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Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Wins Battle Against America's Taxpayers

prospect.org

For nearly three decades, a cold war has raged through the halls of Congress and in...
For nearly three decades, a cold war has raged through the halls of Congress and in high-end shellfish restaurants perched precariously on Washington, D.C.’s southern coast. The battle lines have shifted between successive administrations, sometimes tilting toward proletariat victory, and sometimes cutting fast towa...

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Is it possible to write plain C iOS app in 2025?

ycombinator.com
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The Size of Packets

potaroo.net

The ISP Column A column on things Internet Other Formats: The Size of Packets October 2024...
The ISP Column A column on things Internet Other Formats: The Size of Packets October 2024 We've now been running packet-switched networks for many decades, and these days it's packets and not virtual circuits lie behind most of the world's digital communications service. But some very fundamental questions remain u...
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DHL suspends B2C shipments over 800 USD until further notice

dhl.com
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Resist, eggheads! Universities are not as weak as they have chosen to be

arstechnica.com

The wholesale American cannibalism of one of its own crucial appendages—the world-famous university system—has begun in...
The wholesale American cannibalism of one of its own crucial appendages—the world-famous university system—has begun in earnest. The campaign is predictably Trumpian, built on a flagrantly pretextual basis and executed with the sort of vicious but chaotic idiocy that has always been a hallmark of the authoritarian m...
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'Enough Is Enuf' Review: A Dream of Simpler Spelling

wsj.com
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What do I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code?

luden.io

Hi there! This is Oleg from Luden.io. We decided to have a deep and meaningful conversation...
Hi there! This is Oleg from Luden.io. We decided to have a deep and meaningful conversation about Lua programming language with Ivan Trusov, lead programmer of the video game Craftomation 101. It contains ~60,000 lines of Lua code and is made with Defold game engine.I asked Ivan to talk about the real issues and sho...
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A new ChatGPT version just dropped and GeoGuesser is now a solved problem

flausch.social
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HaxeUI

haxeui.org
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Decomposing Transactional Systems

transactional.blog

With thanks to Stu Hood, Giorgos Xanthakis, Phil Eaton, and Devan Benz for early reads and...
With thanks to Stu Hood, Giorgos Xanthakis, Phil Eaton, and Devan Benz for early reads and feedback. Every transactional system does four things: It executes transactions. It orders transactions. It validates transactions. It persists transactions. Executing a transaction means evaluating the body of the transaction...
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Show HN: Stadium Crowd Scale Visualise Large Groups of People

davkap92.github.io
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I Analyzed Chord Progressions in 680k Songs

cantgetmuchhigher.com

Welcome back to Can’t Get Much Higher, where music and data meet. Before we get into...
Welcome back to Can’t Get Much Higher, where music and data meet. Before we get into this week’s topic, here are some recent pieces that people have enjoyed:Now, onto a big dataset about chords.By Chris Dalla RivaChordonomicon. I couldn’t get the word out of my head. Every syllable was just as beautiful as the last....
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Memory Size Matters to PostgreSQL

pgdba.org

Nowadays it’s not uncommon to deal with machines with hundreds of GB of RAM. Abundant memory...
Nowadays it’s not uncommon to deal with machines with hundreds of GB of RAM. Abundant memory can give PostgreSQL a massive performance boost. However things work slightly different than you may expect. Let’s find out! The shared buffer is a segment allocated by PostgreSQL in the server’s memory for managing the flow...
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CN Tower, Behind the Scenes (2014)

roadwolf.ca
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XSS on using the legacy "Graphie To PNG" API

hackerone.com
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Potatoes in the Mail

usps.com
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Decreased CO2 during breathwork: emergence of altered states of consciousness

nature.com
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Mux (YC W16) is hiring engineering managers for video at scale

mux.com

*]:set-border-ctx-gray [&>*]:set-bg-ctx-putty text-black text-center>Mux is video for developers. Our mission is to democratize video by solving...
*]:set-border-ctx-gray [&>*]:set-bg-ctx-putty text-black text-center>Mux is video for developers. Our mission is to democratize video by solving the hard problems developers face when building video: video encoding and streaming (Mux Video), video monitoring (Mux Data), and more. Video is a huge part of people’s liv...
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Shell-secrets – GPG-encrypted environment variables

github.com
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UniK3D: Universal Camera Monocular 3D Estimation – Luigi Piccinelli

lpiccinelli-eth.github.io

UniK3D is capable of estimating metric 3D scenes across domains and for any camera from solely...
UniK3D is capable of estimating metric 3D scenes across domains and for any camera from solely single images. UniK3D directly predicts metric 3D points from the input image at inference time without any additional information.Monocular 3D estimation is crucial for visual perception. However, current methods fall sho...
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Show HN: val – An arbitrary precision calculator language

github.com
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AI hype is drowning in slopaganda

ft.com
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AGI Is Still 30 Years Away – Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu

dwarkesh.com

Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu have 2045+ timelines, think the whole "alignment" framing is wrong, don't...
Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu have 2045+ timelines, think the whole "alignment" framing is wrong, don't think an intelligence explosion is plausible, but are convinced we'll see explosive economic growth.This discussion offers a totally different scenario than my recent interview with Scott and Daniel.Ege and Tamay ...
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Our quantum assembly parser got updated to the QASM 3.0 spec

arxiv.org
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