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February 15

The Internet's Time Is Flawed–Why No One Is Talking About It

ycombinator.com
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February 15

First hybrid quantum supercomputer Reimei activated in Japan

interestingengineering.com

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February 15

Show HN: VimLM – A Local, Offline Coding Assistant for Vim

github.com
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February 15

Please Stop Inviting AI Notetakers to Meetings

bloomberg.com
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February 15

Yash: Yet Another Shell

github.com
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February 15

A decade later, a decade lost

meyerweb.com

I woke up this morning about an hour ahead of my alarm, the sky already light,...
I woke up this morning about an hour ahead of my alarm, the sky already light, birds calling. After a few minutes, a brief patter of rain swept across the roof and moved on. I just lay there, not really thinking. Feeling. Remembering. Almost sixteen years to the minute before I awoke, my second daughter was born. Al...
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February 14

CDC cuts expected to decimate Epidemic Intelligence Service

statnews.com

The Trump administration’s campaign to slash the federal civil service will hit one of the crown...
The Trump administration’s campaign to slash the federal civil service will hit one of the crown jewels of global public health on Friday. Members of the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a legendary training program run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, were warned on Friday morning that they were abo...

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February 14

Trolls Aren't Like the Rest of Us

theatlantic.com

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February 14

Codeberg appears to be under a DDoS attack

codeberg.eu
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February 14

Type safe variadic printf

stranger.systems

While C can provide "convenient" string formatting by having hideously unsafe variadics, and dynamic languages, like...
While C can provide "convenient" string formatting by having hideously unsafe variadics, and dynamic languages, like python, can do the same, many type safe languages, such as Rust, are forced to provide such functionality through the use of a macro. Dependently typed languages, like Idris, can provide a printf like...

idris
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February 14

Terabytes Encoded Within a Millimeter-Sized Crystal

bioengineer.org

In a groundbreaking study, researchers from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering have...
In a groundbreaking study, researchers from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering have made significant strides toward enhancing the efficiency of classical computer memory by harnessing the properties of crystal defects. This innovative approach, led by Assistant Professor Tian Zhong an...
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February 14

Tumblr to join the Fediverse after WordPress migration completes

techcrunch.com

Since 2022, blogging site Tumblr has been teasing its plans to integrate with the fediverse —...
Since 2022, blogging site Tumblr has been teasing its plans to integrate with the fediverse — the open social web powered by the protocol ActivityPub also used by Mastodon, Threads, Flipboard, and others. Now, the Automattic-owned blogging platform is sharing more information about when and how that integration coul...
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February 14

The largest sofa you can move around a corner

quantamagazine.org

Mathematicians have proved that any sofa bigger than this one will get stuck at the hallway’s...
Mathematicians have proved that any sofa bigger than this one will get stuck at the hallway’s corner. Of course, movers might resolve the problem by simply tilting the sofa on its end, but in the mathematical version it must stay flat. If you’ve ever moved into a new home, then you know how difficult it can be to st...
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February 14

The Iconic 3DBenchy Enters the Public Domain

nti-group.com
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February 14

Show HN: OpenSCAD configurable calendar 3D model

chrastecky.dev

I love creating configurable generic models using OpenSCAD, and this is the most complex one I've...
I love creating configurable generic models using OpenSCAD, and this is the most complex one I've created to date—an easy-to-configure calendar using some clever algorithms to render correctly.OpenSCAD is truly amazing in a way that no other 3D modeling software is, including those with limited scripting abilities. ...
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February 14

If you ever stacked cups in gym class, blame my dad

defector.com

The boxes came from Tokyo: first by tanker, then overland via container truck from a Pacific...
The boxes came from Tokyo: first by tanker, then overland via container truck from a Pacific port, across the Continental Divide, and finally backed into a driveway at the end of a cul-de-sac in a south Denver suburban enclave. This was a neighborhood with Razor scooters dumped in trimmed front lawns. Where family w...
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February 14

We Were Wrong About GPUs

fly.io

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February 14

The hardest working font in Manhattan

aresluna.org
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February 14

Terence Tao – Complex dynamics require complex solutions

mathstodon.xyz
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February 14

A Libertarian Island Dream in Honduras Is Now an $11B Nightmare

bloomberg.com
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February 14

Advancements in Embedding-Based Retrieval at Pinterest Homefeed

medium.com

Zhibo Fan | Machine Learning Engineer, Homefeed Candidate Generation; Bowen Deng | Machine Learning Engineer, Homefeed...
Zhibo Fan | Machine Learning Engineer, Homefeed Candidate Generation; Bowen Deng | Machine Learning Engineer, Homefeed Candidate Generation; Hedi Xia | Machine Learning Engineer, Homefeed Candidate Generation; Yuke Yan | Machine Learning Engineer, Homefeed Candidate Generation; Hongtao Lin | Machine Learning Enginee...

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February 14

LinkedIn is the worst social media I've ever seen

ycombinator.com

Besides being full of AI-generated, useless content, the platform is also riddled with dark patterns.I'm a...
Besides being full of AI-generated, useless content, the platform is also riddled with dark patterns.I'm a newcomer, I’d never used LinkedIn before until I joined three months ago. Since then, I've been banned twice and shadow-banned several times.1) Right after I created my account, I got shadow-banned. My friends ...
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February 14

Elon Musk's DOGE Posts Classified Data on Its New Website

huffpost.com

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February 14

Haiku Activity and Contract Report, January 2025

haiku-os.org

This report covers hrev58487 through hrev58583. Applications omesh-barhate contributed a patch to add a context menu...
This report covers hrev58487 through hrev58583. Applications omesh-barhate contributed a patch to add a context menu to WebPositive’s bookmark bar items, to allow them to be edited more easily. humdinger cleaned up the strings in the new context menu and enhanced its functionality, and removed the “move to front” lo...

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