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May 8

A 'Trump Card Visa' Is Already Showing Up in Immigration Forms

wired.com

The US government has the capacity to dole out roughly 1.1 million permanent resident cards in...
The US government has the capacity to dole out roughly 1.1 million permanent resident cards in the current fiscal year, which are divided into categories for family members, workers with advanced skills, and other groups based on precise rules.Lutnick originally proposed Trump’s gold card as a replacement for one of...
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May 8

Doctors Warn Accountants of Private-Equity Drain on Quality: You Could Be Next

wsj.com
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May 7

H.R.1161 – Red, White, and Blueland Act of 2025

congress.gov
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May 7

Exceptionally rare radio sources detected in the distant universe

mashable.com

Astronomers have spotted a pair of exotic features believed to be the aftermath of a colossal...
Astronomers have spotted a pair of exotic features believed to be the aftermath of a colossal cosmic smackdown — not between two galaxies, but two groups of galaxies. These glowing arcs of radio energy are known as "radio relics," faint clouds resulting from powerful shockwaves surging through hot gas that fills the...
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May 7

Show HN: Picostrap5 A free bootstrap-based WordPress theme on GitHub

github.com
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May 7

He Dropped Out to Become a Poet. Now He’s Won a Fields Medal. (2022)

quantamagazine.org

June Huh in his Princeton University office. June Huh often finds himself lost. Every afternoon, he...
June Huh in his Princeton University office. June Huh often finds himself lost. Every afternoon, he takes a long walk around Princeton University, where he’s a professor in the mathematics department. On this particular day in mid-May, he’s making his way through the woods around the nearby Institute for Advanced St...
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May 7

The Reverse Turing Test Game

reverse-turing.netlify.app
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May 7

Foundation DB Record Layer SQL API

foundationdb.github.io
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May 7

Pakistani Firm Shipped Fentanyl Analogs, Scams to US

krebsonsecurity.com

A Texas firm recently charged with conspiring to distribute synthetic opioids in the United States is...
A Texas firm recently charged with conspiring to distribute synthetic opioids in the United States is at the center of a vast network of companies in the U.S. and Pakistan whose employees are accused of using online ads to scam westerners seeking help with trademarks, book writing, mobile app development and logo de...
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May 7

A cycle-accurate IBM PC emulator in your web browser

martypc.net
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May 7

GovEagle (YC W23) Is Hiring

ycombinator.com

First draft of a government RFP response in 60 minNew York, NY, US / RemoteConnect directly...
First draft of a government RFP response in 60 minNew York, NY, US / RemoteConnect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups.Apply to role ›About GovEagle We build an AI‑powered platform that helps government contractors draft proposals faster and more securely. Our stack: Python micro‑services, Celery w...
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May 7

'I paid for the whole GPU, I am going to use the whole GPU'

modal.com

Typical attire of a GPU utilization maximizer. Graphics Processing Units, or GPUs, are the hottest mathematical...
Typical attire of a GPU utilization maximizer. Graphics Processing Units, or GPUs, are the hottest mathematical co-processor since the FM synthesis chips that shaped the sounds of the 1990s. Like all co-processors, they are chosen when the performance of more flexible commodity hardware, like an x86 Central Processi...
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May 7

OpenAI for Countries

openai.com

Our Stargate project, an unprecedented investment in America’s AI infrastructure announced in January with President Trump...
Our Stargate project, an unprecedented investment in America’s AI infrastructure announced in January with President Trump and our partners Oracle and SoftBank, is now underway with our first supercomputing campus in Abilene, Texas, and more sites to come.We’ve heard from many countries asking for help in building o...
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May 7

Medium Is the New Large

mistral.ai

At Mistral AI, we are continuously pushing the frontier for both open models (Mistral Small, Mistral...
At Mistral AI, we are continuously pushing the frontier for both open models (Mistral Small, Mistral Large, Pixtral, many others) as well as enterprise models (Mistral OCR, Mistral Saba, Ministral 3B / 8B, and more). All the way from Mistral 7B, our models have consistently demonstrated performance of significantly ...
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May 7

Protein-slayer drugs could beat some of the cruellest cancers

nature.com

‘Dark proteins’ hiding in our cells could hold clues to cancer and other diseases

cancer diseases molecular biology
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May 7

Hunting down a C memory leak in a Go program (2021)

medium.com

What it feels like when your app is leaking memoryOver the last few years at Zendesk,...
What it feels like when your app is leaking memoryOver the last few years at Zendesk, both Go and Kafka have been increasingly growing in importance in our architecture. It was of course inevitable that they should meet, and so various teams have been writing Kafka consumers and producers in Go of late. There are a ...

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May 7

Vagus Nerve Stimulation Erases PTSD

neurosciencenews.com

Summary: A pioneering clinical study found that pairing vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) with traditional therapy eliminated...
Summary: A pioneering clinical study found that pairing vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) with traditional therapy eliminated PTSD diagnoses in all participants up to six months post-treatment. The trial combined prolonged exposure therapy with brief bursts of VNS via an implanted device, enhancing neuroplasticity and s...
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May 7

El Cono: The mysterious sacred 'pyramid' hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest

livescience.com

Cerro El Cono is isolated from a nearby mountain range and has an unusual shape. (Image...
Cerro El Cono is isolated from a nearby mountain range and has an unusual shape. (Image credit: Newscom/Alamy) QUICK FACTSName: Cerro El Cono, also known as "Montaña Cónica"Location: Sierra del Divisor, Peruvian Amazon rainforestCoordinates: -7.963010971488621, -73.78224313086483Why it's incredible: El Cono stands a...
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May 7

Mac Themes Garden

damien.zone

I've "launched" the Mac Themes Garden! It is a website showcasing more than 3,000 (and counting)...
I've "launched" the Mac Themes Garden! It is a website showcasing more than 3,000 (and counting) Kaleidoscope from the Classic Mac era, ready to be seen, downloaded and explored! Check it out! Oh, and there also is an RSS feed you can subscribe to see themes as they are added/updated! And yes, there is a button that...
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May 7

How to Average in Prolog (2017)

storytotell.org

If I had to average a list of numbers, I would probably do it like this:...
If I had to average a list of numbers, I would probably do it like this: averagelist(List, Avg) :- length(List, N), sumlist(List, Sum), Avg is Sum / N. This resembles the actual mathematical definition. Then you could just make a list of numbers and average that. @lurker is right, this is a terrible way to go, but i...
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May 7

Introducing Web Search on the Anthropic API

anthropic.com

Today, we're introducing web search on the Anthropic API—a new tool that gives Claude access to...
Today, we're introducing web search on the Anthropic API—a new tool that gives Claude access to current information from across the web. With web search enabled, developers can build Claude-powered applications and agents that deliver up-to-date insights.Developers can now augment Claude’s comprehensive knowledge wi...
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May 7

Proposal: Add bare metal support to Go

github.com
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May 7

RSC for Astro Developers

overreacted.io

Okay, so in Astro you have two things: Astro Components: They have the .astro extension. They...
Okay, so in Astro you have two things: Astro Components: They have the .astro extension. They execute exclusively on the server or during the build. In other words, their code is never shipped to the client. So they can do things that client code cannot do—read from the filesystem, hit the internal services, even re...
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May 7

QUIC restarts, slow problems: udpgrm to the rescue

cloudflare.com

At Cloudflare, we do everything we can to avoid interruption to our services. We frequently deploy...
At Cloudflare, we do everything we can to avoid interruption to our services. We frequently deploy new versions of the code that delivers the services, so we need to be able to restart the server processes to upgrade them without missing a beat. In particular, performing graceful restarts (also known as "zero downti...

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