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Microsoft veteran ditches Team Tabs, blaming storage trauma of yesteryear

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Veteran Microsoft engineer Larry Osterman is the latest to throw his hat into the "tabs versus...
Veteran Microsoft engineer Larry Osterman is the latest to throw his hat into the "tabs versus spaces" ring. The debate has vexed engineers for decades – is it best to indent code with tabs or spaces? Osterman, a four-decade veteran of Microsoft, was Team Tabs when storage was tight, but has since become Team Spaces...
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Brazil's X ban is coming to an end

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Ask HN: Is CAPTCHA even needed anymore?

ycombinator.com
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The lengthy story of how I left the Tech industry and started washing miso jars

write.as

Workers these days are quitting the Tech industry in droves. They are quitting their programmer or...
Workers these days are quitting the Tech industry in droves. They are quitting their programmer or sysadmin job, or maybe just the startup world and its craziness. Some are quitting because of market conditions. Others because they are exhausted. Many more feel disillusioned by the empty promises of the Tech oligarc...
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Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apostrophe' gets approval

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The Surprising Backstory Behind Gustav Klimt's Obsession with Gold

artnet.com

Gustav Klimt made gold modern. At the turn of the 20th century, the Viennese artist captivated...
Gustav Klimt made gold modern. At the turn of the 20th century, the Viennese artist captivated public attention with his sinuous depictions of women (and occasionally men) which he adorned with copious amounts of gold leaf. These visions—which were sensual and often erotic, featuring glittering backgrounds—changed t...

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INT-FlashAttention: Enabling Flash Attention for INT8 Quantization

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Regardless of age, quitting cigarette smoking will add years to your life

newatlas.com

A new study has found that, whether you do it at 35 or 75, quitting cigarette...
A new study has found that, whether you do it at 35 or 75, quitting cigarette smoking will add years to your life. The findings go to prove that you’re never too old to reap the benefits of stopping smoking.For as long as cigarette smoking has been linked to cancer, stroke, and heart and lung disease, quit-smoking c...

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Google DeepMind scientists win Nobel chemistry prize

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Two scientists at Google DeepMind and an American biochemist have been awarded the 2024 Nobel prize...
Two scientists at Google DeepMind and an American biochemist have been awarded the 2024 Nobel prize in chemistry for breakthroughs in predicting and designing the structure of proteins.Demis Hassabis, DeepMind’s British founder, and John Jumper, who led the development of the company’s AI model AlphaFold– which pred...
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The Yearlong Wait to Transfer Bonds Out of TreasuryDirect

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Fixing your website's JavaScript performance

mozilla.org

Hydration is the process of attaching JavaScript functionality to server-rendered HTML, making the HTML interactive on...
Hydration is the process of attaching JavaScript functionality to server-rendered HTML, making the HTML interactive on the client-side. Popular frameworks like Next.js use certain hydration techniques by default. While hydration can complement server-side rendering (SSR) capabilities, it can introduce performance ch...
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"The Siege of Caffa" – The earliest known use of Biological Warfare

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Medieval siege The Siege of Caffa was a 14th-century military encounter when Jani Beg of the...
Medieval siege The Siege of Caffa was a 14th-century military encounter when Jani Beg of the Golden Horde sieged the city of Caffa, (today Feodosia) between two periods in the 1340s. The city of Caffa, a Genoese colony, was a vital trading hub located in Crimea. The city was then part of Gazaria, a group of seven po...
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Show HN: I made an SSH tunnel manager to learn Go

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Simulated circuit level breakdown of 1972 Atair Pong

falstad.com
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3Blue1Brown: Animated Math

3blue1brown.com
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Year 2038 problem of Unix time

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Computer software bug occurring in 2038 An animated visual of the bug in action. The overflow...
Computer software bug occurring in 2038 An animated visual of the bug in action. The overflow error will occur at 03:14:08 UTC on 19 January 2038. The year 2038 problem (also known as Y2038,[1] Y2K38, Y2K38 superbug or the Epochalypse[2][3]) is a time computing problem that leaves some computer systems unable to rep...
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Arbitration – Disney Abandoned a Brazen Legal Tactic. Uber Is Doubling Down

slate.com

When John and Georgia McGinty hailed an Uber in March 2022, they never expected their driver...
When John and Georgia McGinty hailed an Uber in March 2022, they never expected their driver to run a red light, crash into another car, and send them to the hospital with critical injuries. Georgia McGinty was unable to work for over a year as she underwent extensive surgeries and rehabilitation. A jury would likel...

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Turkey blocks instant messaging platform Discord

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Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good

theregister.com

EuroBSDcon 2024 One of Stefano Marinelli's NetBSD boxes sat quietly serving for a decade, because everyone...
EuroBSDcon 2024 One of Stefano Marinelli's NetBSD boxes sat quietly serving for a decade, because everyone forgot about it. This is how Unix is meant to be. After this year's Open Source Summit in Vienna, the Reg FOSS desk travelled to Dublin for the 2024 EuroBSDCon. One of the talks at the event was from the man wh...
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AI's Penicillin and X-Ray Moment

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Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration.When the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel...
Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration.When the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel wrote his will in 1895, he designated funds to reward those who “have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind.” The resulting Nobel Prizes have since been awarded to the discoverers of penicillin, X-rays, a...

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Ask HN: What is your opinion on Open BSD?

ycombinator.com
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Circuit diagrams and firmware source code for Gboard DIY keyboards

github.com
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Chemistry Nobel: Computational protein design and protein structure prediction

nobelprize.org
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How a Gas Compressor Station Works

kimray.com

The natural gas compressor station plays a vital role in the oil and gas industry. Companies...
The natural gas compressor station plays a vital role in the oil and gas industry. Companies construct these stations along natural gas pipelines and use them to compress gas so it can continue flowing downstream to its final destination, which may be a processing facility, a storage tank, or retail or utility compa...
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