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Is there a benefit to scratching that itch? Yes and no, says new study

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NYPD Confidential: Inside America's Most Unconventional Counterterror Squad

vanityfair.com

On a cloudless September afternoon, I stopped by 1 Police Plaza in Lower Manhattan to see...
On a cloudless September afternoon, I stopped by 1 Police Plaza in Lower Manhattan to see Rebecca Ulam Weiner, an enigmatic figure who occupies one of the most consequential and improbable perches in America’s national security hierarchy. As the NYPD’s deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism, her ch...

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SCQA: What is it, how does it work, and how can it help me?

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Texas Tempts Meta

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S1: Simple Test-Time Scaling

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The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE

wired.com

Coristine, as WIRED previously reported, appears to have recently graduated from high school and to have...
Coristine, as WIRED previously reported, appears to have recently graduated from high school and to have been enrolled at Northeastern University. According to a copy of his résumé obtained by WIRED, he spent three months at Neuralink, Musk’s brain-computer interface company, last summer.Both Bobba and Coristine are...
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What Agile is Not: or at least what it was never meant to be

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Building software is unpredictable. Agile practices mitigate this fact by establishing teams and software that can...
Building software is unpredictable. Agile practices mitigate this fact by establishing teams and software that can quickly and easily adapt to changes. So when something unexpected happens or something takes longer than it should, you know how to respond. The key is to respond to what is happening now, not predict w...
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Discord client that works on Win95*, Win98 and above

github.com
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Better AI Is a Matter of Timing

ieee.org

AI is changing everything in data centers: New AI-specific chips, new cooling techniques, and new storage...
AI is changing everything in data centers: New AI-specific chips, new cooling techniques, and new storage drives. Now even the method for keeping time is starting to change, with an announcement from SiTime that the company has developed a new clock that is optimized for AI workloads.The company says the development...

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New Proofs Probe the Limits of Mathematical Truth

quantamagazine.org

The world of mathematics is full of unreachable corners, where unsolvable problems live. Now, yet another...
The world of mathematics is full of unreachable corners, where unsolvable problems live. Now, yet another has been exposed. In 1900, the eminent mathematician David Hilbert announced a list of 23 key problems to guide the next century of mathematical research. His problems not only provided a road map for the field ...
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Evaluating Code Embedding Models

voyageai.com

Read time: 10 minutes Nearly all modern coding assistants and agents leverage some form of code...
Read time: 10 minutes Nearly all modern coding assistants and agents leverage some form of code retrieval — the task of retrieving relevant code snippets, docstrings, or documentation, etc., from complex and massive repositories. Today’s code retrieval systems are powered by embedding models, which vectorize both qu...
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AMD: Microcode Signature Verification Vulnerability

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I Conditioned Myself to Fail

brainbun.com

Over the years I’ve literally built hundreds of projects. Some with a lof of potential. Others...
Over the years I’ve literally built hundreds of projects. Some with a lof of potential. Others just batshit crazy ideas. I started noticing a pattern. I’d build a project for several weeks or even months. Working long hours, maybe 12-14 hours a day. Being extremely motivated. I’d then launch the project, do one day ...
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It's not 'emotional labour', it's kin work

substack.com

I’ve just come back from a seasonal gathering where it was obvious – as it is...
I’ve just come back from a seasonal gathering where it was obvious – as it is obvious every year – that the women in the heterosexual couples had done a far larger amount of work than their partners. We had initiated the idea of gathering, had clung on through the tedious months of back and forth to find a time and ...
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Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against universal jailbreaks

anthropic.com

A new paper from the Anthropic Safeguards Research Team describes a method that defends AI models...
A new paper from the Anthropic Safeguards Research Team describes a method that defends AI models against universal jailbreaks. A prototype version of the method was robust to thousands of hours of human red teaming for universal jailbreaks, albeit with high overrefusal rates and compute overhead. An updated version...
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Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring a Distributed Systems Engineer

ycombinator.com

Some background on Hightouch - our mission is to help companies leverage their customer data to...
Some background on Hightouch - our mission is to help companies leverage their customer data to grow. We started with the problem of “Reverse ETL” or helping companies sync data from their data warehouse (e.g. Snowflake, Databricks, etc.) to 200+ SaaS tools (Salesforce, Marketo, Facebook Ads, etc.) without coding. S...
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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2025)

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Developer Philosophy

qntm.org

Amazing as it may seem after all these years, there are still junior developers in the...
Amazing as it may seem after all these years, there are still junior developers in the world. A few weeks ago at work we had a talk where senior developers (including me) were invited to spend around five minutes each talking about our personal software development philosophies. The idea was for us to share our year...
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Remote Code Execution in Marvel Rivals Game

shalzuth.com

Security vulnerabilities in online games aren't just theoretical - they happen more often than you'd think....
Security vulnerabilities in online games aren't just theoretical - they happen more often than you'd think. Recently, I discovered a Remote Code Execution (RCE) exploit in Marvel Rivals that could allow an attacker on the same network to run arbitrary code on another player's device.The ElephantThe issue is the game...
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He Went to Jail for Stealing Someone's Identity. But It Was His All Along

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You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we...
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.A decades-long theft of a man’s identity raised questions about who gets believed in the justice system, and what happens when your name is taken.“I’m trying to go on and conti...

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How do scientists get lead into the LHC

symmetrymagazine.org

Inside an ordinary-looking cupboard in an ordinary-looking office, scientists at CERN store a small glass vial...
Inside an ordinary-looking cupboard in an ordinary-looking office, scientists at CERN store a small glass vial filled with 10 grams of lead. But this is no ordinary metal. The lead in this vial is worth $15,000, and it’s about to go on a journey back to the origins of the universe.Every fall, the Large Hadron Collid...
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Setting up a Linux writecache as a RAM disk

admin-magazine.com

The idea of block I/O caching isn't revolutionary, but it still is an extremely complex topic....
The idea of block I/O caching isn't revolutionary, but it still is an extremely complex topic. Technically speaking, caching as a whole is complicated and a very difficult solution to implement. It all boils down to the I/O profile of the ecosystem or server on which it is being implemented. Before I dive right in, ...
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Httptap: View HTTP/HTTPS requests made by any Linux program

github.com
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Optimizing with Novel Calendrical Algorithms

jhpratt.dev

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