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Recreating Delicious Library in 2025?

dingyu.me

It’s been so long that I don’t even remember exactly how I discovered Delicious Library. But...
It’s been so long that I don’t even remember exactly how I discovered Delicious Library. But as one of the rare Mac users back then (at least where I lived), I was definitely among the first to know about it—and I couldn’t wait to tell everyone I knew. Even when Mac OS X was still young, and third-party apps had a p...
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It's official: Research has found that libraries make everything better

lithub.com

Science has backed up what many of us have long been saying: the library rocks. A...
Science has backed up what many of us have long been saying: the library rocks. A study from the New York Public Library surveyed 1,974 users on how the library makes them feel and how it affects their lives, and the results are overwhelmingly positive. The researchers’ analysis (which used positive psychology’s PER...
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The Americans Pledging to Buy Less–Or Even Nothing

wsj.com
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I want my AI to get mad

jesseduffield.com

ChatGPT is, for all intents and purposes, my slave. It does as I command and it...
ChatGPT is, for all intents and purposes, my slave. It does as I command and it exists to satisfy my desires. Although some moderation gets in the way of that, my LLM is generally a docile, submissive pushover, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Unless, of course, I needed to send this AI out into the world to ac...
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Goodbye, Slopify

alexeystar.com
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Discovery Coding

jimmyhmiller.github.io

I don't take notes; I don't outline, I don't do anything like that. I just flail...
I don't take notes; I don't outline, I don't do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn thing. - Steven King In writing (particularly fiction writing), there is a generally accepted distinction between authors who start by writing an outline and those who discover their stories through the process of wr...
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Freeze on grant funding temporarily halted by federal judge

bloomberg.com
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DeepSeek's AI breakthrough bypasses industry-standard CUDA, uses PTX

tomshardware.com

(Image credit: Nvidia) DeepSeek made quite a splash in the AI industry by training its Mixture-of-Experts...
(Image credit: Nvidia) DeepSeek made quite a splash in the AI industry by training its Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model with 671 billion parameters using a cluster featuring 2,048 Nvidia H800 GPUs in about two months, showing 10X higher efficiency than AI industry leaders like Meta. The breakthrough was achie...
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Air Busan Airbus plane catches fire at South Korea

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Composable SQL (Functors)

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How Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth (2008)

googleblog.com

Posted by Andrew McLaughlin, Director of Global Public PolicyHundreds of millions of users around the world...
Posted by Andrew McLaughlin, Director of Global Public PolicyHundreds of millions of users around the world use Google Earth. Many of them have strong -- and sometimes conflicting -- opinions about how places should be named and where borders should be drawn. Disputes over place names and territorial borders exist i...
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Departing the New York Times

substack.com

As many people reading this know, last month I retired from my position as an opinion...
As many people reading this know, last month I retired from my position as an opinion writer at the New York Times—a job I had done for 25 years. Despite the encomiums issued by the Times, it was not a happy departure. If you check out my Substack, you will see that I have by no means run out of energy or topics to...
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'Super pod' of 1,500 dolphins captured on video as they cavort off Cali coast

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A miles-long cluster of dolphins has been filmed leaping and gliding across Carmel Bay off the...
A miles-long cluster of dolphins has been filmed leaping and gliding across Carmel Bay off the central coast of California, forming an unusual “super pod” of more than 1,500 of the marine creatures. “They were on the horizon I feel like as far as I could see,” said Captain Evan Brodsky, with the Monterey Bay Whale W...

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Wi-Fi 7 in 2025: Will this be the year?

networkworld.com
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Digital River has ceased operations

thelayoff.com
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What's OAuth2, Anyway?

romaglushko.com

Have you ever logged into a website using your Google or Facebook account? Or connected an...
Have you ever logged into a website using your Google or Facebook account? Or connected an app to access your GitHub data? If so, you’ve already used OAuth2, whether you knew it or not. OAuth2 is the world’s most popular, extensible authorization framework. It allows you to integrate a couple of systems together by ...

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AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt

arstechnica.com

Currently, Aaron predicts that Nepenthes might be most attractive to rights holders who want AI companies...
Currently, Aaron predicts that Nepenthes might be most attractive to rights holders who want AI companies to pay to scrape their data. And many people seem enthusiastic about using it to reinforce robots.txt. But "some of the most exciting people are in the 'let it burn' category," Aaron said. These people are drawn...
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Job Trends of HN Who is hiring?

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Civilization VII only needs 20 GB of free disk space

corsair.com
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DeepSeek's Multi-head latent attention and other KV cache tricks explained

pyspur.dev

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1,156 Questions Censored by DeepSeek

promptfoo.dev

DeepSeek-R1 is a blockbuster open-source model that is now at the top of the U.S. App...
DeepSeek-R1 is a blockbuster open-source model that is now at the top of the U.S. App Store. As a Chinese company, DeepSeek is beholden to CCP policy. This is reflected even in the open-source model, prompting concerns about censorship and other influence. Today we’re publishing a dataset of prompts covering sensiti...
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Machine learning and nano-3D printing produce nano-architected materials

utoronto.ca

Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering have used machine learning...
Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering have used machine learning to design nano-architected materials that have the strength of carbon steel but the lightness of Styrofoam. In a new paper published in Advanced Materials, a team led by Professor Tobin Filleter (MIE) descr...
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The History of Toontown’s SpeedChat

habitatchronicles.com

This story has been recorded as part of the Social Media Clarity podcast: [sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://www.buzzsprout.com/16050/138068-disney-s-hercworld-toontown-and-blockchat-tm-s01e08.mp3″] In...
This story has been recorded as part of the Social Media Clarity podcast: [sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://www.buzzsprout.com/16050/138068-disney-s-hercworld-toontown-and-blockchat-tm-s01e08.mp3″] In 1992, I co-founded a company with Chip Morningstar and Douglas Crockford named Electric Communities. We initially did...
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Slicing the Fourth

axalatar.github.io

An Exploration of Dimensions and 4D Geometry What is the fourth dimension? What does it mean...
An Exploration of Dimensions and 4D Geometry What is the fourth dimension? What does it mean for there to be another? First, let's explain what a dimension is. In essence, a dimension is just a direction. Imagine a man living on a line: He can move either left or right on the line. We can understand this means he ha...
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