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Ask HN: How to study for system design that doesn't include front end/back end?

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Tiny changes in gene expression make big difference in eye size of fruit flies

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EPA Launches Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History

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Y Combinator Urges the White House to Support Europe's Digital Markets Act

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Y Combinator, one of the world’s most prolific startup accelerators, sent a letter on Wednesday urging...
Y Combinator, one of the world’s most prolific startup accelerators, sent a letter on Wednesday urging the Trump administration to openly support Europe’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), a wide-ranging piece of legislation that aims to crack open Big Tech’s market power. The DMA designates six tech companies as “gatekeep...
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How Pi Almost Wasn't

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Since you’re reading this essay, you probably already know about the mathematical holiday called Pi Day...
Since you’re reading this essay, you probably already know about the mathematical holiday called Pi Day held on March 14th of each year in honor of the mystical quantity π = 3.14…. Pi isn’t just a universal constant; it’s trans-universal in the sense that, even in an alternate universe with a different geometry than...
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Voker (YC S24) Is Hiring an LA-Based Full Stack AI Software Engineer

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C Plus Prolog

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Recursion kills: The story behind CVE-2024-8176 in libexpat

hartwork.org

For readers new to Expat: libexpat is a fast streaming XML parser. Alongside libxml2, Expat is...
For readers new to Expat: libexpat is a fast streaming XML parser. Alongside libxml2, Expat is one of the most widely used software libre XML parsers written in C, specifically C99. It is cross-platform and licensed under the MIT license. Expat 2.7.0 has been released earlier today. I will make this a more detailed ...
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It's not cheating if you write the video game solver yourself

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AI Search Has a Citation Problem

cjr.org
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Certificate Apocalypse: Bringing Your Chromecast Back from the Dead

mensfeld.pl

On March 9, 2025, many Chromecast 2nd generation and Chromecast Audio devices suddenly stopped working. Users...
On March 9, 2025, many Chromecast 2nd generation and Chromecast Audio devices suddenly stopped working. Users like me could not cast content or set up their devices. This wasn't due to a software update or planned obsolescence, but most likely an expired device authentication certificate. Disclaimer USE THESE WORKAR...
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Functional Tests as a Tree of Continuations (2010)

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By Evan Miller June 15, 2010 One of the most essential practices for maintaining the long-term...
By Evan Miller June 15, 2010 One of the most essential practices for maintaining the long-term quality of computer code is to write automated tests that ensure the program continues to act as expected, even when other people (including your future self) muck with it. Test code is often longer than the code that is b...
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How to Let Go of a Product You've Built with Passion

leadinginproduct.com

There comes a time in every product manager’s journey when, after a period of significant success,...
There comes a time in every product manager’s journey when, after a period of significant success, it becomes clear that it’s time to move on. You’ve built a product you’re proud of, you understand it inside and out, and you’ve invested countless hours, energy, and decisions into its success.Then, something shifts. ...
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Why "Normal" Engineers Are the Key to Great Teams

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A version of this post originally appeared in Refactoring, a Substack offering advice for software engineers....
A version of this post originally appeared in Refactoring, a Substack offering advice for software engineers. Most of us have encountered a few software engineers who seem practically magician-like, a class apart from the rest of us in their ability to reason about complex mental models, leap to nonobvious yet elega...

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The Ancient Horsemen Who Created the Modern World

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The failure of the land value tax

worksinprogress.co

In the late nineteenth century, the ideas of American economist Henry George were popular around the...
In the late nineteenth century, the ideas of American economist Henry George were popular around the English-speaking world. His best-known work, Progress and Poverty, examined the importance of land in economics and proposed taxing land value as much as possible. It sold several million copies and was one of the be...
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An Attempt to Catch Up with JITs: The False Lead of Optimizing Inline Caches

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ℹ︎ Upcoming Submission Deadline: June 1, 2025 Aurore Poirier1 , Erven Rohou2 , and Manuel Serrano3...
ℹ︎ Upcoming Submission Deadline: June 1, 2025 Aurore Poirier1 , Erven Rohou2 , and Manuel Serrano3 The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming, 2025, Vol. 10, Issue 1, Article 6 Submission date: 2024-10-01 Publication date: 2025-02-15 DOI: https://doi.org/10.22152/programming-journal.org/2025/10/6 Full text: PD...
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The Lost Art of Logarithms

lostartoflogarithms.com
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Beware tech career advice from old heads – Jacob Kaplan-Moss

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If you’re new to tech – say, less than 5 years in the field – you...
If you’re new to tech – say, less than 5 years in the field – you should take career advice from people who’ve been in the industry more than 10-15 years with enormous skepticism.This includes me, and my advice! I try to keep my advice relevant by spending lots of time talking with and listening to people newer to t...
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Unraveling Time: A Deep Dive into TTD Instruction Emulation Bugs

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Written by: Dhanesh Kizhakkinan, Nino Isakovic This blog post presents an in-depth exploration of Microsoft's Time...
Written by: Dhanesh Kizhakkinan, Nino Isakovic This blog post presents an in-depth exploration of Microsoft's Time Travel Debugging (TTD) framework, a powerful record-and-replay debugging framework for Windows user-mode applications. TTD relies heavily on accurate CPU instruction emulation to faithfully replay progr...
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Xata Agent: AI agent expert in PostgreSQL

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Show HN: Bubbles, a vanilla JavaScript web game

ehmorris.com
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A Guide to In-Browser LLMs

intel.com
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Ostrich Egg-Shell Cups of Mesopotamia, Ostrich in Ancient, Modern Times (1926)

publicdomainreview.org

In the early 1920s, British archaeological excavator Ernest Mackay unearthed an egg at the Sumerian cemetery...
In the early 1920s, British archaeological excavator Ernest Mackay unearthed an egg at the Sumerian cemetery of Kish, in modern-day Iraq’s Babil Governate. One third of its top had been cut away, the shell roughly smoothed with a primitive sander. It seemed to serve as a kind of drinking cup. The bird, his team had ...
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