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Working with Systemd Timers

yieldcode.blog

The other day I thought to myself that it would be a good idea to have...
The other day I thought to myself that it would be a good idea to have some backups of my data. So I was wondering, how would I execute a periodic backup task? Most of you are probably familiar with cron. cron is a Unix utility to run scheduled tasks. There is a file called crontab which you edit by issuing crontab ...

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Show HN: I'm working on a Chrome extension for viewing EXIF data of images

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Move over, Apple: Meet the alternative app stores coming to the EU

techcrunch.com

People in the European Union are now allowed to access alternative app stores thanks to the...
People in the European Union are now allowed to access alternative app stores thanks to the Digital Markets Act (DMA), a regulation designed to foster increased competition in the app ecosystem. Like Apple’s App Store, alternative app marketplaces allow for easy access to a wider world of apps, but instead of the ap...
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Will the Man Get Frog

lexaloffle.com

Copy and paste the snippet below into your HTML. Here is Will The Man Get Frog,...
Copy and paste the snippet below into your HTML. Here is Will The Man Get Frog, a chill little game about composing silly or sweet haikus (short poems) and sharing them with the world! I wanted to make a game about constrained creation that felt easy to play, in the hope that people end up surprised by how fun it is...
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Would {word1} beat {word2} • Ranked AI game

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Czech scientists study trees' ability to absorb traffic noise

radio.cz

Trees do not only improve air quality by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. They can...
Trees do not only improve air quality by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. They can also significantly reduce noise levels by absorbing and refracting sound waves. Scientists from Brno are currently investigating how trees could be used as sound barriers against traffic noise. Being exposed to higher traf...

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Ask HN: How to study for system design that doesn't include front end/back end?

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Tiny changes in gene expression make big difference in eye size of fruit flies

phys.org

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EPA Launches Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History

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Y Combinator Urges the White House to Support Europe's Digital Markets Act

techcrunch.com

Y Combinator, one of the world’s most prolific startup accelerators, sent a letter on Wednesday urging...
Y Combinator, one of the world’s most prolific startup accelerators, sent a letter on Wednesday urging the Trump administration to openly support Europe’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), a wide-ranging piece of legislation that aims to crack open Big Tech’s market power. The DMA designates six tech companies as “gatekeep...
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How Pi Almost Wasn't

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Since you’re reading this essay, you probably already know about the mathematical holiday called Pi Day...
Since you’re reading this essay, you probably already know about the mathematical holiday called Pi Day held on March 14th of each year in honor of the mystical quantity π = 3.14…. Pi isn’t just a universal constant; it’s trans-universal in the sense that, even in an alternate universe with a different geometry than...
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Voker (YC S24) Is Hiring an LA-Based Full Stack AI Software Engineer

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C Plus Prolog

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Recursion kills: The story behind CVE-2024-8176 in libexpat

hartwork.org

For readers new to Expat: libexpat is a fast streaming XML parser. Alongside libxml2, Expat is...
For readers new to Expat: libexpat is a fast streaming XML parser. Alongside libxml2, Expat is one of the most widely used software libre XML parsers written in C, specifically C99. It is cross-platform and licensed under the MIT license. Expat 2.7.0 has been released earlier today. I will make this a more detailed ...
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It's not cheating if you write the video game solver yourself

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AI Search Has a Citation Problem

cjr.org
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Certificate Apocalypse: Bringing Your Chromecast Back from the Dead

mensfeld.pl

On March 9, 2025, many Chromecast 2nd generation and Chromecast Audio devices suddenly stopped working. Users...
On March 9, 2025, many Chromecast 2nd generation and Chromecast Audio devices suddenly stopped working. Users like me could not cast content or set up their devices. This wasn't due to a software update or planned obsolescence, but most likely an expired device authentication certificate. Disclaimer USE THESE WORKAR...
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Functional Tests as a Tree of Continuations (2010)

evanmiller.org

By Evan Miller June 15, 2010 One of the most essential practices for maintaining the long-term...
By Evan Miller June 15, 2010 One of the most essential practices for maintaining the long-term quality of computer code is to write automated tests that ensure the program continues to act as expected, even when other people (including your future self) muck with it. Test code is often longer than the code that is b...
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How to Let Go of a Product You've Built with Passion

leadinginproduct.com

There comes a time in every product manager’s journey when, after a period of significant success,...
There comes a time in every product manager’s journey when, after a period of significant success, it becomes clear that it’s time to move on. You’ve built a product you’re proud of, you understand it inside and out, and you’ve invested countless hours, energy, and decisions into its success.Then, something shifts. ...
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Why "Normal" Engineers Are the Key to Great Teams

ieee.org

A version of this post originally appeared in Refactoring, a Substack offering advice for software engineers....
A version of this post originally appeared in Refactoring, a Substack offering advice for software engineers. Most of us have encountered a few software engineers who seem practically magician-like, a class apart from the rest of us in their ability to reason about complex mental models, leap to nonobvious yet elega...

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The Ancient Horsemen Who Created the Modern World

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The failure of the land value tax

worksinprogress.co

In the late nineteenth century, the ideas of American economist Henry George were popular around the...
In the late nineteenth century, the ideas of American economist Henry George were popular around the English-speaking world. His best-known work, Progress and Poverty, examined the importance of land in economics and proposed taxing land value as much as possible. It sold several million copies and was one of the be...
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An Attempt to Catch Up with JITs: The False Lead of Optimizing Inline Caches

programming-journal.org

ℹ︎ Upcoming Submission Deadline: June 1, 2025 Aurore Poirier1 , Erven Rohou2 , and Manuel Serrano3...
ℹ︎ Upcoming Submission Deadline: June 1, 2025 Aurore Poirier1 , Erven Rohou2 , and Manuel Serrano3 The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming, 2025, Vol. 10, Issue 1, Article 6 Submission date: 2024-10-01 Publication date: 2025-02-15 DOI: https://doi.org/10.22152/programming-journal.org/2025/10/6 Full text: PD...
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The Lost Art of Logarithms

lostartoflogarithms.com
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