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Show HN: Wanderer – an open-source trail database

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Nantucket newspaper trolls local Tesla Cybertruck for havoc on tony island

nypost.com

A Nantucket newspaper has gone viral over its trolling of a Tesla Cybertruck that has been...
A Nantucket newspaper has gone viral over its trolling of a Tesla Cybertruck that has been causing annoyances for locals since arriving on the affluent island last week. The clunky silver electric personal vehicle, which retails for up to $101,985, has been creating issues ever since it was first spotted being drive...

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Habeck files: German government deception about the nuclear phase-out

planet-today.com

They should remain secret forever and never see the light of day: Secret files from Robert...
They should remain secret forever and never see the light of day: Secret files from Robert Habeck's ministry now show how systematic deception was carried out in two green-led ministries in order to prevent the continued operation of nuclear power plants. Sometimes the assessment of the ministry's own experts was in...
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Shibboleth

newyorker.com

A philosophy without a politics is common enough. Aesthetes, ethicists, novelists—all may be easily critiqued and...
A philosophy without a politics is common enough. Aesthetes, ethicists, novelists—all may be easily critiqued and found wanting on this basis. But there is also the danger of a politics without a philosophy. A politics unmoored, unprincipled, which holds as its most fundamental commitment its own perpetuation. A Rea...

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Smart Antennas Shape Satellite Internet Tech to Come

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Satellite internet services are expanding rapidly, but the ground terminals required to connect to them are...
Satellite internet services are expanding rapidly, but the ground terminals required to connect to them are expensive and power-hungry. French startup Greenerwave is building a terminal that uses something they call a “reconfigurable intelligent surface” (RIS) to reduce both costs and energy consumption. Constellati...

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A High-Level Technical Overview of Homomorphic Encryption

jeremykun.com

About two years ago, I switched teams at Google to focus on fully homomorphic encryption (abbreviated...
About two years ago, I switched teams at Google to focus on fully homomorphic encryption (abbreviated FHE, or sometimes HE). Since then I’ve got to work on a lot of interesting projects, learning along the way about post-quantum cryptography, compiler design, and the ins and outs of fully homomorphic encryption.If y...

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Building Containers from Scratch: Layers

depot.dev

At Depot, we're focused on providing the fastest build service for container images. We accomplish this...
At Depot, we're focused on providing the fastest build service for container images. We accomplish this primarily by: Providing instant access to powerful compute and storage Optimizing the build process itself to be as fast as possible We run Depot on top of AWS, using large 16-core machines for each Depot project....
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PDEP-13: The Pandas Logical Type System

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Why Choose ULIDs over Traditional UUIDs or IDs for Database Identification?

sotergreco.com

Database security is really important when it comes to building custom web applications. One of the...
Database security is really important when it comes to building custom web applications. One of the most common mistakes people make when creating their database is using regular IDs. Not only are they in chronological order and visible with just an inspect on the network of dev tools, but also finding vulnerabiliti...
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The Art of Using Notepad in App Development

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In our age of sophisticated IDEs, cloud-based development platforms, and feature-rich code editors, it may seem...
In our age of sophisticated IDEs, cloud-based development platforms, and feature-rich code editors, it may seem quaint to turn to the humble notepad for app development. However, this unassuming tool can actually be a powerful asset in the right hands. Let’s explore the art of using a notepad as a vehicle for buildi...

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'Retailers jacked up prices and squeezed consumers. They might have just blinked

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Retailers are feeling jittery. Consumers aren’t shopping like they used to. In a game of chicken...
Retailers are feeling jittery. Consumers aren’t shopping like they used to. In a game of chicken between stores and shoppers, it’s the stores that appear to be yielding first, by dropping prices on thousands of products. The markdowns come as inflation has pushed prices higher for the past two years, squeezing Ameri...
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In 'The Fall Guy,' stunts get the spotlight

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At the Hollywood premiere of the new movie The Fall Guy, motorcyclists popped wheelies along the...
At the Hollywood premiere of the new movie The Fall Guy, motorcyclists popped wheelies along the red carpet, one stuntman took a dive off a 45-foot crane outside the Dolby Theater, and Ryan Gosling's stunt doubles were ripped backwards through a movie poster. Three performers smashed through a window for a lively st...
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Book People Think They Know Why 9-Year-Olds Stop Reading for Fun

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The long long tail of AI applications

waleson.com

Last year multiple companies asked me for advice. "We are evaluating this AI powered product, but...
Last year multiple companies asked me for advice. "We are evaluating this AI powered product, but do you think it makes sense at all? It seems a bit niche and we think ChatGPT might make this entire thing obsolete soon."Long tail - credit to WikipediaMy answer so far has always been: "No, bare LLMs are not going to ...
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TSMC says Arizona fab is now ahead of schedule

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The London street bollards that are old cannons

stephenliddell.co.uk

Wandering around London and indeed many other British coastal cities you might from time to time...
Wandering around London and indeed many other British coastal cities you might from time to time come across rather strange looking bollards to stop people driving on pavements or generally just closing off areas to make them for pedestrians only. Plenty though by all means not all are actually old Royal Navy cannon...
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Livegrep: Interactively Grep Source Code

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Flexibility of Plang Programming Language

substack.com

Consider the food diary app a friend uses; it allows you to add a meal so...
Consider the food diary app a friend uses; it allows you to add a meal so that you can simply select that meal and to add a bread to it for that meal.Implementing this functionality requires setting up a meal table, detailing the food, connecting it to calories, creating a form, and programming the logic for "had on...
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Generative AI will be designing new drugs on its own in near future

cnbc.com

Just_super | E+ | Getty ImagesEli Lilly chief information and digital officer Diogo Rau was recently...
Just_super | E+ | Getty ImagesEli Lilly chief information and digital officer Diogo Rau was recently involved in some experiments in the office, but not the typical drug research work that you might expect to be among the lab tinkering inside a major pharmaceutical company.Lilly has been using generative AI to searc...

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Monitoring the weather with an Arduino MKR WiFi 1010-based station

arduino.cc
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The space shuttle that never came home

washingtonpost.com
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Unicode 16: Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement [pdf]

unicode.org
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About Project Azorian

cia.gov

Imagine standing atop the Empire State Building with an 8-foot-wide grappling hook on a 1-inch-diameter steel...
Imagine standing atop the Empire State Building with an 8-foot-wide grappling hook on a 1-inch-diameter steel rope. Your task is to lower the hook to the street below, snag a compact car full of gold, and lift the car back to the top of the building. On top of that, the job has to be done without anyone noticing. Th...
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North Korean weapons are killing Ukrainians. The implications are far bigger

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