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From Ground Zero to Production: Go's Journey at Google

cetico.org
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Proton Key Transparency [pdf]

proton.me
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Ask HN: How to Make News Aggregation Work in 2024?

ycombinator.com

When google did this long ago: https://news.google.com/I knew the new industry was going to collapse. What...
When google did this long ago: https://news.google.com/I knew the new industry was going to collapse. What more do you need from a new aggregator? Journalism was doomed since though.I had tried https://ground.news/ but never stuck with it. I like the idea but it fails at dimension. There is no left vs center vs righ...
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Reverse Engineering a Software Crack

twitter.com
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The 40-Year-Old Cable Modem (a NABU network modem teardown) [video]

youtube.com

science & technology
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EU Right to repair: Making repair easier and more appealing to consumers

europa.eu

On Tuesday, Parliament adopted the directive on the so-called “right to repair” for consumers with 584...
On Tuesday, Parliament adopted the directive on the so-called “right to repair” for consumers with 584 votes in favour, 3 against and 14 abstentions. The rules clarify the obligations for manufacturers to repair goods and encourage consumers to extend a product’s lifecycle through repair. Obligation to repair The ne...

com:imco plenarydate:22-04-2024 producttype:press_release
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Generative A.I. Arrives in the Gene Editing World of CRISPR

nytimes.com

You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we...
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Much as ChatGPT generates poetry, a new A.I. system devises blueprints for microscopic mechanisms that can edit your DNA.The physical structure of OpenCRISPR-1, a gene editor c...

artificial intelligence chatgpt crispr (dna)genetic engineering research
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Grindr Sued in UK for Sharing Users' HIV Data with Ad Firms

msn.com
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Show HN: Hashquery, a Python library for defining reusable analysis

hashquery.dev
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When Was the Last Time We Built a New City?

asteriskmag.com

In August 2023, California Forever, a corporation founded by Jan Sramek, announced plans to build a...
In August 2023, California Forever, a corporation founded by Jan Sramek, announced plans to build a new city of up to 400,000 people in Solano County, forty miles northeast of San Francisco. Beginning in 2017, the company, funded by some of the deepest pockets in Silicon Valley, purchased 50,000 acres of land for an...
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Most Books Don't Sell Only a Dozen Copies

substack.com

Sculpture by Alicia MartinOne thing the PRH/SS merger trial revealed is that publishing has a lot...
Sculpture by Alicia MartinOne thing the PRH/SS merger trial revealed is that publishing has a lot of problems. This is very true! At the same time, many of the problems seem to have mutated into unbelievable chimeras as they made their way around the discourse. Today, for example, much of the literary internet was d...
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One man escaped from the top of the World Trade Center [video]

youtube.com

news & politics
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Phi-3 Weights Released

huggingface.co

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Working with Antithesis at MongoDB

antithesis.com
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Kremlin-backed actors spread disinformation ahead of US elections

arstechnica.com

Kremlin-backed actors have stepped up efforts to interfere with the US presidential election by planting disinformation...
Kremlin-backed actors have stepped up efforts to interfere with the US presidential election by planting disinformation and false narratives on social media and fake news sites, analysts with Microsoft reported Wednesday. The analysts have identified several unique influence-peddling groups affiliated with the Russi...
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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek surprised by how much 1,500 layoffs' impact operations

fortune.com

When Spotify announced its largest-ever round of layoffs in December, CEO Daniel Ek hailed a new...
When Spotify announced its largest-ever round of layoffs in December, CEO Daniel Ek hailed a new age of efficiency at the streaming giant. But four months on, it seems he and his executives weren’t prepared for how tough filling in for 1,500 axed workers would be. The music streamer enjoyed record quarterly profits ...
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The Evolution of Stupidity (and Octopus Intelligence)

forkingpaths.co
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Young people benefit from Swiss apprenticeships

nature.com

careers education research management
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After Months of Gibberish, Voyager 1 Is Communicating Well Again

scientificamerican.com
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Bloom Filter Indexes in PostgreSQL

postgresql.org

F.7. bloom — bloom filter index access method # A Bloom filter is a space-efficient data...
F.7. bloom — bloom filter index access method # A Bloom filter is a space-efficient data structure that is used to test whether an element is a member of a set. In the case of an index access method, it allows fast exclusion of non-matching tuples via signatures whose size is determined at index creation.A signature...
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Half of Americans say Public K-12 Education is Going In The Wrong Direction

pewresearch.org

School buses arrive at an elementary school in Arlington, Virginia. (Chen Mengtong/China News Service via Getty...
School buses arrive at an elementary school in Arlington, Virginia. (Chen Mengtong/China News Service via Getty Images) About half of U.S. adults (51%) say the country’s public K-12 education system is generally going in the wrong direction. A far smaller share (16%) say it’s going in the right direction, and about ...
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The Beautiful Dissociation of the Japanese Language

aethermug.com
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How Amazon Became the Largest Private EV Charging Operator in the US

bloomberg.com

amazon.com inc carbon emissions edison electric institute electric vehicles logistics
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Show HN: Getada: rustup-like installer for Ada's toolchain/package manager

getada.dev
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