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The magical applications of zero-sized types in Rust

hardmo.de
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Abuse at the Max-Planck Institutes in Germany

dw.com

There was rarely a meeting with the director that didn't feel destabilizing. "He was hitting his...
There was rarely a meeting with the director that didn't feel destabilizing. "He was hitting his table, yelling at me to the point that I could see him spitting," says Gabriel Lando, a theoretical computational physicist from Brazil and a former postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of ...
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The Plasma desktop is miles ahead of everything else (2021)

dedoimedo.com

The Plasma desktop is miles ahead of everything else Updated: April 30, 2021 Normally, I tried...
The Plasma desktop is miles ahead of everything else Updated: April 30, 2021 Normally, I tried to avoid bombastic articles with WOWSERS! type of titles. The hype is usually directly proportional to the level of disappointment by the time you're done reading. But my recent escapades in the Linux desktop space prompte...
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Ask HN: How much traffic do you serve and with which database engine?

ycombinator.com
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Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to troll Mark Zuckerberg

techcrunch.com

When Bluesky CEO Jay Graber took the SXSW stage this week, she managed to make fun...
When Bluesky CEO Jay Graber took the SXSW stage this week, she managed to make fun of Mark Zuckerberg without mentioning Meta at all. Her black T-shirt was emblazoned with black text stretching across the chest and sleeves, similar to the style of a T-shirt that the billionaire founder wore at an event last year. Gr...
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Show HN: OCR Benchmark Focusing on Automation

nanonets.com

Interest in the field of OCR document processing has grown significantly with back-to-back releases from new...
Interest in the field of OCR document processing has grown significantly with back-to-back releases from new market entrants. The latest being Mistral releasing its OCR model with the claim of being cheaper and more accurate than older players and Andrew NG releasing an agentic document extraction product. However, ...
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The Internet of Beefs (2020)

ribbonfarm.com

You’ve heard me talk about crash-only programming, right? It’s a programming paradigm for critical infrastructure systems,...
You’ve heard me talk about crash-only programming, right? It’s a programming paradigm for critical infrastructure systems, where there is — by design — no graceful way to shut down. A program can only crash and try to recover from a crashed state, which might well be impossible. I came up with a term for the human v...
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East Asian personality may stem from Ice Age Siberia 20000 yrs ago

substack.com

I have never thought I’d be involved in science. I assumed you needed a lab coat...
I have never thought I’d be involved in science. I assumed you needed a lab coat and years of certification. My strange and accidental journey into science began on a hike in the Andean mountains of Peru when I was 17. It was my first solo trip to South America, and after arriving in Cuzco I noticed some of the loca...
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AI scientists are sceptical that modern models will lead to AGI

newscientist.com

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Germanwings A320. Novel Theory of the Crash

avherald.com

Crash: Germanwings A320 near Barcelonnette on Mar 24th 2015, first officer alone in cockpit, initiated rapid...
Crash: Germanwings A320 near Barcelonnette on Mar 24th 2015, first officer alone in cockpit, initiated rapid descent, aircraft impacted terrainBy Simon Hradecky, created Friday, Mar 14th 2025 13:21Z, last updated Friday, Mar 14th 2025 13:40ZGene Kranz, NASA Mission Manager of Apollo 13, said: "Failure Is Not An Opti...

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Lawmaker seeks ban of toxic fuel at Portland racetrack after Guardian story

theguardian.com

An Oregon legislator has moved to ban the use of leaded fuel at a racetrack in...
An Oregon legislator has moved to ban the use of leaded fuel at a racetrack in Portland following community outcry and a Guardian investigation.Leaded fuel has been banned for use in regular automobiles for decades, due to the toxic and irreversible impact of lead on the human brain and body as particles are emitted...
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AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says

arstechnica.com

Even when these AI search tools cited sources, they often directed users to syndicated versions of...
Even when these AI search tools cited sources, they often directed users to syndicated versions of content on platforms like Yahoo News rather than original publisher sites. This occurred even in cases where publishers had formal licensing agreements with AI companies. URL fabrication emerged as another significant ...
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Apple's Siri Chief Calls AI Delays Ugly and Embarrassing, Promises Fixes

bloomberg.com
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Show HN: Pi Labs – AI scoring and optimization tools for software engineers

withpi.ai
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Chrome for Android doesn't have extensions, but Edge now has a whole store

ycombinator.com
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Decrypting encrypted files from Akira ransomware using a bunch of GPUs

tinyhack.com

I recently helped a company recover their data from the Akira ransomware without paying the ransom....
I recently helped a company recover their data from the Akira ransomware without paying the ransom. I’m sharing how I did it, along with the full source code. The code is here: https://github.com/yohanes/akira-bruteforce To clarify, multiple ransomware variants have been named Akira over the years, and several versi...
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Exo: Exocompilation for productive programming of hardware accelerators

github.com
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(Any) 8-hour time-restricted-eating window effective for weight loss

nih.gov

Participants with obesity who engaged in any of three 8-hour, time-restricted eating schedules experienced weight loss...
Participants with obesity who engaged in any of three 8-hour, time-restricted eating schedules experienced weight loss and improvements in cardiovascular and metabolic health compared to participants with obesity in the Mediterranean diet control group. Members of the time-restricted eating groups also followed thei...
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Any insider takes on Yann LeCun's push against current architectures?

ycombinator.com
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USA asks Sweden for help in the egg crisis

substack.com
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Prequel (YC W21) Is Hiring a Strong Front End Engineer

ycombinator.com

Helping B2B co's sync data to their customersConnect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups.Apply...
Helping B2B co's sync data to their customersConnect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups.Apply to role › At Prequel, we enable B2B companies to make data accessible to their customers. Today, we help companies sync data directly to their customer's data warehouse, on an ongoing basis. To do so, we'...
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The School Car Pickup Line Is a National Embarrassment

substack.com

I teach a lot of international students about the US education system and our schools. Whenever...
I teach a lot of international students about the US education system and our schools. Whenever they go into our schools for the first time, one of the things that always shocks them is the school car pickup traffic lines. These lines are ugly, annoying, dirty, and they have become a common mainstay in American scho...
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You Can Make Postgres Scale

pgdog.dev

Mar 13th, 2025Lev Kokotov Postgres scales. No other two words that I’ve ever heard of, produced...
Mar 13th, 2025Lev Kokotov Postgres scales. No other two words that I’ve ever heard of, produced more controversy. At least in the circles I hang out in, in the company basement where infrastructure elves make the Rails app go brrr. A lot of people believe, against all odds, and marketing campaigns by Big NoSQL, that...
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The Curious Surge of Productivity in U.S. Restaurants

uchicago.edu
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