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The Ancients Had Ops

reedmeyerson.com
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Show HN: Rebels in the sky – Terminal game about space pirates

github.com
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From string to AST: parsing

kubuszok.com
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FaSTer: Atari ST Digital Magazine

goto10retro.com

One of the things in my big Atari ST haul from a couple months ago was...
One of the things in my big Atari ST haul from a couple months ago was an issue of FaSTer disk magazine. I had thought that it was a sealed copy, but although it was still in its shrink-wrap, it was not actually sealed.FaSTer was a Canadian magazine and what made it unique is that it was distributed on floppy disk!I...
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Show HN: A Marble Madness-inspired WebGL game we built for Netlify

netlify.com
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A C++ Mixin System

jennyjams.net
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Agent Graph System makes AI agents more reliable, gives them info step-by-step

venturebeat.com
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Fern Is Hiring Software Engineers in Brooklyn

ycombinator.com

Input OpenAPI. Output SDKs and API documentation.$168K - $192K / 0.20% - 0.30%Connect directly with founders...
Input OpenAPI. Output SDKs and API documentation.$168K - $192K / 0.20% - 0.30%Connect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups.Apply to role ›We’re a small team of generalists who enjoy spending time together. We talk to our customers regularly over shared Slack channels or Zoom. We’re looking for teamm...
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A “meta-optics” camera that is the size of a single grain of salt

acm.org

When it comes to cameras, size matters, but not in the way you think.Any time a...
When it comes to cameras, size matters, but not in the way you think.Any time a new smartphone is released, it is easy to drool over the latest, greatest, and biggest features that allow you to take even more stunning selfies composed of even more megapixels. However, in the world of cameras, smaller cameras could e...
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Is Python That Slow?

miguelgrinberg.com

My standard response when someone asks me how I deal with Python being such a slow...
My standard response when someone asks me how I deal with Python being such a slow language is that Python is by far the fastest to write, cleanest, more maintainable programming language I know, and that a bit of a runtime performance penalty is a small price to pay when I'm rewarded with significant productivity g...

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LLäMmlein 1B and 120M – German-only decoder models

uni-wuerzburg.de
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The end of ChromeOS is a new dawn for cheap Android laptops

zdnet.com

xijian/Getty ImagesWhen I first explored ChromeOS Flex, it felt like a minor miracle. Here was a...
xijian/Getty ImagesWhen I first explored ChromeOS Flex, it felt like a minor miracle. Here was a platform that breathed new life into aging x86 hardware, transforming dusty laptops into lightweight, secure, and efficient devices. At the time, I saw it as a solution with great potential -- not just for reducing e-was...
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IBM Quantum delivers on 2022 100x100 performance challenge

ibm.com

Two years ago, IBM® set an ambitious challenge for the quantum computing community: Develop quantum algorithms...
Two years ago, IBM® set an ambitious challenge for the quantum computing community: Develop quantum algorithms incorporating circuits with 100 qubits and gate depths of 100, while IBM would build a quantum computer capable of returning accurate values for those circuits in less than a day’s runtime. Today at the fir...
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Meltwater from Greenland and the Arctic is weakening ocean circulation

theconversation.com

A vast network of ocean currents nicknamed the “great global ocean conveyor belt” is slowing down....
A vast network of ocean currents nicknamed the “great global ocean conveyor belt” is slowing down. That’s a problem because this vital system redistributes heat around the world, influencing both temperatures and rainfall. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation funnels heat northwards through the Atlantic O...

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The Tao of Topic Maps (2000)

ontopia.net

knowledge management knowledge representation ontopia steve pepper tao of topic maps
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Rust traits are a local maxima

thunderseethe.dev

Today we’re talking about Rust traits . As you might’ve guessed from the title, we will...
Today we’re talking about Rust traits . As you might’ve guessed from the title, we will not be talking about them positively. Woah woah, hang on, put down your pitchfork. A local maxima is still a maxima, I love traits as much as anyone.Traits are one of the few programming language concepts beloved enough to earn m...

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Truly Portable C Applications

lwn.net

Ready to give LWN a try? With a subscription to LWN, you can stay current with...
Ready to give LWN a try? With a subscription to LWN, you can stay current with what is happening in the Linux and free-software community and take advantage of subscriber-only site features. We are pleased to offer you a free trial subscription, no credit card required, so that you can see for yourself. Please, join...
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NeuralDEM – Real-Time Simulation of Industrial Particulate Flows

nx-ai.github.io

Advancements in computing power have made it possible to numerically simulate large-scale fluid-mechanical and/or particulate systems,...
Advancements in computing power have made it possible to numerically simulate large-scale fluid-mechanical and/or particulate systems, many of which are integral to core industrial processes. Among the different numerical methods available, the discrete element method (DEM) provides one of the most accurate represen...
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Story of the two thousand stolen Playdate handhelds

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Growing Music: musical interpretations of L-Systems (2023) [pdf]

stanford.edu
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OpenAI Challenges Google

rudo.tel

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Being Productive

furidamu.org

Recently I was asked which habits and practices were the secret to my productivity. I figured...
Recently I was asked which habits and practices were the secret to my productivity. I figured my answers might be of wider interest. Let me know what works for you! Why should you listen to my advice? Aside from my papers, in each year of the past decade I've authored ~1k pull requests with ~200k LoC of deltas, with...

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Oppose the Patent-Troll-Friendly Prevail Act

eff.org

Deeplinks Blog by Joe Mullin | November 13, 2024 The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (S. 2140),...
Deeplinks Blog by Joe Mullin | November 13, 2024 The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (S. 2140), or PERA, would undo vital limits on computer technology patents that the Supreme Court established in the landmark 2014 Alice v. CLS Bank decision. Alice barred patent applicants from obtaining patents simply by adding...
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Pidgin 3.0.0 Experimental 1 Announcement

imfreedom.org

Greetings Programs! This post was supposed to be made awhile back but I got busy and...
Greetings Programs! This post was supposed to be made awhile back but I got busy and kept forgetting to write it. Anyways, we are officially announcing that we will be releasing the first experimental release of Pidgin 3 on December 31st, 2024. This release is a pre-alpha release and no one should be using it full t...
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