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The vinyl-carver sparking a craze for cutting records at home

theguardian.com

If you want to buy a bespoke, brand-new machine to cut your own vinyl records at...
If you want to buy a bespoke, brand-new machine to cut your own vinyl records at home, there seems to be just one man who can help you. Ulrich Sourisseau’s workshop is in a disused railway station in a remote part of the Black Forest in Germany, and he is in extremely high demand. He’s selective about who he sells h...
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Study finds contaminants in U.S. drinking water [video]

youtube.com

news & politics
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How long can you balance a pencil?

thevirtuosi.blogspot.com

Sorry for the delay between posts. Here in Virtuosi-land, we've all begun our summer research projects...
Sorry for the delay between posts. Here in Virtuosi-land, we've all begun our summer research projects and I think we've just become a little bogged down in the rush that is starting a summer research project. You feel as though you have no idea what the heck is going on, and just try desperately to keep your head u...
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Yes, Claude Code can decompile itself. Here's the source code

ghuntley.com

ai infosec software development
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A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

twitter.com
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Show HN: Simplifying Backend Testing with qapir.io

qapir.io
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Certificate Transparency in Firefox: A Big Step for Web Security

transparency.dev

Certificate Transparency (CT) has been one of the biggest advancements in web security, keeping users safe...
Certificate Transparency (CT) has been one of the biggest advancements in web security, keeping users safe from threats such as certificate fraud and man-in-the-middle attacks. While CT has been around for over 11 years, enforcement has varied across browsers. Firefox is now enforcing Certificate Transparency on des...
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Harnessing orbital Hall effect in spin-orbit torque MRAM

nature.com
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A Path to Scalable Quantum Computers

aps.org
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DNS Nerds Don't Control the Internet (2016)

sockpuppet.org

You’re reading this page because you’ve suggested that “14 people control the Internet through the DNSSEC...
You’re reading this page because you’ve suggested that “14 people control the Internet through the DNSSEC root keys”. If you’re unlucky, you might be a journalist preparing a story about those people. Stop! DNSSEC doesn’t do anything. Dramatic ceremonies notwithstanding, if the secret DNSSEC keys leaked on Pastebin ...
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Zen 5's AVX-512 Frequency Behavior

chipsandcheese.com

Zen 5 is AMD's first core to use full-width AVX-512 datapaths. Its vector execution units are...
Zen 5 is AMD's first core to use full-width AVX-512 datapaths. Its vector execution units are 512 bits wide, and its L1 data cache can service two 512-bit loads per cycle. Intel went straight to 512-bit datapaths with Skylake-X back in 2017, and used fixed frequency offsets and transition periods to handle AVX-512 p...
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Affixes: The Building Blocks of English

affixes.org
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Magic Isn't Real

pthorpe92.dev

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. This quote applies just as much to developers...
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. This quote applies just as much to developers as it does non-tech people, sometimes more. I remember towards the beginning of my programming journey (both the first time I learned 18+ years ago, and again ~15 years later), the root cause of the fe...
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The Dino, the Llama, and the Whale (Deno and Jupyter for Local AI Experiments)

deno.com

I have had a desire for a while to understand what it would take to be...
I have had a desire for a while to understand what it would take to be able to interact with a locally hosted large language model and with the release of DeepSeek R1, a reasoning model, was enough of a prompt to figure out how to tackle it. My day job is a Principal Technologist at CTO Labs, where we advise investo...
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Show HN: a Rust library for creating hierarchical state machines

docs.rs

Moku is a Rust library for creating hierarchical state machines. While it’s also useful for creating...
Moku is a Rust library for creating hierarchical state machines. While it’s also useful for creating flat state machines, nested states are a first-class feature. Though it may be impure to store data inside of states, in practice it is often useful for states to hold some data (e.g. file handles, perf counters, etc...
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The first quarter is on track for negative GDP growth, Atlanta Fed says

cnbc.com

A customer shops for produce at an H-E-B grocery store on Feb. 12, 2025 in Austin,...
A customer shops for produce at an H-E-B grocery store on Feb. 12, 2025 in Austin, Texas.Brandon Bell | Getty ImagesEarly economic data for the first quarter of 2025 is pointing towards negative growth, according to a Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta measure.The central bank's GDPNow tracker of incoming metrics is in...

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Self-Hosting a Firefox Sync Server

diego.dev

After switching from Firefox to LibreWolf, I became interested in the idea of self-hosting my own...
After switching from Firefox to LibreWolf, I became interested in the idea of self-hosting my own Firefox Sync server. Although I had seen this was possible before, I had never really looked into it—until now. I embarked on a journey to set this up, and while it wasn’t completely smooth sailing, I eventually got it ...

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When eBPF pt_regs reads return garbage on the latest Linux kernels, blame Fred

tanelpoder.com

TLDR; Starting from Linux kernel version 6.9 on x86_64, there’s a new config option CONFIG_X86_FRED enabled...
TLDR; Starting from Linux kernel version 6.9 on x86_64, there’s a new config option CONFIG_X86_FRED enabled and it adds 16 bytes to the bottom of a task’s kernel stack area, so you’ll need to account for this extra padding in your “raw” kernel stack & pt_regs lookup code. Introduction I’ve been using Ubuntu 24.04 as...
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Resident Physicians' Exam Scores Tied to Patient Survival

harvard.edu

How do we know whether newly minted doctors have what it takes to prevent patient deaths?After...
How do we know whether newly minted doctors have what it takes to prevent patient deaths?After completing residency training, graduating physicians typically take board certification exams at the time they enter practice — but surprisingly little is known about the ability of these standard tests to predict the thin...
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US bill allowing AIs to prescribe FDA-approved drugs

congress.gov
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Vector Search with DuckDB

huggingface.co

Datasets on the Hugging Face Hub rely on parquet files. We can interact with these files...
Datasets on the Hugging Face Hub rely on parquet files. We can interact with these files using DuckDB as a fast in-memory database system. One of DuckDB’s features is vector similarity search which can be used with or without an index. Install dependencies !pip install datasets duckdb sentence-transformers model2vec...
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The Housing Theory of Everything

worksinprogress.co

Try listing every problem the Western world has at the moment. Along with Covid, you might...
Try listing every problem the Western world has at the moment. Along with Covid, you might include slow growth, climate change, poor health, financial instability, economic inequality, and falling fertility. These longer-term trends contribute to a sense of malaise that many of us feel about our societies. They may ...
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Europe has donated more support to Ukraine than the US

ifw-kiel.de

delay help tracker ukraine war
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It Was an Ambush

theatlantic.com

ideas
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