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Eki Bright – The Case for DIY Routing

twocentstudios.com
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Tele-present wind – David Bowen

dwbowen.com
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Converge (YC S23) Is Hiring Founding Engineer #2 in NYC

gem.com
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Subpixel Snake

youtube.com

people & blogs
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Gaza checkpoint contractor is Wyoming shell company

substack.com

A Google Maps capture of 115 W Snow King Ave., Jackson, Wyoming in August 2024. The...
A Google Maps capture of 115 W Snow King Ave., Jackson, Wyoming in August 2024. The address is shared by both Safe Reach Solutions, LLC and Two Ocean Trust, LLC.January 24, 2025, 10:30 a.m.: Added proof that Silver Pheasant PTC was registered to the same address as Two Ocean Trust and Safe Reach Solutions but with a...
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Data Branching for Batch Job Systems

isaacjordan.me

Data is being increasingly treated like code has been treated for decades. For many use-cases it...
Data is being increasingly treated like code has been treated for decades. For many use-cases it isn't enough to know "What is the current value?" but also "What was the value previously?", "Who last changed the value?", and "Why did they change the value?".Having a history for data provides data security benefits b...
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Lightpanda: The headless browser designed for AI and automation

github.com
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A WebAssembly compiler that fits in a tweet

wasmgroundup.com

January 24, 2025 · 18 min read One of the initial explorations that started this book...
January 24, 2025 · 18 min read One of the initial explorations that started this book was how small and simple a compile-to-WebAssembly language implemented in JavaScript could be. Our first “WebAssembly compiler in a tweet” was 269 bytes; since then, we’ve managed to whittle it down to a measly 192 bytes. The final...

code
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Snowdrop OS – a homebrew operating system from scratch, in assembly language

sebastianmihai.com

Welcome to the pages of Snowdrop OS, my homebrew operating system project. Snowdrop OS was born...
Welcome to the pages of Snowdrop OS, my homebrew operating system project. Snowdrop OS was born of my childhood curiosity around what happens when a PC is turned on, the mysteries of bootable disks, and the hidden aspects of operating systems. It is a 16-bit real mode operating system for the IBM PC architecture. I ...

classic console developer sebastian mihai software engineer
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New Book-Sorting Algorithm Almost Reaches Perfection

quantamagazine.org

Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to comprehend, but an exciting new...
Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to comprehend, but an exciting new algorithm matters to anyone who owns books and at least one shelf. The algorithm addresses something called the library sorting problem (more formally, the “list labeling” problem). The challenge is to devise a str...
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Show HN: Cs16.css – CSS library based on CS 1.6 UI

samke.me

cs 1.6 cs 1.6 css retro css
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Wild – A Fast Linker for Linux

github.com
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Little Snitch feature nobody knows about

lapcatsoftware.com
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Magenta.nvim – an AI coding assistant plugin for Neovim focused on tool use

github.com
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Threlte 8

threlte.xyz
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Could Self-Driving Buses Bring Vehicle Autonomy Home?

ieee.org

In the race to develop autonomous vehicle technology, some companies are steering away from robotaxis to...
In the race to develop autonomous vehicle technology, some companies are steering away from robotaxis to explore a different avenue: driverless buses. With an anticipated shortage of qualified bus drivers looming and concerns growing about the relative inefficiency of robotaxis, companies are opting to equip city bu...

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The color and color-patterns of moths and butterflies (1897)

publicdomainreview.org

Although better known for his study of marine life, Alfred G. Mayer began his career in...
Although better known for his study of marine life, Alfred G. Mayer began his career in the natural sciences researching insects. It was during these years that he created his arresting butterfly wing projections. Each big block of color is an attempt to represent the range of tonal variation on a single butterfly s...
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How I Use Home Assistant in 2025

vpetersson.com

I’ve been using Home Assistant for about seven years now, starting back when I was living...
I’ve been using Home Assistant for about seven years now, starting back when I was living in a small apartment. At the time, my setup was modest: I used the IKEA Smart Hub (when it first launched) to tie together all my apartment’s lights. As I got more comfortable with automations, I also began building custom hard...
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I don't support a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, and neither should you

bitcoinmagazine.com
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The importance of favicons in website OSINT research

osintme.com
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Bluesky's science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform

nature.com

Social-media platform Bluesky has more than 27 million users.Credit: Peter Kováč/AlamySeventy per cent of Nature readers...
Social-media platform Bluesky has more than 27 million users.Credit: Peter Kováč/AlamySeventy per cent of Nature readers who responded to an online poll are using the social-media platform Bluesky, which works a lot like X (formerly Twitter) and whose popularity has soared in recent months, in particular since the N...

media scientific community
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Every System is a Log: Avoiding coordination in distributed applications

restate.dev

Building resilient distributed applications remains a tough challenge.It should be possible to focus almost entirely on...
Building resilient distributed applications remains a tough challenge.It should be possible to focus almost entirely on the business logic and the complexity inherent to the domain. Instead, you need to review line-by-line and check: “what if the service crashes here?”, “what if the API we call here is temporarily u...
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AI Is Creating a Generation of Illiterate Programmers

nmn.gl

A couple of days ago, Cursor went down during the ChatGPT outage. I stared at my...
A couple of days ago, Cursor went down during the ChatGPT outage. I stared at my terminal facing those red error messages that I hate to see. An AWS error glared back at me. I didn’t want to figure it out without AI’s help. After 12 years of coding, I’d somehow become worse at my own craft. And this isn’t hyperbole—...
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Siri Is Super Dumb and Getting Dumber

daringfireball.net

Writing about the current state of Apple Intelligence yesterday, I mentioned how utterly stupid and laughably...
Writing about the current state of Apple Intelligence yesterday, I mentioned how utterly stupid and laughably wrong Siri is when asked the simple question, “Who won Super Bowl 13?”, and mentioned that that particular example came from a friend. That friend was Paul Kafasis, and he took it and pursued it thoroughly, ...
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