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US 'to cease all future military exercises in Europe'

telegraph.co.uk
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Roald Dahl on the death of his daughter

telegraph.co.uk
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Toward a Passwordless Future

privacyguides.org

Illustration: Jordan / Privacy Guides | Photo: Gowtham AGM / Unsplash Passwords are annoying, vulnerable to...
Illustration: Jordan / Privacy Guides | Photo: Gowtham AGM / Unsplash Passwords are annoying, vulnerable to attack, and prone to human error. The multitude of issues with passwords has cost millions of dollars and forced terrible band-aid solutions in how we handle signing up for, logging in to, and securing online ...
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Show HN: I built an app to get daily wisdom from Mr. Worldwide

daale.club
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SpaceX teams up with Thiel's Palantir, Anduril on American Golden Dome

msn.com
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Social Media Posts About Medical Tests with Potential for Overdiagnosis

jamanetwork.com
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Show HN: Can I run this LLM? (locally)

can-i-run-this-llm-blue.vercel.app
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Maybe coders should learn to love analog? Could they?

planetanalog.com
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Ask HN: in 2025 Which project does not have any good open-source alternatives?

ycombinator.com
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Stuff a Pi-hole in your router because your browser is about to betray you

theregister.com

A new, lightweight version of Pi-Hole is here. Just how easy is it to block advertising...
A new, lightweight version of Pi-Hole is here. Just how easy is it to block advertising on your home network? Pi-Hole 6 appeared a few weeks ago. Since then, there have been a few small bug fixes and it's now up to version 6.0.5. The new release is lighter weight and has fewer external dependencies: it no longer nee...
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Time for a Change: The long, contentious history of time shifts

substack.com

Thanks for reading! To support my work, please click the button below:If you want to help...
Thanks for reading! To support my work, please click the button below:If you want to help keep this project going, please consider purchasing a paid subscription. Paid subscribers — it’s only about 75 cents a week! — get access to the archives, the satisfaction of supporting work they enjoy, and my undying gratitude...
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The Lie That Facebook Sold You

havenweb.org

What is Facebook? For a tool that so many people use every day, the answer is...
What is Facebook? For a tool that so many people use every day, the answer is surprisingly difficult to pin-down. It’s a social network, which means it’s about connecting you to other people. You have friends on Facebook, and it helps you keep in touch with those people. You get to see what they are up to and they g...
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Presenterm: Markdown Slideshows in the Terminal

github.com
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GameBoy retro games to play online (on IPFS to stay there forever)

bafybeifsalzccdrgvgxkf3hbaxibvc35giwffwjowfn2lqgn3x7bbwceqq.ipfs.dweb.link
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The 90s Gamer Experience: Handwritten Notes and Maps

rz01.org
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Microsoft Windows 1.0 with Steve Ballmer (1986)

youtube.com

entertainment
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Zig's dot star syntax (value.*)

openmymind.net
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OneText (YC W23) is hiring a browser extension engineer

ycombinator.com
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Show HN: TypeLeap: LLM Powered Reactive Intent UI/UX

typeleap.com
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Why AI is still dumb and not scary at all (pt. 1)

substack.com

edit 3/8/2025: I initially wrote this a few years ago in March of 2023, There’s been...
edit 3/8/2025: I initially wrote this a few years ago in March of 2023, There’s been a lot of changes in the field since then, but surprisingly (or rather unsurprisingly) a lot of these points still stand.Everywhere I go I keep hearing “Oh no, AI is gonna take my job” “Oh no, Is Skynet coming?” “Oh no, is AI is gonn...
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Accessibility: Don't Use Fake Bold or Italic in Social Media

adrianroselli.com
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MCP vs. API Explained

norahsakal.com

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a new open protocol designed to standardize how applications provide context...
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a new open protocol designed to standardize how applications provide context to Large Language Models (LLMs). Think of MCP like a USB-C port but for AI agents: it offers a uniform method for connecting AI systems to various tools and data sources. This post breaks down MCP, clearly ex...
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"Big 3" science fiction magazines including Asimov's and Analog acquired

substack.com

For other news from February, see my previous grapevine. This report is available free to the...
For other news from February, see my previous grapevine. This report is available free to the public. If you like my writings on genre issues, consider backing my Patreon.My report three days ago revealing the sale of Asimov's Science Fiction, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, and Fantasy and Science Fiction merely c...
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'A camp environment': why Alan Turing fatefully told police he was gay

theguardian.com

For decades, it has puzzled historians. Why, in the course of reporting a burglary to the...
For decades, it has puzzled historians. Why, in the course of reporting a burglary to the police in 1952, did the maths genius Alan Turing volunteer that he was in an illegal homosexual relationship? The admission enabled the police to prosecute the Bletchley Park codebreaker for “gross indecency”, ending Turing’s g...
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