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Microsoft's New PC Looks Just Like a Mac Mini but Serves a Whole New Purpose

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Three years after Microsoft announced the Windows 365 Cloud PC, an enterprise-focused cloud computing service that...
Three years after Microsoft announced the Windows 365 Cloud PC, an enterprise-focused cloud computing service that allowed users to log in to a virtual computer from any device or location, the company has come up with a physical manifestation of the same. At the ongoing Microsoft Ignite conference, Microsoft took t...
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Are at-home genetic tests worth it? As an oncologist, here's my advice.

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Ask HN: Best non-fiction book you read in 2024?

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Casio to Release Ring Watch

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Tjq: Giving Types to Jq

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Why the next leaps towards AGI may be "born secret"

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Did you receive this forwarded from a friend? [Note: I had planned to publish a piece...
Did you receive this forwarded from a friend? [Note: I had planned to publish a piece on battles over AI in the legal and political arenas, but there was a significant development regarding the U.S. government’s role in pursuing Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) on Tuesday Nov. 19th that is too important not to ...

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MaXX Interactive Desktop -- the little brother of the great SGI Desktop on IRIX

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MaXXdesktop v2.2.0 (alpha) running in Modern Look & Feel with Indigo Magic SGI Scheme (4K @120Hz)...
MaXXdesktop v2.2.0 (alpha) running in Modern Look & Feel with Indigo Magic SGI Scheme (4K @120Hz) Introduction The MaXX Interactive Desktop a.k.a. MaXXdesktop is the continuation of the 5Dwm project released many years back. So don't be mistaken, there is only one real re-implementation of the IRIX Interactive Deskt...
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Dear sir, you have built a compiler (2022)

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Dear Sir, I am afraid to inform you that you have built a compiler. I know...
Dear Sir, I am afraid to inform you that you have built a compiler. I know you wanted a “simple prototype” that would just add that one feature to your programming model. You said that “SSA is an overkill” and “it’s just way too much infrastructure to maintain for a simple task” and yet, six months later, you have p...
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A brief history of Mac ports: low speed

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RGFW: Single-header C99 window abstraction library

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Wikipedia's Islamist Vandals

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Image generated by DALL-E.This post is by contributor Alexander von Sternberg.A recent Pirate Wires exposé by...
Image generated by DALL-E.This post is by contributor Alexander von Sternberg.A recent Pirate Wires exposé by Ashley Rindsberg about the goings-on at Wikipedia caught my eye the other day, and has held my attention ever since. I was familiar with Rindsberg’s work, notably his incredible historical critique of the Ne...
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Blink: Tiniest x86-64-Linux emulator

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Nash equilibria in Ballmer's binary-search interview game

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Yesterday John Graham-Cumming posted about “Steve Ballmer’s incorrect binary search interview question,” and in the Hacker...
Yesterday John Graham-Cumming posted about “Steve Ballmer’s incorrect binary search interview question,” and in the Hacker News discussion, among the predictable “interview culture is flawed!!” complaints, there was some discussion of whether binary search was even the right way to solve Ballmer’s puzzle. Here’s a s...
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Ask HN: To those with successful browser extension(s), how did you grow it?

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Against the Dark Forest

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The complex of ideas I’m going to call the Dark Internet Forest emerges from mostly insidery...
The complex of ideas I’m going to call the Dark Internet Forest emerges from mostly insidery tech thinking, but from multiple directions—initially in Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler’s freeform noticings that apply science fiction writer Liu Cixin's dark forest theory of the universe to social media, then in ...
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Introducing Sill: Aggregate popular links on BlueSky and Mastodon

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Today I’m excited to launch the public beta of Sill, my new social media tool. Sill...
Today I’m excited to launch the public beta of Sill, my new social media tool. Sill connects to your Bluesky and Mastodon accounts and aggregates the most popular links in your network. (Yes, a little like Nuzzel.) Sill Today Today, Sill has a small but powerful feature set. Sill can: Connect to your Bluesky and Mas...
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How did you do on the AI art Turing test?

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Texas Opens Investigation into Conspiracy to Boycott Certain Social Platforms

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Latest graphics driver for your Surface devices powered by Snapdragon X Elite

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MIT researchers develop an efficient way to train more reliable AI agents

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Fields ranging from robotics to medicine to political science are attempting to train AI systems to...
Fields ranging from robotics to medicine to political science are attempting to train AI systems to make meaningful decisions of all kinds. For example, using an AI system to intelligently control traffic in a congested city could help motorists reach their destinations faster, while improving safety or sustainabili...

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'King Arthur's Hall' is five times older than thought, researchers discover

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Rendering "modern" Winamp skins in the browser

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Nov 19, 2024TL;DR several years ago I got a proof of concept working where I was...
Nov 19, 2024TL;DR several years ago I got a proof of concept working where I was able to render highly interactive “modern” Winamp skins in the browser by reverse engineering Maki byte code and implementing an interpreter for it in JavaScript. You can try the proof of concept in your browser.One of the most rewardin...
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Reliably Benchmarking Small Changes – Ankush Menat

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ChatGPT Has No Place in the Classroom

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November 22, 2024 By Emily On November 20, 2024, OpenAI and an outfit called "Common Sense...
November 22, 2024 By Emily On November 20, 2024, OpenAI and an outfit called "Common Sense Media" released a guide to using ChatGPT in K-12 education—a guide which shows a shocking lack of common sense. Just as Melanie Dusseau tells us in the context of higher ed, K-12 educators can and should resist this sales pitc...
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