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Bcvi – run vi over a 'back-channel'

sourceforge.net

If you use SSH, you might find bcvi useful. This article attempts to describe what it...
If you use SSH, you might find bcvi useful. This article attempts to describe what it is and why you might use it. Let's start with what it is: bcvi is a command-line tool that works with SSH to provide a 'back-channel' from the server you have connected to, back to your workstation. You typically use SSH because yo...
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1/4 of startups in YC current cohort have almost entirely AI-generated codebases

techcrunch.com

With the release of new AI models that are better at coding, developers are increasingly using...
With the release of new AI models that are better at coding, developers are increasingly using AI to generate code. One of the newest examples is the current batch of Y Combinator, the storied Silicon Valley startup accelerator. A quarter of the W25 startup batch have 95% of their codebases generated by AI, YC manag...
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UK quietly scrubs encryption advice from government websites

techcrunch.com

The U.K. government appears to have quietly scrubbed encryption advice from government web pages, just weeks...
The U.K. government appears to have quietly scrubbed encryption advice from government web pages, just weeks after demanding backdoor access to encrypted data stored on Apple’s cloud storage service, iCloud. The change was spotted by security expert Alec Muffet, who wrote in a blog post on Wednesday that the U.K.’s ...
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Why 56k Modems Relied on Digital Phone Lines You Didn't Know We Had

hackaday.com

If you came of age in the 1990s, you’ll remember the unmistakable auditory handshake of an...
If you came of age in the 1990s, you’ll remember the unmistakable auditory handshake of an analog modem negotiating its connection via the plain old telephone system. That cacophony of screeches and hisses was the result of careful engineering. They allowed digital data to travel down phone lines that were only ever...
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NASA Shuts Off Voyager Science Instrument

gizmodo.com

The Voyager spacecraft have been cruising through interstellar space for more than 47 years, collecting precious...
The Voyager spacecraft have been cruising through interstellar space for more than 47 years, collecting precious data on the vast cosmos. All that traveling has taken a toll on the farthest human-made objects, and the spacecraft’s days are numbered. NASA engineers are resorting to shutting off science instruments on...
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Leaping AI (YC W25) Is Hiring Founding Engineers for Self-Improving Voice AI

ycombinator.com
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The Combined Cipher Machine 1940's-1950's

chris-intel-corner.blogspot.com

Cipher machines were extensively used by both the Axis and the Allies during WWII. The Germans...
Cipher machines were extensively used by both the Axis and the Allies during WWII. The Germans had the Enigma, the Lorenz SZ 40/42 and the Siemens T-52. The Japanese had the Type B Cipher Machine (Angooki Taipu B). The Americans had the Converter M-134-C (SIGABA) and the Hagelin M-209. The British had the Typex. Ano...
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Succinct Data Structures

startifact.com
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Mistral OCR

mistral.ai

Throughout history, advancements in information abstraction and retrieval have driven human progress. From hieroglyphs to papyri,...
Throughout history, advancements in information abstraction and retrieval have driven human progress. From hieroglyphs to papyri, the printing press to digitization, each leap has made human knowledge more accessible and actionable, fueling further innovation. Today, we’re at the precipice of the next big leap—to un...
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Zig: A good memory allocator in 200 lines of code

github.com
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Securing Neovim with Firejail

oneofone.dev

I decided to go with a script rather than a profile, profiles are rather complicated and...
I decided to go with a script rather than a profile, profiles are rather complicated and didn’t work right for me.#!/bin/zsh # check if we passed a directory as the first arg local cwd="$PWD" local p="$1" [ "$1" != "" ] && shift if [ -d "$p" ]; then p="$(realpath $p)" cwd="$p" elif [ -f "$p" ]; then p="$(realpath $p...

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Hannah Montana Linux

sourceforge.net
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Bangladesh's factories turn to surveillance, automation; workers feel pressure

restofworld.org

The young woman quickly sewed a piece of gray fabric and handed it down the manufacturing...
The young woman quickly sewed a piece of gray fabric and handed it down the manufacturing line at one of Dhaka’s largest garment factories. She looked impatiently at the woman before her, as if willing her to work faster and pass on the next piece. Atop her sewing machine, a screen glowed a red warning. She had made...

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There Is a Significant Need for Retirement Savings in the US

apolloacademy.com

This presentation may not be distributed, transmitted or otherwise communicated to others in whole or in...
This presentation may not be distributed, transmitted or otherwise communicated to others in whole or in part without the express consent of Apollo Global Management, Inc. (together with its subsidiaries, “Apollo”). Apollo makes no representation or warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the accuracy, reaso...
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Anime fans stumbled upon a mathematical proof

scientificamerican.com

Math solutions can be found in surprising places, including the dark realms of the Internet. In...
Math solutions can be found in surprising places, including the dark realms of the Internet. In 2011 an anonymous poster on the now infamously controversial image board 4chan posed a mathematical puzzle about the cult classic anime series The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Though the bulletin board has become litter...
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More thoughts on the 1670 modem's weird noises

rachelbythebay.com
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Sayonara, R35: Nissan Japan has stopped taking orders for the GT-R

topgear.com
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Game Theory and Settling the Debts of the Deceased in Ancient Times

politicalcalculations.blogspot.com
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Launch HN: Cenote (YC W25) – Back Office Automation for Medical Clinics

ycombinator.com

Hey HN, this is Kofi, Kristy and Ajani, co-founders of Cenote (https://www.joincenote.com/). We provide medical clinics...
Hey HN, this is Kofi, Kristy and Ajani, co-founders of Cenote (https://www.joincenote.com/). We provide medical clinics with AI agents to speed up their referral intake.Before a specialist physician can treat a patient, they must collect data about the patient, determine if the referral meets medical necessity, and ...
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What to Learn (2021)

danluu.com
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Functions in CSS?

css-tricks.com

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Donald Trump expected to sign executive order to dismantle Education Department

thehill.com
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Beavers Are Coming Home

wildlifetrusts.org

Today the Government announced that applications to return beavers into river catchments in England will be...
Today the Government announced that applications to return beavers into river catchments in England will be accepted. This paves the way for this native species to roam wild in British rivers and lakes once more, helping to create wetlands and increase biodiversity. Natural England has developed a detailed licencing...
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Show HN: CodeTracer – A new time-traveling debugger implemented in Nim and Rust

github.com
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