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The Wide Awakes: A 19th century club of cape-wearing anti-slavery activists

smithsonianmag.com

The most consequential political organization in American history didn’t get its start in a party headquarters...
The most consequential political organization in American history didn’t get its start in a party headquarters or a smoke-filled room. It began when a few working-class kids designed a costume, which grew into a movement and ultimately an army. And it ended with a civil war. In between, the story of the Wide Awakes ...

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Money for Nothing, Chips for Free

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China and Hong Kong stocks lost nearly $5T in 3 years

cnbc.com

Stocks in China and Hong Kong sold off a massive $4.8 trillion in market capitalization since...
Stocks in China and Hong Kong sold off a massive $4.8 trillion in market capitalization since 2021, which according to HSBC, is more than the value of the Indian stock market.Indian stocks have rallied amid broader optimism about the country's growth. Despite a subdued global IPO market, research from EY showed Indi...

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Free Software

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French lawmakers take a swing at cloud monopolies

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Free software's not-so-eXZellent adventure

lwn.net

The following subscription-only content has been made available to you by an LWN subscriber. Thousands of...
The following subscription-only content has been made available to you by an LWN subscriber. Thousands of subscribers depend on LWN for the best news from the Linux and free software communities. If you enjoy this article, please consider accepting the trial offer on the right. Thank you for visiting LWN.net! By Jon...
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TSMC Evacuates Production Lines After Major Taiwan Quake

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(Bloomberg) -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world’s largest maker of advanced chips, halted some chipmaking...
(Bloomberg) -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world’s largest maker of advanced chips, halted some chipmaking machinery and evacuated staff after the biggest earthquake to hit its home island in 25 years.TSMC, the main contract chipmaker to Apple Inc. and Nvidia Corp., moved staff out of certain areas a...
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How the XZ Backdoor Works

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The following subscription-only content has been made available to you by an LWN subscriber. Thousands of...
The following subscription-only content has been made available to you by an LWN subscriber. Thousands of subscribers depend on LWN for the best news from the Linux and free software communities. If you enjoy this article, please consider accepting the trial offer on the right. Thank you for visiting LWN.net! By Dar...
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Annin Robotics AR4, open plan low cost 6DOF desktop industrial robot

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HP Disables Printer Functionality Until You Install the HP Smart App

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Ask HN: Do you write specs/requirements for things you work on, do you like it?

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Ask HN: How did you build feature flags?

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Full EU chat control proposal attack on digital privacy and encryption

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Octopus v2: On-device language model for super agent

arxiv.org
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Things NOT to do when building a SaaS company

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Show HN: Term-Lisp – A Lisp, based on pattern matching and term rewriting

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Navies are obsolete, but no one will admit it

crookedtimber.org

Over the last year, three of the four most powerful navies[1] in the world have suffered...
Over the last year, three of the four most powerful navies[1] in the world have suffered humiliating defeats at the hands of opponents with no navy at all. First, there’s Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. Until the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, it was regularly touted as a decisive factor in any conflict, capable no...
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Eight U.S. States Now Have Plans to Ban Sales of Gas-Powered Cars

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At least eight states plan to ban sales of new gas-powered cars after 2035, and several...
At least eight states plan to ban sales of new gas-powered cars after 2035, and several others are thinking about joining them. The rules being adopted specify that only zero-emission vehicles — including electric vehicles and some plug-in hybrids — can be sold in participating states beginning with the 2035 model y...
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The Rise and Fall of 3M's Floppy Disk

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A version of this post originally appeared onTedium, Ernie Smith’s newsletter, which hunts for the end...
A version of this post originally appeared onTedium, Ernie Smith’s newsletter, which hunts for the end of the long tail. If you ask the average person what the company 3M does, odds are if they have a few gray hairs hanging out on their scalp, they might say that the company makes floppy disks. Now, this was once tr...

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The Crimes of SEAL Team 6 (2017)

theintercept.com

Officially known as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, SEAL Team 6 is today the most...
Officially known as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, SEAL Team 6 is today the most celebrated of the U.S. military’s special mission units. But hidden behind the heroic narratives is a darker, more troubling story of “revenge ops,” unjustified killings, mutilations, and other atrocities — a pattern of cr...
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Google to delete search data of millions who used incognito mode

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By Bobby Allyn Monday, April 1, 2024 • 3:11 PM EDT Google will destroy the private...
By Bobby Allyn Monday, April 1, 2024 • 3:11 PM EDT Google will destroy the private browsing history of millions of people who used "incognito" mode in its Chrome browser as a part of a settlement filed to federal court on Monday in a case over the company's secret tracking of web activity.For years, Google simply in...
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Ask HN: What April Fools jokes have you noticed this year?

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We got LUCKY with this malicious backdoor

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Microsoft offered FFmpeg small one-time payment instead of support contract

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