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Show HN: What happens if you make a crossword out of Reddit r/gaming

ycombinator.com
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Where the Digital Sidewalk Ends

smolways.com
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My solar-powered and self-hosted website

dri.es
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setBigTimeout

evanhahn.com
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What do you visualize while programming?

dillonshook.com

I’ve been thinking a bit about thinking while programming lately. A bit confusing I know, but...
I’ve been thinking a bit about thinking while programming lately. A bit confusing I know, but hear me out.Programming is one of the few occupations that occurs inside our heads so it’s a little funny we don’t talk more about what actually goes on inside those heads.As a primer for the rest of the post, take 5 minute...
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Another Burnout Post

gushogg-blake.com

18 October 2024 I quit my last contracting gig in August with £40k in debt, no...
18 October 2024 I quit my last contracting gig in August with £40k in debt, no other income, and only a business idea (it failed). It was still the right decision. It’s hard to explain to people who aren’t programmers just how soul-destroying it is to work for someone else in this industry. Maddeningly hard, in fact...
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JSON Patch

zuplo.com

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RapidUDF: High-Performance JIT-Based C++ Expression/Script Engine

github.com
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How SpaceX's Starship Caught Its Booster on Re-Entry: Control Engineering

youtube.com

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US startup charging couples to 'screen embryos for IQ'

theguardian.com

A US startup company is offering to help wealthy couples screen their embryos for IQ using...
A US startup company is offering to help wealthy couples screen their embryos for IQ using controversial technology that raises questions about the ethics of genetic enhancement.The company, Heliospect Genomics, has worked with more than a dozen couples undergoing IVF, according to undercover video footage. The reco...
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Show HN: Desktop app displaying files on a 2D canvas

limandoc.com
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Method Values

fogus.me

Prior to discovering Clojure back in 2007, I was a full-time Java programmer. This was long...
Prior to discovering Clojure back in 2007, I was a full-time Java programmer. This was long before method handles, method references, lambda expressions, and invokedynamic, so viewing Java through a functional programming lens was not second-nature to me. Regardless, during my early Clojure explorations I fully expe...

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The Making of Micro Machines

readonlymemory.com
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Open-source, uncensored alternative to CharacterAI

opencharacter.org
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The Solar Magnetic Field from Solar Minimum to Pole Flip

nasa.gov

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How the Malleus maleficarum fueled the witch trial craze

arstechnica.com

Between 1400 and 1775, a significant upsurge of witch trials swept across early-modern Europe, resulting in...
Between 1400 and 1775, a significant upsurge of witch trials swept across early-modern Europe, resulting in the execution of an estimated 40,000–60,000 accused witches. Historians and social scientists have long studied this period in hopes of learning more about how large-scale social changes occur. Some have point...
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Permira completes Squarespace acquisition after upping bid to $7.2B

techcrunch.com

Website builder Squarespace is no longer a publicly traded company, after private equity firm Permira procured...
Website builder Squarespace is no longer a publicly traded company, after private equity firm Permira procured all remaining common stock in the firm. Permira first revealed plans to acquire Squarespace back in May, offering shareholders in the NYSE-traded company $44 per share — this equated to an equity valuation ...
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Show HN: Go Plan9 Memo, Speeding Up Calculations 450%

pehringer.info

I want to take advantage of Go’s concurrency and parallelism for some of my upcoming projects,...
I want to take advantage of Go’s concurrency and parallelism for some of my upcoming projects, allowing for some serious number crunching capabilities. But what if I wanted EVEN MORE POWER?!? Enter SIMD, Same Instruction Muliple Data [“sim”-“dee”]. Simd instructions allow for parallel number crunching capabilities r...
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Running an Open Source App: Usage, Costs and Community Donations

spliit.app

October 14, 2024·SebastienI created Spliit a few years ago, but the version you can use today...
October 14, 2024·SebastienI created Spliit a few years ago, but the version you can use today is only one year old. As a user suggested on GitHub, it’s a great opportunity to release some information about the project as a transparency exercise.How many people use it?In the last 12 months, Spliit received 152k visit...
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Microsoft BitNet: inference framework for 1-bit LLMs

github.com
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LLMD: A Large Language Model for Interpreting Longitudinal Medical Records

arxiv.org

Skip to main content View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:We introduce LLMD, a large language model designed...
Skip to main content View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:We introduce LLMD, a large language model designed to analyze a patient's medical history based on their medical records. Along with domain knowledge, LLMD is trained on a large corpus of records collected over time and across facilities, as well as tasks an...
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You Can Now See the Code That Helped End Apartheid

wired.com

John Graham-Cumming doesn’t ping me often, but when he does I pay attention. His day job...
John Graham-Cumming doesn’t ping me often, but when he does I pay attention. His day job is the CTO of the security giant Cloudflare, but he is also a lay historian of technology, guided by a righteous compass. He might be best known for successfully leading a campaign to force the UK government to apologize to the ...
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BeOS-Inspired Haiku Enabling More Intel Hardware

phoronix.com

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Frederick Law Olmsted: His Essential Theory (2000)

nps.gov

The teachings of Price, Gilpin, and Repton and the quiet example of his father provided the...
The teachings of Price, Gilpin, and Repton and the quiet example of his father provided the basis for Olmsted's aesthetic theories; they also underlay his refusal to follow the gardening fashions of his own time. The horticultural revolution of the early nineteenth century led gardeners to neglect older theories of ...
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