AriaSQL – A new open-source relational database system written in GO (github.com)
White Gold Rush: Companies look to 2026 for mass lithium production Salton Sea (kesq.com)
USC study confirms the rotation of Earth's inner core has slowed (today.usc.edu)
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PyPI Proxying for Docker Builds (www.robopenguins.com)
If Trump wins the election, it will doom our efforts to slow climate disaster (www.theguardian.com)
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Appalachian Trail Hiker Photo Archive (athikerpictures.org)
I Played Poker with Top Wall Street Traders. Here's What I Learned (www.wsj.com)
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LLMs are a dead end to AGI, says François Chollet (www.freethink.com)
Death Valley National Park has its hottest summer on record (www.cnn.com)
Google says replacing C/C++ in firmware with Rust is easy (www.theregister.com)
Generate Videos in One Place. Stop Going to Different Platforms (docs.google.com)
Nature's ghosts: how reviving medieval farming offers wildlife unexpected haven (www.theguardian.com)
Pediatricians scale back on Covid shots amid declining interest from families (www.tampabay.com)
Marta: Native, Extensible, Fast File Manager for macOS (marta.sh)
Steve Wozniak Reunites with the Historic Homebrew Computer Club (thenewstack.io)
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The Nine Causes of Disagreement (2011) (www.spencergreenberg.com)
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15k inserts/s with Rust and SQLite (2021) (kerkour.com)
Concurrentcache: Go's Missing Concurrency Primitive (github.com)
Biden Aides Working on Proposal for US Sovereign Wealth Fund (www.bloomberg.com)
The science behind Eliud Kipchoge's 1:59 marathon (2019) (www.wired.com)
Transparent mice made with light-absorbing dye reveal organs at work (www.nature.com)
How to think clearly about correlations (www.clearerthinking.org)
£30M a year – why F1 designer is one of sport's highest-earning Britons (www.bbc.com)
Why Our Video Got Taken Down by Google (Linus Tech Tips) (www.youtube.com)
Foamed plastic carriers boost biofilm formation in wastewater treatment (phys.org)
Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions Theory (en.wikipedia.org)
Another Python SQLite Wrapper (github.com)
Nonstandard Analysis (1972) (sci-hub.se)
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Tell me about the last time you broke production (obscuretone.com)
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A Framework for Disagreements (www.lesswrong.com)
K-Means Image Compression (www.rdiachenko.com)
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LLM Cybersecurity Risks (medium.com)
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Intel's Core "Lunar Lake" chips promise big gains in graphics and AI performance (liliputing.com)
Aging vultures become set in their ways, have fewer friends (newsroom.ucla.edu)
Huawei tri-fold phone receives orders from 1.3M fans in 7 hours (asia.nikkei.com)
IT Unemployment Hits 6%, Up from 3% Low in Dec 2023 (www.wsj.com)
'astonishingly ignorant': the hidden story of how ancient India shaped the West (www.theguardian.com)
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INim 1.0 – Interactive Nim shell / REPL / playground (github.com)
CitizenDJ – Make music using free audio and video from the Library of Congress (citizen-dj.labs.loc.gov)
xAI's Colossus (100k H100 cluster) has begun training (twitter.com)
Europe's farming lobbies recognise need to eat less meat in shared vision report (www.theguardian.com)
Paddle closed accounts with 1 week notice, leaving many founders in shock (twitter.com)
Amazon Astro: Are Secret Repair Agents Fixing Tech Design? (www.ifixit.com)
My new rust binary search (chadnauseam.com)
Political sites showed where state judges live despite law that protects privacy (www.wbez.org)
Alternatives to Google Products – Updated (peq42.com)
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Timewarrior – CLI Time Tracker (timewarrior.net)
Fundamentals of Laser-Material Interaction and Application to Multiscale (2010) [pdf] (spikelab.mycpanel.princeton.edu)
Hong Kong's Arts Hub Turns to Selling Land to Stay Afloat (www.bloomberg.com)
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Teenage E-Cigarette Use Drops to a 10-Year Low (www.nytimes.com)
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Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer's suicide (subtledigressions.substack.com)
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Python 3.13.0rc2 (www.python.org)
Why Your Founder Mode CEO Is Terrible (www.inc.com)
ChatGPT 4o Mini – A Free AI Chatbot Based on Llama-3.1 (chatgpt4omini.net)
Michigan 2024 "I voted" sticker contest (www.michigan.gov)
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LibrePGP (librepgp.org)
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Can Eating Yeast Keep You from Getting Drunk? (www.seriouseats.com)
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The First Idiot Principle (www.tyleo.com)
Linux Market Share Hits New High (www.linux-magazine.com)
Bangladesh's tech industry navigated an unprecedented political crisis (restofworld.org)
Imperial Conference (en.wikipedia.org)
Robot controlled by a king oyster mushroom blends living organisms and machines (www.cnn.com)
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Will humans ever become conscious? (link.springer.com)
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Starliner departs space station and returns to Earth (arstechnica.com)
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WebP: The WebPage Compression Format (purplesyringa.moe)
1.5M RAM pickups recalled over software problem affecting stability control (www.npr.org)
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Working Models for Tackling Tech Debt (queue.acm.org)
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Ten Things to Know about the Great Wave (www.artic.edu)
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Just-World Fallacy (en.wikipedia.org)
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Arctic microalgae show photosynthesis in near darkness is possible (phys.org)
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Person in Missouri caught H5 bird flu without animal contact (arstechnica.com)
CSAM content on Bluesky has risen ten times in just a week (bsky.app)
Weight-loss jabs could 'slow down the clock' on biological ageing (www.thetimes.com)
X Exec Who Defended Restoring Account with Child Abuse Content Resigns (gizmodo.com)
The Gift of Reality (hedgehogreview.com)
Smart speakers at crime scenes could provide valuable clues to police (www.newscientist.com)
Plants could mine metals from the soil (www.technologyreview.com)
Paul Graham Essays RSS (github.com)
A Post-Google World (www.thebignewsletter.com)
How prepared are we for the next asteroid strike? (www.washingtonpost.com)
Telegram Became a Playground for Criminals, Extremists and Terrorists (www.nytimes.com)
Research Links Infant Mortality to Crashing Bat Populations (www.nytimes.com)
NASA Evaluates Deployed Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (blogs.nasa.gov)
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Commit Often, Perfect Later, Publish Once: Git Best Practices (sethrobertson.github.io)
Hindenburg's Interior: Photos Show What Luxury Air Travel Was Like in the 1930s (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
Aligning LLMs-as-a-Judge (forestfriends.tech)
Chen Si (en.wikipedia.org)
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The Parents Opting Their Kids Out of Screens at School (www.wsj.com)
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For security, we have to stop picking up the phone (techcrunch.com)
Making Videogames Was a Dream Career. Then the Mass Layoffs Came. (www.wsj.com)
US Gov Removing Four-Year-Degree Requirements for Cyber Jobs (www.securityweek.com)
Training Neural Networks to Grok (cacm.acm.org)
WHAM: Wisconsin High-Temperature Superconducting Axisymmetric Mirror (wham.physics.wisc.edu)
PostgreSQL schema health metrics (www.shivam.dev)
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong: Undesirable Patterns in Collective Development (arxiv.org)
You Do Have Some Expectation of Privacy in Public (www.eff.org)
Boeing Starliner capsule lands back on Earth (www.space.com)
Scientists invent nanorobots that can repair brain aneurysms (www.livescience.com)
What Happened to Times Tables? (www.baconsrebellion.com)
Google search monopoly US case remedies to come by December (www.reuters.com)
Ladybird browser update (August 2024) [video] (www.youtube.com)
Satrap (en.wikipedia.org)
Obsidian vs. Notion: The battle for your second brain (www.xda-developers.com)
Silicon Valley's elite rattled by prospect of tax on unrealised gains (www.ft.com)
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Man who put Doom in a Lego brick is now playing it on a volumetric voxel display (www.theverge.com)
Boeing Starliner capsule returns without astronauts (www.cnn.com)
Missouri sees first positive bird flu case without known animal contact (www.theguardian.com)
Netherlands: Nationwide ban on phones in schools underway – DW – 09/02/2024 (www.dw.com)
Florida health agency launches anti-Amendment 4 site, spurs complaints (www.tampabay.com)
Pop _OS Lead: Linux Developers Are "Patronizing Pedantic Megalomaniacs" (lunduke.locals.com)
Closing factories will not be enough to save Volkswagen (www.economist.com)
Women face greater risk of job displacement from automation – Computer Weekly (www.computerweekly.com)
Corporate Memphis (en.wikipedia.org)
Notes on the political economy of war [pdf] (wolfgangstreeck.com)
Google is a monopoly and judges want to fix that. Outcomes are hard to predict (www.washingtonpost.com)
DrakonHub Project Is Closed (drakonhub.com)
Americans misunderstand their contribution to deteriorating environment (insideclimatenews.org)
An Italian Bank Accepts Parmesan Cheese as Loan Collateral (www.forbes.com)
How we moved from Artifact Registry to R2 and saved money on egress (old.reddit.com)
Europe's seeds are being privatised by patents (www.euronews.com)
A comparison of hosts / providers for Python serverless functions (a.k.a. FaaS) (github.com)
Python Developers Survey 2023 Results (lp.jetbrains.com)
An 'earthquake' at Volkswagen – and a crisis for Germany? (www.theguardian.com)
We don't trade with ants and why hypothetical AI:s won't, either (www.datagubbe.se)
Tribuo – A Java machine learning library (github.com)
Musk's xAI operating gas turbines without permits at data center (www.reuters.com)
Man Pages Maintenance Suspended (lwn.net)
Apollo 11 Mission Overview (www.lpi.usra.edu)
The Fibonacci Quarterly – Official Publication of the Fibonacci Association (www.fq.math.ca)
Turning Disposable Vapes into a Fast Charge Power Bank [video] (www.youtube.com)
Robinhood Upgrade (www.coindesk.com)
The mystery over why human brains have shrunk over time (www.bbc.com)
Yuval Noah Harari's Apocalyptic Vision (www.theatlantic.com)
Reflection AI: 70B and 405B LLMs with Novel Reflection-Tuning Tech (reflectionai.ai)
Conservative GC can be faster than precise GC (wingolog.org)
AI Superagents – abusing WebAssembly for LLM function calls (blog.entropy.observer)
Gravity Storage 101: Why Pumped Hydro Is the Only Remotely Real Gravity Storage (cleantechnica.com)
The PERQ Computer (graydon2.dreamwidth.org)
Multi-tenancy implementation with Postgres: It's simpler than you imagine (blog.logto.io)
A Single Memory Is Stored in Multiple Copies in the Brain (nautil.us)
Most Interesting Machine (daviddrury.substack.com)
Discord Activities: A New Era for Social Gaming and Developer Opportunities (checka.ai)
Annoying things you can do with JavaScript (notjoemartinez.com)
Keyhole – Forge own Windows Store licenses (massgrave.dev)
Open-source reflection lama 70B beats Claude 3.5 and GPT-4 on benchmarks (reflectionllama.com)
Send data using monitor and camera (github.com)
Chinese government hackers targeted US internet providers with zero-day exploit (techcrunch.com)
GitHub Actions Attack Diagram (github.com)
The jet stream may be starting to shift in response to climate change (www.newscientist.com)
Unlocking 7B+ language models in the browser: Google AI Edge's MediaPipe (research.google)
Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (longnow.org)
DNS Doesn't Propagate (2021) (jvns.ca)
X Image Generator – A Free AI Image Generator (ximagegenerator.art)
Starliner Lands in New Mexico (blogs.nasa.gov)
In Praise of Reference Books (www.discoursemagazine.com)
Multimodal RAG (github.com)
Memory Is All You Need: An Overview of Compute-in-Memory Architectures for LLMs (arxiv.org)
Why is 'moral equivalence' such a bad thing? A political philosopher explains (theconversation.com)
WakeMeOps – DevOps tools repo for portable applications (docs.wakemeops.com)
Operating system threads are always going to be (more) expensive (utcc.utoronto.ca)
The Sky Is the Limit: Human-Powered Cranes and Lifting Devices (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
Figma Moves from ECS to Kubernetes to Benefit from CNCF Ecosystem, Reduce Costs (www.infoq.com)
Working Methods (Of a Historian) (www.lrb.co.uk)
The Early Years of Sony MiniDisc (obsoletesony.substack.com)
These repairable phones still aren't built to last (www.spacebar.news)
Check for malicious IPs using DNS (ipshield.dev)
The Dot in Domain Names (jpmens.net)
Cortical alterations associated with lower response to MPD in adults with ADHD (www.nature.com)
How to evaluate performance of LLM inference frameworks (www.lamini.ai)
I will build in public anything you guys can think of but I only going to use AI (www.youtube.com)
There's no such thing as 'developer ROI' (blog.godfreyai.com)
Cops lure pedophiles with AI pics of teen girl. Ethical triumph or new disaster? (arstechnica.com)
Excuse this ghastly handwriting: When letter writers become self-conscious (news.lettersofnote.com)
The Unbearable Slowness of Being (arxiv.org)
Hyphanet is a private peer-to-peer platform for publishing and communication (www.hyphanet.org)
Writing Rust Bindings for My Python App (dhruv-ahuja.github.io)
Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands with AI, Making $10M by Listening with Bots (futurism.com)
Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries to local servers (thesun.my)
What's new in C++26 (part 1) (mariusbancila.ro)
Borrowing an Arrow (unintendedconsequenc.es)
Ford Patents In-Car System That Eavesdrops So It Can Play You Ads (www.motortrend.com)
GoScrapy: Harnessing Go's power for fast web scraping (github.com)
Unifying Multimodal Retrieval via Document Screenshot Embedding (arxiv.org)
Mobile Phone Use and Incident Cardiovascular Diseases (onlinecjc.ca)
Shirky Principle (2010) (kk.org)
All Maps Are Wrong (www.hereandthere.club)
The Security Tradeoffs of Validating Bitcoin Bridges (www.fairgate.io)
Contraption Theory (studio.ribbonfarm.com)
Messengers Wanted (www.overcomingbias.com)
California closes 'Steve Jobs loophole' for license plates (2018) (www.autoweek.com)
Boeing Starliner, leaving its crew behind, lands in New Mexico (www.cbsnews.com)
The Beginnings of FM Radio Broadcasting (www.theradiohistorian.org)
Pedestrians First: Tools for a Walkable City (pedestriansfirst.itdp.org)
Age when they started these companies: Michael Dell, Dell: 19 (twitter.com)
Browsing Hacker News in the Terminal (hnterm.ggerganov.com)
Man, 70, dies after Florida surgeon removed liver instead of spleen (globalnews.ca)
Treasury recovers $1.3B in unpaid taxes from high-wealth tax dodgers (apnews.com)
People Who Want to Keep Honduras Poor (snowdentodd.substack.com)
Golang: Some batteries not included (2021) (yolken.net)
Newsom vetoes bill to help undocumented migrants buy homes (abc7.com)
Agriculture accelerated human genome evolution to capture energy from starches (news.berkeley.edu)
Without astronauts, Boeing's Starliner undocks from space station (www.reuters.com)
First International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing (www.sicsa.ac.uk)
Yosys and slang: A match made in heaven (github.com)
Batteries are a fast-growing secondary electricity source for the grid (www.eia.gov)
Nix and Bazel reproducible, incremental builds (nix-bazel.build)
Quebec man who imported 26,630 fake $2 coins made in China gets jail time (globalnews.ca)
Japan Tries to Reclaim Its Clout as a Global Tech Leader (www.nytimes.com)
Similarity of smart card performance fingerprints (www.fi.muni.cz)
Function-Level LLM Integration (github.com)
Practicing Staff+ Principles in Open Source (hipsterbrown.github.io)
Activists urge FTC to ban hardware downgrades (www.theregister.com)
Giant 'gurgling' earthworms living under Gippsland farms (www.abc.net.au)
X Is Working with a GOP Consulting Firm (www.wired.com)
Can't find a job? It's not you, it's white-collar America (www.businessinsider.com)
The Race to Dominate Stablecoins (hbr.org)
Scientists build a robot that is part fungus, part machine (www.ctvnews.ca)
The FBI's Anti-CSAM Efforts Are as Half-Assed as Its Counterterrorism Efforts (www.techdirt.com)
Judge Rejects yet Another Attempt by Texas to Police Online Speech (www.techdirt.com)
Why Many Parents and Teens Think It's Harder Being a Teen Today (www.pewresearch.org)
NASA Boeing Starliner – Uncrewed Re-Entry and Landing – Livestream 10:50pm EDT [video] (www.youtube.com)
Kamala Harris' Donors Privately Urge Firing of FTC's Khan, SEC's Gensler (www.bloomberg.com)
Dance Choreography Notation (adafrobinson.wordpress.com)
Cellular communities reveal trajectories of brain ageing and Alzheimer's disease (www.nature.com)
First Days with the MNT Pocket Reform (write.as)
Fun with CellxGene (sarahconstantin.substack.com)
Hello Watchy (myconscious.stream)
Please Help: Global Call for Humanity, Compassion, and Peace (www.alllivesmatter.world)
Dell Rises on Revenue Beat Fueled by Demand for AI Servers (www.bloomberg.com)
Dell's AI Server Business Now Bigger Than VMware Used to Be (www.nextplatform.com)
'Groups' Underpin Modern Math (www.quantamagazine.org)
White Aluminum Foil Tape – Deyou Tape (www.dydeyou.com)
QtCS2024 Compile once. Run everywhere (wiki.qt.io)
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