Glojure: Clojure interpreter hosted on Go, with extensible interop support
Link: github.com/glojurelang/glojure
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Clojure interpreter hosted on Go, with extensible interop support. - glojurelang/glojureGitHub
Text Editing Hates You Too (2019)
Link: lord.io/text-editing-hates-you…
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FTC takes action against Gravy Analytics, Venntel for selling location data
Link: ftc.gov/news-events/news/press…
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The Curse of Markdown
Link: codehike.org/blog/the-curse-of…
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Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz
Link: krebsonsecurity.com/2024/12/wh…
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Phishing attacks increased nearly 40 percent in the year ending August 2024, with much of that growth concentrated at a small number of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) -- such as .shop, .top, .xyz -- that attract scammers with rock-bottom…krebsonsecurity.com
Phoenix LiveView 1.0.0 is here
Link: phoenixframework.org/blog/phoe…
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Walmart said Tuesday it had completed its $2.3 billion all-cash acquisition of TV maker Vizio, a move by the retailing giant to expand its advertising business.entertainment.slashdot.org
'And here's what I would say to the Democrats: You have a YETI cup? Sit down and shut up,' Emanuel said in 1-on-1 interviewCraig Wall (ABC7 Chicago)
My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
Link: armaansahni.com/game/
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Egoless Engineering
Link: egoless.engineering
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The Tube Computer
Link: thetubecomputer.com/
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Amazon Aurora DSQL
Link: aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/dsql…
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Amazon Aurora DSQL is a serverless distributed SQL database with virtually unlimited scale, the highest availability, and zero infrastructure management.Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Skia Canvas: Browserless implementation of the HTML Canvas drawing API for node
Link: skia-canvas.org/
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Costco has announced it will stop selling books at most of its locations across the U.S. starting next year.ABC7 Chicago
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We switched from Next.js to Astro (and why it might interest you)
Link: datocms.com/blog/why-we-switch…
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Follow the first article of a series in which we'll try to summarize our journey with Astro, sharing many cool little tricks and details we found out (or totally came up with) in the process.DatoCMS
Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphics with Linux support
Link: phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-…
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Succeeding the Intel Arc Graphics discrete graphics cards that launched two years ago as the DG2/Alchemist series, the next-gen Battlemage graphics cards are being announced today.www.phoronix.com
Amazon Nova
Link: aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/intro…
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Amazon Nova foundation models deliver frontier intelligence and industry leading price-performance, with support for text and multimodal intelligence, multimodal fine-tuning, and high-quality images and videos.Amazon Web Services
One in four of the 123 children who died in road crashes between 2004 and 2023 weren't restrained at all — even by an adult seatbelt.Melanie Vujkovic (ABC News)
Intel Launches Arc B-Series Graphics Cards
Link: intel.com/content/www/us/en/pr…
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Engineered from the ground up to deliver immersive gameplay, fast content creation, and easy-to-use AI capabilities.Intel
Matcha's vibrant colour and health benefits have made it a new fad food, fuelling a surge in demand that is outpacing supply.Libby Hogan (ABC News)
Dependency management fatigue, or why I forever ditched React for Go+Htmx+Templ
Link: blog.erodriguez.de/dependency-…
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After getting to work on some personal projects using Go+HTMX+Templ this year, I have decided to give up on using React on any personal projects.Eduardo Rodriguez
Broadcom loses another big VMware customer
Link: theregister.com/2024/12/02/bee…
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A massively increased bill was one motive, but customers went cold on Virtzilla, and OpenNebula proved more efficientSimon Sharwood (The Register)
Tweaking Stunt Island's 30-year-old 3D Engine
Link: annali.netlify.app/2024/11/20/…
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DuckDuckGo Donates $25,000 to the Perl and Raku Foundation
Link: perl.com/article/duckduckgo-do…
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The Perl and Raku Foundation is pleased to announce a gift of $25,000 from DuckDuckGoPerl.com
The world of Dante's Divine Comedy
Link: lithub.com/a-riveting-timeless…
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Go to the poetry section of any reasonably well-stocked bookstore, and you will find Dante’s Divine Comedy represented in a number of translations of widely varying vintages and styles. Over the l…Literary Hub
Melinda French Gates is offering to match up to $1 million in gifts to two nonprofit organizations to help spur donations on GivingTuesday, which has become a major annual fundraising day for nonprofits.THALIA BEATY (ABC7 Chicago)
It is one of a number of tech firms pushing back against Australia's plan to ban social media for under-16s.Liv McMahon (BBC News)
The Australian actress says the threat of AI is "very real" as "you can totally replace anyone".Yasmin Rufo (BBC News)
Upbit sees Bitcoin price drop $4,000 below global averages amid unrestCryptoSlate
Many of us have felt it, and now it's official: "brain rot" is the Oxford dictionaries' word of the year.ABC7 Chicago
Distributed Erlang
Link: vereis.com/posts/disterl_inbox
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Kagi Search API
Link: help.kagi.com/kagi/api/search.…
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Learn perfect pitch in 15 years
Link: moderndescartes.com/essays/per…
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Ask questions of SQLite databases and CSV/JSON files in your terminal
Link: simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/25/…
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I built a new plugin for my sqlite-utils CLI tool that lets you ask human-language questions directly of SQLite databases and CSV/JSON files on your computer. It’s called sqlite-utils-ask. Here’s …simonwillison.net
South Korean president declares emergency martial law
Link: apnews.com/article/south-korea…
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South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has declared an “emergency martial law," accusing the country's opposition of controlling the parliament and paralyzing the government with anti-state activities.AP News
USC Student Rocket Group Shatters International Amateur Space Record
Link: viterbischool.usc.edu/news/202…
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Aftershock II is believed to be the world’s first civilian-built rocket to reach an altitude of 470,000 feet.USC Viterbi | School of Engineering
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Company claims 1k% price hike drove it from VMware to open source rival
Link: arstechnica.com/information-te…
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Cloud provider moved most of its 20,000 VMs off VMware.Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)
Rust in QEMU Roadmap
Link: lore.kernel.org/all/cc40943e-d…
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No need to email me about Cisco AnyConnect
Link: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/12/03…
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My name and email address can be found in the VPN client application made by Cisco called AnyConnect. They are present there as part of the curl license, because this product - like thousands of others - uses libcurl.daniel.haxx.se
Y Combinator and Power in Silicon Valley
Link: commoncog.com/c/cases/y-combin…
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Optimality of Gerver's Sofa
Link: arxiv.org/abs/2411.19826
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We resolve the moving sofa problem by showing that Gerver's construction with 18 curve sections attains the maximum area $2.2195\cdots$.arXiv.org
Twice-Yearly HIV Shot Shows 100% Effectiveness in Women
Link: apnews.com/article/hiv-infecti…
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A twice-yearly shot that prevents HIV infections will be available at low cost in 120 poor countries. But nearly all of Latin America was excluded from the deal with drugmaker Gilead, sparking concern the world is missing a critical opportunity to st…MARIA CHENG (AP News)
Bioluminescent wood using the white rot fungus desarmillaria tabescens
Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10…
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Show HN: Flow – A dynamic task engine for building AI agents
Link: github.com/lmnr-ai/flow
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A lightweight task engine for building AI agents that prioritizes simplicity and flexibility. - lmnr-ai/flowGitHub
Raspberry Pi boosts Pi 5 performance with SDRAM tuning
Link: jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/ras…
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Blizzard's pulling of Warcraft I and II tests GOG's new Preservation Program
Link: arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/12…
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Blizzard wants players to forget about the original, offline Warcraft I & II titles, but GOG says it will preserve them for buyers, even if they’re not for sale.Kevin Purdy (Ars Technica)
Show HN: Copper – Open-source robotics in Rust with deterministic log replay
Link: github.com/copper-project/copp…
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Purpose-built, Rust-native software engine for robotics - copper-project/copper-rsGitHub
Lessons I learned working at an art gallery
Link: henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/art-galle…
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On agency, doing value-aligned work, and making your job funHenrik Karlsson (Escaping Flatland)
8 months of OCaml after 8 years of Haskell in production (2023)
Link: chshersh.com/blog/2023-12-16-8…
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Dmitrii Kovanikov's Personas Web SpaceDmitrii Kovanikov aka chshersh
Unlocking the power of time-series data with multimodal models
Link: research.google/blog/unlocking…
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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2024)
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The Rock VX Gas Canister Build (2022)
Link: therpf.com/forums/threads/the-…
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HI there - I'm Will and I've been lurking on the site long enough that I felt I should finally post one of my own builds. My apologies up front if I neglect any standard forum posting conventions...RPF Costume and Prop Maker Community
The zoology and biochemistry of xenomorphs from the Alien franchise
Link: jgeekstudies.org/2024/12/02/xe…
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Luca Tonietti1–4 & Guillermo Climent Gargallo3 1Department of Science and Technology, University Parthenope, Naples, Italy. 2International PhD Programme/UNESCO Chair “Environment, Resources and…Journal of Geek Studies
KlongPy: High-Performance Array Programming in Python
Link: github.com/briangu/klongpy
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High-Performance Klong array language in Python. Contribute to briangu/klongpy development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Evidence of the use of silk by Bronze Age civilization
Link: nature.com/articles/s41598-024…
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Scientific Reports - Evidence of the use of silk by bronze age civilization for sacrificial purposes in the Yangtze River basin of ChinaNature
Show HN: SeekStorm – open-source sub-millisecond search in Rust
Link: github.com/SeekStorm/SeekStorm
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SeekStorm - sub-millisecond full-text search library & multi-tenancy server in Rust - SeekStorm/SeekStormGitHub
OrioleDB beta7: Benchmarks
Link: orioledb.com/blog/orioledb-bet…
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OrioleDB is a storage extension for PostgreSQL which uses PostgreSQL's pluggable storage system. Designed as a drop-in replacement for PostgreSQL's existing Heap storage, OrioleDB aims to overcome scalability bottlenecks and fully utilize modern hard…Alexander Korotkov (www.orioledb.com)
Facebook's Little Red Book
Link: map.cv/blog/redbook
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Fish have a brain microbiome – could humans have one too?
Link: quantamagazine.org/fish-have-a…
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The discovery that other vertebrates have healthy, microbial brains is fueling the still controversial possibility that we might have them as well.Yasemin Saplakoglu (Quanta Magazine)
Every board game rulebook is awful
[pdf]Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1nkHWq…
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024)
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Murderbot, she wrote
Link: wired.com/story/murderbot-she-…
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Mehrere AfD-Abgeordnete waren mal wieder auf Russlandreise. Die AfD-Spitze ist genervt, möglicherweise drohen nun Ordnungsmaßnahmen.
AfD-Abgeordnete reisten nach Russland: Zu Gast bei „alten Freunden“
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World Labs: Generate 3D worlds from a single image
Link: worldlabs.ai/blog
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Today we're sharing our first step towards spatial intelligence: an AI system that generates 3D worlds from a single image.www.worldlabs.ai
Forced to upgrade
Link: herman.bearblog.dev/forced-to-…
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The ICC’s arrest warrants for Gaza do not demonstrate its ‘bias’; rather, they redeem its legitimacy.Abdelghany Sayed (Al Jazeera)
Kenya and "the decline of the greatest coffee" (2021)
Link: christopherferan.com/2021/12/2…
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Die 100 größten Rüstungskonzerne der Welt haben nach Angaben des Stockholmer Friedensforschungsinstituts Sipri wieder deutlich mehr Waffen verkauft.
Sipri-Bericht - Rüstungskonzerne steigern Umsatz 2023 deutlich
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Thinking in Actors – Challenging your software modelling to be simpler
Link: jeremycarterau.substack.com/p/…
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Challenging your software modelling techniques to be simplerJeremy Carter (Acting Statefully)
Ask HN: Tools or frameworks to build music theory games
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1/0 = 0 (2018)
Link: hillelwayne.com/post/divide-by…
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Have a tweet: img {border-style: groove;} I have no idea if Pony is making the right choice here, I don’t know Pony, and I don’t have any interest in learning Pony.1 But this tweet raised my hackles for two reasons: It’s pretty smug.Hillel Wayne
What happens if we remove 50 percent of Llama?
Link: neuralmagic.com/blog/24-sparse…
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Discover Sparse Llama: A 50% pruned, GPU-optimized Llama 3.1 model with 2:4 sparsity, enabling faster, cost-effective inference without sacrificing accuracy.Addie Stevens (Neural Magic)
Intel Announces Retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger
Link: intel.com/content/www/us/en/ne…
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David Zinsner and Michelle Johnston Holthaus named interim Co-CEOs. Holthaus also appointed to the newly created position of CEO of Intel Products. Frank Yeary named interim executive chair.Intel
Plus: the US is clamping down on chip exports to China yet againRhiannon Williams (MIT Technology Review)
Intel gets up to $7.9B award for U.S. chip-plant construction
Link: wsj.com/tech/intel-gets-up-to-…
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Fine, I'll Play With Skiplists
Link: buttondown.com/jaffray/archive…
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Follow me on Bluesky! A Log-Structured Merge tree, or LSM, is a popular data structure for storage engines. It’s what is used by RocksDB, which is sort of...NULL BITMAP by Justin Jaffray
LaTeX.css – Make your website look like a LaTeX document
Link: latex.vercel.app/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
A minimal, almost class-less CSS library to write modern websites that look like LaTeX documents.latex.vercel.app
UK: Proposed amendment to legal presumption about the reliability of computers
Link: postofficescandal.uk/post/prop…
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Houses of Parliament, taken on 26 Nov 2024 I am grateful to the journalist Tom Webb, who specialises in data protection, for alerting me to an amendment to the Data (Use and Access) Bill, currently…Post Office Scandal
Demystifying Git Submodules
Link: cyberdemon.org/2024/03/20/subm…
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Demystifying git submodules by showing exactly how they work.cyberdemon.org
Star Citizen crowdfunding passes $750M
Link: robertsspaceindustries.com/fun…
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Roberts Space Industries is the official go-to website for all news about Star Citizen and Squadron 42. It also hosts the online store for game items and merch, as well as all the community tools used by our fans.Stretch Goals - Roberts Space Industries | Follow the development of Star Citizen and Squadron 42
Francis Crick's "Central Dogma" was misunderstood
Link: asimov.press/p/crick
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The Central Dogma is not a 'dogma,' and it has never been broken.Asimov Press
Category Theory in Programming
Link: docs.racket-lang.org/ctp/index…
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When was the famous "sudo warning" introduced? (2019)
Link: retrocomputing.stackexchange.c…
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On all Unix-like operating systems, sudo is often provided as the standard package for executing commands as superuser (or an alternative user). When sudo is invoked by the user for the first time,...Retrocomputing Stack Exchange
How to Study Mathematics (2017)
Link: math.uh.edu/~dblecher/pf2.html
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Gene behind orange fur in cats found at last
Link: science.org/content/article/ge…
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'Brain rot' named Oxford Word of the Year 2024
Link: corp.oup.com/news/brain-rot-na…
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After more than 37,000 votes on our shortlist, we're pleased to announce that the Oxford Word of the Year for 2024 is 'brain rot'.Benedict Heaton (Oxford University Press)
Vesuvius Challenge: First letters found in new scroll
Link: scrollprize.substack.com/p/fir…
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Ask HN: How can I grow as an engineer without good seniors to learn from?
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Programming the C64 with Visual Studio Code
Link: retrogamecoders.com/c64-visual…
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How to program the Commodore 64 in BASIC, Assembly or C using Microsoft Visual Studio Code on Mac, Windows and Linux!Chris Garrett (Retro Game Coders)
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