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The tragedy of trying to run an old node project

abdisalan.com

Updating my website It’s been a long while since I wrote anything on this site. The...
Updating my website It’s been a long while since I wrote anything on this site. The framework I used was Gatsby which in 2020 was one of the hot ways of getting a good looking blog up and running quickly. With over 41 dependencies, and god knows how many more sub-dependencies, this thing was a beast. Time to run it ...
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Playground Wisdom: Threads Beat Async/Await

pocoo.org

written on Monday, November 18, 2024 It's been a few years since I wrote about my...
written on Monday, November 18, 2024 It's been a few years since I wrote about my challenges with async/await-based systems and how they just seem to not support back pressure well. A few years later, I do not think that this problem has subsided much, but my thinking and understanding have perhaps evolved a bit. I'...
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Unreal 5.5 is a BIG deal

youtube.com

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Bird brain from the age of dinosaurs reveals roots of avian intelligence

cam.ac.uk

Navaornis is named after William Nava, director of the Museu de Paleontologia de Marília in Brazil’s...
Navaornis is named after William Nava, director of the Museu de Paleontologia de Marília in Brazil’s São Paolo State, who discovered the fossil in 2016 at a site in the neighbouring locality of Presidente Prudente. Tens of millions of years ago, this site was likely a dry area with slow-flowing creeks, which enabled...
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Illegally logged wood from Cambodia likely ending up in U.S. homes

mongabay.com
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Waiting for many things at once with io_uring

mazzo.li
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Show HN: FastGraphRAG – Better RAG using good old PageRank

github.com
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Show HN: Tips.io – A Tailwind playground with AI, page management, and theming

tips.io
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Qwen2.5 Turbo extends context length to 1M tokens

qwenlm.github.io

API Documentation (Chinese) HuggingFace Demo ModelScope DemoIntroduction#After the release of Qwen2.5, we heard the community’s demand...
API Documentation (Chinese) HuggingFace Demo ModelScope DemoIntroduction#After the release of Qwen2.5, we heard the community’s demand for processing longer contexts. In recent months, we have made many optimizations for the model capabilities and inference performance of extremely long context. Today, we are proud ...
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Coincidences that make our existence possible

bigthink.com

Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel...
Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all Our Universe has grown up impressively since the Big Bang.At the start of the hot Big Bang, the Universe was rapidly expanding and filled with high-energy, very densely packed, ultra-rel...
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Nordic neighbours release new advice on surviving war

bbc.co.uk
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Air traffic failure caused by two locations 3600nm apart sharing 3-letter code

flightglobal.com

Investigators probing the serious UK air traffic control system failure in August last year have detailed...
Investigators probing the serious UK air traffic control system failure in August last year have detailed the flightplan waypoint confusion which triggered the incident. Over 700,000 passengers were affected by the failure of UK air navigation service NATS’ flightplan processing system. This forced controllers to re...
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The Skyline algorithm for packing 2D rectangles

jvernay.fr
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Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud fs

ycombinator.com

Hey HN, I’m Hunter the founder of Regatta Storage (https://regattastorage.com). Regatta Storage is a new cloud...
Hey HN, I’m Hunter the founder of Regatta Storage (https://regattastorage.com). Regatta Storage is a new cloud file system that provides unlimited pay-as-you-go capacity, local-like performance, and automatic synchronization to S3-compatible storage. For example, you can use Regatta to instantly access massive data ...
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A BBC navigation bar component broke depending on the external monitor

joshtumath.uk
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Pre-Greek Substrate

wikipedia.org
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November 1861: Chalmers' under Channel railway

theengineer.co.uk

Over the years The Engineer has reported on several schemes to connect the UK to mainland...
Over the years The Engineer has reported on several schemes to connect the UK to mainland Europe and, as we know, only one project has been successful so far. Tunnels and bridges have been proposed and in 1880 work started on experimental tunnels in Folkstone that were dug by hand and an early tunnel boring machine....

archive channel crossing
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Vladimir Shklyarov who criticised Putin's Ukraine war dies in fall from building

lbc.co.uk
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Bluesky, eXit, and vague thoughts about self-hosting

lazaruscorporation.co.uk

The “Folk Horror and folklore” starter pack The mass exodus from Twitter/X to Bluesky over the...
The “Folk Horror and folklore” starter pack The mass exodus from Twitter/X to Bluesky over the past weekend — #eXit as some have tagged it — has dramatically increased the number of followers I have there from about four hundred to over a thousand in the space of just a couple of days. With the number of new Bluesky...

indieweb social media
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Reports of Unwanted Telemarketing Calls Down More Than 50 Percent Since 2021

ftc.gov

Today, the Federal Trade Commission released the National Do Not Call Registry Data Book for Fiscal...
Today, the Federal Trade Commission released the National Do Not Call Registry Data Book for Fiscal Year 2024 which shows that consumer reports about unwanted calls continue to drop for the third straight year, with complaint volume down by more than half since 2021.The FTC has pursued a multifaced strategy to crack...
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Tim Berners-Lee Wants the Internet Back

bloomberg.com
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Teen behind hundreds of swatting attacks pleads guilty to federal charges

wired.com
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Libobscura

dorotac.eu
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Mystery fault takes out undersea internet cable between Germany and Finland

cnn.com

An unexplained fault in an undersea telecommunications cable linking Finland and Germany has disrupted communication services,...
An unexplained fault in an undersea telecommunications cable linking Finland and Germany has disrupted communication services, the company that runs the link said Monday. The C-Lion1 cable that connects Helsinki to Rostock in Germany was built and is operated by Cinia, a state-controlled Finnish company. Covering a ...
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