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March 28

The Devastating Decline of a Brilliant Young Coder

wired.com

On Friday, September 13, 2019, Matthew Prince and Michelle Zatlyn, cofounders of the San Francisco internet...
On Friday, September 13, 2019, Matthew Prince and Michelle Zatlyn, cofounders of the San Francisco internet security firm Cloudflare, stood on a slim marble balcony overlooking the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. A cluster of the company's executives stood near Prince, ready to shout out a countdown. “Louder! ...
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March 28

An Interview with Oxide's Bryan Cantrill

chipsandcheese.com

Hello you fine Internet folks,Today we have an interview with Bryan Cantrill from Oxide Computer Company.Cloud...
Hello you fine Internet folks,Today we have an interview with Bryan Cantrill from Oxide Computer Company.Cloud computing has been a tour de force in the computing industry, with many businesses and even governments moving over to cloud services for their computing infrastructure. This gives these companies and gover...
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March 28

Create Weird Fun PHPStan Rules Like Nobody's Watching

tomasvotruba.com

2025-03-12 There are 2 ways to use PHPStan. You can use native levels, and official extensions...
2025-03-12 There are 2 ways to use PHPStan. You can use native levels, and official extensions and raise the level from 0 to 8. This is a good start, but it often requires enormous work and brings must-have value. There is also a 2nd way: I wanted PHPStan to be more fun and more tailored to the unique projects I wor...
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March 28

Signal Chat Leak Angers U.S. Military Pilots

nytimes.com

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Men and women who have taken to the air on behalf of the United States expressed bewilderment after the leak of attack plans. “You’re going to kill somebody,”...

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March 28

Architecture Patterns with Python

cosmicpython.com

You may be wondering who we are and why we wrote this book. At the end...
You may be wondering who we are and why we wrote this book. At the end of Harry’s last book, Test-Driven Development with Python (O’Reilly), he found himself asking a bunch of questions about architecture, such as, What’s the best way of structuring your application so that it’s easy to test? More specifically, so t...
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March 28

Software Eng Intern – Structured Labs (YC S23) Is Hiring

ycombinator.com
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March 28

Making math fun by prepping for friendly competition (2022)

mit.edu

Mark Saengrungkongka, a first-year MIT undergraduate student, stood at the blackboard and explained his solution to...
Mark Saengrungkongka, a first-year MIT undergraduate student, stood at the blackboard and explained his solution to a math problem similar to the ones that might appear on the William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition, a prestigious annual math competition for college students in the United States and Canada adm...

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March 28

One Drive in Toyota's $10k Pickup Will Make You Want One (2023)

motor1.com

The average price paid for a new truck in the US by the end of last...
The average price paid for a new truck in the US by the end of last year was $59,000. That's an enormous amount of money, especially considering a base, $35,000 Ford F-150 XL is damn near as capable as an $85,000 Limited. Even the most affordable truck on the US market, the Ford Maverick, starts at about $25,000. An...
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March 28

Show HN: I built a command line ASCII logo SVG generator for laser cutting

github.com
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March 28

Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada

theguardian.com

A Yale professor who studies fascism is leaving the US to work at a Canadian university...
A Yale professor who studies fascism is leaving the US to work at a Canadian university because of the current US political climate, which he worries is putting the US at risk of becoming a “fascist dictatorship”.Jason Stanley, who wrote the 2018 book How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, has accepted a po...
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March 28

Every Flop Counts: Scaling a 300B LLM Without Premium GPUs

arxiv.org

Skip to main content View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:In this technical report, we tackle the challenges...
Skip to main content View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:In this technical report, we tackle the challenges of training large-scale Mixture of Experts (MoE) models, focusing on overcoming cost inefficiency and resource limitations prevalent in such systems. To address these issues, we present two differently sized...
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March 28

Giant, fungus-like organism may be a completely unknown branch of life

livescience.com

A bizarre ancient life-form, considered to be the first giant organism to live on land, may...
A bizarre ancient life-form, considered to be the first giant organism to live on land, may belong to a totally unknown branch of the tree of life, scientists say.These organisms, named Prototaxites, lived around 420 million to 375 million years ago during the Devonian period and resembled branchless, cylindrical tr...
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March 28

US Govt is upselling AWS as a PaaS?

cloud.gov
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March 28

Operationalizing Macaroons

fly.io

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March 28

Show HN: Built an MCP server for direct sound design on my hardware synth

github.com
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March 28

Using uv and PEP 723 for Self-Contained Python Scripts

thisdavej.com
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March 28

A decompilation and port of Sonic Advance 2-a GameBoy Advance game written in C

github.com
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March 28

Revolving Door: Ex FCC Boss Ajit Pai Promoted to Top Wireless Industry Lobbyist

techdirt.com

Politics You probably recall Ajit Pai, Trump’s first FCC boss. Pai took a mindless hatchet to...
Politics You probably recall Ajit Pai, Trump’s first FCC boss. Pai took a mindless hatchet to broadband consumer protection and media consolidation limits with no shortage of scandal. Like that time he turned a blind eye as the telecom industry used dead and fake people to generate fake support for shitty policies (...
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March 28

Anti-Orbit Laser Submarines (2017)

toughsf.blogspot.com

Laser-equipped nuclear-powered submarines are the perfect last line of defense against an attacking force in orbit....
Laser-equipped nuclear-powered submarines are the perfect last line of defense against an attacking force in orbit. The situation You don't win every fight. Eventually, there will come a time in space warfare where a fleet of space warships has defeated all your mobile forces and your immobile defenses. They will be...
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March 28

What it takes to add a new back end to Futhark

futhark-lang.org
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March 28

Arctic sea ice sets a record low maximum in 2025

nsidc.org

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 2025Arctic sea ice extent appears to have reached its annual maximum on March...
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 2025Arctic sea ice extent appears to have reached its annual maximum on March 22, 2025. This is the lowest maximum in the 47-year satellite record, with previous low maximums occurring in 2017, 2018, 2016, and 2015.Please note that this is a preliminary announcement. Changing weather or late-sea...
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March 28

Things I would have told myself before building an autorouter

autorouting.com

I’ve spent about a year working on an autorouter for tscircuit (an open-source electronics CAD kernel...
I’ve spent about a year working on an autorouter for tscircuit (an open-source electronics CAD kernel written in Typescript). If I could go back a year, these are the 13 things I would tell myself:An intermediate stage of our autorouting routing a keyboard.If I was king for a day, I would rename A* to “Fundamental A...
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March 28

A note on the USB-to-PS/2 mouse adapter that came with Microsoft mouse devices

microsoft.com

Back in the early days of USB, Microsoft mouse devices often came with a USB plug...
Back in the early days of USB, Microsoft mouse devices often came with a USB plug at the end of the cable, but also came with a small green adapter to convert the USB type-A plug into a PS/2 plug. How did this adapter work? USB and PS/2 are completely different protocols that are not compatible in any way. The adapt...
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March 28

LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs

computerworld.com
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