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Amazon plans to lay off 14,000 managerial positions to save $3.5B yearly

techstartups.com
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A User Has Been Powering His Home with Laptop Batteries Since 2016

wecb.fm

In a world where sustainability and innovation are constantly intertwined, one energy enthusiast has discovered an...
In a world where sustainability and innovation are constantly intertwined, one energy enthusiast has discovered an unexpected way to turn tech waste into an endless power source. Since 2016, this individual has been powering his home using a growing collection of more than 650 laptop batteries, demonstrating the unt...
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Hidden Messages in Emojis and Hacking the US Treasury

substack.com

On December 30th, while most of us were preparing for a New Year’s Eve celebration, the...
On December 30th, while most of us were preparing for a New Year’s Eve celebration, the US Treasury was prepping a notice to lawmakers to notify them that their systems, which (obviously) contain highly sensitive, confidential data, had been compromised.(Honestly, I’m not sure how I missed this news. Usually I’m pre...
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Occupry your next lease to negotiate a better deal

occupry.com

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Show HN: OpenTimes – Free travel times between U.S. Census geographies

opentimes.org
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Show HN: Psychedelic animation generator; (p)art of your next trip

collidingscopes.github.io

Create psychedelic art using liquid motion, distortion, shadows and light. This tool is free, and works...
Create psychedelic art using liquid motion, distortion, shadows and light. This tool is free, and works in real-time in the browser. This project was inspired by drum & bass / acid techno music, and 90s rave posters. Use this to create art for a music video, concert posters, stylized animations in creative projects,...
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Heritage Foundation and Allies Discuss Dismantling the EU

desmog.com
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Show HN: I made a free IndiePa.ge Alternative to track and show your startups

innovativ.es
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Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers

x.company

My passion for connectivity was sparked while I was applying for universities in the U.S. from...
My passion for connectivity was sparked while I was applying for universities in the U.S. from an internet cafe in Chennai. Listening to the beeps and chirps of the dial up modem. I became obsessed with connectivity, and I wanted to bring its economic, educational, and social benefits to more people. Our entire Taar...
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Copyright and the Demo Scene

datagubbe.se

Spring 2025 Jargon Buster Before we begin, let's explain a few terms that will be used...
Spring 2025 Jargon Buster Before we begin, let's explain a few terms that will be used throughout this text. Crack Cracking a computer games means removing the software copy protection. Thus, a cracker is a person who cracks a game, and the resulting cracked game is often just called a crack. Cracktro A small demo i...
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Archival Storage

dshr.org

I gave a talk at the Berkeley I-school's Information Access Seminar entitled Archival Storage. Below the...
I gave a talk at the Berkeley I-school's Information Access Seminar entitled Archival Storage. Below the fold is the text of the talk with links to the sources and the slides (with yellow background). Don't, don't, don't, don't believe the hype! Public Enemy I'm honored to appear in what I believe is the final serie...
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Show HN: Barcode Scanner to check if a product is European

fragdaspdf.de
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Time-Series vs. Streaming Databases: Key Differences and Use Cases

risingwave.com

Disclaimer: As a developer advocate for RisingWave Labs, I have a natural inclination towards streaming databases....
Disclaimer: As a developer advocate for RisingWave Labs, I have a natural inclination towards streaming databases. However, this post aims to provide a balanced comparison between TSDBs and streaming databases to help you make an informed decision based on your specific requirements.Choose a TSDB if you need: Storag...
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Why rents are still rising too fast

economist.com
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Coq-of-rust: Formal verification tool for Rust

github.com
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LAPD Surveilled Gaza Protests Using This Social Media Tool

theintercept.com

Photo illustration: Fei Liu / Photo: Katie McTiernan/Anadolu; Christina House / Los Angeles Times via Getty...
Photo illustration: Fei Liu / Photo: Katie McTiernan/Anadolu; Christina House / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images One week after Hamas’s October 7 attack, thousands rallied outside the Israeli Consulate in Los Angeles to protest the country’s retaliatory assault on Gaza. The protestors were peaceful, according to l...
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Piramidal (YC W24) is hiring a ML Engineer to decode brainwaves

ycombinator.com

Foundation Model for the BrainNew York, NY, US / London, England, GBConnect directly with founders of...
Foundation Model for the BrainNew York, NY, US / London, England, GBConnect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups.Apply to role ›Dimitris Fotis SakellariouWe are a neuro first company. As a Research Engineer here, you will build AI systems focused on neural data, capable of accomplishing previously i...
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Darker Than a Dark Pool? Welcome to Wall Street's 'Private Rooms'

yahoo.com

(Bloomberg) -- Wall Street’s infamous dark pools are getting even darker. Most Read from Bloomberg A...
(Bloomberg) -- Wall Street’s infamous dark pools are getting even darker. Most Read from Bloomberg A decade after being engulfed by a controversy that culminated in multiple enforcement actions and a regulator clampdown, these off-exchange trading platforms are touting a way to buy and sell stocks that’s even more o...

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Show HN: Localscope–Limit scope of Python functions for reproducible execution

localscope.readthedocs.io

Have you ever hunted bugs caused by accidentally using a global variable in a function in...
Have you ever hunted bugs caused by accidentally using a global variable in a function in a Jupyter notebook? Have you ever scratched your head because your code broke after restarting the Python kernel? localscope can help by restricting the variables a function can access. >>> from localscope import localscope >>>...
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How Cursor (AI IDE) Works

sshh.io

Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.Understanding how AI coding tools like Cursor,...
Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.Understanding how AI coding tools like Cursor, Windsurf, and Copilot function under the hood can greatly enhance your productivity, enabling these tools to work more consistently — especially in larger, complex codebases. Often when people struggle to g...
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UK Online Safety Act comes into force today

ofcom.org.uk

As deadline passes to carry out illegal harms risk assessments, sites and apps must now start...
As deadline passes to carry out illegal harms risk assessments, sites and apps must now start tackling criminal content Ofcom launches enforcement programme into child sexual abuse imagery on file-sharing services From today, online platforms must start putting in place measures to protect people in the UK from crim...
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Deep Learning Is Not So Mysterious or Different

arxiv.org
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Chaos in the Cloudflare Lisbon Office

cloudflare.com

Over the years, Cloudflare has gained fame for many things, including our technical blog, but also...
Over the years, Cloudflare has gained fame for many things, including our technical blog, but also as a tech company securing the Internet using lava lamps, a story that began as a research/science project almost 10 years ago. In March 2025, we added another layer to its legacy: a "wall of entropy" made of 50 wave m...

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Underware 2.0 – Open Source Infinite Cable Management

makerworld.com
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