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Bicameral, Not Homoiconic

parentheticallyspeaking.org

If you spend enough time reading internet discussions of programming languages, you’ll learn that Lispy languages...
If you spend enough time reading internet discussions of programming languages, you’ll learn that Lispy languages have a special property: they are homoiconic. This property is vested with mystical powers that both enrich Lisps and debase its competitors.I have programmed in, and built, Lisps since the late 1980s. M...
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Intel Gets Up to $7.9B Award for U.S. Chip-Plant Construction

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Ask HN: Who needs help this holidays?

ycombinator.com
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The FBI's WofMD Program Has a New Target: Animal Rights Activists

theintercept.com

On a chilly, early morning in January 2019, a group of animal rights activists descended upon...
On a chilly, early morning in January 2019, a group of animal rights activists descended upon a poultry farm in central Texas. Donning plastic gloves, medical masks, hazmat suits, and T-shirts emblazoned with “Meat the Victims,” they slipped through the unlocked door of a massive, windowless barn. Inside, they found...
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Vesuvius Challenge: First letters found in new scroll

substack.com

PHerc. 172 (Scroll 5)Today we are thrilled to share a new scroll dataset that is already...
PHerc. 172 (Scroll 5)Today we are thrilled to share a new scroll dataset that is already full of exciting findings. In collaboration with our partners at the Bodleian Library, the University of Oxford, Diamond Light Source, and EduceLab, we present: PHerc. 172!This scroll has a remarkable past, present, and future (...
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Amazon Workers on Strike from Black Friday to Cyber Monday

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Oxford Electric Bell

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Experimental electric bell The Oxford Electric Bell in December 2009 Charged by the two piles, the...
Experimental electric bell The Oxford Electric Bell in December 2009 Charged by the two piles, the clapper moves back and forth between the two bells. The distance between the bells is significantly exaggerated. The Oxford Electric Bell or Clarendon Dry Pile is an experimental electric bell, in particular a type of ...
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Gene behind orange fur in cats found at last

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Ampere WS-1 Japanese APL Clamtop

substack.com

From the April 1985 issue of ASCII magazineWhen I first started researching this company, I couldn’t...
From the April 1985 issue of ASCII magazineWhen I first started researching this company, I couldn’t find much information about it. Nothing on Opencorporates. Wikipedia has this company categorized as defunct. However, I finally found their website. Apparently, the business is still in operation selling UPSes and e...
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Show HN: Steel.dev – An open-source browser API for AI agents and apps

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Feds: Tether Has Become a Money Laundering Tool for Mexican Drug Trafficker

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'Brain rot' named Oxford Word of the Year 2024

oup.com

Following a public vote in which more than 37,000 people had their say, we’re pleased to...
Following a public vote in which more than 37,000 people had their say, we’re pleased to announce that the Oxford Word of the Year for 2024 is ‘brain rot’. Our language experts created a shortlist of six words to reflect the moods and conversations that have helped shape the past year. After two weeks of public voti...
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Working with PaloAlto to identify CVE-2024-2550

ac3.com.au

Introduction AC3 are a secure managed services provider focused on building, running and security mission critical...
Introduction AC3 are a secure managed services provider focused on building, running and security mission critical environments. We are also longstanding Palo Alto Network partner, using Palo Alto PanOS and GlobalProtect for our customer environments and for managing access for select technical environments. With th...
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ICP-Brasil: Mis-issued certificate

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Can Europe build its first trillion-dollar startup?

ft.com
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President Biden pardons his son Hunter Biden

cnn.com

President Joe Biden announced Sunday that he has pardoned his son Hunter Biden, who faced sentencing...
President Joe Biden announced Sunday that he has pardoned his son Hunter Biden, who faced sentencing this month on gun crime and tax convictions, marking a reversal as he prepares to leave office. “Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter,” he said in a statement. It is a “full and unconditional pardon,” according...
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Can't Driven Development

rm4n0s.github.io

Do you find it challenging to design a new software project? Is it difficult to know...
Do you find it challenging to design a new software project? Is it difficult to know from where to start your project? Do you find current methodologies overcomplicated and slow? Do you want to bring back the good old days of monolithic and waterfall model without the technical debts and legacy code? Then this artic...
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Greg Kroah-Hartman Sees 'Tipping Point' for Rust Drivers in Linux Kernel

phoronix.com

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Scalable and Performant Data Loading

meta.com

Takeaways:We present SPDL, a new data loading solution for AI model training.SPDL is a framework-agnostic data...
Takeaways:We present SPDL, a new data loading solution for AI model training.SPDL is a framework-agnostic data loading solution that utilizes multi-threading, which achieves high-throughput in a regular Python interpreter (built without free-threading option enabled).When compared against conventional process-based ...
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Thinking in Actors – Challenging your software modelling to be simpler

substack.com

Recently some posts I’ve made on Reddit and Hacker News have garnered some interest. Usually, I’m...
Recently some posts I’ve made on Reddit and Hacker News have garnered some interest. Usually, I’m posting something about the Actor Model or some form of state management. Several users have messaged me with, “I’m interested in what you wrote, did you write any blog about it?” and “I would like to understand more ho...
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NaNoGenMo 2024 novel from AI captioned stills from the movie A.I

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Police bust pirate streaming service making €250M per month

bleepingcomputer.com

An international law enforcement operation has dismantled a pirate streaming service that served over 22 million...
An international law enforcement operation has dismantled a pirate streaming service that served over 22 million users worldwide and made €250 million ($263M) per month. Italy's Postal and Cybersecurity Police Service announced the action, codenamed "Taken Down," stating they worked with Eurojust, Europol, and many ...

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First-Hand Account of "The Undefined Behavior Question" Incident [pdf]

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How to Study Mathematics

uh.edu
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