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February 18

Frozen. Thawed. Not Dead: Jean Hilliard's Minnesota Story (2018)

mprnews.org

When you Google the small town of Lengby, there's pretty much just one result that pops...
When you Google the small town of Lengby, there's pretty much just one result that pops up, something that happened almost 40 years ago. The accounts online call it a miracle. On the night of Dec. 20, 1980, 19-year-old Jean Hilliard's car hit the ditch. She tried to walk for help. She was found in the morning in the...
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February 18

Broadcom, TSMC Weigh Possible Intel Deals That Would Split Storied Chip Maker

wsj.com
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February 18

Nostalgia for Physical Media

sicpers.info

While I have access to streaming services that offer most of the music that the labels...
While I have access to streaming services that offer most of the music that the labels the services deal with still publish, I also have a significant collection of music on physical media, and do most of my listening to prerecorded music by playing entire albums, in order, from a physical format. I recently shared ...
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February 18

The Ideal Candidate Will Be Punched In the Stomach

scottsmitelli.com
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February 18

Svelte 5 is not JavaScript

npub.pro
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February 18

The Fall of FiveM

fivem.team
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February 18

Show HN: Sober Ringtones – Cringe-free ringtones for people who hate ringtones

wize.io
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February 18

Saying Goodbye to FFmpegKit

medium.com

As of January 6, 2025, FFmpegKit is officially retired.This decision wasn’t easy, especially considering the years...
As of January 6, 2025, FFmpegKit is officially retired.This decision wasn’t easy, especially considering the years of time and effort I’ve invested in the project. But after weighing all the challenges, I realised it’s no longer feasible for me to continue maintaining the project.I wanted to share the story behind t...

ffmpeg ffmpeg kit open source
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February 18

Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO

tomshardware.com

(Image credit: Acer) Acer Laptop prices in the U.S. are set to rise by 10% from...
(Image credit: Acer) Acer Laptop prices in the U.S. are set to rise by 10% from March 2025, commented CEO Jason Chen in an interview with The Telegraph. Chen states that the price hike is a direct result of the Trump administration's incoming tariffs."We will have to adjust the end user price to reflect the tariff,"...
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February 18

By the end of today, NASA's workforce will be about 10 percent smaller

arstechnica.com

Spread across NASA's headquarters and 10 field centers, which dot the United States from sea to...
Spread across NASA's headquarters and 10 field centers, which dot the United States from sea to sea, the space agency has had a workforce of nearly 18,000 civil servants. However, by the end of today, that number will have shrunk by about 10 percent since the beginning of the second Trump administration four weeks a...
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February 18

Show HN: Welcome, Cot: the Rust web framework for lazy developers

mackow.ski

Cot was born out of frustration - the kind that every Rust developer feels when searching...
Cot was born out of frustration - the kind that every Rust developer feels when searching for a batteries-included, Django-like web framework that just handles the basics for you. While Rust is a really mature language, the web ecosystem is still sort of lacking. Let’s change that. Motivation There is a variety of w...

cot devblog home personal programming
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February 18

Excessive Criticism Is a Sign of Internal Conflict (Projecting)

kupajo.com

If you catch yourself lobbing petty grenades: “She’s lazy.” “He’s stupid.” “They don’t deserve that.” “They’re...
If you catch yourself lobbing petty grenades: “She’s lazy.” “He’s stupid.” “They don’t deserve that.” “They’re so fake.” That may just be you talking about… you. Psychological projection happens when you displace undesirable feelings onto someone else, treating them as the source of the internal conflicts you’d rath...
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February 18

Show HN: Scripton – Python IDE with Built-In Realtime Visualizations

scripton.dev
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February 18

Making my debug build run 100x faster so that it is finally usable

gaultier.github.io

⏴ Back to all articles Published on 2025-02-18 Table of contents SIMD and dedicated silicon to...
⏴ Back to all articles Published on 2025-02-18 Table of contents SIMD and dedicated silicon to the rescue. I am writing a torrent application, to download and serve torrent files, in C, because it's fun. A torrent download is made of thousands of pieces of the same size, typically a few hundred KiB to a few MiB. At ...
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February 18

Brian Krebs: I've been on Mastodon more than 2 years now

infosec.exchange
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February 18

Why I'm writing a Scheme implementation in 2025: Async Rust

maplant.com
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February 18

Bosch's brake-by-wire system may be the next big leap in automotive tech

newatlas.com

bosch braking electric vehicles
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February 18

India's Tata Consultancy Was Gaming the US Visa System

bloomberg.com
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February 18

Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Have Sold 2M Units, Production to Be Increased to 10M

uploadvr.com

glasses & ar tech
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February 18

Reviewing the Cryptography Used by Signal

soatok.blog

Last year, I urged furries to stop using Telegram because it doesn’t actually provide them with...
Last year, I urged furries to stop using Telegram because it doesn’t actually provide them with any of the privacy guarantees they think it gives them. Instead of improving Telegram’s cryptography to be actually secure, the CEO started spreading misleading bullshit about Signal®. Since then, I’ve been flooded with p...
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February 18

Linux's Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down

phoronix.com

desktop linux linux benchmarking linux hardware benchmarks linux hardware reviews linux server benchmarks
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February 18

Jiga (YC W21) Is Hiring Mongo/React/Node Engineers

ycombinator.com

Source better parts by partnering directly with vetted manufacturersConnect directly with founders of the best YC-funded...
Source better parts by partnering directly with vetted manufacturersConnect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups.Apply to role ›About Jiga: We are on a mission to help engineers build physical products faster. Imagine the npm install for mechanical engineers. How we work: Remote: We are a fully remo...
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February 18

What will happen if you do an entire woodworking project using a VR headset? [video]

youtube.com

howto & style
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February 18

'Here lives the monster's brain' The man who exposed Switzerland's dirty secrets

theguardian.com

In early 1964, Jean Ziegler, a young Swiss politician, received a phone call from a man...
In early 1964, Jean Ziegler, a young Swiss politician, received a phone call from a man claiming to represent Ernesto “Che” Guevara, the Cuban revolutionary and minister of industry. Che would be in Geneva in March for a UN conference on trade policy, and some comrades had suggested Jean might be his chauffeur durin...

switzerland
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