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Hopping too many startups in a row?

ycombinator.com
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Making Castro's Feeds Update Faster the Lazy Way

castro.fm

This is more technical than my previous posts. In terms of Castro itself, the app is...
This is more technical than my previous posts. In terms of Castro itself, the app is doing great. Last week we again hit new user highs for 2024, presumably spurred by the pumpkin icon. The app is how users experience Castro, and it needs the most improvement, so that takes up 90% of our time, effort, and attention....
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AWS and Azure Are at Least 4x–10x More Expensive Than Hetzner

umh.app

No, you don’t have to use AWS or Azure. While AWS and Azure are industry leaders,...
No, you don’t have to use AWS or Azure. While AWS and Azure are industry leaders, their advantages often only materialize at massive scales. In many cases, they lead to escalating costs and vendor lock-in without delivering proportional benefits.If your organization hasn’t yet committed to a cloud provider or negoti...

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Show HN: Nextread.ai – Find you next book to read much easier

nextread.ai
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Stargazer (Fish)

wikipedia.org

Family of fishes The stargazers are a family, Uranoscopidae, of perciform fish that have eyes on...
Family of fishes The stargazers are a family, Uranoscopidae, of perciform fish that have eyes on top of their heads (hence the name). The family includes about 51 species (one extinct) in eight genera, all marine and found worldwide in shallow and deep saltwaters.[1] In addition to the top-mounted eyes, a stargazer ...
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Show HN: Doom Inside an SVG

chrisdalke.com
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Google Drive Blackout in Italy After Another Major Anti-Piracy Blunder

torrentfreak.com

Italy has an administrative blocking mechanism and a technical blocking platform, Piracy Shield, operated by rightsholders...
Italy has an administrative blocking mechanism and a technical blocking platform, Piracy Shield, operated by rightsholders in the private sector. Up until now, AGCOM, Italy’s independent telecoms regulator, has been Piracy Shield’s greatest supporter, at least of those not already benefiting financially from the act...
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Cat without cat on the commandline

jarv.org
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Janus: Decoupling Visual Encoding for Multimodal Understanding and Generation

github.com
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The role of cat eye narrowing movements in cat–human communication

nature.com
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AWS CEO tells workers to quit if they don't want to come back to the office

techradar.com

(Image credit: Tony Webster / Flickr) AWS CEO Matt Garman has apparently hit out at workers...
(Image credit: Tony Webster / Flickr) AWS CEO Matt Garman has apparently hit out at workers unhappy with the company's enforced return to office policy.Earlier this year, Amazon Web Service (AWS) announced staff would be required to be in-office for 5 days per week, ending its hybrid working policy. Workers were giv...
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Six top Alzheimer's researchers accused of fraud

threadreaderapp.com

Dan Elton List of high-level Alzheimer's researchers accused of credible fraud:🧵 #1 - Marc Tessier-Lavigne Genentech...
Dan Elton List of high-level Alzheimer's researchers accused of credible fraud:🧵 #1 - Marc Tessier-Lavigne Genentech pointed out problems in his 2009 Nature paper in 2012. After an expose by @tab_delete, he had to resign from Stanford Presidency, but can still run lab and do research. @tab_delete #2 - Sylvain Lesné ...

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IBM Granite 3.0: open enterprise models

ibm.com

IBM Granite 3.0: open, state-of-the-art enterprise models Artificial Intelligence AI in Action Business automation Mixture of...
IBM Granite 3.0: open, state-of-the-art enterprise models Artificial Intelligence AI in Action Business automation Mixture of Experts Today, we’re excited to release IBM Granite 3.0, the third generation of the Granite series of large language models (LLMs) and complementary tools. Reflecting our focus on the balanc...

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Learn Rust the Dangerous Way

cliffle.com
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Bluesky grew by 10% in just two days this week, passing 12M accounts in total

bsky.app
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Mondegreen

wikipedia.org

Misinterpretation of a spoken phrase A mondegreen (/ˈmɒndɪˌɡriːn/ ⓘ) is a mishearing or misinterpretation of a...
Misinterpretation of a spoken phrase A mondegreen (/ˈmɒndɪˌɡriːn/ ⓘ) is a mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase in a way that gives it a new meaning.[1] Mondegreens are most often created by a person listening to a poem or a song; the listener, being unable to hear a lyric clearly, substitutes words that sound...
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TikTok owner sacks intern for sabotaging AI project

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Getty ImagesThe firm said its commercial online operations, including its large language AI models, were unaffectedTikTok-owner,...
Getty ImagesThe firm said its commercial online operations, including its large language AI models, were unaffectedTikTok-owner, ByteDance, says it has sacked an intern for "maliciously interfering" with the training of one of its artificial intelligence (AI) models.But the firm rejected reports that spread over the...
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The "child identifies as wolf" story was only ever about bullying

skeptic.org.uk

If you ever want to strike fear and inspire outrage in the hearts and minds of...
If you ever want to strike fear and inspire outrage in the hearts and minds of the right-wing media and their audience, all it takes is three words: “I identify as…”. It’s like a Bat-Signal summoning a cacophony of caped culture war crusaders, echo-chamber-locating every tiny morsel of perceived ‘wokeness’ they can ...
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Android "Password Store" client for pass discontinued

github.com
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Software Engineer Titles Have Almost Lost All Their Meaning

trevorlasn.com
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Concerns Raised over Bitwarden Moving Further Away from Open-Source

phoronix.com

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3D-Printed Active Electronics

mit.edu

Active electronics — components that can control electrical signals — usually contain semiconductor devices that receive,...
Active electronics — components that can control electrical signals — usually contain semiconductor devices that receive, store, and process information. These components, which must be made in a clean room, require advanced fabrication technology that is not widely available outside a few specialized manufacturing ...

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Memory Safety Without Lifetime Parameters

open-std.org

This proposal describes the implementation of a memory-safe reference type that does not use lifetime annotations....
This proposal describes the implementation of a memory-safe reference type that does not use lifetime annotations. The goal of the proposal is to: Explore the viability of memory safety without lifetime parameters. Explain the infeasibility of making legacy lvalue- and rvalue-references memory safe. Address common o...
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What Is Webb Observing?

nasa.gov

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