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Show HN: An Alfred workflow to open GCP services and browse resources within

github.com
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Ask HN: Options for One-Handed Typing

ycombinator.com
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Destination: Jupiter

clarkesworldmagazine.com

Non-Fiction On the evening of January 7th, 1610, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei pointed his telescope to...
Non-Fiction On the evening of January 7th, 1610, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei pointed his telescope to the sky and began viewing the planet Jupiter. He observed a trio of lights near the planet, and in the nights that followed, tracked their progress as they moved and vanished. Galileo realized that the object...
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Don't just check errors, handle them gracefully (2016)

cheney.net

This post is an extract from my presentation at the recent GoCon spring conference in Tokyo,...
This post is an extract from my presentation at the recent GoCon spring conference in Tokyo, Japan. Errors are just values I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the best way to handle errors in Go programs. I really wanted there to be a single way to do error handling, something that we could teach all Go programm...
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Scientific Publishing: Enough Is Enough

substack.com

In Abundance, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson make the case that the biggest barriers to progress...
In Abundance, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson make the case that the biggest barriers to progress today are institutional. They’re not because of physical limitations or intellectual scarcity. They’re the product of legacy systems — systems that were built with one logic in mind, but now operate under another. And unt...
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The Fannie and Freddie Stakes Are High

bloomberg.com
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What Happens If We Inline Everything?

sbaziotis.com

This should have been easy, but it's not. It should have been easy to change the...
This should have been easy, but it's not. It should have been easy to change the inlining profitability, i.e., the part of LLVM that decides when inlining is beneficial. If that was the case, folks could change the profitability analysis without having to understand the internals of inlining. For example, it should ...

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Reaching my first 100 users without money or audience (at 10K users now)

ycombinator.com

My SaaS has 10,000 users now.In the beginning, when the goal was to go from 0...
My SaaS has 10,000 users now.In the beginning, when the goal was to go from 0 to 100 users, I had no following and a plan to grow without spending any money on marketing.This path is 100% possible. I’ve gone through it myself, so I know it works.It will require time and effort from you, because if you’re not spendin...
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Vision Language Models Are Biased

vlmsarebiased.github.io

Finding: State-of-the-art Vision Language Models achieve 100% accuracy counting on images of popular subjects (e.g. knowing...
Finding: State-of-the-art Vision Language Models achieve 100% accuracy counting on images of popular subjects (e.g. knowing that the Adidas logo has 3 stripes and a dog has 4 legs) but are only ~17% accurate in counting in counterfactual images (e.g. counting stripes in a 4-striped Adidas-like logo or counting legs ...

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Show HN: Translate React apps without rewriting code

github.com
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Morph (YC S23) Is Hiring a ML Engineer

ycombinator.com
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Swift at Apple: Migrating the Password Monitoring Service from Java

swift.org
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The Shape of the Essay Field

paulgraham.com
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Builder.ai Collapses: $1.5B 'AI' Startup Exposed as 'Indians'

ibtimes.co.uk

Builder.ai, the $1.5 billion 'AI' startup once touted with Microsoft backing, is now seeking bankruptcy protection....
Builder.ai, the $1.5 billion 'AI' startup once touted with Microsoft backing, is now seeking bankruptcy protection. A major lender's $37 million seizure paralysed operations. X / Harsh Dwivedi | Building Medial @harsh_dwivedi7 The tech world is reeling from revelations that Builder.ai, once hailed as a $1.5 billion ...

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Show HN: Ultra-lightweight chunker library with emoji support

github.com
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The initial version of the /etc./magic file used by the file(1) command

stackexchange.com
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(On | No) Syntactic Support for Error Handling

go.dev

Robert Griesemer 3 June 2025 One of the oldest and most persistent complaints about Go concerns...
Robert Griesemer 3 June 2025 One of the oldest and most persistent complaints about Go concerns the verbosity of error handling. We are all intimately (some may say painfully) familiar with this code pattern: x, err := call() if err != nil { // handle err } The test if err != nil can be so pervasive that it drowns o...
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Prepare for archival

github.com
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Three Gorges Dam May Increase the Length of a Day by 0.06 Microseconds

thetravel.com

NASA continues to make groundbreaking discoveries. Among its recent findings was the cause and timetable for...
NASA continues to make groundbreaking discoveries. Among its recent findings was the cause and timetable for life on Earth coming to an end. According to the chilling study by Toho University, life on Earth will end due to the loss of oxygen. But don't worry, that won't happen for at least another billion years. In ...
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Updates to Windows for the Digital Markets Act

windows.com
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Show HN: PinSend – Share text between devices using a PIN(P2P, no login)

pinsend.app
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Claude Code Is My Computer

steipete.me
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Mario Kart designers had to rethink everything to make it open world

theverge.com

From the very beginning, the goal for Mario Kart World was ambitious. A follow-up to the...
From the very beginning, the goal for Mario Kart World was ambitious. A follow-up to the Switch’s (and Wii U’s) best-selling game, one that steadily grew over the years, World’s original concept focused on two key changes: doubling the amount of racers, and creating a connected, open world for players to explore. It...
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The Small World of English

inotherwords.app

Building a word game forced us to solve a measurement problem: how do you rank 40+...
Building a word game forced us to solve a measurement problem: how do you rank 40+ ways to associate any given word down to exactly 17 playable choices? We discovered that combining human-curated thesauri, book cataloging systems, and carefully constrained LLM queries creates a navigable network where 76% of random ...
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