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Shutting down my legal torrent site after 17 years
Link: legittorrents.info/
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Download free and legal torrents. Music, movies, games, software and more! Legit Torrents is the biggest and best free and legal torrent tracker.www.legittorrents.info
SpaceX giant rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas
Link: apnews.com/article/spacex-star…
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SpaceX’s giant new rocket blasted off on its first test flight but exploded minutes after rising from the launch pad.Marcia Dunn (Associated Press)
Seagate hit with $300M penalty for selling sanctioned storage to Huawei
Link: theregister.com/2023/04/20/sea…
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Felt it was on the right side of the law when shipping seven million drives worth $1.1 billion. OopsSimon Sharwood (The Register)
Tech CEO applauds an employee selling their dog to accommodate return-to-office
Link: gizmodo.com/clearlink-ceo-clar…
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"I challenge any of you to outwork me," Clearlink CEO James Clarke told his staff in a combative and unhinged video call.Lauren Leffer (Gizmodo)
US could soon approve MDMA therapy – opening an era of psychedelic medicine
Link: nature.com/articles/d41586-023…
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Perceptions have shifted dramatically in the past few years on the therapeutic value of illicit drugs such as ecstasy. But questions still linger about what FDA approval might look like.Reardon, Sara
Starship Flight Test (Launch in 1 hour)
Link: youtube.com/watch?v=-1wcilQ58h…
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SpaceX is targeting as soon as Thursday, April 20 for the first flight test of a fully integrated Starship and Super Heavy rocket from Starbase in Texas. The...YouTube
Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant
Link: mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/4/20/…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
On April 18 at least six police officers from the National Operations Department (NOA) of the Swedish Police visited the Mullvad VPN office in Gothenburg with a search warrant.Mullvad VPN
Most of the reasons fall into a few categories: data orientation, the JVM, and the REPL.biffweb.com
The Colorful Charm of Amiga Utility Disks
Link: datagubbe.se/utildisks/
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Philly cheesesteaks became big in Lahore
Link: phillymag.com/news/2023/04/08/…
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Immigration patterns, global politics, and a bit of serendipity intertwined to make Philly's iconic sandwich a hit in the 13-million-resident megalopolis.Kunwar Khuldune Shahid (Philadelphia Magazine)
POSSE: Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere
Link: indieweb.org/POSSE
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Pop-shoot: Synthwave styled space shooter, inspired by 80s arcades
Link: github.com/kiwphi/pop-shoot
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:rocket: Synthwave styled space shooter, inspired by the 80s arcades - GitHub - kiwphi/pop-shoot: Synthwave styled space shooter, inspired by the 80s arcadesGitHub
Space Elevator
Link: neal.fun/space-elevator/
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PC Engines EOL
Link: pcengines.ch/eol.htm
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More optimizations in the compiler and JIT
Link: erlang.org/blog/more-optimizat…
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Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content
Link: imgurinc.com/rules
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Intranasal vaccine confers broad mucosal and systemic immunity against SARS-CoV2
Link: nature.com/articles/s41392-023…
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Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy - Intranasal booster using an Omicron vaccine confers broad mucosal and systemic immunity against SARS-CoV-2 variantsNature
DIY Neurotech: Making BCI open-source thrusts brain-signal into a maker’s world
Link: spectrum.ieee.org/neurotechnol…
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New open-source hardware thrusts brain-signal processing into a maker’s worldMichael Nolan (IEEE Spectrum)
Only one pair of integers satisfy the equation m^n = n^m
Link: keith-mcnulty.medium.com/only-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
For today’s interesting problem, we are looking to find all positive integer pairs n and m which satisfy the equation above, when n and m are distinct. If we play around with small n and m we can…Keith McNulty (Medium)
How RocksDB Works
Link: artem.krylysov.com/blog/2023/0…
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Replit - How to train your own LLM Models
Link: blog.replit.com/llm-training
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Satellite takes image of another satellite
Link: twitter.com/NASA_Landsat/statu…
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Building telescopes on the Moon could transform astronomy
Link: theconversation.com/building-t…
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The current race to the Moon is opening up opportunities for lunar astronomy.The Conversation
Farouk al Kasim saved Norway from its oil (2014)
Link: psmag.com/environment/iraqi-vi…
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Qantas is bringing back Airbus A380s from the California desert
Link: smh.com.au/business/companies/…
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At 73 metres long, 24 metres high and with a take-off weight of up to 560 tonnes, the Airbus A380 is the biggest and heaviest passenger aircraft in the world. How do you get one going after three years?Amelia McGuire (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Horrible Code, Clean Performance
Link: johnnysswlab.com/horrible-code…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
A short tale of how horrible code yields clean performance.Ivica Bogosavljević (Johnny's Software Lab)
Basic math related to computation and memory usage for transformers
Link: blog.eleuther.ai/transformer-m…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
We present basic math related to computation and memory usage for transformersQuentin Anthony (EleutherAI)
User: Junnn11
Link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jun…
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In 1930, the 22M-pound Indiana Bell building was rotated 90 degrees
Link: mastodon.social/@Miriamm/11022…
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Almost three quarters of the golden age of Hollywood has been lost
Link: historytoday.com/archive/missi…
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Agents are the next AI killer app after ChatGPT
Link: latent.space/p/agents
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Auto-GPT/BabyAGI Executive Summary, a Brief History of Autonomous Agentic AI, and Predictions for Autonomous Futureswyx (Latent Space)
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Gezellig – a word that encompasses the heart of Dutch Culture
Link: dutchamsterdam.nl/155-gezellig
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The meaning of 'gezellig' -- an untranslatable word that encompasses Dutch culture. Learn how to pronounce and use it.CityDesk (DutchAmsterdam)
The GTK+3 port of GIMP is officially finished
Link: twitter.com/zemarmot/status/16…
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AI Incident Database
Link: incidentdatabase.ai/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
The starting point for information about the AI Incident Databaseincidentdatabase.ai
When Interfaces Kill: What Happened to John Denver (1999)
Link: asktog.com/columns/027Interfac…
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Global rice shortage is set to be the biggest in 20 years
Link: cnbc.com/2023/04/19/global-ric…
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Rice production for the marketing year ending July 2023 is set to log its largest production shortfall in two decades, according to Fitch Solutions.Lee Ying Shan (CNBC)
How to Make Good Small Games
Link: farawaytimes.blogspot.com/2023…
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Stability AI Launches StableLM: A New Open-Source Language Model
Link: github.com/Stability-AI/Stable…
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StableLM: Stability AI Language Models. Contribute to Stability-AI/StableLM development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Latent Diffusion Models Are Zero-Shot Speech and Singing Synthesizers
Link: speechresearch.github.io/natur…
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Yubico is merging with ACQ Bure and intends to go public
Link: yubico.com/blog/yubico-is-merg…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Yubico announces its intent to go public through a merger with ACQ Bure, a Swedish holding company, on Nasdaq First North Growth Market in Stockholm. This strategic move aims to fuel Yubico's long-term growth in the cybersecurity market.Mattias Danielsson (Yubico)
Stability AI Launches the First of Its StableLM Suite of Language Models
Link: stability.ai/blog/stability-ai…
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Stability AI's open-source Alpha version of StableLM showcases the power of small, efficient models that can generate high-performing text and code locally on personal devices.Anel Islamovic (Stability AI)
Why did Prolog lose steam? (2010)
Link: kmjn.org/notes/prolog_lost_ste…
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Most of my skills are now worth nothing, but 10% are worth 1000x
Link: tidyfirst.substack.com/p/90-of…
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...but the other 10% are worth 1000xKent Beck (Software Design: Tidy First?)
ChatPDF – Chat with Any PDF
Link: chatpdf.com
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ChatPDF is the fast and easy way to chat with any PDF, free and without sign-in. Talk to books, research papers, manuals, essays, legal contracts, whatever you have! The intelligence revolution is here, ChatGPT was just the beginning!www.chatpdf.com
Jedes Jahr wieder stellen mir meine deutschen Freunde schräge Fragen zum Ramadan. Ich habe es aufgegeben, sie aufklären zu wollen.
Ramadan und die Deutschen: Sie blicken's einfach nicht
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PSKoans: A simple, fun, and interactive way to learn the PowerShell language
Link: github.com/vexx32/PSKoans
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A simple, fun, and interactive way to learn the PowerShell language through Pester unit testing. - GitHub - vexx32/PSKoans: A simple, fun, and interactive way to learn the PowerShell language throu...GitHub
Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on demand – the simple way
Link: dgross.ca/blog/linux-home-serv…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
It began with what seemed like a final mundane touch to my home server setup for hosting Time Machine backups: I wanted it to automatically…dgross.ca
Hundreds of years after the first try, we can finally read a Ptolemy text
Link: arstechnica.com/science/2023/0…
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The original writing was hidden in part by a 19th-century attempt to read it.Ars Technica
Why Some Researchers Think I’m Wrong About Social Media and Mental Illness
Link: jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/w…
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Jonathan Haidt responds to critics and offers six propositions for evaluating the evidence.Jon Haidt (After Babel)
Explore Washington DC through the eyes of a spy
Link: secretmissiondc.com/
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Secret Mission DC will take you on an exciting route around the city, spotting clues, solving puzzles and avoiding spies, all at your own pace.secretmissiondc.com
Offline Is Just Online with Extreme Latency
Link: blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/offl…
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Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.blog.jim-nielsen.com
The Coming Technological Singularity (1993)
Link: edoras.sdsu.edu/~vinge/misc/si…
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Align Your Latents: High-Resolution Video Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models
Link: research.nvidia.com/labs/toron…
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MMC4: An open, billion-scale corpus of images interleaved with text
Link: github.com/allenai/mmc4
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
MultimodalC4 is a multimodal extension of c4 that interleaves millions of images with text. - GitHub - allenai/mmc4: MultimodalC4 is a multimodal extension of c4 that interleaves millions of images...GitHub
Firefly – A new compiler and runtime for BEAM languages
Link: github.com/GetFirefly/firefly
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An alternative BEAM implementation, designed for WebAssembly - GitHub - GetFirefly/firefly: An alternative BEAM implementation, designed for WebAssemblyGitHub
Show HN: AI Playground by Vercel Labs
Link: play.vercel.ai
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MRI brain images become 64M times sharper
Link: today.duke.edu/2023/04/brain-i…
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