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You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project

infobip.com
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Comments on Shared Unix Hosting vs. the Cloud

oils.pub
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XAI told me I either had to delete the post, or face being fired

twitter.com
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I use two trumpets to play the flute [video]

youtube.com

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You Will Never Win an Argument on the Internet–Here's Why

joanwestenberg.com
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Antarctic Sea Ice Levels Five Standard Deviations Below the Mean

abc.net.au

In short: Antarctic sea ice has usually been able to recover in winter. But this year,...
In short: Antarctic sea ice has usually been able to recover in winter. But this year, sea ice has not returned to expected levels during winterWhat's next? Experts say if the sea ice trend continues, it will accelerate the warming of the planetThis winter has confirmed what scientists had feared — the sea ice aroun...

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GNU/Darwin (2000)

gnu-darwin.org
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Largest data breach in US history

arstechnica.com

All of these plaintiffs had personal data "improperly disclosed to DOGE representatives in a manner completely...
All of these plaintiffs had personal data "improperly disclosed to DOGE representatives in a manner completely divorced from the legitimate purposes for which it was maintained and in violation of their privacy rights," the lawsuit said. The plaintiffs are said to be "concerned that the breach may well result in ser...
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Step-Video-T2V: The Practice, Challenges, and Future of Video Foundation Model

arxiv.org
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Mistral Saba

mistral.ai

Making AI ubiquitous requires addressing every culture and language. As AI proliferates globally, many of our...
Making AI ubiquitous requires addressing every culture and language. As AI proliferates globally, many of our customers worldwide have expressed a strong desire for models that are not just fluent but native to regional parlance. While larger, general-purpose models are often proficient in several languages, they la...
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Biases in Apple's Image Playground

giete.ma

← back Apple recently released an image generation app named Image Playground. The app allows you...
← back Apple recently released an image generation app named Image Playground. The app allows you to select a photo and add a description, and it will generate a photo combining the photo and the description. The app is generally 'incredibly safe', meaning that the descriptions (prompts) you add do not change the re...
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0+0 > 0: C++ thread-local storage performance

yosefk.com

We'll discuss how to make sure that your access to TLS (thread-local storage) is fast. If...
We'll discuss how to make sure that your access to TLS (thread-local storage) is fast. If you’re interested strictly in TLS performance guidelines and don't care about the details, skip right to the end — but be aware that you’ll be missing out on assembly listings of profound emotional depth, which can shake even a...
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Fluoxetine promotes metabolic defenses to protect from sepsis-induced lethality

science.org
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Man who lost $800M Bitcoin in landfill wants to buy the garbage dump

cnn.com

Buried deep in a Welsh landfill, beneath layers of years-old garbage, there is a hard drive...
Buried deep in a Welsh landfill, beneath layers of years-old garbage, there is a hard drive that holds the key to almost $800 million in bitcoin – or so James Howells believes, after accidentally throwing the drive away in 2013. And now, after years of battling the local authority in court to retrieve the hard drive...
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Open source maintainers are feeling the squeeze

theregister.com

State Of Open Recent events have brought the plight of open source maintainers front and center,...
State Of Open Recent events have brought the plight of open source maintainers front and center, but the problems were brewing for many years. The theme cropped up repeatedly during 2025's State Of Open Conference, with speakers from tech giants and volunteer maintainers laying out the challenges. Much of the open s...
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Reflections on AGI from 1879

learningfromexamples.com

Pierre Mornet, Illustration of George EliotGeorge Eliot, or Mary Ann Evans as she was known to...
Pierre Mornet, Illustration of George EliotGeorge Eliot, or Mary Ann Evans as she was known to her friends, was one of the most influential writers of Victorian England. Amongst her greatest hits were The Mill on the Floss, a novel about two siblings grappling with family life, and Middlemarch, a meditation on marri...
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Representing Graphs in PostgreSQL

richard-towers.com
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Talking out loud to yourself is a technology for thinking (2020)

psyche.co

This week, a woman was strolling in my street, walking in circles and speaking out loud...
This week, a woman was strolling in my street, walking in circles and speaking out loud to herself. People were looking at her awkwardly, but she didn’t particularly mind, and continued walking vigorously and speaking. Yes, that woman was me. Like many of us, I talk to myself out loud, though I’m a little unusual in...
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Ask HN: Ways to progress career wise as SWE?

ycombinator.com
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Techie pointed out meetings are pointless, and was punished for it

theregister.com

Who, Me? Welcome to a fresh Monday, and therefore a new installment of "Who, Me?", our...
Who, Me? Welcome to a fresh Monday, and therefore a new installment of "Who, Me?", our reader-contributed column that shares your stories of making workplace mistakes and scraping your way to safety afterwards. This week, we venture into the realm of office politics with a reader we'll Regomize as "Palmer." Palmer o...
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Is ChatGPT autocomplete bad UX/UI?

honzabe.com
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A humpback whale briefly swallows kayaker in Chile

apnews.com

PUNTA ARENAS, Chile (AP) — A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off Chilean Patagonia before...
PUNTA ARENAS, Chile (AP) — A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him unharmed. The incident, caught on camera, quickly went viral.Last Saturday, Adrián Simancas was kayaking with his father, Dell, in Bahía El Águila near the San Isidro Lighthouse in the Strait of...

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It's not just AI. China's medicines are surprising the world, too

economist.com
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Managers given 200 characters to justify not firing nuclear regulators

npr.org

Scenes of confusion and chaos unfolded over the last two days at the civilian agency that...
Scenes of confusion and chaos unfolded over the last two days at the civilian agency that oversees the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile, as the Trump administration's mass firings were carried out before being "paused" on Friday. This account of firings at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is bas...
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