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Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software (2019)
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Finance worker pays out $25M after video call call with deepfake CFO
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/04/asia/deepfake-cfo-scam-hong-kong-intl-hnk/index.html
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85
Beyond self-attention: How a small language model predicts the next token
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471
315
Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight?
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462
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Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly
https://torrentfreak.com/netflix-piracy-is-difficult-to-compete-against-and-growing-rapidly-240204/
446
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Write code for the web
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437
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Stract: Open-souce, non-profit search engine
https://stract.com/
388
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Gödel, Escher, Bach is the most influential book in my life (2022)
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357
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How to Replace Your CPAP in Only 666 Days
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Vision Pro Teardown – Why those fake eyes look so weird
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264
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Plastic bag bans work
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223
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How not to bomb your offer negotiation (2016)
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191
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Rolling Airframe Missile
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47
Sapling: Experimental vi-inspired editor where you edit code, not text
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182
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Rye: A Vision Continued
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2024/2/4/rye-a-vision/
180
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AvaloniaUI: Create Multi-Platform Apps with .NET
https://www.avaloniaui.net/
177
How Doom didn't kill the Amiga
https://www.datagubbe.se/afb/
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New Linux glibc flaw lets attackers get root on major distros
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-linux-glibc-flaw-lets-attackers-get-root-on-major-distros/
161
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The first amateur radio station on the moon
https://www.arrl.org/news/the-first-amateur-radio-station-on-the-moon-js1ymg-is-now-transmitting
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Acme Klein Bottle
https://www.kleinbottle.com/
154
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ProofWiki: Online compendium of mathematical proofs
https://proofwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page
149
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How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger (2019)
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/03/13/685533353/a-playful-way-to-teach-kids-to-control-their-anger
148
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"Bookfind of the century" sells for $2.23M
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143
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Nuclear power saved Armenia
https://thebulletin.org/2024/01/how-nuclear-power-saved-armenia/
141
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A reasonable configuration language
https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2024/a-reasonable-configuration-language
139
91
Dijkstra's interview on Dutch TV (2000)
https://pncnmnp.github.io/blogs/translating-dijakstra.html
138
63
How the codpiece flopped
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240202-what-happened-to-the-codpiece
134
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How do transformers work?
https://nintyzeros.substack.com/p/how-do-transformer-workdesign-a-multi
133
82
UUID Benchmark War
https://ardentperf.com/2024/02/03/uuid-benchmark-war/
122
28
Solving the darknet riddle (2022)
https://sizeof.life/posts/darknet-riddle/
135
You are what you love
https://gspanos.tech/posts/facts-1/
117
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Hash collisions and exploitations (2019)
https://github.com/corkami/collisions
116
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Apple fixes zero-day bug in Apple Vision Pro that 'may have been exploited'
https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/31/apple-vision-pro-zero-day-security-bug-exploited/
IPTV Anti-Piracy Threats May Increase Male Motivation to Pirate by 30%
https://torrentfreak.com/iptv-anti-piracy-threats-may-increase-male-motivation-to-pirate-by-30-240202/
90
Don’t Eat Before Reading This (1999)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1999/04/19/dont-eat-before-reading-this
107
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In 1950, a U.S. troop plane vanished without a trace in the Yukon
https://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/in-1950-a-u-s-troop-plane-carrying-44-passengers-vanished-without-a-trace-in-the-yukon-1.7063704
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macOS Sonoma 14.4 removes critical functions from the fileproviderctl command
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/fileproviderctl-on-sonoma-14-4-here-we-f-ng-go-again.2418353/
76
Still no love for JPEG XL: Browser maker love-in snubs next-gen image format
https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/03/jpeg_xl_interop_2024/
96
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Russian cosmonaut sets record for most time in space – more than 878 days
https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/russian-cosmonaut-set-record-sunday-most-time-spent-space-reports-2024-02-04/
95
24
Make a tiny Raspberry Pi based cyberdeck
https://www.the-diy-life.com/make-a-tiny-raspberry-pi-based-cyberdeck/
92
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Visual overview of a custom malloc() implementation
https://silent-tower.net/projects/visual-overview-malloc
87
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Digitopia is ruining our lives
http://digitopia.io/p/digitopia-is-ruining-our-lives
84
Linux has reached 4% for the partial Feburary 2024 data on StatCounter
https://github.com/OpenStatsLab/statcounterdata/blob/main/parsed/os/desktop.json
44
What is a hard error, and what makes it harder than an easy error?
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240116-00/?p=109274
7
Interpreting neural networks through the polytope lens (2022)
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eDicGjD9yte6FLSie/interpreting-neural-networks-through-the-polytope-lens
78
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The Apple Vision Pro is spectacular and sad
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/02/apple-vision-pro-headset-review/677347/
21
Gentoo x86-64-v3 binary packages available
https://www.gentoo.org/news/2024/02/04/x86-64-v3.html
74
First-gen social media users have nowhere to go
https://www.wired.com/story/first-gen-social-media-users-have-nowhere-to-go/
Show HN: ReadToMe (iOS) turns paper books into audio
https://www.readtome-app.com
73
Is Open Source a diversion from what users want?
https://discourse.ardour.org/t/is-open-source-a-diversion-from-what-users-really-want/102665
71
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How many IP addresses can a DNS query return? (2015)
https://www.ethanheilman.com/x/21/index.html
Taggers have sprayed graffiti on 27 stories of a downtown Los Angeles skyscraper
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-02-02/graffiti-highrise-downtown-la
69
How Lego Became the Apple of Toys (2015)
https://www.fastcompany.com/3040223/when-it-clicks-it-clicks
68
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#include <rules> (2010)
https://zeux.io/2010/11/15/include-rules/
66
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Melanoma doctor's high-stakes gamble to treat his brain cancer
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-67870595
64
The mythos of leadership
https://aeon.co/essays/who-are-the-leaders-in-our-heads-and-how-did-they-get-there
Leaky Vessels flaws allow hackers to escape Docker, runc containers
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/leaky-vessels-flaws-allow-hackers-to-escape-docker-runc-containers/
75
Compiling Rust is testing
https://kobzol.github.io/rust/2024/02/04/compiling-rust-is-testing.html
How Maasai agro-pastoralists form and use accidental social ties (2021)
https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol26/iss2/art41/