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Masters of None: The Flawed Logic of One-Size-Fits-All Education

mit.edu

culture economics education
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Most Americans just don't matter to the economy like they once did

marketwatch.com
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Falkon: A KDE Web Browser

falkon.org

DownloadFalkon cares a lot about the security of your data and ship with an ads blocker...
DownloadFalkon cares a lot about the security of your data and ship with an ads blocker enabled by default as well as a password manager. Additional configurations allows you to improve even more your security and privacyFalkon support theming so that you can choose how your browser looks. Multiple extensions are al...
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"Wooly mice" a test run for mammoth gene editing

arstechnica.com

On Tuesday, the team behind the plan to bring mammoth-like animals back to the tundra announced...
On Tuesday, the team behind the plan to bring mammoth-like animals back to the tundra announced the creation of what it is calling wooly mice, which have long fur reminiscent of the woolly mammoth. The long fur was created through the simultaneous editing of as many as seven genes, all with a known connection to hai...
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Ask HN: Is Cursor deleting working code for you too or is it just me?

ycombinator.com
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I hacked my company's SSO provider

mattsayar.com
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Volkswagen reintroducing physical controls for vital functions

autocar.co.uk
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Svelte5: A Less Favorable Vue3

github.com
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Choosing death penalty by firing squad because it's safer

pbs.org

death penalty firing squad nation south carolina
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A TV with Contrast You Haven't Seen for Years

hackaday.com

It’s something of a surprise, should you own a CRT TV to go with your retrocomputers,...
It’s something of a surprise, should you own a CRT TV to go with your retrocomputers, when you use it to view a film or a TV show. The resolution may be old-fashioned, but the colors jump out at you, in a way you’d forgotten CRTs could do. You’re seeing black levels that LCD screens can’t match, and which you’ll onl...
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Qualcomm Claims New X85 Modem Creates 'Huge Delta' in Performance versus Apple

macrumors.com

Qualcomm believes its latest X85 5G modem will set a "huge delta" between the performance of...
Qualcomm believes its latest X85 5G modem will set a "huge delta" between the performance of high-end Android devices and Apple devices, largely thanks to its AI-powered features. Announced at this year's ongoing Mobile World Conference 2025 in Barcelona, Qualcomm's next-generation X85 modem supports 5G mmWave, 400M...

c1 qualcomm
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What's cooking on Sourcehut? Q1 2025

sourcehut.org
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2025-03-01 the cold glow of tritium

computer.rip
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PayPal honey extension has again "featured" flag in Chrome web store

google.com
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Tech Industry Workers Have Become Cogs in a Broken System

inc.com
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Revenge Font

revengefont.com
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(Reasonably) secure Azure Pipelines on-prem deployments

bearblog.dev
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It is hard to recommend Python in production

ashishb.net

I started writing in the 2010s when Python 2 was going to be deprecated and Python...
I started writing in the 2010s when Python 2 was going to be deprecated and Python 3 was too early to support. Python might have died there and then but was picked up by the data science and machine learning community, so, it survived. Running Python in production comes with various gotchas though.Python is resource...
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An epic treatise on error models for systems programming languages

typesanitizer.com
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Exploring the Hybrid Debian GNU/KFreeBSD Distribution

linuxjournal.com

Introduction For decades, Linux and BSD have stood as two dominant yet fundamentally different branches of...
Introduction For decades, Linux and BSD have stood as two dominant yet fundamentally different branches of the Unix-like operating system world. While Linux distributions, such as Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora, have grown to dominate the open-source ecosystem, BSD-based systems like FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD have re...
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My legal last name prevents me from completing my Twitch affiliate onboarding

reddit.com

twitch
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Postgres Just Cracked the Top Fastest Databases for Analytics

mooncake.dev

Zhou Sun2025-01-14TLDR: We spent a few months optimizing PostgreSQL and made it to the Top 10...
Zhou Sun2025-01-14TLDR: We spent a few months optimizing PostgreSQL and made it to the Top 10 on ClickBench, a benchmark typically dominated by specialized analytics databases. What’s more, all compute is within Postgres, and all tables are managed directly by PostgreSQL—it’s not a simple wrapper. This is the story ...
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US drops bid to make Google sell AI investments in antitrust case

reuters.com
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The German language broke my website

speedbumpapp.com

I’m building an app to help people use their phones less. As a metaphor I use...
I’m building an app to help people use their phones less. As a metaphor I use speed bumps – they’re annoying but actually work. This worked well enough as a catchy phrase in the landing page, and it gave the project some personality. Or at least it worked well enough until I tried to translate the site to German. Th...

german languages productivity app speedbump app startup journey
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