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FOSDEM Hospitality Tips from a Local

ycombinator.com

here are a few tips :Our languages are FR,NL, DE but... English is widely teached and...
here are a few tips :Our languages are FR,NL, DE but... English is widely teached and learned. There is a good chance you will be understood.Will you be safe ?Quick answer : 99% yes, but.Longer answer : say you're sitting in a bar, sipping a sample of belgian beers and need to pee or poo ? Don't leave your precious ...
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Cardan Grille

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Method for writing secret messages The Cardan grille is a method of writing secret messages using...
Method for writing secret messages The Cardan grille is a method of writing secret messages using a grid. This technique was used in ancient China.[1][additional citation(s) needed] In 1550, Girolamo Cardano (1501–1576), known in French as Jérôme Cardan, proposed a simple grid for writing hidden messages. He intende...
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OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole from Us

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Our phones are killing our ability to feel sexy (2024)

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Scrolling on our phones is killing us. This is a statement of fact that needs no...
Scrolling on our phones is killing us. This is a statement of fact that needs no citation (besides, research isn’t really my thing). The massive suck of our phones and the never-ending, algorithmically-driven internet has been covered at greater length by better-informed writers. We all know our phones are destroyin...
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Cali's AG Tells AI Companies Almost Everything They're Doing Might Be Illegal

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The legality of the AI industry’s business practices has long been a hanging question. As a...
The legality of the AI industry’s business practices has long been a hanging question. As a “disruptive” new technology, artificial intelligence has caused a wealth of problems at the very same time that it has offered society new benefits. Notably, AI has been used to mislead consumers, to create new forms of disin...
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Jevons paradox

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Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring Senior Software Engineers (GMT+2 to GMT-6)

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I do not want AI to "polish" me

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I was sending an email when a little magic wand popped up that said “Polish” and...
I was sending an email when a little magic wand popped up that said “Polish” and I thought that was weird because why would I want to translate my email into Polish? I tried to click on it to make it go away but instead it changed the entire email because apparently it was saying that it needed to “polish” my email ...
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Adding concurrent read/write to DuckDB with Arrow Flight

definite.app

January 25, 202510 minute readMike Ritchie We've been thinking a lot about latency, streaming and (near)...
January 25, 202510 minute readMike Ritchie We've been thinking a lot about latency, streaming and (near) real-time analytics lately. At Definite, we deal with a lot of data pipelines. In most cases (e.g. ingesting Stripe data), our customers are fine with batch processing (e.g. every hour). But as we've grown, we've...
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Proof of concept WMI virus (zero-day)

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Preserves: An Expressive Data Language

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Seagate: 'new' hard drives used for tens of thousands of hours

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German outlet Heise.de says it may have uncovered fraud after hearing from many of its readers...
German outlet Heise.de says it may have uncovered fraud after hearing from many of its readers who bought supposedly new Seagate hard drives, which turned out to be very much used.Last week, the publication relayed the experience of one of Heise.de’s readers, who said he had bought a couple of 14TB Seagate Exos HDDs...
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Terence Tao: Trump's Federal Funding Freeze and Mean-Field Game Theory

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Bacteria (and Their Metabolites) and Depression

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Why Gnome 2 Continues to Win the Desktop Popularity Contest (2019)

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We got hit by an alarmingly well-prepared phish spammer

utoronto.ca

Yesterday evening, we were hit by a run of phish spam that I would call 'vaguely...
Yesterday evening, we were hit by a run of phish spam that I would call 'vaguely customized' for us, for example the display name in the From: header was "U of T | CS Dept" (but then the actual email address was that of the compromised account elsewhere that was used to send the phish spam). The destination addresse...
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I still like Sublime Text in 2025

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I still get people asking me why I use Sublime Text in 2025 given there are...
I still get people asking me why I use Sublime Text in 2025 given there are soooo many other great editors out there.My response: there is? Because I still think Sublime Text holds up as a great editor.Table Of ContentsI started with Sublime Text 2 back in 2010/2011 while I was in college. I mainly started using it ...

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Science YouTuber physicsgirl (Dianna Cowern) stands for the first time in 2 yrs

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What Have We Forgotten?

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This is the story of an organization that seems to have forgotten basic software engineering concepts....
This is the story of an organization that seems to have forgotten basic software engineering concepts. This organization does exists and has these exact problems, but it is also a generic story about similar organizations that abandon engineering excellence for their own peril. We have forgotten how to run distribut...
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UK Weighs Making Netflix Users Pay License Fee to Fund BBC

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DeepSeek demonstrates pro-Chinese bias

medium.com

TL;DR: DeepSeek is a wonderful step in the development of open AI approaches. It also has...
TL;DR: DeepSeek is a wonderful step in the development of open AI approaches. It also has a pretty serious pro-Chinese bias. I compare the results of 3 sensitive questions (about Gaza, Xinjiang and TikTok) and on all three, the Chinese bias is pretty apparent while existing tools (ChatGPT, Gemini) are far more balan...

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How to run Deepseek-R1 locally for only $6000

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AI bots everywhere. Does anyone have a good whitelist for robots.txt?

ycombinator.com
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DeepSeek Resets the Board

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