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The Surprising Benefits of Talking Out Loud to Yourself

time.com

When Ellie Shoja goes for a walk, she slips on her headphones and starts talking—but there’s...
When Ellie Shoja goes for a walk, she slips on her headphones and starts talking—but there’s no other voice ricocheting through the speakers. It’s merely a convenient way to disguise the fact that she’s engrossed in a conversation with herself.“As far back as I can remember, I’ve talked to myself,” says Shoja, 43, w...
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Recovering from Frozen Images in Squeak

squeak.org

When developing complex systems, encountering errors that leave your project in a frozen state can bring...
When developing complex systems, encountering errors that leave your project in a frozen state can bring much sadness and consternation. For developers working with Squeak/Smalltalk, a frozen image refers to a situation where the system becomes unresponsive. This can happen due to various issues, including deadlocks...
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Show HN: Llama 3.2 Interpretability with Sparse Autoencoders

github.com
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Could Humans Hibernate?

aeon.co
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Oxide Cuts Data Center Power Consumption in Half

oxide.computer

Replacing low-efficiency AC power supplies with a high-efficiency DC Bus Bar Power conversion is performed once...
Replacing low-efficiency AC power supplies with a high-efficiency DC Bus Bar Power conversion is performed once AC power is fed from the data center to the Oxide universal power shelf with a customized power shelf controller (PSC). The power shelf distributes DC power up and down the rack via a bus bar. This elimina...
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Communicating Software Estimates

apsis.io

Communication is hard. It's also extremely important. We're lucky that in the field of software development...
Communication is hard. It's also extremely important. We're lucky that in the field of software development miscommunication tends to lead to project delays instead of loss of life.1 Estimates are also hard. It's challenging to produce accurate estimates in the first place, but even after a good estimate has been pr...
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14-Year-Old Casper Wind Farm Has Not Turned a Blade in at Least 3 Years

cowboystatedaily.com
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Emacs Code Conversion Language

emacsninja.com
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Refresh vs. Long-lived Access Tokens (2023)

grayduck.mn
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DOJ says Google must sell Chrome to crack open its search monopoly

theverge.com

The Department of Justice says that Google must divest the Chrome web browser to restore competition...
The Department of Justice says that Google must divest the Chrome web browser to restore competition to the online search market, and it left the door open to requiring the company to spin out Android, too.Filed late Wednesday in DC District Court, the initial proposed final judgement refines the DOJ’s earlier high-...
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A Walk with LuaJIT

polarsignals.com

continuous profiling ebpf monitoring observability polar signals
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OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now

dynomight.net

We recently talked about a mystery: All large language models (LLMs) are terrible at chess. All,...
We recently talked about a mystery: All large language models (LLMs) are terrible at chess. All, that is, except for gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct, which for some reason can play at an advanced amateur level. This is despite the fact that this model is more than a year old and much smaller than recent models. What’s going ...
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Listen to the whispers: web timing attacks that work

portswigger.net
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My Dream Thermostat

leontrolski.github.io
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First Ever Recorded Use of ICBM in War

funker530.com
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Ask HN: How can I consistently deliver high-quality work with minimal issues?

ycombinator.com
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Pg_karnak: Transactional schema migration across tenant databases

thenile.dev

When we need to describe Nile in a single sentence, we say "PostgreSQL re-engineered for multi-tenant...
When we need to describe Nile in a single sentence, we say "PostgreSQL re-engineered for multi-tenant apps". By multi-tenant apps, we mean applications like Stripe, Figma, Twilio, Notion, Workday, and Gusto - here a large number of customers is served from a shared application stack. In these types of applications, ...

ai-native b2b multi-tenant postgres saas
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Teenage Engineering OP–XY

teenage.engineering

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Handling Cookies Is a Minefield

grayduck.mn
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Launch HN: Fresco (YC F24) – AI Copilot for Construction Superintendents

ycombinator.com

Hi HN! We're Arvind and Akhil, and we're building Fresco (https://fresco-ai.com/). We use AI to quickly...
Hi HN! We're Arvind and Akhil, and we're building Fresco (https://fresco-ai.com/). We use AI to quickly create and manage documentation for construction superintendents. Here’s a demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKIQQKkjv_4.Superintendents are the busiest and most expensive people on construction sites. J...
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Thousands of AI agents later, who even remembers what they do?

theregister.com

Among the optimism and opportunities perceived around AI agents, Gartner has spotted some risks – namely...
Among the optimism and opportunities perceived around AI agents, Gartner has spotted some risks – namely that organizations might create "thousands of bots, but nobody now remembers what those bots do or why they were built." The collision of muddied management thinking and much-hyped autonomous agents will be inter...
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OpenZFS Horror Stories – Klara Systems

klarasystems.com
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OpenZFS Driver for Windows

github.com
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Curve Families

linebender.org

CurveParamsSubdivAffineInflectionsSuperellipse Line0yesyes00.5 Arc1yesno00.785 Parabola2yesyes00.833 Euler spiral2yesno10.785 Rectangular elastica2yesno1~0.8 Elastica3yesno1*0.5..~0.85 Balanced Bézier3nono20.5..0.95 Euler spiral PC3yesno10.785 Conic3yesyes00.5..1 Cubic...
CurveParamsSubdivAffineInflectionsSuperellipse Line0yesyes00.5 Arc1yesno00.785 Parabola2yesyes00.833 Euler spiral2yesno10.785 Rectangular elastica2yesno1~0.8 Elastica3yesno1*0.5..~0.85 Balanced Bézier3nono20.5..0.95 Euler spiral PC3yesno10.785 Conic3yesyes00.5..1 Cubic Bézier4yesyes20.5..0.95 Spiro4yesno3TODO Hyperb...
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