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February 3

Ten Years as a Free, Open, and Automated Certificate Authority

fosdem.org
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February 3

NASA's Asteroid Bennu Sample Reveals Mix of Life's Ingredients

nasa.gov

Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. Studies of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu...
Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. Studies of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security–Regolith Explorer) spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life, as well as a history of sal...

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February 3

TopoNets: High-Performing Vision and Language Models with Brain-Like Topography

toponets.github.io
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February 3

Vibe Coding

twitter.com
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February 3

Caps Lock Key Question

ycombinator.com
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February 3

Autothrottle: Resource Management for SLO-Targeted Microservices

usenix.org
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February 3

Federal government grant award search

datarepublican.com
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February 3

Deep Research

openai.com
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February 3

Tiny vanes glued to planes promise big savings for US Air Force

newatlas.com

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February 3

Solar Plant Accidentally Incinerates Up to 6k Birds a Year (2016)

sciencealert.com

A rare and unusual type of solar power plant that concentrates sunlight in California is accidentally...
A rare and unusual type of solar power plant that concentrates sunlight in California is accidentally killing up to 6,000 birds every year, with staff reporting that the birds keep flying into its concentrated beams of sunlight, and spontaneously bursting into flames. The problem has been going on since the site ope...
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February 3

Global Variables Are Not the Problem

codestyleandtaste.com
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February 3

F-strings for C++26 proposal [pdf]

open-std.org
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February 2

Don't make fun of renowned author Dan Brown (2013)

wordpress.com

Renowned author Dan Brown woke up in his luxurious four-poster bed in his expensive $10 million...
Renowned author Dan Brown woke up in his luxurious four-poster bed in his expensive $10 million house – and immediately he felt angry. Most people would have thought that the 48-year-old man had no reason to be angry. After all, the famous writer had a new book coming out. But that was the problem. A new book meant ...
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February 2

Hytradboi 2025 Program

hytradboi.com

HYTRADBOI is a fun online conference about databases, programming languages, and everything in between. A place...
HYTRADBOI is a fun online conference about databases, programming languages, and everything in between. A place for ideas to cross-fertilize between the two disciplines.The conference is hosted in a chat room and all the talks are recorded and captioned in advance. Join from a different time-zone, watch talks on you...
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February 2

GarminDB

github.com
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February 2

Costa Rican Supermarket Wins Trademark Battle Against Nintendo

ticotimes.net

A small Costa Rican supermarket has emerged victorious from a legal battle against the renowned video...
A small Costa Rican supermarket has emerged victorious from a legal battle against the renowned video game giant, Nintendo. José Mario Alfaro González, owner of “Super Mario” in San Ramón de Alajuela, found himself in an unexpected legal showdown when he attempted to formally register his store’s name. In Costa Rica...
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February 2

Emergence of a Second Law of Thermodynamics in Isolated Quantum Systems

aps.org
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February 2

The Legacy of Lies in Alzheimer's Science

nytimes.com

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.Medical advances have beaten back many relentless assassins in recent decades, such as cancer and heart disease. A wide range of treatments share credit: surgery, medicines, ra...

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February 2

An open-source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions

block.github.io
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February 2

A loophole used by Shein/Temu to ship packages to US tax-free

businessinsider.com

As Shein and Temu grow their foothold in the US, analysts and lawmakers are paying close...
As Shein and Temu grow their foothold in the US, analysts and lawmakers are paying close attention to both companies' use of a special tax rule that some say should be eliminated completely.The provision, known as "de minimis," allows importers to avoid paying duty and tax on shipments that are going to individual c...

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February 2

UK betting giant's unlawful marketing kept suicidal gambler hooked

theguardian.com

At 1.17pm on 15 August 2018, Sam* logged in to his online betting account and gambled...
At 1.17pm on 15 August 2018, Sam* logged in to his online betting account and gambled five days’ worth of wages. Already deep in debt – having taken out 13 loans over three years, and with his marriage under strain – he had been desperate to quit.But Sky Betting & Gaming, operator of Sky Bet, Casino, and Vegas, had ...
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February 2

The Door Problem (2014)

lizengland.com

“So what does a game designer do? Are you an artist? Do you design characters and...
“So what does a game designer do? Are you an artist? Do you design characters and write the story? Or no, wait, you’re a programmer?” Game design is one of those nebulous terms to people outside the game industry that’s about as clear as the “astrophysicist” job title is to me. It’s also my job, so I find myself exp...
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February 2

The dumb reason why flag emojis aren't working on your site in Chrome on Windows

geyer.dev
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February 2

Waydroid – Android in a Linux container

waydro.id
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