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Canada considering charging for road access from USA to Alaska

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Michael Seibel is leaving Y Combinator

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LED's Efficiency Exceeds 100%

phys.org

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Non-Obvious Haskell Idiom: Guard-Sequence

entropicthoughts.com

Sometimes we have a boolean check that decides whether the return value is a failure or...
Sometimes we have a boolean check that decides whether the return value is a failure or success. Some people create a function called ensure to do this, and it might be defined as In[1]: ensure :: Bool -> a -> Maybe a ensure p x = if p then Just x else Nothing Here is an example of how it could be used to...
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Show HN: We made a photo search engine for homes for sale

ycombinator.com
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I Fear for the Unauthenticated Web

sethmlarson.dev

LLM and AI companies seem to all be in a race to breathe the last breath...
LLM and AI companies seem to all be in a race to breathe the last breath of air in every room they stumble into. This practice started with larger websites, ones that already had protection from malicious usage like denial-of-service and abuse in the form of services like Cloudflare or Fastly. But the list of target...
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Grease: An Open-Source Tool for Uncovering Hidden Vulnerabilities in Binary Code

galois.com

Proactively and defensively ensuring the absence of vulnerabilities in binary code is crucial for deploying high-assurance...
Proactively and defensively ensuring the absence of vulnerabilities in binary code is crucial for deploying high-assurance systems. GREASE is an open-source tool leveraging under-constrained symbolic execution to help software reverse engineers analyze binaries and uncover hard-to-spot bugs, ultimately enhancing sys...
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Particle Based Physics Engine in Golang

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Oxygen discovered in most distant known galaxy

eso.org

20 March 2025 Two different teams of astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant known...
20 March 2025 Two different teams of astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant known galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0. The discovery, reported in two separate studies, was made possible thanks to the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is a partner. ...

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ACARS Drama

acarsdrama.com

A question I’ve been asked a few times since I took a little project I had...
A question I’ve been asked a few times since I took a little project I had for a year or so operating privately under my desk, and turned it into a social media bot. Note: this post is designed as a more high-level overview of what ACARS/VDLM2 messages are, and what my bot they feed is. So, if you’re looking for a m...
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The Last Drops of Mexico City

longlead.com

Every day, for most of her life, Norma, a 68-year-old woman from the outskirts of Mexico...
Every day, for most of her life, Norma, a 68-year-old woman from the outskirts of Mexico City, has struggled to get something that many of us take for granted: drinking water. She draws water from a well in her patio in Ecatepec, but it’s not fit for drinking. She can, however, use it for filling toilets, cleaning, ...
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C++26: Deprecating or removing library features

sandordargo.com

In the previous article, we discussed what language features are removed from C++26. In this one,...
In the previous article, we discussed what language features are removed from C++26. In this one, we are going to cover both language features that are finally removed after a few years of deprecation, and also those that are getting deprecated by C++26.As a reminder, a removal from the language usually happens in t...
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How 'inference' is driving competition to Nvidia's AI chip dominance

ft.com
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Understanding Solar Energy

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The biggest energy story of the last fifteen years is the rise of solar photovoltaics, also...
The biggest energy story of the last fifteen years is the rise of solar photovoltaics, also known as solar PV or simply solar panels. Solar PV was invented in the 1950s, and began to be used in appreciable volumes for utility-scale electricity generation in the US in the early 2000s, but only around the 2010s did it...
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The Shitthropocene – Patagonia

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Tesla falls after Commerce secretary recommends buying stock

axios.com
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Plex no Longer Offers Free Remote Playback for Personal Media

macrumors.com

Media platform Plex today announced that it is raising prices for the Plex Pass subscription service,...
Media platform Plex today announced that it is raising prices for the Plex Pass subscription service, marking the first price increase that Plex has introduced in a decade. Starting on April 29, the Plex Pass will cost $6.99 per month or $69.99 per year, with a lifetime purchase option available for $249.99. Right n...

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Greenpeace must pay over $660M in case over Dakota Access protest activities

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Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] MANDAN, N.D. (AP) — Environmental group Greenpeace must pay...
Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] MANDAN, N.D. (AP) — Environmental group Greenpeace must pay more than $660 million in damages for defamation and other claims brought by a pipeline company in connection with protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline’s construction in North D...

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FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies

thelibre.news

Three days ago, Drew DeVault - founder and CEO of SourceHut - published a blogpost called,...
Three days ago, Drew DeVault - founder and CEO of SourceHut - published a blogpost called, "Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face", where he complained that LLM companies were crawling data without respecting robosts.txt and causing severe outages to SourceHut.I went, "Interesting!", and moved o...

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Ask HN: Why some languages use 1 byte for boolean type

ycombinator.com
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Breakthrough stroke drug heals the brain to restore movement

newatlas.com

There's newfound hope for stroke patients in recovery, with what researchers believe is the very first...
There's newfound hope for stroke patients in recovery, with what researchers believe is the very first drug that can comprehensively deliver rehabilitation without the need for challenging long-term physical therapy.University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) scientists made the breakthrough after narrowing down dr...

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Compound File Binary Format

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Compound document file format Compound File Binary Format (CFBF), also called Compound File, Compound Document format,[1]...
Compound document file format Compound File Binary Format (CFBF), also called Compound File, Compound Document format,[1] or Composite Document File V2[2] (CDF), is a compound document file format for storing numerous files and streams within a single file on a disk. CFBF is developed by Microsoft and is an implemen...
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Building and deploying a custom site using GitHub Actions and GitHub Pages

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Tesla to recall more than 46,000 Cybertrucks due to exterior panel issue

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