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'The Celts: A Modern History' by Ian Stewart Review

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The Prehistoric Psychopath

worksinprogress.co

We are naturally a highly violent species with a thin veneer of civilization that masks a...
We are naturally a highly violent species with a thin veneer of civilization that masks a brutal proclivity for violence – or so many people think. In the seventeenth century, Thomas Hobbes said that human life without government is ‘solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short’. William Golding’s novel, The Lord of t...
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Cloudflare builds AI to lead AI scraper bots into horrible maze of junk content

theregister.com

Cloudflare has created a bot-busting AI to make life hell for AI crawlers. The network-taming company...
Cloudflare has created a bot-busting AI to make life hell for AI crawlers. The network-taming company built the tool after noticing that almost one percent of all requests to access web content that it can see now come from AI crawler bots. Those bots are probably scraping data that’s gathered up to train AI models....
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Steam on Xbox evidence Microsoft didn't want you to see

theverge.com

Microsoft revealed earlier this year that it’s combining “the best of Xbox and Windows together” for...
Microsoft revealed earlier this year that it’s combining “the best of Xbox and Windows together” for handhelds, and now the company is starting to drop the first hints at what that UI might look like. In a blog post about Xbox “opening a billion doors,” Microsoft briefly revealed a new Xbox UI that looks a lot more ...
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Napkin Math Tool

taylor.town
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Show HN: Torch Lens Maker – Differentiable Geometric Optics in PyTorch

victorpoughon.github.io

Welcome to Torch Lens Maker, an open-source Python library for differentiable geometric optics based on PyTorch....
Welcome to Torch Lens Maker, an open-source Python library for differentiable geometric optics based on PyTorch. Currently a very experimental project, the goal is to be able to design complex real-world optical systems (lenses, mirrors, etc.) using modern computer code and state-of-the art numerical optimization.py...
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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

theatlantic.com

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Imagine telling 2010 devs that in 2025, collapsing a div would require $8/ month

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Wheel Reinventor's Principles

tobloef.com
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PG&E asks to raise rates for California customers so it can pay investors more

kcra.com

PG&E asks to raise rates for California customers so it can pay investors more The new...
PG&E asks to raise rates for California customers so it can pay investors more The new request comes after the California Public Utilities Commission approved six rate increases for PG&E in 2024. Copy Link {copyShortcut} to copy Updated: 7:55 PM PDT Mar 20, 2025 MEDICARE AND MEDICAID WOULD NOT BE TOUCHED. PG&E IS AS...
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Numbering should start at zero: E.W. Dijkstra

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Why numbering should start at zero To denote the subsequence of natural numbers 2, 3, ...,...
Why numbering should start at zero To denote the subsequence of natural numbers 2, 3, ..., 12 without the pernicious three dots, four conventions are open to us a) 2 ≤ i < 13 b) 1 < i ≤ 12 c) 2 ≤ i ≤ 12 d) 1 < i < 13 Are there reasons to prefer one convention to the other? Yes, there...
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Boston Dynamics shows off another major leap in humanoid mobility

newatlas.com

Chinese humanoids are starting to move with extraordinary grace and agility, but Boston Dynamics is the...
Chinese humanoids are starting to move with extraordinary grace and agility, but Boston Dynamics is the OG in this field, and fresh video of its swivel-jointed Atlas robot running, cartwheeling and breakdancing shows it's still at the bleeding edge. Before we get going, let's acknowledge the elephant in the room her...

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The mistakes and missed opportunities in the design of IPv6

hanazo.no

This post does not reflect the views on current, past or future employers. The opinions in...
This post does not reflect the views on current, past or future employers. The opinions in this article are my own.This is a series of articles of my musings on why IPv6 failed. Previous article. Most networking protocols over the history of computer networking has failed. What makes up a successful protocol is defi...

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Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped

notetimeapp.com

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Show HN: My Attempt to Organize the World of AI Dev Tools

danvoronov.com

These IDEs offer a superior coding experience compared to traditional IDEs. Tool Description Links Cursor A...
These IDEs offer a superior coding experience compared to traditional IDEs. Tool Description Links Cursor A next-generation IDE designed for pair-programming with AI. Edit, debug, and understand complex codebases with powerful AI assistance. changelogprice ($20)forum Windsurf Windsurf, by Codeium, is an AI-powered c...
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Power Outage Shuts Heathrow, Snarling Air Travel

wsj.com
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Art the Whale

sierracollege.edu

A body floats up on the beach. It is discovered, identified, and found to have eight...
A body floats up on the beach. It is discovered, identified, and found to have eight aliases. The body is dismembered, crudely jammed into dirty barrels, roughly tossed into the back of a truck, and buried in the dead of night by the light of automobile headlamps. Neighbors hear strange noises, and smell even strang...
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The FBI Seized This Woman's Life Savings–Without Telling Her Why

reason.com

Almost four years ago to the day, the FBI entered U.S. Private Vaults (USPV), a storage...
Almost four years ago to the day, the FBI entered U.S. Private Vaults (USPV), a storage business in Beverly Hills, and raided the safe-deposit boxes there, pocketing tens of millions of dollars in cash, valuables, and personal items. Among those owners was Linda Martin, from whom agents took $40,200—her life savings...

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Career Development: What It Means to Be a Manager, Director, or VP

kellblog.com

It’s no secret that I’m not a fan of big-company HR practices. I’m more of the...
It’s no secret that I’m not a fan of big-company HR practices. I’m more of the First Break all the Rules type. Despite my general skepticism of many standard practices, we still do annual performance reviews at my company, though I’m thinking seriously of dropping them. (See Get Rid of the Performance Review.) Anoth...
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China is developing some startling new kit in its quest to reclaim Taiwan

economist.com
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Manifest: A 1-file micro-back end

github.com
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Human Perception of Dog Emotions Is Influenced by Extraneous Factors

tandfonline.com
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Calibre 8.0 Release

calibre-ebook.com

Release: 8.0 [21 Mar, 2025] New features Much improved Kobo support calibre can now natively edit,...
Release: 8.0 [21 Mar, 2025] New features Much improved Kobo support calibre can now natively edit, view and convert KEPUB format files used by the Kobo. It also automatically converts EPUB to KEPUB when sending books to Kobo devices (can be configured by right clicking the kobo icon in calibre). Connect to folder: A...

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Germany tightens travel advice to US after three citizens detained

euronews.com

The country's foreign ministry clarified the updated guidance doesn’t constitute an official travel warning to the...
The country's foreign ministry clarified the updated guidance doesn’t constitute an official travel warning to the US. ADVERTISEMENTThe German foreign ministry has updated its travel advice for Germans travelling to the US after three German nationals were denied entry and detained as they tried to enter."A criminal...

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