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JReleaser: quick and effortless way to release your project

jreleaser.org
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Sigstore: Making sure your software is what it claims to be

sigstore.dev
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The Peppermills of Jens Quistgaard

quistgaardpepper.com

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Ask HN: Is wind power financially viable without subsidies?

ycombinator.com
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Find Your Footing After Installing Arch Linux

ejmastnak.com

What you’re reading: Bite-sized, actionable tutorials to help you set up a functional work environment after...
What you’re reading: Bite-sized, actionable tutorials to help you set up a functional work environment after a minimal install of Arch Linux. The material should be applicable, with adjustments to package installation, to most systemd-based Linux distros. Purpose: improve the transition and onboarding experience for...
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China won A side-by-side comparison of DeepSeek R1 vs. OpenAI O1 for Finance

nexustrade.io

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Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?

ycombinator.com
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Why AI reminds me of cloud computing

bitmasonsllc.blogspot.com

Even if you stipulated that cloud computing was going to be a big deal, the early...
Even if you stipulated that cloud computing was going to be a big deal, the early cloud narrative got a lot of things wrong. To name just a few which I'll deal with in a subsequent post: Cloud wasn't a utility, security really wasn't the key differentiator versus on-premise, and cost savings weren't a slam dunk. Muc...
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Remembering Nan Shepherd

lrb.co.uk

In the months following my parents’ deaths, I decided to buy a flatbed scanner as a...
In the months following my parents’ deaths, I decided to buy a flatbed scanner as a partial fix for the drifts of paper they had accumulated after sixty years in the same house – receipts, letters, photographs, notes and diaries. I found that scanning their old 35mm slides kept their absence at bay. Scanning is a r...

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Mercator: Extreme

mrgris.com

scrollwheel double-click pinch zoom shift+drag right-click drag two-finger drag warp map shift+double-click right-double-click long-press set as...
scrollwheel double-click pinch zoom shift+drag right-click drag two-finger drag warp map shift+double-click right-double-click long-press set as pole The map you see is the Mercator projection. But unlike a standard Mercator projection, you can substitute any point on earth as the "pole". (The initial view shows Bos...
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How I Build

montasaurus.com

My tools and how I use them.January 21, 2025This is a guide to my tools and...
My tools and how I use them.January 21, 2025This is a guide to my tools and processes for building software. I'm writing this both to share what I've found with other humans, and as guidance for LLMs that interact with me & share my tools. I've found these tools helpful building "pre-LLM" software in small and large...
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Ask HN: Is AG Grid worth it?

ycombinator.com
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Show HN: A Product Hunt alternative where products DON'T compete with each other

saascurate.com
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Why do regexes use `$` and `^` as line anchors? (2024)

buttondown.com

March 25, 2024 Next week is April Cools! A bunch of tech bloggers will be writing...
March 25, 2024 Next week is April Cools! A bunch of tech bloggers will be writing about a bunch of non-tech topics. If you've got a blog come join us! You don't need to drive yourself crazy with a 3000-word hell essay, just write something fun and genuine and out of character for you. But I am writing a 3000-word he...
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Show HN: Hold yourself accountable for gym visits with a $10 stake

gymbully.fit
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MIT Unveils New Robot Insect, Paving the Way Toward Rise of Robotic Pollinators

thedebrief.org

Move over bees, MIT researchers have developed a robot insect designed for artificial pollination, laying the...
Move over bees, MIT researchers have developed a robot insect designed for artificial pollination, laying the groundwork for entirely indoor farms of the future. The robot’s lifelike flapping wings imitate nature, enabling the tiny aerial robot to weigh under a gram. The agile and resilient new model represents a si...
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How the strengths of Lisp facilitate complex and flexible applications (2016)

nih.gov

. 2016 Dec 31;19(3):537–543. doi: 10.1093/bib/bbw130 We present a rationale for expanding the presence of the...
. 2016 Dec 31;19(3):537–543. doi: 10.1093/bib/bbw130 We present a rationale for expanding the presence of the Lisp family of programming languages in bioinformatics and computational biology research. Put simply, Lisp-family languages enable programmers to more quickly write programs that run faster than in other la...
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Concept Cells Help Your Brain Abstract Information and Build Memories

quantamagazine.org

He knew that his observation of one neuron firing didn’t mean there was only one neuron...
He knew that his observation of one neuron firing didn’t mean there was only one neuron for every concept. If that were true, “the chance of finding it would be close to zero,” he said. “I used to joke that, if this were the case, I should quit science and start gambling because I would be the luckiest person ever.”...
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Show HN: SudokuVariants – play and construct different variants of Sudoku

sudokuvariants.com
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Deploying Rails on Docker: Kamal Alternative

impactahead.com

Back to blog Paweł Dąbrowski Founder / Software Engineer Recently, Basecamp, the creators of Ruby on...
Back to blog Paweł Dąbrowski Founder / Software Engineer Recently, Basecamp, the creators of Ruby on Rails, released a solution for deploying it on bare metal servers. Kamal is Capistrano for Containers and is an alternative solution to Capistrano, Kubernetes, and Docker Swarm.If you want to deploy your Rails applic...

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Interesting BiCMOS circuits in the Pentium, reverse-engineered

righto.com

Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of processors. Earlier, I...
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of processors. Earlier, I wrote about the ROM in the Pentium's floating point unit that holds constants such as π. In this post, I'll look at some interesting circuits associated with this ROM. In particular, the circuitry is im...
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Rafael Araujo's 20 Mesmerizing Geometrical Masterpieces (2024)

abakcus.com
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Too Many People Don't Value the Time of Security Researchers

soatok.blog

It’s really not my place to ever command respect from anyone; and that’s not just because...
It’s really not my place to ever command respect from anyone; and that’s not just because I’m a furry–which has always been towards the bottom of the geek hierarchy. I am well aware how little weight my words truly carry, even to other furries, as well as how little I really matter. Upscaled, dark mode version of th...
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Earth's magnetic North Pole is on the move, scientists just updated its position

cnn.com

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries,...
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. If you are using your smartphone to navigate, your system just got a crucial update. Scientists have released a new model tracking the position of the magnetic north pole, ...
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