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Intuit asked us to delete part of this Decoder episode

theverge.com

Today’s episode of Decoder, well — it’s a ride. I’m talking to Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi,...
Today’s episode of Decoder, well — it’s a ride. I’m talking to Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi, who’s built Intuit into a juggernaut business software company through a series of major acquisitions. Quicken and QuickBooks are incredibly well known as personal finance and small business accounting software, but nearly ever...
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California Coolers

restoringhistory.com

If you’ve ever noticed two louvered vents stacked on the exterior of an old house, they...
If you’ve ever noticed two louvered vents stacked on the exterior of an old house, they were probably vents to a California cooler. These nifty architectural details are often associated with Craftsman Bungalow kitchens, but actually were quite common in kitchens of many different architectural styles built mostly b...
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OOP is not that bad, actually

osa1.net
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Emergence of ferromagnetism at onset Kondo breakdown in moiré bilayer lattices

phys.org

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Is It Better to Fail Spectacularly?

danielmangum.com

Three weeks ago I wrote the following draft of a blog post entitled “Is It Better...
Three weeks ago I wrote the following draft of a blog post entitled “Is It Better to Fail Spectacularly?”. I am having a lot of doubts. I’ve been training for the Chicago Marathon in earnest since June, but in reality the preparations began a year ago when I was accepted based on my qualifying time from the 2023 Ven...

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Scientists Started to Decode Birdsong

newyorker.com

On a drizzly day in Grünau im Almtal, Austria, a gaggle of greylag geese shared a...
On a drizzly day in Grünau im Almtal, Austria, a gaggle of greylag geese shared a peaceful moment on a grassy field near a stream. One goose, named Edes, was preening quietly; others were resting with their beaks pointed tailward, nestled into their feathers. Then a camouflaged speaker that scientists had placed nea...

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Ioccc Flight Simulator (2010)

aerojockey.com

Be sure to visit our Facebook Page. The IOCCC Flight Simulator was the winning entry in...
Be sure to visit our Facebook Page. The IOCCC Flight Simulator was the winning entry in the 1998 International Obfuscated C Code Contest. It is a flight simulator in under 2 kilobytes of code, complete with relatively accurate 6-degree-of-freedom dynamics, loadable wireframe scenery, and a small instrument panel. IO...
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Show HN: Epublifier – scrape pages (books, manuals) for offline reading

github.com
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Introduction to Zig (a project-based book)

pedropark99.github.io
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The 3 AI Use Cases: Gods, Interns, and Cogs

simonwillison.net
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My free book "Rust Projects – Write a Redis Clone" is out

leanpub.com
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How Much Science Is Fake?

osf.io
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Jiga (YC W21) Is Hiring FS Engineer (React/Mongo/Node)

ycombinator.com
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Show HN: Erin – Open-source and self-hosted TikTok feed for your own videos

github.com
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The Secret History of Mongols: A Digital History Approach

journalofdigitalhistory.org
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One of the Last Navajo Code Talkers from World War II Dies at 107

apnews.com

Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — John Kinsel Sr., one...
Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — John Kinsel Sr., one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers who transmitted messages during World War II based on the tribe’s native language, has died. He was 107.Navajo Nation officials in Window Rock announced Kinsel...

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Rip2 – A safer, rust-based rm

github.com
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Hopping too many startups in a row?

ycombinator.com
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Making Castro's Feeds Update Faster the Lazy Way

castro.fm

This is more technical than my previous posts. In terms of Castro itself, the app is...
This is more technical than my previous posts. In terms of Castro itself, the app is doing great. Last week we again hit new user highs for 2024, presumably spurred by the pumpkin icon. The app is how users experience Castro, and it needs the most improvement, so that takes up 90% of our time, effort, and attention....
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AWS and Azure Are at Least 4x–10x More Expensive Than Hetzner

umh.app

No, you don’t have to use AWS or Azure. While AWS and Azure are industry leaders,...
No, you don’t have to use AWS or Azure. While AWS and Azure are industry leaders, their advantages often only materialize at massive scales. In many cases, they lead to escalating costs and vendor lock-in without delivering proportional benefits.If your organization hasn’t yet committed to a cloud provider or negoti...

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Show HN: Nextread.ai – Find you next book to read much easier

nextread.ai
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Stargazer (Fish)

wikipedia.org

Family of fishes The stargazers are a family, Uranoscopidae, of perciform fish that have eyes on...
Family of fishes The stargazers are a family, Uranoscopidae, of perciform fish that have eyes on top of their heads (hence the name). The family includes about 51 species (one extinct) in eight genera, all marine and found worldwide in shallow and deep saltwaters.[1] In addition to the top-mounted eyes, a stargazer ...
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Show HN: Doom Inside an SVG

chrisdalke.com
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Google Drive Blackout in Italy After Another Major Anti-Piracy Blunder

torrentfreak.com

Italy has an administrative blocking mechanism and a technical blocking platform, Piracy Shield, operated by rightsholders...
Italy has an administrative blocking mechanism and a technical blocking platform, Piracy Shield, operated by rightsholders in the private sector. Up until now, AGCOM, Italy’s independent telecoms regulator, has been Piracy Shield’s greatest supporter, at least of those not already benefiting financially from the act...
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