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There Isn't Much Point to HTTP/2 Past the Load Balancer

byroot.github.io

I want to write a post about Pitchfork, explaining where it comes from, why it is...
I want to write a post about Pitchfork, explaining where it comes from, why it is like it is, and how I see its future. But before I can get to that, I think I need to share my mental model on a few things, in this case, HTTP/2. From time to time, either online or at conferences, I hear people complain about the...
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What Happened to the N in Restaurateur?

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Behold Modular Forms, the 'Fifth Fundamental Operation' of Math[2023]

quantamagazine.org

“There are five fundamental operations in mathematics,” the German mathematician Martin Eichler supposedly said. “Addition, subtraction,...
“There are five fundamental operations in mathematics,” the German mathematician Martin Eichler supposedly said. “Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and modular forms.” Part of the joke, of course, is that one of those is not like the others. Modular forms are much more complicated and enigmatic functio...
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Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking

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Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking is a revolutionary treatment of cooking that pushes...
Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking is a revolutionary treatment of cooking that pushes the boundaries of culinary arts. Winner of the 2012 James Beard Award for Cookbook of the Year, this six-volume set was named one of the best cookbooks of the century by the New Yorker. Through thousands of gorgeous...
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Student refines 100-year-old math problem, expanding wind energy possibilities

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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A Penn State engineering student refined a century-old math problem into a...
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A Penn State engineering student refined a century-old math problem into a simpler, more elegant form, making it easier to use and explore. Divya Tyagi’s work expands research in aerodynamics, unlocking new possibilities in wind turbine design that Hermann Glauert, a British aerodynamicist and...
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Starship's Eighth Flight Test

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My startup journey with BYBE

drewknight.com

by Drew Knight, 2/20/2025 Every startup has a story. Regardless of the outcome, there's always something...
by Drew Knight, 2/20/2025 Every startup has a story. Regardless of the outcome, there's always something to be learned, something to be shared. Because here's the thing: the startup journey isn't linear. It's a roller coaster. You enter with an idea, only to hit dead ends, take wrong turns, and double back. It's mes...
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Micro Journal: Distraction-Free Writing Device

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The Champion Who Memorized 80 Numbers in 13.5 Seconds

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.This month, Vishvaa Rajakumar won the Memory League World Championship, which tests memorization skills. He shared some of his techniques with The Times.A spe...

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Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate

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The Best Way to Use Text Embeddings Portably Is with Parquet and Polars

minimaxir.com

Text embeddings, particularly modern embeddings generated from large language models, are one of the most useful...
Text embeddings, particularly modern embeddings generated from large language models, are one of the most useful applications coming from the generative AI boom. Embeddings are a list of numbers which represent an object: in the case of text embeddings, they can represent words, sentences, and full paragraphs and do...

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Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

anthropic.com

Today, we’re announcing Claude 3.7 Sonnet1, our most intelligent model to date and the first hybrid...
Today, we’re announcing Claude 3.7 Sonnet1, our most intelligent model to date and the first hybrid reasoning model on the market. Claude 3.7 Sonnet can produce near-instant responses or extended, step-by-step thinking that is made visible to the user. API users also have fine-grained control over how long the model...
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Why it's possible to be optimistic in a world of bad news

psyche.co

What does it mean to be optimistic? We usually think of optimism as an expectation that...
What does it mean to be optimistic? We usually think of optimism as an expectation that things will work out for the best. While we might accept that such expectations have motivational value – making it easier to deal with the ups and downs of everyday life, and the struggle and strife we see in the world – we migh...
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Larry Ellison's Half-Billion-Dollar Quest to Change Farming Has Been a Bust

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Breaking into apartment buildings in five minutes on my phone

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ARPA Is Quietly Funding $50-$65 Community-Owned Fiber to Neglected Neighborhoods

techdirt.com

Broadband The 2021 American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) continues to quietly help fund a number of...
Broadband The 2021 American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) continues to quietly help fund a number of extremely popular community-owned, open access fiber deployments that are challenging entrenched U.S. monopoly power, and driving super cheap, community-owned and operated fiber networks into long neglected towns. New York ...
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MongoDB Announces Acquisition of Voyage AI for $220M

mongodb.com
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Show HN: Bracket City – A daily, exploded (?) crossword puzzle

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Parents favor daughters: A meta-analysis of predictors of differential treatment

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MKWS – Simple Static Site Generator

mkws.sh
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Neut Programming Language

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Is this the simplest (and most surprising) sorting algorithm ever? (2021)

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Ashby (YC W19) Is Hiring Principal Product Engineers

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Right to Repair laws have now been introduced in all 50 us states

ifixit.com

With the introduction of a bill in Wisconsin, Right to Repair legislation has now been introduced...
With the introduction of a bill in Wisconsin, Right to Repair legislation has now been introduced in every single US state. We’ve been fighting for the simple right to fix everything we own for the last eleven years—and we’ve been joined in that fight by more and more advocates, tinkerers, farmers, students, and law...

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