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A brief history of Mac firmware

eclecticlight.co

Firmware, software that’s intimately involved with hardware at a low level, has changed radically with each...
Firmware, software that’s intimately involved with hardware at a low level, has changed radically with each of the different processor architectures used in Macs. Classic Macs based on Motorola 68K processors come with their own Macintosh ROM. That changed after the first PowerPC models of 1994, and the Power Macint...
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Using a BCI with LLM for enabling ALS patients to speak again with family

substack.com

Last week, Chris Tottman and I managed to interview Vasco Pedro, the CEO and co-founder of...
Last week, Chris Tottman and I managed to interview Vasco Pedro, the CEO and co-founder of Unbabel and witnessed him demonstrate his new product, Halo. Halo blows your mind in demo mode, and it absolutely blew away the entire audience at Notion's Founders retreat, where 100 founders gather each year for peer-to-peer...
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I discovered mysterious hidden signals on a public radio channel [video]

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30c3 chaos computer club hardware & making media streaming
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Reducing salt 1g daily in China could prevent ~9M cardiovascular events by 2030

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Are You Sure You Want to Use MMAP in Your Database Management System? (2022)

cmu.edu

Memory-mapped (MMAP) file I/O is an OS-provided feature that maps the contents of a file on...
Memory-mapped (MMAP) file I/O is an OS-provided feature that maps the contents of a file on secondary storage into a program’s address space. The program then accesses pages via pointers as if the file resided entirely in memory. The OS transparently loads pages only when the program references them and automaticall...
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Former Intel CEO says splitting Intel isn't good for the U.S.

tomshardware.com

(Image credit: Getty Images) Intel’s financial situation has recently been in trouble, mainly due to the...
(Image credit: Getty Images) Intel’s financial situation has recently been in trouble, mainly due to the massive losses of its foundry division. Because of this, several reports say that the company is considering spinning off manufacturing as a completely different entity, similar to what AMD did with GlobalFoundri...
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How JPEG XL Compares to Other Image Codecs

cloudinary.com
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ADHD and Managing Your Professional Reputation

optimaloutliers.com

Paul Graham's essay titled "Good and Bad Procrastination" argues that procrastination can be virtuous when it...
Paul Graham's essay titled "Good and Bad Procrastination" argues that procrastination can be virtuous when it means putting off small tasks to work on more important ones. He categorizes procrastination into three types: doing nothing, doing something less important, or doing something more important. The last categ...
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ZombAIs: From Prompt Injection to C2 with Claude Computer Use

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"We took on Google and they were forced to pay out £2B"

bbc.com

Shivaun and Adam RaffShivaun Raff and her husband, Adam, have been locked in a long-running legal...
Shivaun and Adam RaffShivaun Raff and her husband, Adam, have been locked in a long-running legal battle with Google"Google essentially disappeared us from the internet."Launch days. They’re equal parts thrilling and terrifying for many start-up business founders, but they don’t get much worse than the one Shivaun R...
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California is torn between clashing Anglo traditions

unherd.com

In the 18th and 19th centuries, as America drove relentlessly West, the Scots-Irish acted as the...
In the 18th and 19th centuries, as America drove relentlessly West, the Scots-Irish acted as the new nation’s advance guard. Instead of waiting for the US military to defeat the Indians before moving onto their land, as the Yankees did, the backcountry settlers waged war upon the natives by themselves. They were dri...
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Teens Want Less Sex in Movies and TV Shows, Study Finds

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Teens want movies and shows to stay in the friend zone. At a time when films...
Teens want movies and shows to stay in the friend zone. At a time when films like “Babygirl,” “Poor Things” and “Fair Play” and series such as “Disclaimer” and “Tell Me Lies” are more explicitly sexual, younger audiences are hoping that more Hollywood stars stay clothed on screen and that the entertainment industry ...
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Building a more robust Wikipedia interface by spotting the differences (2023)

nray.dev

Have you ever played the "Spot the Difference" game, where you try to find slight differences...
Have you ever played the "Spot the Difference" game, where you try to find slight differences between two similar images? I play it whenever I review code in a nontrivial pull request that changes a website's HTML, CSS, or JavaScript. Sometimes I win. Other times, I lose. But unlike the original game, where the play...
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Google preps 'Jarvis' AI agent that works in Chrome

9to5google.com

At I/O 2024 in May, Google gave two examples of agentive experiences that you’d access through...
At I/O 2024 in May, Google gave two examples of agentive experiences that you’d access through Gemini. Google might be ready to share more about agents that work in Chrome and are powered by Gemini 2.0 this December with Project Jarvis. “I think about [agents] as intelligent systems that show reasoning, planning, an...
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The weak science behind psychedelics

theatlantic.com

ideas
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Canvas Fingerprinting – BrowserLeaks

browserleaks.com

The Canvas API, which is designed for drawing graphics via JavaScript and HTML, can also be...
The Canvas API, which is designed for drawing graphics via JavaScript and HTML, can also be used for online tracking via browser fingerprinting. This technique relies on variations in how canvas images are rendered on different web browsers and platforms to create a personalized digital fingerprint of a user's brows...
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Tell HN: GpuOwl/PRPLL, GPU software used to find the largest prime number

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Ask HN: Alternative to Emacs with Undo-tree functionality?

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On Friday 21st March 2025, the sun will set on the British "Empire"

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geography
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Long wave radio fans mourn fading frequencies (2023)

bbc.com

Clint GouveiaListening to far flung radio stations inspired Clint Gouveia to travelAs he turned the dial...
Clint GouveiaListening to far flung radio stations inspired Clint Gouveia to travelAs he turned the dial gently but purposefully, the sound of people speaking in foreign languages and the lilt of unfamiliar music burst through a haze of crackle and buzz. Clint Gouveia was only about seven years old at the time, list...
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Olivetti's Ivrea: How Olivetti Built the Most Progressive Company Town

medium.com

If you trace the path of the Dora Baltea River in early spring, when it swells...
If you trace the path of the Dora Baltea River in early spring, when it swells with melting snow from the Matterhorn, you will quietly arrive at what first appears to be any other small Italian town. Yet in the 1950s, Ivrea was the site of an unheralded experiment in living and working.The Olivetti Company, founded ...

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Opera will always help you block ads natively

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Bullenweg.com is no longer available following threats of legal action

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Carma (YC W24) hiring founding SWEs (remote) to build the next Uber for auto repair

ycombinator.com

TL;DR: We are hiring 100% remote founding engineers with competitive salaries and outsized equity grants that...
TL;DR: We are hiring 100% remote founding engineers with competitive salaries and outsized equity grants that match our strong traction. We want every team member to have a clear, vested interest in our success.We are on a mission to become the Uber of auto repair. Carma has built a network of top-tier auto service ...
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