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The Faux Free Speech Warriors Attacking Free Speech

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Free Speech There’s a particularly insidious and cynical form of censorship gaining prominence in America: the...
Free Speech There’s a particularly insidious and cynical form of censorship gaining prominence in America: the weaponization of “free speech” rhetoric, combined with abuses of the judicial system and executive power, to actually suppress speech. It’s a strategy that turns the First Amendment’s principles inside out,...
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Germany: Number of unemployed highest in 10 years

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The number of unemployed people in Germany reached almost three million in January, according to figures...
The number of unemployed people in Germany reached almost three million in January, according to figures from Germany's Federal Employment Agency. While such upticks are typical for the first month of the year, the 2025 figure is the highest since January 2015. Employers have blamed a range of headwinds that have ha...
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Show HN: Lua-libuv – A Lua with libuv experiments

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Non-Western founders say DeepSeek proves innovation need not cost billions

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During a trip to India in 2023, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sparked controversy when he said...
During a trip to India in 2023, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sparked controversy when he said it was “hopeless” for a young team with less than $10 million to compete with his company on training foundational large language models. A year and a half later, a Chinese startup appears to have proved him wrong. “This is the ne...

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Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown

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Around fifteen years ago, a new term entered the climate change lexicon: stranded assets. The concept...
Around fifteen years ago, a new term entered the climate change lexicon: stranded assets. The concept was straightforward enough. If global warming is to be kept from getting out of hand, there is a limit to the amount of greenhouse gases that can be emitted into the atmosphere. Yet the fossil fuel reserves current...

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Android 16's Linux Terminal will soon let you run graphical apps...we ran Doom

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Edgar Cervantes / Android AuthorityTL;DR Android 16’s Linux Terminal can now run graphical Linux apps such...
Edgar Cervantes / Android AuthorityTL;DR Android 16’s Linux Terminal can now run graphical Linux apps such as Doom. This is thanks to improvements like hardware acceleration support and a display server. These upgrades aren’t live yet in the most recent Android 16 beta, but they could arrive in a future release. Goo...
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Oil giant Shell walks away from major New Jersey offshore wind farm

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In the first serious fallout from President Donald Trump’s early actions against offshore wind power, oil...
In the first serious fallout from President Donald Trump’s early actions against offshore wind power, oil and gas giant Shell is walking away from a major project off the coast of New Jersey.Shell told The Associated Press it is writing off the project, citing increased competition, delays and a changing market. “Na...

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Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency

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How will Australia's under-16 social media ban work? We asked the law's enforcer

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Australia passed one of the strictest internet crackdowns in the world last month, banning children under...
Australia passed one of the strictest internet crackdowns in the world last month, banning children under 16 from being on social media or opening new accounts. The law, which takes effect a year from now, holds social media companies responsible for verifying kids' ages. Not complying could trigger fines up to near...
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When Greedy Algorithms Can Be Faster [C++]

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In the realm of computer science, we're always told to pursue what is the most efficient...
In the realm of computer science, we're always told to pursue what is the most efficient solution. This can be either what is the fastest way to solve a problem; or what may be the cheapest. What is the easiest, but not always the best, is typically a "greedy algorithm"; think bubble sort. More often than not, there...
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Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries

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If you are tired of Google’s AI-powered search results leading you astray with poor information from...
If you are tired of Google’s AI-powered search results leading you astray with poor information from bad sources, there is some good news. It turns out that if you include any expletives in your search query, Google will not return an AI Overview, as they are called, at the top of the results page. For instance, if ...
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GenAI Art Is the Least Imaginative Use of AI Imaginable

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Page Content Recently, AI music company Suno’s CEO was quoted as saying “I think the majority...
Page Content Recently, AI music company Suno’s CEO was quoted as saying “I think the majority of people don’t enjoy the majority of the time they spend making music” in what sounds like yet another justification of Suno’s prompt-based (and very popular) generative AI music service. Like all good misleading statement...
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Asteroid YR24; now at 1.6% impact probability in 2032

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In late December astronomers using the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Chile observed...
In late December astronomers using the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Chile observed a new asteroid near our planet. Dubbed 2024 YR4, the object—somewhere between 40 and 100 meters in size—was spotted on December 27. The asteroid’s closest approach to Earth, it turned out, had bee...
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Exacluster with 144 Nvidia H200 AI GPUs detailed by its designer

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Earlier this month, we reported on ExaAILabs's Exacluster, a cluster of 18 machines running 144 Nvidia...
Earlier this month, we reported on ExaAILabs's Exacluster, a cluster of 18 machines running 144 Nvidia H200 GPUs, which happens to be one of the first clusters based on these processors. Since then, Hydra Host, the company that facilitated the construction of the cluster, has given us additional details about the sy...
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Pianist David Kadouch probes gay composers' hidden loves, through music

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"Where words fail, music speaks." So goes the adage from Hans Christian Andersen, the Danish spinner...
"Where words fail, music speaks." So goes the adage from Hans Christian Andersen, the Danish spinner of fairy tales. A new album takes that idea literally, sharing through music what gay composers once repressed in public because they lived in societies that wouldn't tolerate deviations from heterosexual norms. "Mus...
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Drone pilot to plead guilty in collision that grounded aircraft

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A man who was piloting a drone that collided with a firefighting aircraft working on the...
A man who was piloting a drone that collided with a firefighting aircraft working on the Palisades fire has agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor, pay a fine and complete community service, federal prosecutors said Friday. Peter Tripp Akemann, 56, of Culver City was charged with unsafe operation of an unmanned air...

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Aging reactors need a concrete solution

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Not a game. This may look like the game Minesweeper, which used to come with Microsoft...
Not a game. This may look like the game Minesweeper, which used to come with Microsoft Windows, but it’s really a plan of the LVR-15 research reactor in the Czech Republic where the experiments took place. The red squares represent the locations where the team placed their experimental samples and other apparatus. ©...
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Federal employees told to remove pronouns from email signatures by end of day

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The mandate is the latest effort in the Trump administration's push to end DEI.Employees at multiple...
The mandate is the latest effort in the Trump administration's push to end DEI.Employees at multiple federal agencies were ordered to remove pronouns from their email signatures by Friday afternoon, according to internal memos obtained by ABC News that cited two executive orders signed by President Donald Trump on h...

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Gradual Disempowerment by AI

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US government agency argues that money isn't property–so it can take yours

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As a lawyer who sues the government, you get used to the different kinds of arguments...
As a lawyer who sues the government, you get used to the different kinds of arguments that government lawyers use to justify abuses of individual rights—sweeping claims of government power, bad-faith procedural obstacles, and more. This was a new one: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) argued that confiscating $50...

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Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers' Posts

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Paris P2P Festival and Hackathon

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The Tensor Cookbook

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Elite on the 6502: The original 6502 assembly source, heavily commented

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This site contains the original 1980s source code for the classic space game Elite, with every...
This site contains the original 1980s source code for the classic space game Elite, with every single line documented and (for the most part) explained. It is literally the original 6502 assembly source code, just heavily commented. As well as exploring the source, you can read over 120 deep dives into how Elite wea...
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