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Open source maintainers are feeling the squeeze

theregister.com

State Of Open Recent events have brought the plight of open source maintainers front and center,...
State Of Open Recent events have brought the plight of open source maintainers front and center, but the problems were brewing for many years. The theme cropped up repeatedly during 2025's State Of Open Conference, with speakers from tech giants and volunteer maintainers laying out the challenges. Much of the open s...
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Reflections on AGI from 1879

learningfromexamples.com

Pierre Mornet, Illustration of George EliotGeorge Eliot, or Mary Ann Evans as she was known to...
Pierre Mornet, Illustration of George EliotGeorge Eliot, or Mary Ann Evans as she was known to her friends, was one of the most influential writers of Victorian England. Amongst her greatest hits were The Mill on the Floss, a novel about two siblings grappling with family life, and Middlemarch, a meditation on marri...
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Representing Graphs in PostgreSQL

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Talking out loud to yourself is a technology for thinking (2020)

psyche.co

This week, a woman was strolling in my street, walking in circles and speaking out loud...
This week, a woman was strolling in my street, walking in circles and speaking out loud to herself. People were looking at her awkwardly, but she didn’t particularly mind, and continued walking vigorously and speaking. Yes, that woman was me. Like many of us, I talk to myself out loud, though I’m a little unusual in...
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Ask HN: Ways to progress career wise as SWE?

ycombinator.com
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Techie pointed out meetings are pointless, and was punished for it

theregister.com

Who, Me? Welcome to a fresh Monday, and therefore a new installment of "Who, Me?", our...
Who, Me? Welcome to a fresh Monday, and therefore a new installment of "Who, Me?", our reader-contributed column that shares your stories of making workplace mistakes and scraping your way to safety afterwards. This week, we venture into the realm of office politics with a reader we'll Regomize as "Palmer." Palmer o...
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Is ChatGPT autocomplete bad UX/UI?

honzabe.com
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A humpback whale briefly swallows kayaker in Chile

apnews.com

PUNTA ARENAS, Chile (AP) — A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off Chilean Patagonia before...
PUNTA ARENAS, Chile (AP) — A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him unharmed. The incident, caught on camera, quickly went viral.Last Saturday, Adrián Simancas was kayaking with his father, Dell, in Bahía El Águila near the San Isidro Lighthouse in the Strait of...

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It's not just AI. China's medicines are surprising the world, too

economist.com
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Managers given 200 characters to justify not firing nuclear regulators

npr.org

Scenes of confusion and chaos unfolded over the last two days at the civilian agency that...
Scenes of confusion and chaos unfolded over the last two days at the civilian agency that oversees the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile, as the Trump administration's mass firings were carried out before being "paused" on Friday. This account of firings at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is bas...
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South Korea bans new DeepSeek AI downloads

bbc.com

João da SilvaBusiness reporterJean MackenzieSeoul correspondentReporting fromSeoulSouth Korea has banned new downloads of China's DeepSeek artificial...
João da SilvaBusiness reporterJean MackenzieSeoul correspondentReporting fromSeoulSouth Korea has banned new downloads of China's DeepSeek artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, according to the country's personal data protection watchdog.The government agency said the AI model will become available again to South Ko...
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Tokyo Xtreme Racer Early Access Review: We Are So Back

thedrive.com

I’ll never forget seeing Tokyo Xtreme Racer 2 on the Sega Dreamcast for the first time...
I’ll never forget seeing Tokyo Xtreme Racer 2 on the Sega Dreamcast for the first time 25 years ago. It was hard not to be mystified by its exquisite car models, more detailed than any I’d seen before, and the light show of street lamps sweeping over their sheet metal. Or the alluring wilderness of Tokyo’s Metropoli...
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Searchcode.com's SQLite database is probably 6 terabytes bigger than yours

boyter.org

searchcode.com’s SQLite database is probably one of the largest in the world, at least for a...
searchcode.com’s SQLite database is probably one of the largest in the world, at least for a public facing website. It’s actual size is 6.4 TB. Which is probably 6 terabytes bigger than yours. -rw-r--r-- 1 searchcode searchcode 6.4T Feb 17 04:30 searchcode.db At least, I think its bigger. I have no evidence to the c...
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Twitter blocks links to Signal messenger

disruptionist.com

Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, is currently banning links to “Signal.me,” a URL used by...
Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, is currently banning links to “Signal.me,” a URL used by the encrypted messaging service Signal. The “Signal.me” domain is specifically used by the service so that users can send out a quick link to directly contact them through the messaging app.X, formerly Twitter, is blocking...
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Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics

github.com
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Comparison of File Systems for an SSD

linux.org
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My Time at MIT

muratbuffalo.blogspot.com

Twenty years ago, in 2004-2005, I spent a year at MIT’s Computer Science department as a...
Twenty years ago, in 2004-2005, I spent a year at MIT’s Computer Science department as a postdoc working with Professor Nancy Lynch. It was an extraordinary experience. Life at MIT felt like paradise, and leaving felt like being cast out.MIT CultureMIT’s Stata Center was the best CS building in the world at the time...
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The deadly lottery of the snakebite antivenom industry

theguardian.com

He had heard rats scuttling around and was reaching to turn on his bedside lamp when...
He had heard rats scuttling around and was reaching to turn on his bedside lamp when Kamidikolo* was bitten. By the time he reached hospital, snake venom had already started breaking down his skin and muscle. The flesh around the bite was necrotising, or dying.The only treatment to stop the damage was antivenom and ...
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All Kindles can now be jailbroken

kindlemodding.org

After all, all devices have their dangers. The discovery of speech introduced communication – and lies....
After all, all devices have their dangers. The discovery of speech introduced communication – and lies. - Isaac Asimov WinterBreak is a jailbreak which was released on New Year’s Day 2025 by HackerDude It is based on Mesquito Special thanks to Marek, NiLuJe, Katadelos and all the beta-testers during the development ...
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New York Times goes all-in on internal AI tools

semafor.com

The New York Times is greenlighting the use of AI for its product and editorial staff,...
The New York Times is greenlighting the use of AI for its product and editorial staff, saying that internal tools could eventually write social copy, SEO headlines, and some code.In an email to newsroom staff, the company announced that it’s opening up AI training to the newsroom, and debuting a new internal AI tool...
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BMW's next-gen EVs depend on an unassuming black box called 'Heart of Joy'

theverge.com

Last November, I strapped into the rear passenger seat of an all-electric, four-door sedan with BMW...
Last November, I strapped into the rear passenger seat of an all-electric, four-door sedan with BMW test driver and 24-hour racer Jens Klingmann behind the wheel. It was a cold day at BMW’s Performance Driving Center in Greer, SC, and beneath the five-point harnesses, roll cage, and heavily camouflaged body, Klingma...
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Word embeddings – Part 3: The secret ingredients of Word2Vec

ruder.io

Word2vec is a pervasive tool for learning word embeddings. Its success, however, is mostly due to...
Word2vec is a pervasive tool for learning word embeddings. Its success, however, is mostly due to particular architecture choices. Transferring these choices to traditional distributional methods makes them competitive with popular word embedding methods. This post will discuss the factors that account for the succe...

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The Surprising Trick for Cooking Rice That Works for Any Grain

nytimes.com
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How do modern compilers choose which variables to put in registers?

stackexchange.com
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