from code writers to system architects. The most valuable skill isn't writing code, it's designing…
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LumoSQL
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How a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully
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Frontiers Science News
Street smarts: how a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully
Dr Vladimir Dinets, a zoologist who studies animal behavior, ecology, and conservation, is the author of a recently published Frontiers in Ethology article that
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BGP handling bug causes widespread internet routing instability
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blog.benjojo.co.uk
BGP handling bug causes widespread internet routing instability
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Revisiting the Algorithm That Changed Horse Race Betting (2023)
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Acta Machina
Revisiting the Algorithm that Changed Horse Race Betting
Explore Bill Benter’s iconic horse betting strategy, enhanced with modern code and contrasted against three decades of evolving data.
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LiveStore: State management based on reactive SQLite and built-in sync engine
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livestore.dev
LiveStore: Local-first data layer for high-performance apps
LiveStore is a state management framework based on SQLite and event-sourcing. It’s designed for demanding applications and based on years of research.
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DuckLake is an integrated data lake and catalog format
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DuckLake
DuckLake is an integrated data lake and catalog format.
DuckLake delivers advanced data lake features without traditional lakehouse complexity by using Parquet files and your SQL database. It's an open, standalone format from the DuckDB team.
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Worlds first petahertz transistor at ambient conditions
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news.arizona.edu
U of A researchers developing world's first petahertz-speed phototransistor in ambient conditions | University of Arizona News
In a groundbreaking international effort, researchers demonstrated a way to to manipulate electrons using pulses of light that last less than a trillionth of a second to record electrons bypassing a physical barrier almost instantaneously.
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Why Cline Doesn't Index Your Codebase (and Why That's a Good Thing)
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Cline
Why Cline Doesn't Index Your Codebase (And Why That's a Good Thing) - Cline Blog
Here's a common question we get from prospective Cline users: "How does Cline handle large codebases? Do you use RAG to index everything?"
It's a reasonable question. Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has become the go-to solution for giving AI systems…
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Mistral Agents API
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mistral.ai
Build AI agents with the Mistral Agents API | Mistral AI
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The Art of Fugue – Contrapunctus I (2021)
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The Ethan Hein Blog
The Art of Fugue – Contrapunctus I
JS Bach’s last set of works, collectively titled The Art of Fugue, was published shortly after his death. It was not a big hit. Dense counterpoint was deeply unfashionable at that time, as We…
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Square Theory
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Adam Aaronson
Square Theory | Adam Aaronson
The story starts in Crosscord, the crossword Discord server. Over 5,000 users strong, the server has emerged as a central hub for the online crossword community, a buzzing, sometimes overwhelming, sometimes delightful town square where total noobs, veteran…
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CSS Painting API
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MDN Web Docs
CSS Painting API - Web APIs | MDN
The CSS Painting API — part of the CSS Houdini umbrella of APIs — allows developers to write JavaScript functions that can draw directly into an element's background, border, or content.
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Just make it scale: An Aurora DSQL story
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All Things Distributed
Just make it scale: An Aurora DSQL story
AWS Senior Principal Engineers, Niko Matsakis and Marc Bowes, take us inside Aurora DSQL's development: scaling write operations without two-phase commit, overcoming garbage collection hurdles, and embracing Rust for both data and control planes.
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Pyrefly vs. Ty: Comparing Python's Two New Rust-Based Type Checkers
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Edward Li's Blog
Pyrefly vs. ty: Comparing Python’s Two New Rust-Based Type Checkers
A deep dive into Meta's pyrefly and Astral's ty - two new Rust-based Python type checkers that both promise faster performance and better type inference.