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TinyZero

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The Bizzare Story of the Three Identical Strangers

historicflix.com

In 1980, three young men discovered something truly astonishing: they were identical triplets, separated at birth....
In 1980, three young men discovered something truly astonishing: they were identical triplets, separated at birth. They met by chance – up to that point, none even knew that they had siblings. It sounds like a wonderful story. Three identical triplets, all adopted by different families soon after birth, rediscover o...
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Apache Accumulo 4.0 Feature Preview

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Deadly and Imminent; The Pentagon's Mad Dash for Silicon Valley's AI Weapons

citizen.org

By Savannah Wooten Download the full report 335.8 KB Report Summary One year into its flagship...
By Savannah Wooten Download the full report 335.8 KB Report Summary One year into its flagship Replicator initiative, the Department of Defense has still not clarified whether it is fast-tracking AI-empowered weapons designed to kill on the battlefield. The uncertainty around the program’s parameters exists by desig...
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Show HN: Using YOLO to Detect Office Chairs in 40M Hotel Photos

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Ketamine induces plasticity in a norepinephrine-astroglial circuit in zebrafish

cell.com
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Knowing what your colleagues earn – pros and cons of greater pay transparency

economist.com
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Show HN: CopyCat (YC W25) – Free Alternative to OpenAI's $200 Operator

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Updated FreeBSD Bhyve Companion Tools

wordpress.com

Some time ago I wrote about how FreeBSD Bhyve can be used in the FreeBSD Bhyve...
Some time ago I wrote about how FreeBSD Bhyve can be used in the FreeBSD Bhyve Virtualization article. It was quite short after I moved from VirtualBox – and to be honest – I am really glad that I moved to Bhyve. When I was working with VirtualBox – I was not fully happy – it just felt that FreeBSD is not its native...
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Life Lessons from the First Half-Century of My Career

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I started my career at Hughes Aircraft in 1972 while working on my Ph.D. at the...
I started my career at Hughes Aircraft in 1972 while working on my Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). After designing airborne computers for four years, I graduated and then taught and did systems research at UC Berkeley for the next 40. Since 2016, I’ve helped Google with hardware that accel...
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Kidnappers sever finger of cryptocurrency millionaire David Balland

moneycheck.com

French cryptocurrency executive David Balland endured a violent kidnapping from his home with his wife on...
French cryptocurrency executive David Balland endured a violent kidnapping from his home with his wife on January 21, 2025Kidnappers demanded cryptocurrency payment and reportedly mutilated Balland during the 24-hour ordealFrench National Gendarmerie successfully rescued both victims through a tactical operationLedg...
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DeepSeek V3 and the cost of frontier AI models

interconnects.ai

On December 26th, 2024, while most of the Western AI world was off on their Christmas...
On December 26th, 2024, while most of the Western AI world was off on their Christmas holiday, China’s DeepSeek AI released their DeepSeek-V3 general use model (and base model) with a detailed technical report and a demo at chat.deepseek.com. It’s their latest mixture of experts (MoE) model trained on 14.8T tokens w...
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Autodesk partially restores old forum posts after outcry from the users

autodesk.com
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GenAI Art Is the Least Imaginative Use of AI Imaginable

medium.com

Published inRecently, AI music company Suno’s CEO was quoted as saying “I think the majority of...
Published inRecently, AI music company Suno’s CEO was quoted as saying “I think the majority of people don’t enjoy the majority of the time they spend making music” in what sounds like yet another justification of Suno’s prompt-based (and very popular) generative AI music service. Like all good misleading statements...

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Show HN: I recovered one of my earliest ZX-Spectrum games from an audio cassette

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Cytoskeleton-functionalized synthetic cells with life-like mechanical features

nature.com
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Caltrain's Electric Fleet More Efficient Than Expected

caltrain.com

Caltrain announced at its monthly Board of Directors meeting that regenerative braking on the new trains...
Caltrain announced at its monthly Board of Directors meeting that regenerative braking on the new trains is generating and sending back to the electric grid approximately 23% of the energy consumed by the system. The new electric trains are outperforming Caltrain’s original projections, which is welcome news for a p...
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Toyota's Woven City is open for business and looking for startups

techcrunch.com

Toyota Motor Chairman Akio Toyoda revealed Monday at CES 2025 his vision for a living laboratory...
Toyota Motor Chairman Akio Toyoda revealed Monday at CES 2025 his vision for a living laboratory chock-full of startups and technology. His message: Woven City — a prototype city on a 175-acre site at the foot of Mount Fuji in Japan — is open for business and searching for inventors. “Today, I say to anyone in any c...
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Ask HN: How to sell a script that will save companies $100k a month?

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Frustrated YouTube viewers seek explanation for hour-long unskippable ads

androidauthority.com

Edgar Cervantes / Android AuthorityTL;DR YouTube users are experiencing extremely long, unskippable ads, sometimes up to...
Edgar Cervantes / Android AuthorityTL;DR YouTube users are experiencing extremely long, unskippable ads, sometimes up to an hour long. There’s a good chance that ad blockers might be contributing to the issue. We’ve reached out to Google for comments. Update, January 24, 2025 (01:21 PM ET): We’ve now heard back from...
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Android SMS Gateway Using MQTT

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File Explorer is merged to Helix editor

github.com
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Chatbox: Cross-platform desktop client for ChatGPT, Claude and other LLMs

github.com
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OpenAI just put the final nail in the coffin of the open World Wide Web

bearblog.dev
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