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Ask HN: If you were rewriting Emacs from scratch, what would you do differently?

ycombinator.com
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IcePanel (YC W23) is hiring full stack engineers in Vancouver

ycombinator.com
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Entropy Explained, with Sheep (2016)

engineersedge.com

From Melting Ice Cubes to a Mystery About Time By Aatish Bhatia Let’s start with a...
From Melting Ice Cubes to a Mystery About Time By Aatish Bhatia Let’s start with a puzzle. Why does this gif look totally normal... Image: Moussa / Public Domain ...but this one look strange? The second gif is just the first one played in reverse. But something about it immediately seems off. This just never happens...

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Some Notes on Upgrading Hugo

jvns.ca

Warning: this is a post about very boring yakshaving, probably only of interest to people who...
Warning: this is a post about very boring yakshaving, probably only of interest to people who are trying to upgrade Hugo from a very old version to a new version. But what are blogs for if not documenting one’s very boring yakshaves from time to time? So yesterday I decided to try to upgrade Hugo. There’s no real re...
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Home Libraries Will Save Civilization

frontporchrepublic.com

Multiple recent stories offered more signs of what I consider to be an unfolding civilizational decline....
Multiple recent stories offered more signs of what I consider to be an unfolding civilizational decline. First, a student in Hartford, CT, who had attended local public schools from age six, graduated from high school without knowing how to read or write. At all. She had used speech-to-text software to write her pap...
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Starship Flight 5 license issued by FAA

faa.gov
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Lake Michigan Stonehenge – What have researchers learned?

illinoisfishinghub.com

Lake Michigan’s underwater Stonehenge was unearthed by Mark Holley, a professor specializing in underwater archaeology. This...
Lake Michigan’s underwater Stonehenge was unearthed by Mark Holley, a professor specializing in underwater archaeology. This ancient structural marvel consists of a circle of granite stones, each meticulously arranged and thought to be around 9,000 years old. People often associate it with Stonehenge due to its intr...
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The Explore vs. Exploit Dilemma

nathanzhao.cc

I often analogize some real-world problems according to their ML-related counterparts. One of them is the...
I often analogize some real-world problems according to their ML-related counterparts. One of them is the exporation-exploitation problem, but it’s often been met with minimal recognition. I wrote this blog as something I can refer to the next time I get a “what do you mean?”Introduction: The Multi-Armed Bandit Prob...
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Gödel Agent: A self-referential agent framework for recursive self-improvement

arxiv.org
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The 1/8th Sleep

near.blog

The eight sleep bed is a popular self-cooling bed. Sleeping on a colder surface not only...
The eight sleep bed is a popular self-cooling bed. Sleeping on a colder surface not only feels great but often improves sleep as well. This post discusses a cheaper homemade option that I use instead. A 12℉ difference between the bed surface and the surrounding air. Some ice was used in the cooler prior to the image...
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Turkish language has a gossip tense

twitter.com
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Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant shift from road to rail

mcc-berlin.net

MCC analysis for the Ariadne energy transition project shows 30 percent more rail journeys. The announced...
MCC analysis for the Ariadne energy transition project shows 30 percent more rail journeys. The announced increase in price to 58 euros per month undoes half of this. Cologne Central Station: tThanks to the 49-euro ticket, there are significantly more train journeys and much lower CO2 emissions. | Photo: Shutterstoc...

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Writing an animated 3-star popup with .NET MAUI and Lottie (2022)

medium.com

Spanish version:https://medium.com/@rretamal.dev/c%C3%B3mo-hacer-un-popup-animado-de-3-estrellas-en-net-maui-y-lottie-859bd310a4dfOn different gamified apps and games we can see the typical 3-star system that indicates...
Spanish version:https://medium.com/@rretamal.dev/c%C3%B3mo-hacer-un-popup-animado-de-3-estrellas-en-net-maui-y-lottie-859bd310a4dfOn different gamified apps and games we can see the typical 3-star system that indicates how well a user did an action, pass a level, etc, in this case I wanted to do something like that ...
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Show HN: AOO – C++ library for real-time audio streaming and messaging

iem.sh
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Lessons from Plain Text

rugu.dev

Written at 2024-10-10When you interact with a text file using an editor, what you see doesn’t...
Written at 2024-10-10When you interact with a text file using an editor, what you see doesn’t necessarily reflect the data stored in the file. Sure, the contents of plain text files are byte codes encoded in formats like ASCII, UTF8, or UTF16, and these byte codes are the ultimate source of truth. But in the end, it...
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Washington's 'forgotten giant' volcano stirs

gizmodo.com

There’s been some unusual rumblings coming from Mount Adams, but for those in the area, it’s...
There’s been some unusual rumblings coming from Mount Adams, but for those in the area, it’s not time to panic. Geologists are closely monitoring Washington’s largest volcano (and second tallest mountain), which hasn’t erupted since the Bronze Age. During the month of September, the United States Geological Service ...
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Heart rate variability differs between smartwatch and clinical testing

wvu.edu

New West Virginia University research finds heart rate variability — the time between heartbeats — reported...
New West Virginia University research finds heart rate variability — the time between heartbeats — reported on smartwatches and rings is different from what’s recorded in clinical settings. (WVU Illustration/Aira Burkhart) At a time when usage of smartwatches and rings has become more common, a West Virginia Univers...
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FLUX is fast and it's open source

replicate.com

FLUX is now much faster on Replicate, and we’ve made our optimizations open-source so you can...
FLUX is now much faster on Replicate, and we’ve made our optimizations open-source so you can see exactly how they work and build upon them. Here are the end-to-end speeds: FLUX.1 [schnell] at 512x512 and 4 steps: 0.29 seconds (P90: 0.49 seconds) FLUX.1 [schnell] at 1024x1024 and 4 steps: 0.72 seconds (P90: 0.95 sec...
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Every bug/quirk of the Windows resource compiler (rc.exe), probably

ryanliptak.com

fuzzing win32 zig
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Show HN: A free alternative to Typora –– IF

openages.com
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Two never-before-seen tools, from same group, infect air-gapped devices

arstechnica.com

Other new insights offered by the ESET research is GoldenJackal’s interest in targets located in Europe....
Other new insights offered by the ESET research is GoldenJackal’s interest in targets located in Europe. Kaspersky researchers detected the group targeting Middle Eastern countries. Based on the information that was available to Kaspersky, company researchers couldn’t attribute GoldenJackal to any specific country. ...
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Omni SenseVoice: High-Speed Speech Recognition with Words Timestamps

github.com
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Can logic programming be liberated from predicates and backtracking? [pdf]

uni-kiel.de
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Exploring Typst, a new typesetting system similar to LaTeX

jreyesr.com
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