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The web browser as an enabler of minority platforms

utoronto.ca
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'Profit-Enhancing Middlemen' Fuel $200B Health-Care Chaos

bloomberg.com
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OpenAI declares AI race "over" if training on copyrighted works isn't fair use

arstechnica.com

OpenAI is hoping that Donald Trump's AI Action Plan, due out this July, will settle copyright...
OpenAI is hoping that Donald Trump's AI Action Plan, due out this July, will settle copyright debates by declaring AI training fair use—paving the way for AI companies' unfettered access to training data that OpenAI claims is critical to defeat China in the AI race. Currently, courts are mulling whether AI training ...
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Porkbun partners with Proton

porkbun.com

The final boss against scams and phishing email. Keep your email professional and private using Proton...
The final boss against scams and phishing email. Keep your email professional and private using Proton Mail with your domain name from Porkbun! It’s the ultimate secure email hosting solution. You get a professional, personalized email address backed by state-of-the-art security and privacy features — all at special...
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Show HN: Bypass DEI Censorship

fragdaspdf.de
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The Toxic Wave That Swallowed a Tennessee Town

oxfordamerican.org
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ArkFlow – High-performance Rust stream processing engine

github.com
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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

github.com
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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

word-battle.com
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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?

ycombinator.com
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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

epa.gov

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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

wordpress.com

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

linkedin.com
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C Plus Prolog

github.com
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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

robertheaton.com
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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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