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BYD sales soar as Tesla continues to struggle in Europe

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Swift Achieved Dynamic Linking Where Rust Couldn't

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Is Doge Securities Fraud?

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How AI is creating a rift at McKinsey, Bain, and BCG

the-ken.com

“Why are you solving this problem from first principles? You should’ve used ChatGPT to help you.”...
“Why are you solving this problem from first principles? You should’ve used ChatGPT to help you.” A consultant at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), one of the “Big 3s” in the sector, recounted their manager’s reaction when they turned in a preliminary report on a certain topic a few months ago. “The funniest part is th...
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In Defence of TypeScript Enums

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Show HN: Qwen-2.5-32B is now the best open source OCR model

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Show HN: Make SVGs interactive in React with 1 line

svggles.vercel.app
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Dave Täht has passed away

libreqos.io
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Silica Gel Took over the World

scopeofwork.net

I find them stuffed into the toes of a new pair of sneakers. I find them...
I find them stuffed into the toes of a new pair of sneakers. I find them wedged into a sheaf of seaweed snacks. I find them in the over-inflated bag that contains my new inhaler, and in the vacuum-sealed one puckered around my kids’ 3D printing filament. “DO NOT EAT,” they all admonish me, and I find myself slipping...

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Measuring Acceleration Structures

zeux.io

31 Mar 2025 Hardware accelerated raytracing, as supported by DirectX 12 and Vulkan, relies on an...
31 Mar 2025 Hardware accelerated raytracing, as supported by DirectX 12 and Vulkan, relies on an abstract data structure that stores scene geometry, known as “acceleration structure” and often referred to as “BVH” or “BLAS”. Unlike geometry representation for rasterization, rendering engines can not customize the da...
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Generate autounattend.xml files for Windows 10/11

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Debts, Tech and Otherwise

newardassociates.com

While people debate the validity of "tech debt", others are asking, "What other sorts of 'debt'...
While people debate the validity of "tech debt", others are asking, "What other sorts of 'debt' do we have in software development and delivery?" 09 March 2025 tl;dr A colleague of mine, Scott Porad (CTO, VP Engineering) posted on LinkedIn, asking, "What are all the other kinds of debt like tech debt?" He listed out...

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Show HN: Zig Topological Sort Library for Parallel Processing

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Camelgate NPM Outage (Cloudflare)

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Meru Health (YC S18) Is Hiring

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The Myst Graph: A New Perspective on Myst

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The Mysterious Sinking of the Bayesian

newlinesmag.com

On Aug. 19, 2024, a storm swept into Sicily’s Gulf of Porticciolo and, within minutes, sank...
On Aug. 19, 2024, a storm swept into Sicily’s Gulf of Porticciolo and, within minutes, sank the megayacht Bayesian, drowning 58-year-old British tycoon Mike Lynch, his 18-year-old daughter and five other passengers. For many, the incident conjured up the hubris of those who compete with the gods. Months of investiga...
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Dual RTX 5090 Beats $25,000 H100 in Real-World LLM Performance

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AI enthusiasts looking for top-tier performance in local LLMs have long considered NVIDIA’s H100 to be...
AI enthusiasts looking for top-tier performance in local LLMs have long considered NVIDIA’s H100 to be the gold standard for inference, thanks to its high-bandwidth HBM3 memory and optimized tensor cores. However, recent benchmarks show that a dual RTX 5090 setup, while still pricey, outperforms the H100 in sustaine...
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Chess324 – A Chess Variant to Reduce Draws

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Home * Games * Chess324’’’ Chess324, (or Kaufman Random Chess) a chess variant invented by Larry...
Home * Games * Chess324’’’ Chess324, (or Kaufman Random Chess) a chess variant invented by Larry Kaufman, introduced on Aug 12, 2022 in CCC, [1]. In the variant, all Kings, Rooks, Pawns are in their original locations as chess but other pieces are placed randomly in their first and last ranks, with no symmetry requi...
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RubyUI (Former PhlexUI): Ruby Gem for RubyUI Components

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A Man Powers Home for 8 Years Using 1k Old Laptop Batteries

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A man has managed to power his home for eight years with a system using more...
A man has managed to power his home for eight years with a system using more than 1,000 recycled laptop batteries. This ingenious project, based on the use of electronic waste, has proven to be an environmentally friendly and economical solution, without the need to even replace batteries over the years. This system...

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Why Kagi launched "no use, no pay"

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Paying for a SaaS subscription you don’t use sucks. Sure, I don’t use that shameful cupboard...
Paying for a SaaS subscription you don’t use sucks. Sure, I don’t use that shameful cupboard with the ice cream maker, sous-vide device and electric ham-cutter either, but at least those things don’t charge me again!In SaaS, billing is an underrated aspect of the customer experience. Money brings the customer-vendor...
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Drawing some ovals (that are not ellipses)

medium.com

In the last part I hopefully made it clear why you wouldn’t want to use an...
In the last part I hopefully made it clear why you wouldn’t want to use an actual ellipse when making a real object, curves constructed from multiple fixed radius arcs are much more useful and look just the same.So there is a traditional draughting technique for drawing a five centred arch that makes quite a good im...

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Launch HN: ASim (YC S21) – Mobile app that generates mobile apps

ycombinator.com

Hey HN, we’re Daniel and Daniel (the Daniels) from aSim (https://asim.sh/). aSim is a mobile app...
Hey HN, we’re Daniel and Daniel (the Daniels) from aSim (https://asim.sh/). aSim is a mobile app that can generate immediately usable and shareable mobile apps from your phone.Tools like bolt.new and v0 have made it easier to build websites by just chatting with an LLM, but things have been lagging on the mobile sid...
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