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The radix 2^51 trick

chosenplaintext.ca

Faster addition and subtraction on modern CPUs Do you remember how to do long addition on...
Faster addition and subtraction on modern CPUs Do you remember how to do long addition on paper? ¹¹ ¹ 6876 + 3406 ------ 10282 Starting from the “ones” position, we add 6 + 6 = 12, write down a 2 and carry a 1. We proceed to the left, one position at a time, until there are no more digits to add. When implementing...
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Net-Negative Cursor

lukasatkinson.de

AI-assisted development is all the rage nowadays. I'm sceptical, but really want to give these tools...
AI-assisted development is all the rage nowadays. I'm sceptical, but really want to give these tools a fair shot. But then I look at what these tools actually manage to do, and am disillusioned: these tools can be worse than useless, making us net-negative productive. Let's pick one of the best possible examples of ...
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What is Humphrey's Executor? A look at the 90-year-old Supreme Court decision

theusconstitution.org

WASHINGTON (AP) — A month into President Donald Trump ‘s second term, lawyers for the Republican...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A month into President Donald Trump ‘s second term, lawyers for the Republican administration seem intent on provoking a legal fight to overturn a 90-year-old Supreme Court decision known as Humphrey’s Executor that has been critical to the development of the modern U.S. government. Humphrey’s Exec...
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Invading the Huum Uku WiFi Controller

kaurpalang.com

I like saunas. For those unfamiliar with the concept, it is a hot room where you...
I like saunas. For those unfamiliar with the concept, it is a hot room where you are occasionally beaten with tree-branches.You might have seen images like this: While in reality it is often more like thisAnyway, while looking for my very own financial burden to call home, I stumbled upon an offering which heavily p...

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Player Piano Rolls

illinois.edu
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How did geometry create modern physics?

quantamagazine.org
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U.S. Sanctions Cloud Provider 'Funnull' as Top Source of 'Pig Butchering' Scams

krebsonsecurity.com

Image: Shutterstock, ArtHead. The U.S. government today imposed economic sanctions on Funnull Technology Inc., a Philippines-based...
Image: Shutterstock, ArtHead. The U.S. government today imposed economic sanctions on Funnull Technology Inc., a Philippines-based company that provides computer infrastructure for hundreds of thousands of websites involved in virtual currency investment scams known as “pig butchering.” In January 2025, KrebsOnSecur...
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Disarming an Atomic Bomb Is the Worst Job in the World

substack.com

A high-speed photo of Operation Tumbler-Snapper’s tower shot. Photo via Wikimediaby STEVE WEINTZIn the spring of...
A high-speed photo of Operation Tumbler-Snapper’s tower shot. Photo via Wikimediaby STEVE WEINTZIn the spring of 1952, the U.S. government tested tactical nuclear weapons at the Nevada Proving Ground as part of Operation Tumbler-Snapper. It was the third nuke test series in 18 months at the Nevada site in an era of ...
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Notes on Tunisia

mattlakeman.org

I spent almost three weeks in Tunisia, visiting the cities of Tunis, Bizerte, El Kef, Tozeur,...
I spent almost three weeks in Tunisia, visiting the cities of Tunis, Bizerte, El Kef, Tozeur, Tataouine, El Jem, Sfax, Sousse, Monastir, Kairouan, and a few smaller towns in between. At first, I thought this post would be heavy on travel and light on history, but I got carried away on the background reading and surp...
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Car Physics for Games (2003)

asawicki.info

acceleration car game physics programming
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Show HN: I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic

wave3.social
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Practical SDR: Getting Started with Software-Defined Radio

nostarch.com
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Caffeine induces age-dependent brain complexity and criticality during sleep

nature.com
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The Vagus Nerve Industry

newstatesman.com

Photo by Getty Images I often saw the vagus nerve when operating, at the base of...
Photo by Getty Images I often saw the vagus nerve when operating, at the base of the brain or in the neck – a small, insignificant thing, the width of a thin matchstick. I knew it to be an important but rather boring nerve that had something to do with digestion and how fast the heart beat. I had no idea that in rec...
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Flash Back: An "oral" history of Flash

goodinternetmagazine.com

internet history
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Superhuman performance of an LLM on the reasoning tasks of a physician

arxiv.org
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Editing repeats in Huntington's:fewer somatic repeat expansions in patient cells

nature.com
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Scientists Have Clear Evidence of Martian Atmosphere 'Sputtering'

sciencealert.com

For the first time, scientists have caught a key driver of the ongoing erosion of the...
For the first time, scientists have caught a key driver of the ongoing erosion of the atmosphere of Mars in action.It took more than nine years' worth of satellite data, but a team led by planetary scientist Shannon Curry of the University of Colorado Boulder has finally detected unmistakable signs of atmospheric sp...
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Untrusted chatbot AI between you & the internet is a disaster waiting to happen

macwright.com

This is directly motivated by reading about the Browser Company’s pivot to Dia, a chatbot-centric browser,...
This is directly motivated by reading about the Browser Company’s pivot to Dia, a chatbot-centric browser, but there are many similar cases.I feel like this is obvious but I’m not hearing it shouted from the rooftops so here it is: adding an untrusted middleman to your information diet and all of your personal commu...
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Why are some rocks on the moon highly magnetic?

mit.edu

Where did the moon’s magnetism go? Scientists have puzzled over this question for decades, ever since...
Where did the moon’s magnetism go? Scientists have puzzled over this question for decades, ever since orbiting spacecraft picked up signs of a high magnetic field in lunar surface rocks. The moon itself has no inherent magnetism today. Now, MIT scientists may have solved the mystery. They propose that a combination ...

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Web Bench: a new way to compare AI browser agents

skyvern.com
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California has got good at building giant batteries

economist.com
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The Headlines Are Evil, and They're Bringing Us Down

kemitchell.com
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Open-sourcing circuit tracing tools

anthropic.com

In our recent interpretability research, we introduced a new method to trace the thoughts of a...
In our recent interpretability research, we introduced a new method to trace the thoughts of a large language model. Today, we’re open-sourcing the method so that anyone can build on our research.Our approach is to generate attribution graphs, which (partially) reveal the steps a model took internally to decide on a...
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