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Ask HN: Best Relief for Body Aches?

ycombinator.com
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Paris inaugurates giant water storage basin to clean Seine for Olympic swimming

apnews.com

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Wine 9.8 (Dev) – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS

winehq.org
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China's quiet energy revolution: the switch from nuclear to renewable energy

johnmenadue.com

There is now a policy dispute about the roles of nuclear and renewable energy in future...
There is now a policy dispute about the roles of nuclear and renewable energy in future Australian low emission energy systems. The experience of China over more than a decade provides compelling evidence on how this debate will be resolved. In December 2011 China’s National Energy Administration announced that Chin...
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What genre is DOOM? [video]

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For BASIC's 60th, three modern BASICs release new versions

theregister.com
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Programmer Time Translation Table

abel.nu
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LibreOffice 24.2.3 Community available for all operating systems

documentfoundation.org

Berlin, 2 May 2024 – LibreOffice 24.2.3 Community, the third minor release of the free, volunteer-supported...
Berlin, 2 May 2024 – LibreOffice 24.2.3 Community, the third minor release of the free, volunteer-supported office suite for personal productivity in office environments, is now available at https://www.libreoffice.org/download for Windows, macOS and Linux. The release includes around 80 bug and regression fixes ove...
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llm.c: multi-GPU, bfloat16, flash attention, ~7% faster than PyTorch

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Mega-warehouses heap more pollution on hard-hit Illinois neighborhoods

theguardian.com

Hundreds of mega-warehouses have been built in Illinois for online shopping in recent years and the...
Hundreds of mega-warehouses have been built in Illinois for online shopping in recent years and the rise in delivery trucks is polluting neighborhoods already burdened with poor air quality, a new study says.Two million people in Illinois live within a half-mile of large warehouses, which are disproportionately loca...
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Microsoft ties executive pay to security after multiple failures and breaches

arstechnica.com

Enlarge / A PC running Windows 11. It's been a bad couple of years for Microsoft's...
Enlarge / A PC running Windows 11. It's been a bad couple of years for Microsoft's security and privacy efforts. Misconfigured endpoints, rogue security certificates, and weak passwords have all caused or risked the exposure of sensitive data, and Microsoft has been criticized by security researchers, US lawmakers, ...
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Discord Applying Forced Arbitration - opt-out before it is too late!

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Finley (YC W21) is hiring securitization and structured finance professionals

lever.co

BackgroundFinley helps innovative companies unlock growth by helping them maximize their access to debt capital. In...
BackgroundFinley helps innovative companies unlock growth by helping them maximize their access to debt capital. In industries from finance to real estate, today's most innovative startups rely on debt capital to fuel their growth. But managing debt capital manually is so error-prone and labor-intensive that it migh...

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DoorDash won't let you tip NYC drivers without the app

theverge.com

Last week, I placed a big dinner order for myself and several friends through DoorDash. There...
Last week, I placed a big dinner order for myself and several friends through DoorDash. There was no way to add a tip when I placed my order, but I wasn’t too worried — DoorDash assured me I’d be able to tip after the order was placed or delivered.It was the first time I had used the service since last November, and...
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Show HN: Lightsaber Battle – May the Fourth Be with You

lightsabercursor.com
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Karate physics: How your hand can break concrete without breaking itself

jstor.org

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. In the late 1970s, a...
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. In the late 1970s, a team of karate-loving physicists decided to perform an experiment inspired by their collective passion for martial arts. The group was made up of physicist Michael Feld, a brown belt who liked to illustrate the physics of karate via...
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The Immich core team goes full-time

reddit.com

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Russian troops enter base housing US Military in Niger, US official says

reuters.com
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A Billionaire Wanted to Save 1T Trees by 2030. It's Not Going Great

bloomberg.com

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Read Satya Nadella's Microsoft memo on putting security first

theverge.com
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Scientists Find a Way to Transform a and B Blood Types into Universal Blood

singularityhub.com

Blood transfusions save lives. In the US alone, people receive around 10 million units each year....
Blood transfusions save lives. In the US alone, people receive around 10 million units each year. But blood banks are always short in supply—especially when it comes to the “universal donor” type O. Surprisingly, the gut microbiome may hold a solution for boosting universal blood supplies by chemically converting ot...
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Costa Rica restored its forests and switched to renewable energy

theverge.com

Switch to renewable energy. Stop deforestation. Restore ecosystems. They’re lofty goals that more and more corporations...
Switch to renewable energy. Stop deforestation. Restore ecosystems. They’re lofty goals that more and more corporations and governments are setting for themselves. If it seems too ambitious, just look to Costa Rica. It’s the first tropical country to have reversed deforestation, and it generates nearly 100 percent o...
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Google rolls back reCaptcha update to fix Firefox issues

bleepingcomputer.com

Google has rolled back a recent release of its reCaptcha captcha script after a bug caused...
Google has rolled back a recent release of its reCaptcha captcha script after a bug caused the service to no longer work on Firefox for Windows. Yesterday, BleepingComputer received multiple reports that reCaptcha stopped working in the latest version of Mozilla Firefox, with the issues also reported on Twitter and ...

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Court Supports NY's Requiring $15 Broadband for Poor, to Big Telecom's Horror

techdirt.com

Broadband When the Trump administration killed net neutrality, telecom industry giants convinced them to push their...
Broadband When the Trump administration killed net neutrality, telecom industry giants convinced them to push their luck and declared that not only would federal regulators no longer try to meaningfully oversee telecom giants like Comcast and AT&T, but that states couldn’t either. They got greedy. The courts didn’t ...
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