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Ask HN: Who are your favorite tech youtubers

ycombinator.com
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Show HN: WP Foundry, a desktop WordPress management tool

wpfoundry.app
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Meta does everything OpenAI should be

reddit.com

machinelearning
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World’s chocolate supply threatened by devastating virus

uta.edu

Benito Chen-Charpentier, professor of mathematics at The University of Texas at Arlington A rapidly spreading virus...
Benito Chen-Charpentier, professor of mathematics at The University of Texas at Arlington A rapidly spreading virus threatens the health of the cacao tree and the dried seeds from which chocolate is made, jeopardizing the global supply of the world’s most popular treat. About 50% of the world’s chocolate originates ...
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Ukrainian Coder's New Programming Language: One Big Data Structure

thenewstack.io
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If Britain is so bothered by China, why do .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers?

theregister.com
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Nginx 1.26.0 Stable Released

nginx.org
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US Senate passes TikTok divestment-or-ban bill

reuters.com
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The Deadline (2014)

thomas-huehn.com
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Tesla Profits Drop 55%

techcrunch.com

Tesla profits fell 55% to $1.13 billion in the first quarter from the same year-ago period...
Tesla profits fell 55% to $1.13 billion in the first quarter from the same year-ago period as a protracted EV price-cutting strategy and “several unforeseen challenges” cut into the automaker’s bottom line. Tesla reported revenue of $21.3 billion in the first quarter, a 9% drop from the first quarter of 2023. Analys...
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Tiny but mighty: The Phi-3 small language models with big potential

microsoft.com

Sometimes the best way to solve a complex problem is to take a page from a...
Sometimes the best way to solve a complex problem is to take a page from a children’s book. That’s the lesson Microsoft researchers learned by figuring out how to pack more punch into a much smaller package. Last year, after spending his workday thinking through potential solutions to machine learning riddles, Micro...
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'It Is Desolate': China's Glut of Unused Car Factories

nytimes.com

U.S.WorldBusinessArtsLifestyleOpinionAudioGamesCookingWirecutterThe AthleticSKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access....
U.S.WorldBusinessArtsLifestyleOpinionAudioGamesCookingWirecutterThe AthleticSKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Manufacturers like BYD, Tesla and Li Auto are cutting prices to move their electri...

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IT Doesn't Matter

hbr.org

To beat your competitors, are you devoting more than 50% of your capital expenditures to information...
To beat your competitors, are you devoting more than 50% of your capital expenditures to information technology? If so, you’re not alone. Businesses worldwide pump $2 trillion a year into IT. But like many broadly adopted technologies—such as railways and electrical power—IT has become a commodity. Affordable and ac...

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The true story of Japan's samurai city that chose art over war

bbc.com
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A Psychologist Explains Reasons the Internet Feels So Broken

theringer.com
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The Compiler Explorer Story – Matt Godbolt

youtube.com

people & blogs
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The Potemkin Economy

substack.com

In the last few months, I’ve started to realize that there have been several strange anomalies...
In the last few months, I’ve started to realize that there have been several strange anomalies that have popped up with the government’s employment numbers. For years, we have grown accustomed to issues with the CPI, due to the constant moving of goalposts undertaken by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the agency. Bu...
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AI Starts to Sift Through String Theory's Near-Endless Possibilities

quantamagazine.org
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The Bad Trip Detective

nautil.us

Jules Evans was 17 years old when he had his first unpleasant run-in with psychedelic drugs....
Jules Evans was 17 years old when he had his first unpleasant run-in with psychedelic drugs. Caught up in the heady rave culture that gripped ’90s London, he took some acid at a club one night and followed a herd of unknown faces to an afterparty. There, he found himself pursued by a single thought, which followed h...
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Android 15 may make it harder for sideloaded apps to get sensitive permissions

androidauthority.com
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Piet

dangermouse.net
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Ask HN: Benchmarks for models other than LLMs

ycombinator.com
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Golang PGO builds using GitHub Actions

dolthub.com

In February of this year, I announced that Dolt releases are now built as profile-guided optimized...
In February of this year, I announced that Dolt releases are now built as profile-guided optimized (pgo) binaries, levering this powerful feature of Golang 1.20 to increase Dolt's read performance by 5.3%. Prior to my announcement, Zach, one of our resident Golang experts, experimented and tested Golang's pgo featur...
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C Isn't a Hangover; Rust Isn't a Hangover Cure

medium.com

rust security supply chain
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