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Show HN: 16 year olds building an AI-powered Integrated Writing Environment

factful.io
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Speeding up the Rust edit-build-run cycle

davidlattimore.github.io
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Satire Slinger The Onion Buys Alex Jones' Infowars with Sandy Hook Families

westerninvestor.com

The satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for Alex Jones' Infowars at a bankruptcy...
The satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for Alex Jones' Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims whom Jones owes more than $1 billion in defamation judgments for calling the massacre a hoax, the families announced Thursday. "The dissolutio...
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Generative AI doesn't have a coherent understanding of the world

mit.edu

ashesh rambachan generative ai keyon vafa large language models transformer models
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The Pythonic Emptiness

codingconfessions.com
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Origin private file system – MDN

mozilla.org

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers. The origin private file system (OPFS) is a...
Note: This feature is available in Web Workers. The origin private file system (OPFS) is a storage endpoint provided as part of the File System API, which is private to the origin of the page and not visible to the user like the regular file system. It provides access to a special kind of file that is highly optimiz...
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℘ (2017)

mathoverflow.net

My own answer, about the name of the letter $\wp$. Mostly in computing, with little math....
My own answer, about the name of the letter $\wp$. Mostly in computing, with little math. (Lengthy) Summary In computing, the letter $\wp$ has been plagued with a plethora of inappropriate names. I guess "Weierstrass p" is one of such names that some standard created, and has been copied without much scrutiny. I sus...
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Red Hat to contribute container tech (Podman, bootc, ComposeFS...) to CNCF

redhat.com
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We're (Finally) Going to the Cloud

stackexchange.com

Stack Overflow has existed since 2008. At that time, it was a logical choice to run...
Stack Overflow has existed since 2008. At that time, it was a logical choice to run this from our own hardware in a datacenter. The company started with a small group of people who owned every aspect of the application, from the infrastructure to the code. We built a monolithic application that scaled incredibly wel...
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UK Government Announces Ban on New Coal Mines

barrons.com

By AFP - Agence France Presse November 14, 2024 Order Reprints Print Article DOMINICK REUTER The...
By AFP - Agence France Presse November 14, 2024 Order Reprints Print Article DOMINICK REUTER The UK announced Thursday that it will introduce legislation to ban new coal mines, as the Labour government ramps up its plans to make Britain a clean energy leader. The government said it will unveil the new law to restric...

britain coal energy politics synd
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Guys Hacked AirPods to Give Their Grandmas Hearing Aids

wired.com
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Something weird is happening with LLMs and Chess

dynomight.net
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The Poor UX/UI of Major Cloud Providers: ECS/VMs Management

ycombinator.com

The user experience of major cloud providers is surprisingly poor, especially when it comes to basic...
The user experience of major cloud providers is surprisingly poor, especially when it comes to basic VM/instance management. Here are some major pain points I've encountered:1. Complex Regional Segregation (AWS) - Instances are strictly segregated by regions - No unified view to manage instances across all regions b...
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The Corpus of United States State Statutes–Design, Construction and Use

ssrn.com

construction and use jesse egbert margaret wood ssrn
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The inspiring scientists who saved the first seed bank

theguardian.com

Somewhere in the sky above, the mosquito drone of a plane’s propeller neared. Since Abram Kameraz...
Somewhere in the sky above, the mosquito drone of a plane’s propeller neared. Since Abram Kameraz had begun to commute by train from Leningrad (now St Petersburg) to the suburban town of Pavlovsk earlier in the summer of 1941, attacks by enemy planes had become a frequent cause of delay. Through the carriage window,...
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AI Progress Stalls as OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Hit Roadblocks

nasdaq.com
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MindsDB (YC W20) Is Hiring an Operations Analyst

grnh.se

MindsDB is a fast-growing AI startup headquartered in San Francisco, California. As a leading innovator bringing...
MindsDB is a fast-growing AI startup headquartered in San Francisco, California. As a leading innovator bringing AI and Data together, our passion is empowering companies to easily build AI capabilities that can Think, Understand and Orchestrate: enabling teams to move from prototyping & experimentation to productio...
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Perplexity: Why We're Experimenting with Advertising

perplexity.ai
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O2 unveils Daisy, the AI granny wasting scammers' time

virginmediao2.co.uk
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Terence Tao: "It can become more rational to think and act more boldly"

mathstodon.xyz
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Here’s Why I Decided to Buy 'InfoWars' [The Onion, but real news]

theonion.com

Bryce P. Tetraeder Today we celebrate a new addition to the Global Tetrahedron LLC family of...
Bryce P. Tetraeder Today we celebrate a new addition to the Global Tetrahedron LLC family of brands. And let me say, I really do see it as a family. Much like family members, our brands are abstract nodes of wealth, interchangeable assets for their patriarch to absorb and discard according to the opaque whims of the...
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Open-Source Software Is in Crisis

ieee.org

A new saga is unfolding in the open-source realm. Matt Mullenweg, founder of open-source web content...
A new saga is unfolding in the open-source realm. Matt Mullenweg, founder of open-source web content management system WordPress, which powers about 40 percent of the world’s websites, has accused WP Engine, a hosting provider for WordPress-built websites, of violating WordPress trademarks. They’re currently embroil...

developers linux open source software wordpress
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On Building Git for Lawyers

substack.com

Over this past weekend, Twitter discovered the problem that I have dedicated the past four years...
Over this past weekend, Twitter discovered the problem that I have dedicated the past four years of my life to solving. Why don't lawyers and other non-coders use git?This is an important question. The legal system is the essential bedrock upon which all else in society is built. The protection of civil rights, peac...
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AI Makes Tech Debt More Expensive

gauge.sh

There is an emerging belief that AI will make tech debt less relevant. Since it’s getting...
There is an emerging belief that AI will make tech debt less relevant. Since it’s getting easier to write code, and easier to clean up code, wouldn’t it make sense that the typical company can handle a little more debt?The opposite is true - AI has significantly increased the real cost of carrying tech debt. The key...
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