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The South Vietnamese pilot who landed a Cessna on a carrier to save his family

historynet.com

On the last full day of his country’s existence, South Vietnamese air force Maj. Buang-Ly stole...
On the last full day of his country’s existence, South Vietnamese air force Maj. Buang-Ly stole a tiny two-seat airplane. He helped his wife and their five children, ages 14 months to 6 years, into the backseat and storage area before climbing into the pilot’s seat. They took off and headed out to sea while enemy gr...
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Writing a tech blog people want to read

seangoedecke.com
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Base-Rate Blindness

paulromer.net

Over the weekend, I had a chance to get to know Apollo Robbins. If you don’t...
Over the weekend, I had a chance to get to know Apollo Robbins. If you don’t recognize the name, Apollo came to public attention when he pickpocketed members of Jimmy Carter’s Secret Service detail. The opening paragraphs from the profile that the New Yorker ran suggests what it is like to spend time with Apollo: A ...
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"Reign of terror over: My weird weekend partying with the triumphant tech right"

theguardian.com

On Inauguration Day, fans of the All-In Podcast gathered in a billiards room in Washington DC...
On Inauguration Day, fans of the All-In Podcast gathered in a billiards room in Washington DC to watch Donald Trump’s swearing-in – and a few miles away, the podcast co-host and PayPal Mafia alum David Sacks prepared to ascend to his role as Trump’s AI and crypto czar.Very popular in Silicon Valley, All-In is fierce...
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Second Circuit Rejects Record Labels' Attempt to Rewrite the DMCA

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Deeplinks Blog by Betty Gedlu, Mitch Stoltz | December 12, 2024 No one gets to abuse...
Deeplinks Blog by Betty Gedlu, Mitch Stoltz | December 12, 2024 No one gets to abuse copyright to shut down debate. Because of that, we at EFF represent Channel 781, a group of citizen journalists whose YouTube channel was temporarily shut down following copyright infringement claims made by Waltham Community Access...
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Tool touted as 'first AI software engineer' is bad at its job, testers claim

theregister.com

A service described as "the first AI software engineer" appears to be rather bad at its...
A service described as "the first AI software engineer" appears to be rather bad at its job, based on a recent evaluation. The auto-coder is called “Devin” and was introduced in March 2024. The bot’s creator, an outfit called Cognition AI, has made claims such as “Devin can build and deploy apps end to end," and "ca...
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Show HN: Puck 0.18 adds drag-and-drop for CSS grid and Flexbox

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SQLook – A free online SQLite database manager with a Windows 2000 interface

sqlook.com

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Sony ends production of Blu-ray Disc, recordable MiniDisc, and MiniDV media

sony.jp
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Texas Is Enforcing Its State Data Privacy Law. So Should Other States

eff.org

Deeplinks Blog by Hannah Zhao | January 24, 2025 Last week, EFF, along with the Criminal...
Deeplinks Blog by Hannah Zhao | January 24, 2025 Last week, EFF, along with the Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan, ACLU, and ACLU of Michigan, filed an amicus brief in People v. Carson in the Supreme Court of Michigan, challenging the constitutionality of the search warrant of Mr. Carson's smart phone.In this c...
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Enigma Cipher Machine: An Object Oriented Python Implementation

christopherchmielewski.xyz

January 23, 2025 This program is an objected oriented implementation of the Enigma cipher machine written...
January 23, 2025 This program is an objected oriented implementation of the Enigma cipher machine written in Python. I based this implementation on the description of the Enigma machine provided in The Code Book. Since the Enigma machine is a real machine, made up of... well objects, object oriented programming lend...
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Poll: What is your preferred Search Engine?

ycombinator.com
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Bucket Robotics (YC S24) Is Hiring Our First Engineer

ycombinator.com
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Steam Brick: No screen, no controller, just a power button and a USB port

crastinator-pro.github.io
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Larry Ellison: vast AI surveillance can ensure citizens are on best behavior

businessinsider.com

Walking down a suburban neighborhood street already feels like a Ring doorbell panopticon.But this is only...
Walking down a suburban neighborhood street already feels like a Ring doorbell panopticon.But this is only the start of our surveillance dystopia, according to Larry Ellison, the billionaire cofounder of Oracle. He said AI will usher in a new era of surveillance that he gleefully said will ensure "citizens will be o...

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Show HN: Apple-like smooth corners for Tailwind CSS

github.com
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WebFFT – The Fastest Fourier Transform on the Web

github.com
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Testtrim: A testing tool that couldn't test itself (until now)

fenniak.net

Today, we’re going to deep-dive into the kind of thing you can only “invest” time on...
Today, we’re going to deep-dive into the kind of thing you can only “invest” time on if you’re a single engineer working on a project with no supervision. I just finished a crazy complicated development effort in my project, testtrim, and all I want to do is talk about how surprised I am that it actually worked. I’v...
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M87* One Year Later: Catching the Black Hole's Turbulent Accretion Flow

eventhorizontelescope.org

Observed and theoretical images of M87*. The left panels display EHT images of M87* from the...
Observed and theoretical images of M87*. The left panels display EHT images of M87* from the 2018 and 2017 observation campaigns. The middle panels show example images from a general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulation at two different times. The right panels present the same simulation snapshots, bl...
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Dual-Link QR Code Generator

dualqrcode.com
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CIA now favors lab leak theory to explain Covid's origins

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 new analysis that began under the Biden administration is released by the C.I.A.’s new director, John Ratcliffe, who wants the agency to get “off the sideli...

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Schrödinger: The Nvidia biotech partner Jensen Huang told to "think bigger"

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Schrödinger (NASDAQ: $SDGR) uses quantum mechanics to design new medicines and materials. All top 20 pharmaceutical...
Schrödinger (NASDAQ: $SDGR) uses quantum mechanics to design new medicines and materials. All top 20 pharmaceutical companies buy its software. Schrodinger’s SEC filings and website claim that the top 20 pharmaceutical companies by revenue are all customers. Many startups pay it royalties and equity in deals worth t...
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Show HN: Actionate – GitHub Actions for JetBrains IDEs

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Searching for DeepSeek's glitch tokens

substack.com

“Anomalous”, “glitch”, or “unspeakable” tokens in an LLM are those that induce bizarre behavior or otherwise...
“Anomalous”, “glitch”, or “unspeakable” tokens in an LLM are those that induce bizarre behavior or otherwise don’t behave like regular text.The SolidGoldMagikarp saga is pretty much essential context, as it documents the discovery of this phenomenon in GPT-2 and GPT-3.But, as far as I was able to tell, nobody had ye...
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