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War Rooms vs. Deep Investigations

rachelbythebay.com
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Rust, C++, and Python trends in jobs on Hacker News (February 2025)

wojtczyk.de
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The Weird New Putting Technique That's Driving the Golf World Nuts

wsj.com
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OpenJKDF2 – A cross-platform reimplementation of JKDF2 in C

github.com
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Weird Kaggle and the Superiority of Books

griffens.net

Published on February 19, 2025 I recently entered a Kaggle competition to brush up on some...
Published on February 19, 2025 I recently entered a Kaggle competition to brush up on some modeling skills.1 The analysis problem is a pretty typical clinical prediction question. My final product is, well, "final product" is an extremely charitable description of it.2 But despite this it was a fascinating and worth...
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BYD has already produced its first solid-state cells

electrive.com

According to Chinese media, Sun Huajun, CTO of BYD’s battery business, stated at a forum event...
According to Chinese media, Sun Huajun, CTO of BYD’s battery business, stated at a forum event on solid-state batteries that the company had already produced its first solid-state cells with 20 Ah and 60 Ah on its pilot production line in 2024. The portals CN EV Post and Car News China reported on this based on a vi...

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But good sir, what is electricity?

substack.com

A recurring theme of this Substack are my attempts to build out an accessible curriculum for...
A recurring theme of this Substack are my attempts to build out an accessible curriculum for hobby electronics. The target audience are folks who are no longer content with dumbed-down analogies, but who aren’t keen on academic textbooks brimming with obtuse jargon and advanced calculus. I’m particularly fond of the...
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Engineers turn the body's goo into new glue

mit.edu

Within the animal kingdom, mussels are masters of underwater adhesion. The marine molluscs cluster atop rocks...
Within the animal kingdom, mussels are masters of underwater adhesion. The marine molluscs cluster atop rocks and along the bottoms of ships, and hold fast against the ocean’s waves thanks to a gluey plaque they secrete through their foot. These tenacious adhesive structures have prompted scientists in recent years ...

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No One Lives Forever (NOLF) Revival Edition

nolfrevival.tk
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Bird flu confirmed in rats for first time, USDA reports

cbsnews.com

By Sara Moniuszko Edited By Paula Cohen February 20, 2025 / 11:09 AM EST / CBS...
By Sara Moniuszko Edited By Paula Cohen February 20, 2025 / 11:09 AM EST / CBS News Bird flu has been detected in rats for the first time, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service confirmed Wednesday. Four black rats were confirmed to have H5N1 avian flu in late January in Rive...

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Thieves used a stolen card to buy a $523,000 lottery ticket

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Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] PARIS (AP) — Thieves used a stolen card to...
Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] PARIS (AP) — Thieves used a stolen card to buy a winning French lottery ticket worth 500,000 euros ($523,000). But they vanished before cashing in —- and now they’re among France’s most famous fugitives.The man whose card was stolen, identified in ...

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NASA Downgrades the Risk of 2024 YR4 to Below 1%

universetoday.com

NASA astronomers have been continuing to monitor the trajectory of asteroid 2024 YR4. The initial calculations...
NASA astronomers have been continuing to monitor the trajectory of asteroid 2024 YR4. The initial calculations suggested a 1.3% probability of an Earth impact event, which temporarily increased to 3.1% as more data came in. However, and with a sigh of relief, recent analysis brings encouraging news: the Earth impact...
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What are Majorana zero modes?

mathstodon.xyz
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Lambda Calculus and Lisp, part 1

babbagefiles.xyz

The first of a series of envisioned blog posts on lambda calculus, and Lisp. It’s unclear...
The first of a series of envisioned blog posts on lambda calculus, and Lisp. It’s unclear exactly where to start: there is a whole heap of interesting issues, both theoretical and in terms of concrete implementations, which tangle and interconnect. A particular application of lambda calculus is a very salient part o...
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Half-Life

filfre.net

Around twenty years ago, people would have laughed if you told them that videogames would end...
Around twenty years ago, people would have laughed if you told them that videogames would end up at the Smithsonian, but the Half-Life team really did want to make games that were more than just throwaway toys. The rule against cinematics — which made our jobs much harder and also ended up leaving a lot of my favori...
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Stargate Project II? Declassified US Government Research in RV and Psi [pdf]

governmentattic.org
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Thailand to Cut Power to Myanmar Scam Hubs

bangkoklocal.info

Photos Courtesy NBT World Thailand will cut electricity, oil supplies, and internet services to five locations...
Photos Courtesy NBT World Thailand will cut electricity, oil supplies, and internet services to five locations in Myanmar at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, citing security concerns over suspected Chinese-operated call center scams. The sites, located in Payathonzu, Tachileik, and Myawaddy townships along the border, have been...
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Max Headroom

hatonthecat.github.io
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CEO Simulator: Startup Edition

ceosimulator.vercel.app
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Satya Nadella on knowledge work

solmaz.io

Satya Nadella, shares his thinking on the future of knowledge work (link to YouTube for those...
Satya Nadella, shares his thinking on the future of knowledge work (link to YouTube for those who don’t want to read) on Dwarkesh Patel Podcast. He thinks that white collar work will become more like factory work, with AI agents used for end-to-end optimization. Dwarkesh: Even when you have working agents, even when...
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Vine: A programming language based on Interaction Nets

vine.dev
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Ways to annoy your senior engineer

thecaringtechie.com

In my 15 years of working hands-on as an engineer, I’ve collaborated with all kinds of...
In my 15 years of working hands-on as an engineer, I’ve collaborated with all kinds of people from various functions. Most interactions were great—people were smart and a pleasure to work with. But sometimes, they’d do things that would consistently grind my gears.A while ago, I decided to share what annoys me on Li...
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Show HN: We made a Meta Quest3 see through walls

medium.com

For Treehacks 2025, my team & I decided that we needed X-Ray vision.shoutout Scrapybara for the...
For Treehacks 2025, my team & I decided that we needed X-Ray vision.shoutout Scrapybara for the absolutely killer T-Shirt. ❤ (https://scrapybara.com)Shoutout to River Dowdy, Ben Richeson, & Timothy Yu for being incredible, kind, hard-working teammates. I had a TON of fun building this with you guys.The TechnologyTo ...

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How Many School Shootings? All Incidents from 1966-Present

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