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Show HN: My new wiki for Silicon Graphics stuff

tech-pubs.net
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Blunder Free Chess – visualize which squares are attacked

taonexus.com
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Show HN: GoatDB – A Lightweight, Offline-First, Realtime NoDB for Deno and React

github.com
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Hard problems that reduce to document ranking

noperator.dev

There are two claims I’d like to make: LLMs can be used effectively1 for listwise document...
There are two claims I’d like to make: LLMs can be used effectively1 for listwise document ranking. Some complex problems can (surprisingly) be solved by transforming them into document ranking problems. I’ve primarily explored both of these claims in the context of using patch diffing to locate N-day vulnerabilitie...
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Giving Up a $250k Salary to Retire Early Is Hard

whitecoatinvestor.com

By Dr. Erik Hofmeister, WCI Columnist My wife and I are set to retire in July...
By Dr. Erik Hofmeister, WCI Columnist My wife and I are set to retire in July 2025 at the ages of 43 and 47, respectively. Our combined salaries have been around $250,000 for more than five years now. We like our jobs. We are in our peak earning years. We’re going to walk away from that amount of money forever becau...
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ChatGPT Can Be Used as Default Safari Search Engine with New Extension

macrumors.com

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A Defense of Weird Research

asteriskmag.com

President Donald Trump announced the formation of the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, days after...
President Donald Trump announced the formation of the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, days after his re-election. Tasked with eliminating wasteful spending and streamlining federal operations, DOGE’s ostensible mission is to ensure every taxpayer dollar produces measurable results.In the weeks followin...
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Ask HN: A retrofitted C dialect?

ycombinator.com

Hi I'm Anqur, a senior software engineer with different backgrounds where development in C was often...
Hi I'm Anqur, a senior software engineer with different backgrounds where development in C was often an important part of my work. E.g.1) Game: A Chinese/Vietnam game with C/C++ for making server/client, Lua for scripting [1]. 2) Embedded systems: Switch/router with network stack all written in C [2]. 3) (Networked)...
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Chicory: A JVM native WebAssembly runtime

chicory.dev
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Launch HN: Browser Use (YC W25) – open-source web agents

github.com
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New Maps of the Chaotic Space-Time Inside Black Holes

quantamagazine.org
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Dogs may have domesticated themselves because they liked snacks, model suggests

livescience.com

Scientists don't know exactly how wolves were domesticated into early dogs, but it's possible that they...
Scientists don't know exactly how wolves were domesticated into early dogs, but it's possible that they domesticated themselves by choosing to coexist with humans so that, a new study finds, they could be fed consistently. Then, these snackish canines likely selected mates that did the same.While the theory is nothi...
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Turbocharging V8 with mutable heap numbers · V8

v8.dev

At V8, we're constantly striving to improve JavaScript performance. As part of this effort, we recently...
At V8, we're constantly striving to improve JavaScript performance. As part of this effort, we recently revisited the JetStream2 benchmark suite to eliminate performance cliffs. This post details a specific optimization we made that yielded a significant 2.5x improvement in the async-fs benchmark, contributing to a ...
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SETI's Hard Steps (and How to Resolve Them)

centauri-dreams.org

The idea of life achieving a series of plateaus, each of which is a long and...
The idea of life achieving a series of plateaus, each of which is a long and perilous slog, has serious implications for SETI. It was Brandon Carter, now at the Laboratoire Univers et Théories in Meudon, France, who proposed the notion of such ‘hard steps’ back in the early 1980s. Follow-up work by a number of autho...
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DeepSearcher: A Local open-source Deep Research

milvus.io

deep researcher.gif In the previous post, “I Built a Deep Research with Open Source—and So Can...
deep researcher.gif In the previous post, “I Built a Deep Research with Open Source—and So Can You!”, we explained some of the principles underlying research agents and constructed a simple prototype that generates detailed reports on a given topic or question. The article and corresponding notebook demonstrated the...

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Hyperspace

hypercritical.co

February 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM by John Siracusa My interest in file systems started when...
February 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM by John Siracusa My interest in file systems started when I discovered how type and creator codes1 and resource forks contributed to the fantastic user interface on my original Macintosh in 1984. In the late 1990s, when it looked like Apple might buy Be Inc. to solve its operating syste...
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Fans Are Better Than Tech at Organizing Information Online (2019)

wired.com

Kudos to the fans. One of the nominees for the Hugo Awards this year is Archive...
Kudos to the fans. One of the nominees for the Hugo Awards this year is Archive of Our Own, a fanfiction archive containing nearly 5 million fanworks—about the size of the English Wikipedia, and several years younger. It's not just the fanfic, fanart, fanvids, and other fanworks, impressive as they are, that make Ar...
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Zlib-Rs Is Not Only Safer but Now Outperforming Zlib C Implementations

phoronix.com

desktop linux linux benchmarking linux hardware benchmarks linux hardware reviews linux server benchmarks
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Show HN: Prioritize Anything with Stacks

stack-ranker.com
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What do people see when they're tripping? Analyzing Erowid's trip reports

substack.com

The existence of synesthesia blew Sean Noah’s mind the first time he learned about it in...
The existence of synesthesia blew Sean Noah’s mind the first time he learned about it in high school biology class. He found it fascinating that, for synesthetes, sounds could generate images, and that some drugs, including psychedelics, could elicit that effect in people who don’t usually experience synesthesia. Wh...
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ChatGPT Saved My Life (no, seriously, I'm writing this from the ER)

hardmodefirst.xyz
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GibberLink [AI-AI Communication]

github.com
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DOGE will use AI to assess the responses of federal workers

nbcnews.com

WASHINGTON — Responses to the Elon Musk-directed email to government employees about what work they had...
WASHINGTON — Responses to the Elon Musk-directed email to government employees about what work they had accomplished in the last week are expected to be fed into an artificial intelligence system to determine whether those jobs are necessary, according to three sources with knowledge of the system.The information wi...
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US employee screening giant DISA says hackers accessed data of 3M people

techcrunch.com

DISA Global Solutions, a U.S.-based provider of employee screening services, has said it suffered a data...
DISA Global Solutions, a U.S.-based provider of employee screening services, has said it suffered a data breach that affects more than 3.3 million people. DISA, which provides services like drug and alcohol testing and background checks to more than 55,000 enterprises and a third of Fortune 500 companies, confirmed ...
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