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Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset

simonwillison.net
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Windows 365 Link Preview

microsoft.com
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Yemen's 'uninhibited' attacks push French warship to exit Red Sea

thecradle.co
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Unified Checkout: Streamlining Uber's Payment Ecosystem

uber.com
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Jaguar Cars rebranding without any cars

jaguarusa.com
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Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke

bsky.app
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Let's Encrypt is 10 years old now

letsencrypt.org
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Yhangry (YC W22) Is Hiring 2 Mid-Level Full-Stack Engineers

ycombinator.com

Marketplace for private chefs£50K - £70K GBP / 0.02% - 0.15%London, England, GBConnect directly with founders...
Marketplace for private chefs£50K - £70K GBP / 0.02% - 0.15%London, England, GBConnect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups.Apply to role › Yhangry is like Airbnb, but for finding a chef to cook for an event: Their birthday, a hen party or a family Christmas gathering. We’re changing the lives of ch...
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A wrinkle in how Windows 95 setup bootstrapped its initial GUI step

microsoft.com

Recall that Windows 95 setup could potentially use three operating systems. Now, most of the work...
Recall that Windows 95 setup could potentially use three operating systems. Now, most of the work happened in the 16-bit Windows GUI app, and that code wanted to use fancy new controls like list views and property sheets. Windows 3.1 had a DLL called commctrl.dll which contained the code for fancy new controls, or a...
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Prusa CORE One: Our new fully-enclosed CoreXY 3D printer

prusa3d.com

I’m really excited that I can finally unveil the new Prusa CORE One! Not just here,...
I’m really excited that I can finally unveil the new Prusa CORE One! Not just here, with text and a 10-minute video deep dive, but also live at FormNext in Frankfurt. So if you’re visiting, stop by our booth at Hall 12.1 / stand G39. We’d love to see you and show you our new flagship machine! There’s a lot to unpack...
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Blender 4.3

blender.org

Splash artwork by Blender Studio Released November 19th, 2024 Round-up of what’s new, in detail. Blender...
Splash artwork by Blender Studio Released November 19th, 2024 Round-up of what’s new, in detail. Blender 4.3 new features overview by Jonathan Lampel from CGCookie, Harry Blends,Christopher 3D, and Aidy Burrows from Creative Shrimp. The real-time renderer EEVEE now supports Light Linking and Shadow Linking—features ...
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Google reacts angrily to report it will have to sell Chrome

bbc.com

ReutersGoogle has said it would harm consumers and businesses if it is forced to sell Chrome,...
ReutersGoogle has said it would harm consumers and businesses if it is forced to sell Chrome, the world's most popular web browser.The US Department of Justice (DOJ) will propose the measure to a judge on Wednesday, Bloomberg has reported.Judge Amit Mehta ruled Google operates an online search monopoly in August, an...
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I designed my website to look like a chat log

ypson.com
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ChipWits Macintosh/Commodore 64 Forth source code released

chipwits.com

This month marks the 🎈🎈🎈 40th anniversary of ChipWits! 🎈🎈🎈 To celebrate, we’re releasing all of...
This month marks the 🎈🎈🎈 40th anniversary of ChipWits! 🎈🎈🎈 To celebrate, we’re releasing all of the original Mac and Commodore 64 FORTH source code (or as much as we could recover) as open source! You can find the code at https://github.com/chipwits/chipwits-forth. Read on for some history and analysis. ChipWits Mac...
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Nickel Plating Handbook [pdf]

nickelinstitute.org
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1-Bit AI Infrastructure

arxiv.org
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Understanding the BM25 full text search algorithm

emschwartz.me
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Strava closes the gates to sharing fitness data with other apps

theverge.com

Strava recently informed its users and partners that new terms for its API restrict the data...
Strava recently informed its users and partners that new terms for its API restrict the data that third-party apps can show, refrain from replicating Strava’s look, and place a ban on using data “for any model training related to artificial intelligence, machine learning or similar applications.” The policy is effec...
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Apple TV+ Will License Its Movies to Other Services to Reduce Billions in Losses

bloomberg.com
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Nominal for Storing, Structural for Manipulating

bearblog.dev
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Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever

techdirt.com

Culture One of the most frustrating aspects in the ongoing conversation around the preservation of older...
Culture One of the most frustrating aspects in the ongoing conversation around the preservation of older video games, also known as cultural output, is the collision of IP rights and some publishers’ unwillingness to both continue to support and make available these older games and their refusal to release those sam...
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Meta Uses LLMs to Improve Incident Response

tryparity.com

In June, Meta released an article titled Leveraging AI for efficient incident response on their engineering...
In June, Meta released an article titled Leveraging AI for efficient incident response on their engineering blog. In this article, engineers outline how they leveraged large language models to improve Meta's incident response capabilities. The headline metric from this report: Meta was able to use LLMs to successful...
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Webvm: Virtual Machine for the Web

github.com
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Redesigning Photography with AI-Enhanced Metalenses

petapixel.com

Optics and artificial intelligence have converged to create a new imaging system that could transform photography....
Optics and artificial intelligence have converged to create a new imaging system that could transform photography. By integrating AI-driven corrections with metalenses—flat, nanoscale lenses—researchers have overcome the long-standing challenges of miniaturizing lenses while maintaining image quality. Metalenses, in...
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