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Static Site Generator for Emacs Lisp Programmers

tonyaldon.com

Have you ever wanted to write a blog: contained in a unique org file, rendered with...
Have you ever wanted to write a blog: contained in a unique org file, rendered with only one Emacs command, that can be modified by writing Emacs Lisp code (and CSS too), with "html templates" that are plain Emacs Lisp data, with no config file, and no dependencies on external static site generators? If so, you migh...
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How often are children genetically unrelated to their presumed fathers?

science.org
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Speeding Up Computational Lithography with the Power and Parallelism of GPUs

semiengineering.com

There are so many challenges in producing modern semiconductor devices that it’s amazing for the industry...
There are so many challenges in producing modern semiconductor devices that it’s amazing for the industry to pull it off at all. From the underlying physics to fabrication processes to the development flow, there is no shortage of tough issues to address. Some of the biggest arise in lithography for deep submicron c...
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Matters Computational Ideas, Algorithms, Source Code – Jorg Arndt [pdf]

jjj.de
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Windows 11 Insider Preview Build

windows.com
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Bye, Prime

tbray.org

Today I canceled my Amazon Prime subscription. Why? · As I wrote in Not an Amazon...
Today I canceled my Amazon Prime subscription. Why? · As I wrote in Not an Amazon Problem (and please go read that if you haven’t) I don’t see myself as an enemy of Amazon, particularly. I think the pressures of 21st-century capitalism have put every large company into a place where they really can’t afford to be et...
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Shares of Starlink's European rival Eutelsat have tripled

marketwatch.com
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US deploys AI to revoke visas of foreign nationals supporting Hamas: Report

cnbctv18.com

The US State Department will use artificial intelligence to cancel visas of foreign nationals it believes...
The US State Department will use artificial intelligence to cancel visas of foreign nationals it believes support Hamas or other designated terrorist groups. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is launching an AI-powered "Catch and Revoke" initiative to scan student visa holders' social media accounts, Axios reported, ci...

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Google begins testing AI-only search results

arstechnica.com

Google has become so integral to online navigation that its name became a verb, meaning "to...
Google has become so integral to online navigation that its name became a verb, meaning "to find things on the Internet." Soon, Google might just tell you what's on the Internet instead of showing you. The company has announced an expansion of its AI search features, powered by Gemini 2.0. Everyone will soon see mor...
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Show HN: I built a Matrix themed AI hacking game

repello.ai
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Cowboys and Drones: two modes of operation for small business

emeaentrepreneurs.com

Everything that gets done is either done by a system or by a person. Systems are...
Everything that gets done is either done by a system or by a person. Systems are operated by drones. Cowboys get shit done in spite of systems. Systems involve people, but no single person has a view over the entire goal. If you want to get a new passport, it’s almost certain that a system does this for you. Each pe...
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Cargo (YC S23) Is Hiring

ycombinator.com

At Cargo, we’re redefining how teams execute GTM by making them leaner, faster and engineer-driven. In...
At Cargo, we’re redefining how teams execute GTM by making them leaner, faster and engineer-driven. In an AI-first world, we’re replacing SDR-heavy models with a hybrid approach, empowering full-cycle AEs through a blend of manual effort and automation. Our platform is designed to build and scale AI-powered workforc...
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Bitcoin's Fatal Flaw: Why Financial Surveillance Is Inevitable Without Privacy

substack.com
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Ladder: Self-Improving LLMs Through Recursive Problem Decomposition

arxiv.org
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The case of the vanishing CPU: A Linux kernel debugging story

clickhouse.com
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V0 System Prompt

github.com
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Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-On

google.com
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Rules to improve air quality are under attack

heatpumped.org

This issue of Heat Pumped was written by Michael Rochmes, a clean air and green building...
This issue of Heat Pumped was written by Michael Rochmes, a clean air and green building advocate in Southern California. Bay Area rules will improve air quality and health across the regionBAAQMD’s Southern Neighbor It is this SCAQMD policy that I have been tracking as the volunteer Chair of the Green Buildings Com...

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Handling Database Failures in a Distributed System with RabbitMQ Workers

ycombinator.com

I have a worker that processes tasks from RabbitMQ and inserts data into a database. The...
I have a worker that processes tasks from RabbitMQ and inserts data into a database. The system operates at high scale, handling thousands of messages per second, which makes proper failure handling crucial to avoid overwhelming the system.The problem arises when the database crashes for a period of time. If the wor...
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Ereader Easy Swedish. Tool I Made for Myself to Learn a Language

ereader-swedish.fly.dev
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Show HN: Uncloud – Uncomplicated container orchestration without control plane

github.com
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Linux Prepper Podcast – Audience Feedback on Self-Hosting

james.network
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Discovery of fresco portraying Dionysian mysteries at Pompeii

pompeiisites.org
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Some Thoughts on Autoregressive Models

wonderfall.dev

Most generative AI models nowadays are autoregressive. That means they’re following the concept of next token...
Most generative AI models nowadays are autoregressive. That means they’re following the concept of next token prediction, and the transformer architecture is the current implementation that has been used for years now thanks to its computational efficiency. This is a rather simple concept that’s easy to understand -...

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