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Show HN: Perforator – cluster-wide profiling tool for large data centers

github.com
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Health and climate information disappearing from federal websites

theverge.com

Key resources for environmental data and public health have already been taken down from federal websites,...
Key resources for environmental data and public health have already been taken down from federal websites, and more could soon vanish as the Trump administration works to scrap anything that has to do with climate change, racial equity, or gender identity.Warnings floated on social media today about an impending pur...
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Norway's wealth fund now worth $319,900 per citizen

sherwood.news

There are some strong contenders for the best financial decisions of all time: franchising a hamburger...
There are some strong contenders for the best financial decisions of all time: franchising a hamburger restaurant in the 1950s; shorting the housing market in 2007; and, despite this week’s slump, buying a bunch of Nvidia stock at its IPO.Near the top of the list, though, is one made by Norway’s government. After de...
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Ask HN: What's your opinion on automatic light/dark mode switching on websites?

ycombinator.com
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What's the Root Cause? – a quiz

spike.sh
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Shades of Blunders

lichess.org

A post about why blunders happen to all of us, even though they shouldn't.When I was...
A post about why blunders happen to all of us, even though they shouldn't.When I was looking at the recent World Championship featuring Ding's Rf2?? whammy, it got me thinking on how does this happen? How do masters blunder pieces in 1 move, and how do World Champions blunder away their crowns despite their awesome ...
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Everything Is Spam on Facebook Unless It Is Paid Post (Or Actual Spam)

itsfoss.com

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In Zig, What's a Writer?

openmymind.net
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I Miss Vim

leblancfg.com

I've been using neovim for almost two years now and I'm gonna go out come out...
I've been using neovim for almost two years now and I'm gonna go out come out and say it. I miss vanilla vim. Is neovim faster? Yes. Can it perform async tasks like a champ? Yes. Is lua scripting way saner than the old hodgepodge of slow vimscript? Yes. Can I make it do whatever the hell I want compared to Vim? Also...

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Running DeepSeek R1 Models Locally on NPU

windows.com

AI is moving closer to the edge, and Copilot+ PCs are leading the way. With the...
AI is moving closer to the edge, and Copilot+ PCs are leading the way. With the availability of cloud hosted DeepSeek R1 available on Azure AI Foundry, we’re bringing NPU-optimized versions of DeepSeek-R1 directly to Copilot+ PCs, starting with Qualcomm Snapdragon X first, followed by Intel Core Ultra 200V and other...
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[x<<1 + 2, x<<1 + 3] is a Binary Tree

ivanbelenky.com
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Six Feared Dead After Medical Plane Crashes Near Philadelphia Mall

nytimes.com

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou 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 Learjet crashed shortly after 6 p.m. near Roosevelt Mall, officials said. “We are doubtful that there are any survivors,” a spokesman for the plane company ...

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Ask HN: Percent of employees that benefit financially from equity offers?

ycombinator.com
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America is now in fascism's legal phase (2021)

theguardian.com

“Let us be reminded that before there is a final solution, there must be a first...
“Let us be reminded that before there is a final solution, there must be a first solution, a second one, even a third. The move toward a final solution is not a jump. It takes one step, then another, then another.”So began Toni Morrison’s 1995 address to Howard University, entitled Racism and Fascism, which delineat...
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Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia

github.com
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Hypocrisy and politics in free and open source software projects

unixdigest.com

Published on 2025-01-31. At EuroBSDCon 2024, Kim McMahon, who is a so-called expert in product-led growth...
Published on 2025-01-31. At EuroBSDCon 2024, Kim McMahon, who is a so-called expert in product-led growth strategies, developer marketing, open source marketing, and growing healthy and productive communities, does a presentation (YouTube link) about how you can or should advocate FreeBSD and help grow the project. ...
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Facebook free bikes dumped by employees and police hassle kids who ride them

businessinsider.com

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook's fleet of free bikes it provides its employees is causing tensions in...
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook's fleet of free bikes it provides its employees is causing tensions in the community.The baby-blue bikes, which are supposed to be used to get around Facebook's sprawling campus in Menlo Park, California, are turning up in nearby Bay Area neighborhoods like East Palo Alto. But residents say ...

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Hell Is Overconfident Developers Writing Encryption Code

soatok.blog

Overconfident developers that choose to write their own cryptography code have plagued the information security industry...
Overconfident developers that choose to write their own cryptography code have plagued the information security industry since before it was even an industry. This in and of itself isn’t inherently a bad thing, despite the infosec truisms about never doing exactly that. Writing crypto code (but not deploying or publ...
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The government information crisis is bigger than you think it is

freegovinfo.info

[This post is adapted from our forthcoming book, Preserving Government Information: Past, Present, and Future.] Today...
[This post is adapted from our forthcoming book, Preserving Government Information: Past, Present, and Future.] Today we want to clarify something important about preserving government information. There is a difference between the government changing a policy and the government erasing information, but the line bet...
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Treasury official retires after clash with DOGE over access to payment system

arstechnica.com

"This is a mechanical job—they pay Social Security benefits, they pay vendors, whatever. It's not one...
"This is a mechanical job—they pay Social Security benefits, they pay vendors, whatever. It's not one where there's a role for nonmechanical things, at least from the career standpoint. Your whole job is to pay the bills as they're due," Mazur was quoted as saying. "It's never been used in a way to execute a partisa...
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DIY Projects Search Engine

findingdiy.com

cooking crafts diy projects iot sensors
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AI and Two Hundred Dollar Tasks

ninlabs.com

In 2013, inspired by GitHub’s octocat, I too wanted a mascot. It wasn’t something I exactly...
In 2013, inspired by GitHub’s octocat, I too wanted a mascot. It wasn’t something I exactly needed, but I thought would be interesting to have. I had come across a freelance designer, and decided to splurge and commission a design. The designer did good work, and I was happy with the results. Overall, it cost $200. ...
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Git: How submodules are merged (2022)

lucasoshiro.github.io
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Chatbot Software Begins to Face Fundamental Limitations

quantamagazine.org

On December 17, 1962, Life International published a logic puzzle consisting of 15 sentences describing five...
On December 17, 1962, Life International published a logic puzzle consisting of 15 sentences describing five houses on a street. Each sentence was a clue, such as “The Englishman lives in the red house” or “Milk is drunk in the middle house.” Each house was a different color, with inhabitants of different nationalit...
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