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First Porn, Now Skin Cream? 'Age Verification' Bills Are Out of Control

eff.org

Deeplinks Blog by Jason Kelley | March 5, 2025 We've opposed the Take It Down Act...
Deeplinks Blog by Jason Kelley | March 5, 2025 We've opposed the Take It Down Act because it could be easily manipulated to take down lawful content that powerful people simply don't like. Last night, President Trump demonstrated he has a similar view on the bill. He wants to sign the bill into law, then use it to...
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Show HN: A big tech dev experience for an open source CMS

contentfoundry.com

Hey HN! We're building an open-source CMS designed to help creators with every part of the...
Hey HN! We're building an open-source CMS designed to help creators with every part of the content production pipeline. We're showing our tiny first step: A tool designed to take in a Twitter username and produce an "identity card" based on it. We expect to use an approach similar to Constitutional AI with an explic...
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Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon

theguardian.com

A robotic private spacecraft designed to provide crucial data for returning humans to the moon toppled...
A robotic private spacecraft designed to provide crucial data for returning humans to the moon toppled over as it landed on the lunar surface, bringing an immediate and premature end to the mission, its operators said on Friday.Athena, a probe launched by the Texas-based company Intuitive Machines (IM) last month, t...
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AMD YOLO

geohot.github.io
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Anthropic raises $3.5B at $61.5B valuation

nytimes.com

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Microsoft is plotting a future without OpenAI

techstartups.com

Microsoft’s AI head is plotting a future without OpenAI. According to a report from The Information,...
Microsoft’s AI head is plotting a future without OpenAI. According to a report from The Information, Mustafa Suleyman, the head of Microsoft’s AI division, has set his sights on a bold objective: reducing the company’s dependence on OpenAI. “After setbacks, Microsoft’s AI guru Mustafa Suleyman appears to be making s...
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62% of Canadians Plan to Avoid the U.S. for at Least the Next Year

abacusdata.ca
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Google change is breaking some digital photo frames

theverge.com

Google is changing the way apps can access Google Photos libraries, which is creating problems for...
Google is changing the way apps can access Google Photos libraries, which is creating problems for owners of some digital photo frames. While the change is designed to make your photo library more private, it’s also breaking how digital photo frames — such as those made by Aura and Cozyla — automatically update slid...
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Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"?

ycombinator.com
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Reflection – AlphaGo / Gemini team building superintelligent coding agents

reflection.ai
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Show HN: IEMidi – Cross-platform MIDI map editor for arbitrary controllers

github.com
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Kraftful (YC S19) is hiring a founding eng to support our hockey-stick growth

ycombinator.com

Copilot for product teams$100K - $150K / 0.30% - 1.00%Connect directly with founders of the best...
Copilot for product teams$100K - $150K / 0.30% - 1.00%Connect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups.Apply to role ›To fuel our hockey-stick growth, we’re looking for a passionate engineer ready to make an impact. This isn’t just another job - it’s an opportunity to be a founding member of a rocketshi...
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Optimistic Locking in B-Trees

cedardb.com

B-Trees are one of the few specialized data structures which truly stood the test of time,...
B-Trees are one of the few specialized data structures which truly stood the test of time, being over 50 years old. They were invented in year zero of unix time, on a system with a whopping 7.25MB of disk storage — Not DRAM! They are only one month younger than the idea of relational databases itself and witnessed t...
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Vtm: Text-Based Desktop Environment

github.com
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Introducing command And commandfor In HTML

chrome.com

Published: March 7, 2025 Buttons are essential to making dynamic web applications. Buttons open menus, toggle...
Published: March 7, 2025 Buttons are essential to making dynamic web applications. Buttons open menus, toggle actions, and submit forms. They provide the foundation of interactivity on the web. Making buttons simple and accessible can lead to some surprising challenges. Developers building micro-frontends or compone...
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Introduction to MLIR and Modern Compilers

vectorfold.studio

LLVM is a powerful compiler infrastructure project that has revolutionized how we build programming languages and...
LLVM is a powerful compiler infrastructure project that has revolutionized how we build programming languages and tools. At its core, LLVM provides a collection of modular compiler and toolchain technologies that can be used to develop frontend compilers for any programming language and generate optimized code for m...
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YouTube scares me; I need RAID 1 for my video content

jeffgeerling.com

I've published 500 videos in 18 years on my YouTube channel. It was different back in...
I've published 500 videos in 18 years on my YouTube channel. It was different back in 2006, when I moved from Google Videos over to YouTube. Monetization wasn't a thing, and we all just posted video online for the fun of it. Fast forward to today, and it seems like AI slop is set to take over the entire platform, pr...
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Why Quantum Engineering Is Emerging as a Distinct Industrial Sector

ieee.org

Why build an industry around a scale that cuts across established verticals? This question occurred to...
Why build an industry around a scale that cuts across established verticals? This question occurred to me on a long flight to Paris, to attend the opening ceremony of the 2025 International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ), at UNESCO headquarters last month. I was part of an IEEE delegation led by 2025 I...

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Laser-based device can scan almost any sample of gas and tell you what's in it

phys.org
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Why reading Martha C Nussbaum's philosophy is pure pleasure

aeon.co
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A Scientific American bolt puzzle

leancrew.com

March 3, 2025 at 6:26 AM by Dr. Drang A week or so ago, Scientific American...
March 3, 2025 at 6:26 AM by Dr. Drang A week or so ago, Scientific American republished this Martin Gardner puzzle from 1958: Two identical bolts are placed together so that their helical grooves intermesh (see illustration). If you move the bolts around each other as you would twiddle your thumbs, holding each bolt...
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Betting on the Pope was the original prediction market

nodumbideas.com

Pope Gregory XIV, who tried to ban gambling on the papacyLike many people, I’ve been sad...
Pope Gregory XIV, who tried to ban gambling on the papacyLike many people, I’ve been sad to hear about Pope Francis' illness and wish him a speedy recovery. As I read the latest updates, I had an intrusive thought: is there already a prediction market on his health? I’m sorry to report that yes there is.The phenomen...
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Strobelight: A profiling service built on open source technology

fb.com
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How Monero Fulfilled Satoshi's Promise

zola.ink
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