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Et Tu, Grammarly?
Saturday 29 Mar 2025 For a few months now I’ve received sporadic reports that my website...
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Chimpanzees act as 'engineers', choosing materials to make tools
A multidisciplinary team of researchers from the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University...
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Show HN: Personal Time Tracking with Git
Knowing how much time is spent changing code in component x, lets us reason about entropy...
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Where Do the Bytes Go?
Or perhaps more precisely, how do they get there? What happens when you call write?trapThe write...
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Building a search engine from scratch, in Rust: part 1
In the previous article, I introduced what project we're going to address in the following weeks:...
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Trump's attacks on universities get darker, with shadows reaching our shores
A colleague and I would like to write an academic paper on the potential impact of...
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You Need Subtyping
Ever since Stephen Dolan’s 2016 thesis Algebraic Subtyping showed how to combine type inference and subtyping,...
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The Curious Case of Beam CPU Usage (2019)
While benchmarking Go vs Elixir vs Node, we discovered that Elixir (running on the BEAM virtual...
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Scammers Steal $1T a Year – Mostly from Americans
[transition dinging] [suspenseful music][Evelyn] I was on Hinge for just a couple of monthsand matched with...
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Window cleaner in quest to confirm priceless Shakespeare portrait
Eric Johnson & Louise ParryBBC News, HertfordshireMadoc RobertsArt experts are divided on whether this is a...
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Emulating the YM2612: Part 1 – Interface
This is the first post in a series on emulating the main Sega Genesis sound chip,...
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The Culture Shock of Flossing
There are many established, regularly parodied cultural differences between France and the US: style, portion sizes,...
