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Spanish police arrest ex-fraud chief after €20M found in walls of his house

theguardian.com

Spain has arrested one of its top police officers after €20m (£17m) was found hidden in...
Spain has arrested one of its top police officers after €20m (£17m) was found hidden in the walls of his house, as part of an investigation into the country’s largest-ever cocaine bust.Óscar Sánchez Gil was until recently the head of the fraud and anti-money laundering division of Spain’s national police force in Ma...

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A mistake that killed Japan's software industry? (2023)

disruptingjapan.com
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Gmail AI Agent: Automate Your Inbox with AI-Powered Telegram Commands

github.com
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Spin 3.0 – open-source tooling for building and running WASM apps

fermyon.com

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Show HN: Proxmox VE Helper Scripts: Make managing your Proxmox homelab a breeze

community-scripts.github.io

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Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages

substack.com

Last week, right after Apple dropped the iOS 18.1 update, my dad and I set out...
Last week, right after Apple dropped the iOS 18.1 update, my dad and I set out to go buy a pair of AirPods Pro 2 for my grandma who is hard of hearing. Fifteen minutes after buying them, I found out that the device was for all intents and purposes useless, because Apple has region locked the Hearing Aids feature to ...
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Show HN: Jelly – A simpler shared inbox for small teams

letsjelly.com

Small teams with shared email addresses (i.e. hello@ or support@) have been stuck between a rock...
Small teams with shared email addresses (i.e. hello@ or support@) have been stuck between a rock and a hard place for far too long. Sharing a login to an inbox requires a delicate dance to avoid stepping on toes and missing important replies. When that inevitably breaks down, the search for tools leads you through a...
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The False Promise of Device-Based Education

afterbabel.com

Intro from Jon Haidt and Zach Rausch:In The Anxious Generation, we argued that smartphones and social...
Intro from Jon Haidt and Zach Rausch:In The Anxious Generation, we argued that smartphones and social media are significant contributors to the multi-national youth mental health crisis that began in the early 2010s. In Chapter 11, we showed that the harms of the “phone-based childhood” go far beyond mental health, ...
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Mom Jailed for Letting 10-Year-Old Walk Alone to Town

reason.com

It was dinnertime on October 30, 2024, when police handcuffed Brittany Patterson in front of three...
It was dinnertime on October 30, 2024, when police handcuffed Brittany Patterson in front of three of her four children and drove her to the station in Fannin County, Georgia. She was then fingerprinted, photographed, and dressed in an orange jumpsuit. Hours earlier, around noon, Patterson had driven her eldest son ...

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Ohmaps: your image montage is a resistor network

hunsley.io

Occasionally there’s a lovely moment when I’m working on a problem and I realise I’m also...
Occasionally there’s a lovely moment when I’m working on a problem and I realise I’m also looking at some other thing that seems completely unrelated. It’s like a metaphor made flesh.These ‘isomorphism moments’ can be powerful because the two seemingly unrelated things can give you insights into each other. Their co...
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Sentry just gave $750k to open source projects

sentry.io

Sentry started out as an Open Source side project in 2008. Today we are a Fair...
Sentry started out as an Open Source side project in 2008. Today we are a Fair Source company with 100,000+ organizations on our SaaS and $100M+ ARR, but we have not forgotten our roots nor the hundreds of Open Source maintainers whose work we depend on for our success. Every year we share our success with the commu...
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Waymo One is now open to all in Los Angeles

waymo.com

Roll out the red carpet. Starting today, anyone in Los Angeles can take fully autonomous rides...
Roll out the red carpet. Starting today, anyone in Los Angeles can take fully autonomous rides 24/7 with Waymo One – rolling through Santa Monica, Hollywood Boulevard, USC, and everything in between. Waymo has enjoyed a warm welcome from Angelenos since we began commercial operations in LA earlier this year, with ne...
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Anton Seder's the Animal in Decorative Art (1896)

publicdomainreview.org

One can’t quite call Anton Seder’s prints naturalistic in Das Thier in der Dekorativen Kunst. For...
One can’t quite call Anton Seder’s prints naturalistic in Das Thier in der Dekorativen Kunst. For one thing, there are the dragons, coiled and bug-eyed. Their scales and mottled patterns are familiar, but transformed into something more stylized and romantic: they are living, thrashing fleurs-de-lis. Then there are ...
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Avremu: An 8-Bit AVR Microcontroller Simulator Written in LaTeX

brokenpipe.de
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The Future of Programming: Copilots vs. Agents (Part I)

substack.com

With the the launch of Github Spark and multi-model support in late October, Microsoft has fired...
With the the launch of Github Spark and multi-model support in late October, Microsoft has fired another salvo at AI code-generation startups, bringing the competition for developer mindshare to a new level of intensity. The winner of this war will command the wallet share of nearly 30 million software developers wo...
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Large Language Models in National Security Applications

arxiv.org

Skip to main content View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:The overwhelming success of GPT-4 in early 2023...
Skip to main content View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:The overwhelming success of GPT-4 in early 2023 highlighted the transformative potential of large language models (LLMs) across various sectors, including national security. This article explores the implications of LLM integration within national security c...
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Visualizing 13M Bluesky Users

joelgustafson.com
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CUDA Programming Course – High-Performance Computing with GPUs [video]

youtube.com

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Show HN: We built the simplest Online Unit Converter for everyday use

betaconvert.com
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Burial chamber of an ancient Egyptian priestess is discovered after 4k years

dailymail.co.uk

Published: 08:32 EST, 6 November 2024 | Updated: 03:38 EST, 7 November 2024 An 'extraordinary' burial...
Published: 08:32 EST, 6 November 2024 | Updated: 03:38 EST, 7 November 2024 An 'extraordinary' burial chamber containing the remains of an ancient Egyptian priestess has been unearthed after nearly 4,000 years. Idy, the daughter of a wealthy governor who lived around 1880 BC, was found in a coffin within another cof...

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Peng quadrotor autonomy framework visualized in the browser

rerun.io
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Instant (YC S22) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer to Help Build a Modern Firebase

ycombinator.com

We’re looking for a hacker to join our team of 3 on-site in San Francisco. You...
We’re looking for a hacker to join our team of 3 on-site in San Francisco. You would be one of the founding engineers; why join us, when you can start a company yourself or work at an OpenAI? Here’s our case:Instant is (a) a really hard problem (b) that users want (c) worked on by an excellent team (d) where you can...
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Don't Do This with PostgreSQL

postgresql.org
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Egyptian priestess burial chamber unearthed after 4000 yrs Sensational discovery

nypost.com

A burial chamber containing the remains of an ancient Egyptian priestess has been unearthed after nearly...
A burial chamber containing the remains of an ancient Egyptian priestess has been unearthed after nearly 4,000 years. Named Idy, her remains were found in a coffin within another coffin in a tomb in the city of Asyut, Egypt, just about 200 miles south of Cairo. The excavations took place between Aug. 18 and Sept. 17...

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