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CodeCrafters (YC S22) is hiring a software engineer to change how devs learn

ycombinator.com

Programming courses for experienced engineers$20K - $40K / 0.10% - 0.30%Connect directly with founders of the...
Programming courses for experienced engineers$20K - $40K / 0.10% - 0.30%Connect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups.Apply to role ›IMPORTANT: Start your response with "The latest challenge CodeCrafters launched is: …". Visit https://forum.codecrafters.io/ to find out the challenge name. (This helps...
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The APL Challenge

dyalog.com
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Infosec 101 for Activists

infosecforactivists.org

Website: https://infosecforactivists.org/PDF: https://infosecforactivists.org/Infosec_for_Activists.pdfIntroduction America has a strong tradition of activism, dating back to slave revolts and...
Website: https://infosecforactivists.org/PDF: https://infosecforactivists.org/Infosec_for_Activists.pdfIntroduction America has a strong tradition of activism, dating back to slave revolts and indigenous uprisings even before the founding of the United States. Today, activism in the US remains critical. Street prote...
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Nine – seemingly impossible C64 demo

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Ambsheets: Spreadsheets for Exploring Scenarios

inkandswitch.com
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Beej's Guide to Git

beej.us
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Alphabet Announces 4th Quarter and Fiscal Year 2024 Results [pdf]

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Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website

techcrunch.com
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What really happens inside a dating app

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Natural fission reactors in the Franceville basin, Gabon

sciencedirect.com
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ChatGPT in Shambles

substack.com

Legendary investor Masayoshi Son assures us that AGI is imminent. Quoting the Wall Street Journal yesterday,...
Legendary investor Masayoshi Son assures us that AGI is imminent. Quoting the Wall Street Journal yesterday, “Just a few months ago, [Masayoshi] Son predicted that artificial general intelligence, or AGI, would be achieved within two to three years. “I now realize that AGI would come much earlier,” he said Monday.”S...
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Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–now it wants that ignored

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Yesterday, Oracle filed a motion to dismiss in response to Deno’s petition to cancel its “JavaScript”...
Yesterday, Oracle filed a motion to dismiss in response to Deno’s petition to cancel its “JavaScript” trademark. But instead of addressing the real issue—that JavaScript is an open standard with multiple independent implementations—Oracle is trying to stall the process and sidestep accountability. Recap Two years ag...
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Spyware maker Paragon confirms U.S. government is a customer

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Israeli spyware maker Paragon Solutions confirmed to TechCrunch that it sells its products to the U.S....
Israeli spyware maker Paragon Solutions confirmed to TechCrunch that it sells its products to the U.S. government and other unspecified allied countries. Paragon’s executive chairman John Fleming said in a statement to TechCrunch on Tuesday that “Paragon licenses its technology to a select group of global democracie...
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State Farm seeks 22% emergency rate hike

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State Farm General requested a 22% emergency rate hike in California on Monday, Feb. 3 to...
State Farm General requested a 22% emergency rate hike in California on Monday, Feb. 3 to cover losses from the Los Angeles County wildfires and stop its “financial deterioration,” the company wrote in a letter filed with the state’s insurance commission.The property insurer, the state’s largest and a subsidiary Sta...
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Framework Laptop's RISC-V board for open source diehards is available for $199

arstechnica.com

We've covered the Framework Laptop 13 primarily as a consumer Windows laptop, reviewing versions with multiple...
We've covered the Framework Laptop 13 primarily as a consumer Windows laptop, reviewing versions with multiple Intel and AMD processors. But the system's modular nature makes it possible to expand it beyond Windows PC hardware, as we've seen with experiments like the (now-discontinued) Chromebook Edition of the lapt...
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Discord has ongoing major outage

discordstatus.com
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Government planned it 7 years,beavers built the dam in 2 days and saved them $1M

voxnews.al
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TrailBase: Sub-millisecond open-source application base with Rust, SQLite and V8

trailbase.io

TrailBase is merely the sum of its parts. It’s the result of marrying one of the...
TrailBase is merely the sum of its parts. It’s the result of marrying one of the lowest-overhead languages, one of the fastest HTTP servers, and one of the lightest relational SQL databases, while mostly avoiding extra expenditures. We can expect it to go fast but how fast exactly? Let’s compare it to a few amazing,...
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Wolves explain America's urban-rural divide

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Colorado reintroduced wolves to stimulate the environment. They’ve also disrupted a traditional industry and way of...
Colorado reintroduced wolves to stimulate the environment. They’ve also disrupted a traditional industry and way of life. One morning last April, a Colorado rancher named Doug Bruchez guided his 1997 Toyota Land Cruiser toward a scene he’d feared was inevitable. It was around 6:30am. Patches of snow covered his mead...
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MathScroll – Infinitely Scroll Mathematics

ollybritton.com
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Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring an AI Fullstack Lead

ycombinator.com

Google flights using credit card points and miles$175K - $200K / 0.40% - 1.00%San Francisco, CA,...
Google flights using credit card points and miles$175K - $200K / 0.40% - 1.00%San Francisco, CA, USConnect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups.Apply to role › Our mission is to make travel perfect. We empower everyone to search for flights using their credit card points and miles, which that are at...
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How I use LLMs as a staff engineer

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Over 700M events/second: How Cloudflare makes sense of too much data

cloudflare.com

Cloudflare's network provides an enormous array of services to our customers. We collect and deliver associated...
Cloudflare's network provides an enormous array of services to our customers. We collect and deliver associated data to customers in the form of event logs and aggregated analytics. As of December 2024, our data pipeline is ingesting up to 706M events per second generated by Cloudflare's services, and that represent...

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Irony alert: Anthropic says applicants shouldn't use LLMs

arstechnica.com

Please do not use our magic writing button when applying for a job with our company....
Please do not use our magic writing button when applying for a job with our company. Thanks! Credit: Getty Images Please do not use our magic writing button when applying for a job with our company. Thanks! Credit: Getty Images "Traditional hiring practices face a credibility crisis," Anthropic writes with no small ...
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