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April 3

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leanrada.com
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April 3

Switzerland's vinyl turntable roundabout: Unique road art (2019)

newlyswissed.com

Switzerland's flag may be square, but its streets are dotted with roundabouts. About as ordinary as...
Switzerland's flag may be square, but its streets are dotted with roundabouts. About as ordinary as station clocks, every town has at least one. And since the public is often involved in designing these traffic circles, we have seen horrible things... Think horizontal steel pipes or piles of rock. But all is not los...
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April 3

MIT 6.5950 Secure Hardware Design – An open-source course on hardware attacks

mit.edu
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April 3

Ploopy Classic 2 open source trackball

ploopy.co
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April 3

Web Server for AoE 1, 2 and 3 DE supporting LAN multiplayer 100% offline

github.com
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April 2

The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019)

newyorker.com

Open-plan offices offer few pleasures; one of them is snooping on other people’s browsing habits. When,...
Open-plan offices offer few pleasures; one of them is snooping on other people’s browsing habits. When, years ago, I began working for tech companies in San Francisco, I noticed that my co-workers were always scrolling through a beige, text-only Web site that resembled a nineteen-nineties Internet forum. They were r...

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April 2

Proof-of-work to protect lore.kernel.org and git.kernel.org against AI crawlers

kernel.org
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April 2

Chronic ethanol produces sex-dependent impairments in striatum computations

science.org
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April 2

Apple's Cubify Anything: Scaling Indoor 3D Object Detection

github.com
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April 2

Multi-Token Attention

arxiv.org
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April 2

Are people bad at their jobs or are the jobs just bad?

substack.com

If you open this newsletter all the time, if you forward to your friends and co-workers,...
If you open this newsletter all the time, if you forward to your friends and co-workers, if it challenges you to think in new and different ways — consider subscribing.You get access to the weekly Things I Read and Loved at the end of the Sunday newsletter, the massive links/recs posts, the ability to comment, and t...
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April 2

The Dose Makes the Poison

tandfonline.com
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April 2

AI Ambivalence

nolanlawson.com
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April 2

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2025)

ycombinator.com
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April 2

Show HN: Color palettes inspired by Mexican architecture

pointlessprojects.com
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April 2

In the Matter of the Commas

theamericanscholar.org

At the Art Institute of Chicago, Joan Didion and her daughter, Quintana, were looking at a...
At the Art Institute of Chicago, Joan Didion and her daughter, Quintana, were looking at a painting by Georgia O’Keeffe. The work, Sky Above Clouds IV, hung across a landing, so they had a gulf of air between themselves and the flat white shapes that span a long wall at the museum. It is a giant painting, practicall...
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April 2

Wikipedia, says its bandwidth costs have gone up 50% since Jan 2024

bsky.app
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April 2

Henry James's American Journey

chronicle.com
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April 2

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025)

ycombinator.com
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April 2

TV Garden

tv.garden

Welcome to tv.garden, your gateway to free live TV streaming from anywhere.Our goal is to make...
Welcome to tv.garden, your gateway to free live TV streaming from anywhere.Our goal is to make discovering and watching global channels as easy and enjoyable as possible.Explore a wide range of channels, including international news, live sports, movies, entertainment, and cultural shows.Dive into global cultures th...
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April 2

What We Knew Without Knowing

newyorker.com

Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne met in the late fifties, when she was working at...
Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne met in the late fifties, when she was working at Vogue and he at Time. They married in 1964, and in 1966 they adopted a baby girl, giving her a name from the Yucatán: Quintana Roo. Together, Didion and Dunne lived out one of the most collaborative literary marriages in American his...
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April 2

Prof. Sussman's Reading List

aurellem.org

Written by: Gerald Sussman (compiled by Robert McIntyre) Serving as a TA for Professor Sussman will...
Written by: Gerald Sussman (compiled by Robert McIntyre) Serving as a TA for Professor Sussman will get you three things: great advice, spectacular reading recommendations, and lots of high quality tea. I can't share the advice or the tea, but I can compile a reading list. Some of the materials on this list represen...
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April 2

Gmail Users Can Send Encrypted Email to Anyone

forbes.com

Gmail gets EE2E as it turns 21.SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The greatest April Fool’s Day...
Gmail gets EE2E as it turns 21.SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The greatest April Fool’s Day joke that never was has to have taken place on April 1, 2004. It was then that Google, without a hint of irony, launched what was to become the world’s most popular email platform, Gmail, to an unsuspecting public. ...

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April 2

DeepMind is holding back release of AI research to give Google an edge

arstechnica.com

However, the employee added it had also blocked a paper that revealed vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s ChatGPT,...
However, the employee added it had also blocked a paper that revealed vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s ChatGPT, over concerns the release seemed like a hostile tit-for-tat. A person close to DeepMind said it did not block papers that discuss security vulnerabilities, adding that it routinely publishes such work under a “...
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