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(Ab)using general search algorithms on dynamic optimization problems (2023)

dubovik.eu

Jan. 24, 2023In retrospect, my most ambitious blog yet. As it goes, I was reading “Artificial...
Jan. 24, 2023In retrospect, my most ambitious blog yet. As it goes, I was reading “Artificial Intelligence. A Modern Approach” the other day. In one of the earlier chapters the authors discuss general search algorithms: breadth-first search, depth-first search, uniform-cost search (Dijkstra), and variations of those...
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Pi-hole v6

pi-hole.net

We’re excited to announce the general release of Pi-hole v6! At a glance: What’s New in...
We’re excited to announce the general release of Pi-hole v6! At a glance: What’s New in Pi-hole v6? 1. Embedded Web Server and REST API We’ve integrated a new REST API and embedded web server directly into the pihole-FTL binary. This eliminates the need for lighttpd and PHP, reducing the installation footprint and b...
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What XOR is and why it's useful

greenend.org.uk
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Migraine is more than a headache – a rethink offers hope to 1B people

nature.com

What causes migraines? Study of ‘brain blackout’ offers clues

brain drug discovery medical research
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TIL: Rust does not prevent memory leaks

ycombinator.com
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Web awesome: "Shoelace 3.0" open source web components

webawesome.com
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Catalytic Computing Taps the Full Power of a Full Hard Drive

quantamagazine.org

“Obviously” is a dangerous word, even in scenarios that seem simple. Suppose, for instance, you need...
“Obviously” is a dangerous word, even in scenarios that seem simple. Suppose, for instance, you need to do an important computation. You get to choose between two computers that are almost identical, except that one has an extra hard drive full of precious family photos. It’s natural to assume that the two options a...
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In Norway, Lake-Harvested Cocktail Ice Is Making a Quiet Comeback

vinepair.com
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Launch HN: Promptless (YC W25) – Automatic updates for customer-facing docs

ycombinator.com

Hi HN! I’m Prithvi, and my co-founder Frances and I built Promptless (https://gopromptless.ai), an AI teammate...
Hi HN! I’m Prithvi, and my co-founder Frances and I built Promptless (https://gopromptless.ai), an AI teammate that proactively updates docs while you ship software.There’s a demo video at https://youtu.be/pmslSl8dOgE, and also a “Live Demo on Your Own Docs” at https://gopromptless.ai/demo where you can plug in the ...
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Try Thinking and Learning Without Working Memory (2008)

sharpbrains.com

Imagine dialing a phone number by having to look up each digit one at a time...
Imagine dialing a phone number by having to look up each digit one at a time in the phone book. Normally, you look up the number and remember all seven digits long enough to get it dialed. Even with one digit at a time, you would have to remember each digit long enough to get it dialed. What if your br...
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Frozen. Thawed. Not Dead: Jean Hilliard's Minnesota Story (2018)

mprnews.org

When you Google the small town of Lengby, there's pretty much just one result that pops...
When you Google the small town of Lengby, there's pretty much just one result that pops up, something that happened almost 40 years ago. The accounts online call it a miracle. On the night of Dec. 20, 1980, 19-year-old Jean Hilliard's car hit the ditch. She tried to walk for help. She was found in the morning in the...
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Broadcom, TSMC Weigh Possible Intel Deals That Would Split Storied Chip Maker

wsj.com
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Nostalgia for Physical Media

sicpers.info

While I have access to streaming services that offer most of the music that the labels...
While I have access to streaming services that offer most of the music that the labels the services deal with still publish, I also have a significant collection of music on physical media, and do most of my listening to prerecorded music by playing entire albums, in order, from a physical format. I recently shared ...
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The Ideal Candidate Will Be Punched In the Stomach

scottsmitelli.com
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Svelte 5 is not JavaScript

npub.pro
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The Fall of FiveM

fivem.team
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Show HN: Sober Ringtones – Cringe-free ringtones for people who hate ringtones

wize.io
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Saying Goodbye to FFmpegKit

medium.com

As of January 6, 2025, FFmpegKit is officially retired.This decision wasn’t easy, especially considering the years...
As of January 6, 2025, FFmpegKit is officially retired.This decision wasn’t easy, especially considering the years of time and effort I’ve invested in the project. But after weighing all the challenges, I realised it’s no longer feasible for me to continue maintaining the project.I wanted to share the story behind t...

ffmpeg ffmpeg kit open source
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Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO

tomshardware.com

(Image credit: Acer) Acer Laptop prices in the U.S. are set to rise by 10% from...
(Image credit: Acer) Acer Laptop prices in the U.S. are set to rise by 10% from March 2025, commented CEO Jason Chen in an interview with The Telegraph. Chen states that the price hike is a direct result of the Trump administration's incoming tariffs."We will have to adjust the end user price to reflect the tariff,"...
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By the end of today, NASA's workforce will be about 10 percent smaller

arstechnica.com

Spread across NASA's headquarters and 10 field centers, which dot the United States from sea to...
Spread across NASA's headquarters and 10 field centers, which dot the United States from sea to sea, the space agency has had a workforce of nearly 18,000 civil servants. However, by the end of today, that number will have shrunk by about 10 percent since the beginning of the second Trump administration four weeks a...
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Show HN: Welcome, Cot: the Rust web framework for lazy developers

mackow.ski

Cot was born out of frustration - the kind that every Rust developer feels when searching...
Cot was born out of frustration - the kind that every Rust developer feels when searching for a batteries-included, Django-like web framework that just handles the basics for you. While Rust is a really mature language, the web ecosystem is still sort of lacking. Let’s change that. Motivation There is a variety of w...

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Excessive Criticism Is a Sign of Internal Conflict (Projecting)

kupajo.com

If you catch yourself lobbing petty grenades: “She’s lazy.” “He’s stupid.” “They don’t deserve that.” “They’re...
If you catch yourself lobbing petty grenades: “She’s lazy.” “He’s stupid.” “They don’t deserve that.” “They’re so fake.” That may just be you talking about… you. Psychological projection happens when you displace undesirable feelings onto someone else, treating them as the source of the internal conflicts you’d rath...
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Show HN: Scripton – Python IDE with Built-In Realtime Visualizations

scripton.dev
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Making my debug build run 100x faster so that it is finally usable

gaultier.github.io

⏴ Back to all articles Published on 2025-02-18 Table of contents SIMD and dedicated silicon to...
⏴ Back to all articles Published on 2025-02-18 Table of contents SIMD and dedicated silicon to the rescue. I am writing a torrent application, to download and serve torrent files, in C, because it's fun. A torrent download is made of thousands of pieces of the same size, typically a few hundred KiB to a few MiB. At ...
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