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Somehash: A Blurhash-Inspired Exploration

travisbumgarner.dev

I am a lifelong learner, creator, explorer, and tinkerer.This is a collection of my experiences.Posted Sat,...
I am a lifelong learner, creator, explorer, and tinkerer.This is a collection of my experiences.Posted Sat, 08 Feb 2025(Jump Ahead: Demo and Code) Humans have short attention spans. Websites take time to load. What can be done to prevent visitors from leaving? Blurhash, shown below, is one such solution. It offers q...
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A flowing WebGL gradient, deconstructed

alexharri.com
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Claude takes research to new places

anthropic.com
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Amazfit activity tracker and watch face asset generation

gingerbeardman.com

I recently wanted to track my heart rate and sleeping patterns, but do not want an...
I recently wanted to track my heart rate and sleeping patterns, but do not want an Apple Watch. So I ended up buying a cheap Amazfit Band 7 from Decathlon sports store. The one I bought was reduced because of a damaged box—I love a good bargain! It’s a cool little thing and goes for an unbelievable 18 days on a sing...
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4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

knowyourmeme.com
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Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes mass user cancellations

reddit.com

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Liquid: Language Models Are Scalable and Unified Multi-Modal Generators

foundationvision.github.io
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$3 Trader Joe's tote bags resell for more than $1,500

qz.com

Eggs aren’t the only things people will be hunting for at Trader Joe’s this Easter. Shoppers...
Eggs aren’t the only things people will be hunting for at Trader Joe’s this Easter. Shoppers will also be flooding the aisles to track down the pastel-hued miniature tote bags the grocer released earlier this month.But if you don’t snatch one in stores, good luck tracking one down for a reasonable price. The canvas ...

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Show HN: Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator

filiph.github.io
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M1: Towards Scalable Test-Time Compute with Mamba Reasoning Models

arxiv.org
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Abundance: Big Tech's Bid for the Democratic Party

newintermag.com
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It's easier than ever to de-censor videos

jeffgeerling.com

Last month I asked people to hack part of my YouTube video, specifically to de-pixelate the...
Last month I asked people to hack part of my YouTube video, specifically to de-pixelate the contents of a folder I had pixelated starting at the 4:57 mark. Your browser does not support the video tag. For years, people have used the censor tool to blur or pixelate out parts of videos where there's sensitive informat...
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A Woman Who Turned a Hospital into a Crime Scene

thartribune.com

On February 19, 1994, the emergency room at Riverside General Hospital looked just like any other...
On February 19, 1994, the emergency room at Riverside General Hospital looked just like any other California hospital on a Saturday night. Until Gloria Ramirez arrived. She was 31. A mother of two. Diagnosed with late-stage cervical cancer. But what happened in that ER had nothing to do with her cancer—at least, not...
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Modern CMake

cliutils.gitlab.io

People love to hate build systems. Just watch the talks from CppCon17 to see examples of...
People love to hate build systems. Just watch the talks from CppCon17 to see examples of developers making the state of build systems the brunt of jokes. This raises the question: Why? Certainly there are no shortage of problems when building. But I think that we have a very good solution to quite a few of those pro...
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Designing a low-cost high-performance 10 MHz – 15 GHz vector network analyzer

hforsten.com

VNA PCB. Vector network analyzer is a device used to measure scattering parameters of electrical circuits...
VNA PCB. Vector network analyzer is a device used to measure scattering parameters of electrical circuits operating at high frequencies. S-parameters tell how much a circuit reflects power back to the source and how much it attenuates or amplifies it to the other ports. Working with S-parameters is an essential part...
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Post-Silicon Validation of Static Lockstep Mode

intel.com
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METS, the Middle English Texts Series

metseditions.org
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What the Hell Is a Target Triple?

mcyoung.xyz

Cross-compiling is taking a computer program and compiling it for a machine that isn’t the one...
Cross-compiling is taking a computer program and compiling it for a machine that isn’t the one hosting the compilation. Although historically compilers would only compile for the host machine, this is considered an anachronism: all serious native compilers are now cross-compilers. After all, you don’t want to be bui...
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'End of an era': The last RadioShack in Maryland is closing its doors

marylandmatters.org
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Llama 2 LLM on DOS

yeokhengmeng.com

Ever thought of running a local Large Language Model (LLM) on a vintage PC running DOS?...
Ever thought of running a local Large Language Model (LLM) on a vintage PC running DOS? Now you can! Demos This video shows DOS Llama 2 LLM client running on 2 vintage DOS machines. Running on Thinkpad T42 (2004) and Toshiba Satellite 315CDT (1996). Their CPUs are Pentium M 735 1.7 Ghz and Pentium MMX 200Mhz respect...
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A Passion for Fruit

archaeology.org

A 15th-century manuscript shows trees bearing (clockwise from top left): sweet apples, jujubes, lemons, cherries, dates,...
A 15th-century manuscript shows trees bearing (clockwise from top left): sweet apples, jujubes, lemons, cherries, dates, and sour apples. By 7,000 years ago, people in New Guinea were cultivating bananas. Around the same time, figs in the Near East and avocados in Mesoamerica were well on their way to becoming the f...
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The case of the UI thread that hung in a kernel call

microsoft.com

A customer asked for help with a longstanding but low-frequency hang that they have never been...
A customer asked for help with a longstanding but low-frequency hang that they have never been able to figure out. From what they could tell, their UI thread was calling into the kernel, and the call simply hung for no apparent reason. Unfortunately, the kernel dump couldn’t show a stack from user mode because the s...
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Generate videos in Gemini and Whisk with Veo 2

blog.google

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Clolog

github.com
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