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Is AWS S3 having an outage?

ycombinator.com
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Wigle.net: All the Networks. Found by Everyone

wigle.net

802.11 802.11b wifi wireless wireless maps
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Google must crack open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge

theverge.com

Google’s Android app store is an illegal monopoly — and now it will have to change....
Google’s Android app store is an illegal monopoly — and now it will have to change. Today, Judge James Donato issued his final ruling in Epic v. Google, ordering Google to effectively open up the Google Play app store to competition for three whole years. Google will have to distribute rival third-party app stores w...
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Sam Altman Goes Full Emperor

substack.com

In 2008, Paul Graham, founder of the Silicon Valley firm Y Combinator, described Sam Altman, who...
In 2008, Paul Graham, founder of the Silicon Valley firm Y Combinator, described Sam Altman, who was then 23 years old, like this: “You could parachute him into an island full of cannibals and come back in five years and he’d be the king.” In 2011, Graham made Altman a partner at Y Combinator. Three years later, Gra...
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NASA 3D Resources

nasa.gov
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Virtualizing iOS on Apple Silicon

nickb.website

In this blog post, I explore how I achieved virtualizing iOS on Apple silicon Macs, exploring...
In this blog post, I explore how I achieved virtualizing iOS on Apple silicon Macs, exploring many internals along the way.Part 0: Uncharted Waters?One large project I’ve spent large amounts of time working on was vma2pwn, a project that can create a fully modifiable vma2 macOS boot-chain for macOS guest virtual mac...
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Optimizing Postgres table layout for maximum efficiency

ena.to

mysql postgres sqlite
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Slow Deployment Causes Meetings – By Kent Beck

substack.com

First published 2016.“I can’t get any code out with all these meetings.” What if this perennial...
First published 2016.“I can’t get any code out with all these meetings.” What if this perennial engineer complaint has causation backwards? Adding and removing organizational overhead is relatively easy compared to increasing an organization’s capacity to deploy code. What if meetings and reviews are an organization...
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Hextra: A Modern Hugo Theme with Built-In Tools for Docs, Blogs, and More

github.com
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Reflection in C++26: Metafunctions for Enums and Classes

modernescpp.com

Today, I continue my journey through reflection in C++26 and play with enums and classes. The...
Today, I continue my journey through reflection in C++26 and play with enums and classes. The names of the metafunctions to access an Enum or a Class member are often identical. The following program is based on one by Daveed Vandevoorde. Daveed is one of the fathers of reflection, and he used this example in his pr...
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Beehive – LLM Agentic Framework

github.com
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The 727 That Vanished

smithsonianmag.com

In 2003, a 727 that once flew for American Airlines disappeared from Angola. Mike Gabriel Seven...
In 2003, a 727 that once flew for American Airlines disappeared from Angola. Mike Gabriel Seven years after her brother disappeared from Quatro de Fevereiro International Airport in Angola, Benita Padilla-Kirkland is trying to persuade the FBI to re-open his case. She believes she has the “new information” agents to...
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Kgrep: small search engine, no fluff

kgrep.com
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Data breach leaks SSNs of over 230k Comcast customers

theverge.com
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Ruby 3.4.0 Preview2 Released

ruby-lang.org

Posted by naruse on 7 Oct 2024 We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby...
Posted by naruse on 7 Oct 2024 We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 3.4.0-preview2. Prism Switch the default parser from parse.y to Prism. [Feature #20564] Language changes String literals in files without a frozen_string_literal comment now behave as if they were frozen. If they are mutated a deprecation ...
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$61 Kit Turns Any Hot Wheels into a Remote-Controlled Drift Car

thedrive.com

I might be in the minority here, but I stopped collecting die-cast cars years ago. I...
I might be in the minority here, but I stopped collecting die-cast cars years ago. I don’t have any Hot Wheels tracks, so all they did was sit on my shelf taking up space, fading into the background. The few I have left, though, I’m now eyeing as projects—because I just found a kit to turn them into remote-controlle...
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An Encyclopedia for Developers

devpedia.dev
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Ask HN: In 2024, is SWE a sustainable career?

ycombinator.com
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Implausibility of life extension in humans in the twenty-first century

nature.com
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Show HN: Okbookmarks – A Search focussed Bookmark Manager

okbookmarks.com
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Woman gets reply about job application – 48 years on

bbc.com

BBCTizi Hodson, from Gedney Hill, Lincolnshire, applied for a job in 1976 but her application was...
BBCTizi Hodson, from Gedney Hill, Lincolnshire, applied for a job in 1976 but her application was never deliveredA woman who spent 48 years wondering why an application for her dream job was never answered has finally found out why.Tizi Hodson, 70, from Gedney Hill in Lincolnshire, could not believe her eyes when sh...
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After USA Ban: Google Kicks Kaspersky Out of Play Store

heise.de

Kaspersky 's US ban has global repercussions. The US government has banned the sale of the...
Kaspersky 's US ban has global repercussions. The US government has banned the sale of the manufacturer's software. Google has followed suit and removed both the software and the company's accounts from Google Play. This means that the ban in the USA no longer only affects the local market, but also the German-speak...

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US antitrust case against Amazon to move forward

reuters.com
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Unlocking the 'aha' moment: Developer relations for startups

signalfire.com

Developer relations (DevRel) can be a cornerstone of product adoption and growth for early-stage companies, but...
Developer relations (DevRel) can be a cornerstone of product adoption and growth for early-stage companies, but too often early-stage companies end up focusing on the wrong things. The linchpin for success lies in how quickly developers reach their first "aha" moment—that pivotal interaction when they truly grasp yo...
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