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Fix the light guide in a laser meter

unipi.it
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Brother refutes "false claims" that it bricked printers using third-party ink

arstechnica.com

Brother laser printers are popular recommendations for people seeking a printer with none of the nonsense....
Brother laser printers are popular recommendations for people seeking a printer with none of the nonsense. By nonsense, we mean printers suddenly bricking features, like scanning or printing, if users install third-party cartridges. Some printer firms outright block third-party toner and ink, despite customer blowba...
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The Day the Muse Died

johnpweiss.com
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CGNAT frustrates all IP address-based technologies (2019)

sidn.nl

CGNAT is a godsend for all internet access providers who have no IPv4 addresses left to...
CGNAT is a godsend for all internet access providers who have no IPv4 addresses left to assign to customers. At the same time, it's a serious impediment for police services and security tools. Whereas it was once possible to assume that an IP address was linked to a single customer, it can now be linked to thousands...
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Macron to open debate on extending French nuclear protection to European allies

reuters.com
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Show HN: WebRTC Video v1.0, low-latency video streaming from robots

transitiverobotics.com

Provides low-latency video streaming over an end-to-end encrypted WebRTC connection. Once installed you can use the...
Provides low-latency video streaming over an end-to-end encrypted WebRTC connection. Once installed you can use the provided embedding instructions to embed the video widget for that robot in your own web application. Typical latency of just 130ms Allows setting desired bit rate (in KB/s), e.g., for choosing between...
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Vibe Coding Is the Future [video]

youtube.com

science & technology
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Do Back-End Developers Even Have Portfolios?

ycombinator.com
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Vulkan Game Engine Series Written in C – Travis Vroman

youtube.com
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Why did the US let a child safety bill for social media die?

theguardian.com

When Congress adjourned for the holidays in December, a landmark bill meant to overhaul how tech...
When Congress adjourned for the holidays in December, a landmark bill meant to overhaul how tech companies protect their youngest users had officially failed to pass. Introduced in 2022, the Kids Online Safety act (Kosa) was meant to be a huge reckoning for big tech. Instead, despite sailing through the Senate with ...
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Two Americas, one bank branch, and $50k cash

bitsaboutmoney.com

In the sciences they call it the file drawer problem: studies that fail to achieve significance...
In the sciences they call it the file drawer problem: studies that fail to achieve significance or reach the "wrong" conclusion end up hidden away, creating a distorted picture of reality. And so here's me rescuing something from the file drawer of banking procedure: a tale of two Americas, one bank branch, and $50,...
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Gardener wins £1M payout caused by software bug

bbc.co.uk
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Study: The ozone hole is healing, thanks to global reduction of CFCs

mit.edu

A new MIT-led study confirms that the Antarctic ozone layer is healing, as a direct result...
A new MIT-led study confirms that the Antarctic ozone layer is healing, as a direct result of global efforts to reduce ozone-depleting substances.Scientists including the MIT team have observed signs of ozone recovery in the past. But the new study is the first to show, with high statistical confidence, that this re...

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QwQ-32B: Embracing the Power of Reinforcement Learning

qwenlm.github.io

QWEN CHAT Hugging Face ModelScope DEMO DISCORDScaling Reinforcement Learning (RL) has the potential to enhance model...
QWEN CHAT Hugging Face ModelScope DEMO DISCORDScaling Reinforcement Learning (RL) has the potential to enhance model performance beyond conventional pretraining and post-training methods. Recent studies have demonstrated that RL can significantly improve the reasoning capabilities of models. For instance, DeepSeek R...
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NCSC, GCHQ, UK Gov't expunge advice to "use Apple encryption"

alecmuffett.com
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Skynet Won and Destroyed Humanity

dmathieu.com

For a very long time, it appeared obvious to outside observers of the time flow that...
For a very long time, it appeared obvious to outside observers of the time flow that Skynet would never win the war, and never annihilate humanity.Despite the machine’s violent attempts to destroy every leader of the resistance, humans always prevailed. Millions of attempts were made, and none of them succeeded. It ...
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Tailscale Is Pretty Useful

6nok.org
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SMBC Parts Ways with Hiveworks

smbc-comics.com
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US stops sharing intelligence on Russia with Ukraine

theguardian.com

The US has stopped sharing intelligence with Ukraine after Donald Trump’s suspension of military aid on...
The US has stopped sharing intelligence with Ukraine after Donald Trump’s suspension of military aid on Monday, in another serious blow to Kyiv in the war with Russia.White House officials indicated that both bans could be lifted if peace talks make progress.Ukrainian officials suggested the US would no longer provi...
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Leaked VA memo calls for up to 83,000 layoffs to reduce workforce to 2019 levels

govexec.com

The Veterans Affairs Department is planning to lay off tens of thousands of employees throughout its...
The Veterans Affairs Department is planning to lay off tens of thousands of employees throughout its organization later this year, according to an internal memorandum distributed to top staff on Tuesday. VA will soon kick off a departmentwide review of its mission, organization and structure, according to the memo, ...

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The Strategic Crypto Swindle

theatlantic.com

ideas
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From ACS to Altair: The Rise of the Hobby Computer

technicshistory.com

[This post is part of “A Bicycle for the Mind.” The complete series can be found...
[This post is part of “A Bicycle for the Mind.” The complete series can be found here.] A certain pattern of technological development recurred many times in the decades around the turn of the twentieth century: a scattered hobby community, tinkering with a new idea, develops it to the point where those hobbyists ca...
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Apple takes UK to court over 'backdoor' order

theregister.com

Updated Apple has reportedly filed a legal complaint with the UK's Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) contesting...
Updated Apple has reportedly filed a legal complaint with the UK's Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) contesting the British government's order that it must forcibly break the encryption of iCloud data. The appeal will be the first of its kind lodged with the IPT, an independent judicial body that oversees legal co...
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Show HN: Beating Pokemon Red with RL and <10M Parameters

drubinstein.github.io
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