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Reducing latency with esoteric Linux process flags

recall.ai

It was a fine Sunday evening. I had just landed in LA for our company offsite,...
It was a fine Sunday evening. I had just landed in LA for our company offsite, and I met the whole team in person for the first time. A little later, my phone buzzed with a notification, “Antonio assigned you an issue on Linear.” Antonio is an engineering team lead at Recall.ai, and he tasked me with optimizing Outp...
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Warewulf is a stateless and diskless container OS provisioning system

github.com
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EFF: Rayhunter

github.com
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Show HN: Shelgon: A Framework for Building Interactive REPL Shells in Rust

github.com
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Mistral OCR

mistral.ai

Throughout history, advancements in information abstraction and retrieval have driven human progress. From hieroglyphs to papyri,...
Throughout history, advancements in information abstraction and retrieval have driven human progress. From hieroglyphs to papyri, the printing press to digitization, each leap has made human knowledge more accessible and actionable, fueling further innovation. Today, we’re at the precipice of the next big leap—to un...
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IoT project using thermal sensors to monitor spaces

s2.dev

cloud object storage s2 serverless stream store
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Atlassian announces end of support for Opsgenie

atlassian.com

Published March 3, 2025 in Company News Learn about our new IT Ops capabilities, and what...
Published March 3, 2025 in Company News Learn about our new IT Ops capabilities, and what they mean for Opsgenie. We’re committed to bringing our customers the best possible solutions to keep their teams connected, and their businesses running. That’s why Atlassian acquired Opsgenie in 2018: to help customers run th...
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Questions for William J. Rapaport

google.com

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50 Years in Filesystems: 1984

koehntopp.info

This is part 2 of a series. The first part is “1974 ”. Progress is sometimes...
This is part 2 of a series. The first part is “1974 ”. Progress is sometimes hard to see, especially when you have been part of it or otherwise lived through it. Often, it is easier to see if you compare modern educational material, and the problems discussed with older material. And then look for the research paper...
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Bcvi – run vi over a 'back-channel'

sourceforge.net

If you use SSH, you might find bcvi useful. This article attempts to describe what it...
If you use SSH, you might find bcvi useful. This article attempts to describe what it is and why you might use it. Let's start with what it is: bcvi is a command-line tool that works with SSH to provide a 'back-channel' from the server you have connected to, back to your workstation. You typically use SSH because yo...
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1/4 of startups in YC current cohort have almost entirely AI-generated codebases

techcrunch.com

With the release of new AI models that are better at coding, developers are increasingly using...
With the release of new AI models that are better at coding, developers are increasingly using AI to generate code. One of the newest examples is the current batch of Y Combinator, the storied Silicon Valley startup accelerator. A quarter of the W25 startup batch have 95% of their codebases generated by AI, YC manag...
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UK quietly scrubs encryption advice from government websites

techcrunch.com

The U.K. government appears to have quietly scrubbed encryption advice from government web pages, just weeks...
The U.K. government appears to have quietly scrubbed encryption advice from government web pages, just weeks after demanding backdoor access to encrypted data stored on Apple’s cloud storage service, iCloud. The change was spotted by security expert Alec Muffet, who wrote in a blog post on Wednesday that the U.K.’s ...
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Why 56k Modems Relied on Digital Phone Lines You Didn't Know We Had

hackaday.com

If you came of age in the 1990s, you’ll remember the unmistakable auditory handshake of an...
If you came of age in the 1990s, you’ll remember the unmistakable auditory handshake of an analog modem negotiating its connection via the plain old telephone system. That cacophony of screeches and hisses was the result of careful engineering. They allowed digital data to travel down phone lines that were only ever...
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NASA Shuts Off Voyager Science Instrument

gizmodo.com

The Voyager spacecraft have been cruising through interstellar space for more than 47 years, collecting precious...
The Voyager spacecraft have been cruising through interstellar space for more than 47 years, collecting precious data on the vast cosmos. All that traveling has taken a toll on the farthest human-made objects, and the spacecraft’s days are numbered. NASA engineers are resorting to shutting off science instruments on...
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Leaping AI (YC W25) Is Hiring Founding Engineers for Self-Improving Voice AI

ycombinator.com
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The Combined Cipher Machine 1940's-1950's

chris-intel-corner.blogspot.com

Cipher machines were extensively used by both the Axis and the Allies during WWII. The Germans...
Cipher machines were extensively used by both the Axis and the Allies during WWII. The Germans had the Enigma, the Lorenz SZ 40/42 and the Siemens T-52. The Japanese had the Type B Cipher Machine (Angooki Taipu B). The Americans had the Converter M-134-C (SIGABA) and the Hagelin M-209. The British had the Typex. Ano...
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Succinct Data Structures

startifact.com
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Mistral OCR

mistral.ai

Throughout history, advancements in information abstraction and retrieval have driven human progress. From hieroglyphs to papyri,...
Throughout history, advancements in information abstraction and retrieval have driven human progress. From hieroglyphs to papyri, the printing press to digitization, each leap has made human knowledge more accessible and actionable, fueling further innovation. Today, we’re at the precipice of the next big leap—to un...
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Zig: A good memory allocator in 200 lines of code

github.com
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Securing Neovim with Firejail

oneofone.dev

I decided to go with a script rather than a profile, profiles are rather complicated and...
I decided to go with a script rather than a profile, profiles are rather complicated and didn’t work right for me.#!/bin/zsh # check if we passed a directory as the first arg local cwd="$PWD" local p="$1" [ "$1" != "" ] && shift if [ -d "$p" ]; then p="$(realpath $p)" cwd="$p" elif [ -f "$p" ]; then p="$(realpath $p...

firejail linux neovim security
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Hannah Montana Linux

sourceforge.net
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Bangladesh's factories turn to surveillance, automation; workers feel pressure

restofworld.org

The young woman quickly sewed a piece of gray fabric and handed it down the manufacturing...
The young woman quickly sewed a piece of gray fabric and handed it down the manufacturing line at one of Dhaka’s largest garment factories. She looked impatiently at the woman before her, as if willing her to work faster and pass on the next piece. Atop her sewing machine, a screen glowed a red warning. She had made...

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There Is a Significant Need for Retirement Savings in the US

apolloacademy.com

This presentation may not be distributed, transmitted or otherwise communicated to others in whole or in...
This presentation may not be distributed, transmitted or otherwise communicated to others in whole or in part without the express consent of Apollo Global Management, Inc. (together with its subsidiaries, “Apollo”). Apollo makes no representation or warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the accuracy, reaso...
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Anime fans stumbled upon a mathematical proof

scientificamerican.com

Math solutions can be found in surprising places, including the dark realms of the Internet. In...
Math solutions can be found in surprising places, including the dark realms of the Internet. In 2011 an anonymous poster on the now infamously controversial image board 4chan posed a mathematical puzzle about the cult classic anime series The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Though the bulletin board has become litter...
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