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ICE Agents Realize They Arrested Wrong Teen, Say 'Take Him Anyway'

newsweek.com

Federal immigration authorities apprehended a 19-year-old in New York despite realizing he was not the intended...
Federal immigration authorities apprehended a 19-year-old in New York despite realizing he was not the intended target.The young man, Merwil Gutiérrez, was later deported to El Salvador's notorious super prison, despite his family's insistence that he has no gang ties or criminal history.His father, Wilmer Gutiérrez...

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Launch HN: mrge.io (YC X25) – Cursor for code review

ycombinator.com

Hey HN, we’re building mrge (https://www.mrge.io/home), an AI code review platform to help teams merge code...
Hey HN, we’re building mrge (https://www.mrge.io/home), an AI code review platform to help teams merge code faster with fewer bugs. Our early users include Better Auth, Cal.com, and n8n—teams that handle a lot of PRs every day.Here’s a demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pglEoiv0BgYWe (Allis and Paul) are en...
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How to Win an Argument with a Toddler

seths.blog

You can’t. That’s because toddlers don’t understand what an argument is and aren’t interesting in having...
You can’t. That’s because toddlers don’t understand what an argument is and aren’t interesting in having one. Toddlers (which includes defensive bureaucrats, bullies, flat earthers, folks committed to a specific agenda and radio talk show hosts) may indicate that they’d like to have an argument, but they’re actually...
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Philosophy Major Snatched by ICE During Citizenship Interview

dailynous.com
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Hacking the Postgres Wire Protocol

pgdog.dev

Apr 14th, 2025Lev Kokotov PgDog is a network proxy and it can see every byte sent...
Apr 14th, 2025Lev Kokotov PgDog is a network proxy and it can see every byte sent between Postgres and the clients. It understands SQL and can infer where queries should go, without requiring changes to application code. In this article, we discuss how we handle the Postgres wire protocol and manipulate it to serve ...
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Google Search to redirect its country level TLDs to Google.com

searchengineland.com
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Two Years of Rust

borretti.me
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One of the Most Egregious Ripoffs in the History of Science – The Race to DNA

nautil.us

James Watson once said his road to the 1962 Nobel Prize began in Naples, Italy. At...
James Watson once said his road to the 1962 Nobel Prize began in Naples, Italy. At a conference in 1951, he met Maurice Wilkins, the biophysicist with whom he and Francis Crick shared the Nobel for discovering the double-helix structure of DNA. Meeting Wilkins was when he “first realized that DNA might be soluble,” ...
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7k-Year-Old Skeletons from the Green Sahara Reveal a Mysterious Human Lineage

smithsonianmag.com
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4chan hacked. Hacker reopens /QA/ and leaks all admins emails

reddit.com

4chan
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In Its Purest Form

lareviewofbooks.org
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Whistleblower details how DOGE may have taken sensitive NLRB data

npr.org

In the first days of March, a team of advisers from President Trump's new Department of...
In the first days of March, a team of advisers from President Trump's new Department of Government Efficiency initiative arrived at the Southeast Washington, D.C., headquarters of the National Labor Relations Board. The small, independent federal agency investigates and adjudicates complaints about unfair labor prac...
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GitHub suffers a cascading supply chain attack compromising CI/CD secrets

infoworld.com
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Teuken-7B-Base and Teuken-7B-Instruct: Towards European LLMs

arxiv.org
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65537-gon

wikipedia.org

Shape with 65537 sides In geometry, a 65537-gon is a polygon with 65,537 (216 + 1)...
Shape with 65537 sides In geometry, a 65537-gon is a polygon with 65,537 (216 + 1) sides. The sum of the interior angles of any non–self-intersecting 65537-gon is 11796300°. The area of a regular 65537-gon is (with t = edge length) A = 65537 4 t 2 cot ⁡ π 65537 {\displaystyle A={\frac {65537}{4}}t^{2}\cot {\frac {\p...
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Kmart lied to me, so I hacked their lamp

youtube.com

people & blogs
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Wait. HOW MANY supernova explode every year?

beehiiv.com

Subscribers shine with the light of 20,000 exploding stars Blog JamWhat I’ve recently written on the...
Subscribers shine with the light of 20,000 exploding stars Blog JamWhat I’ve recently written on the blog, ICYMI[Of course I picked this one to highlight because the title made me laugh. From Tuesday’s article. Credit: S. Safi-Harb et al (2022)]Monday 18 July, 2022: How is Canada like Mars? Lost Hammer Spring shows ...

popular culture science space
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Japan antitrust watchdog hits Google with cease and desist order

nikkei.com

antitrust cease google hits japan
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Show HN: Portable Giant File Viewer

github.com
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Typewise (YC S22) Is Hiring an ML Engineer (Zurich, Switzerland)

ycombinator.com

Boosting customer service and sales productivity by 2-3x.Connect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups.Apply...
Boosting customer service and sales productivity by 2-3x.Connect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups.Apply to role ›Typewise (YC S22) is an AI Customer Service Platform for enterprises, designed to elevate and automate customer interactions through custom AI technology tailored to each company’s ne...
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Important open source projects should not use GitHub (2020)

unixdigest.com

Published on 2020-10-23. Modified on 2022-09-01. Thousands of the worlds best open source projects are still...
Published on 2020-10-23. Modified on 2022-09-01. Thousands of the worlds best open source projects are still hosting their code repositories on GitHub. Since Microsoft has purchased GitHub this has become a serious problem. It is no news that Microsoft purchased GitHub in 2018, everyone knows that. Yet despite that ...
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Laser Launch into Orbit

toughsf.blogspot.com

In this post, we will look at laser launch systems, how they would look like and...
In this post, we will look at laser launch systems, how they would look like and perform, and how they might be applied to reach orbit and beyond. The advantages of laser launch 140GHz is microwave. A typical rocket engine does two things: deliver propellant and heat it up using an energy source. In a chemical-fuel ...
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The Industrialization of IT

substack.com

The thing about John Henry is that John Henry is dead.Here is some rough math:In San...
The thing about John Henry is that John Henry is dead.Here is some rough math:In San Francisco, entry-level software engineers make about $190,000 a year.Hiring someone costs more than just their salary; companies also pay for healthcare costs, payroll taxes, and other benefits. Conservatively, the fully-loaded cost...
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ASCII Lookup Utility in Ada

coniferproductions.com
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