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Hard Drive: The Onion for Tech/Gaming

hard-drive.net
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Terabytes of Old Usenet Articles since 1980s Restored in 471,000 News Groups

narkive.com

Are these the only 3 known updated Usenet archives left?<https://news.admin.peering.narkive.com/><https://cmacleod.me.uk/ng/news.admin.peering><https://www.novabbs.com/computers/search.php?group=news.admin.peering><https://groups.google.com/g/news.admin.peering> No updates after 22Feb24 Post by...
Are these the only 3 known updated Usenet archives left?<https://news.admin.peering.narkive.com/><https://cmacleod.me.uk/ng/news.admin.peering><https://www.novabbs.com/computers/search.php?group=news.admin.peering><https://groups.google.com/g/news.admin.peering> No updates after 22Feb24 Post by AndrewAre these the o...
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An attorney says she saw her library reading habits reflected in mobile ads

theregister.com
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Radio Caroline turns 60

go.com

LONDON -- As the old adage goes: “Always be yourself. Unless you can be a pirate....
LONDON -- As the old adage goes: “Always be yourself. Unless you can be a pirate. Then always be a pirate.”That certainly applies to the small, but special circle of swashbuckling radio enthusiasts in the United Kingdom who have kept the rogue seaborne radio station, Radio Caroline, afloat now for the past 60 long y...

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Helicopter in Iranian president's convoy crashes – state media

bbc.com
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Show HN: Brawshot – Basic temporal denoise for videos in BRAW format

github.com
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U.S. and Chinese automakers are headed in completely different directions

washingtonpost.com
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Advisory report on unacceptable behaviour published

universiteitleiden.nl

13 May 2024 Today, 13 May 2024, Leiden University’s Executive Board is publishing the advice of...
13 May 2024 Today, 13 May 2024, Leiden University’s Executive Board is publishing the advice of the committee that investigated reports of unacceptable behaviour and breaches of academic integrity. These reports were about a professor from the university and their partner (a former member of the university staff). T...

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A startup's "tablet" gears up to take on Apple's iPad

om.co

Anjan Katta, founder of Daylight Computer I am a tablet nerd. I have been since Steve...
Anjan Katta, founder of Daylight Computer I am a tablet nerd. I have been since Steve Jobs introduced the iPad. Tablets, especially the iPad, connect with me emotionally, much like my vintage fountain pen and notebook made out of Japanese paper. There is a reason why I use the iPad for most of my work, though lately...
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Circulation of Elites

wikipedia.org

Theory by Vilfredo Pareto This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. Relevant discussion...
Theory by Vilfredo Pareto This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources.Find sources: "Circulation of elites" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (April 2024) The...
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Compilers for Free with Weval

bernsteinbear.com

Chris Fallin came and gave a talk to the Northeastern Programming Research Laboratory last month. He...
Chris Fallin came and gave a talk to the Northeastern Programming Research Laboratory last month. He talked about his work on a new project called weval, a WebAssembly partial evaluator (and then helped me write this post!). Partial evaluation is neat. In short, it’s all about taking an existing program, modifying i...
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Show HN: Digital player board for Terraforming Mars

terraforming-mars-player-board.netlify.app
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Engineers among Islamic radicals [pdf]

lse.ac.uk
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Ask HN: Best way to get hands on large scale system design exp

ycombinator.com
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Show HN: I built an image optimization tool based on Google's new Jpegli encoder

optimize.photos
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Microwaves Not Made in China

aintfromchina.com
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Tesla's Self-Driving Tech Isn't 'Just Around the Corner' – Class-Action Lawsuit

jalopnik.com

Elon Musk’s and Tesla’s lies about the readiness of actual full self-driving cars is starting to...
Elon Musk’s and Tesla’s lies about the readiness of actual full self-driving cars is starting to catch up with them. A judge has just rejected the Austin, Texas-based automaker’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit that the company misled owners – tricking them into believing their vehicles would soon have self-driving capabil...

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How to Use Free Satellite Imagery to Monitor Expansion of West Bank Settlements

bellingcat.com

Since the beginning of 2024, the US has issued a series of sanctions against a small...
Since the beginning of 2024, the US has issued a series of sanctions against a small number of Israeli settlers for jeopardising peace and security in the West Bank. The impact the sanctions will have is debated, but it marks a new development amid ongoing attempts to address widespread Israeli settlement of the Wes...
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I have family history of Alzheimer's disease. I wanted to understand my own risk

cnn.com

Editor’s note: CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta is a practicing neurosurgeon and best-selling author...
Editor’s note: CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta is a practicing neurosurgeon and best-selling author on brain health. “The Last Alzheimer’s Patient” premieres on “The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper” on CNN on Sunday, May 19, at 8 p.m. ET/PT and streams on MAX on June 18. I’ve been reporting on Alzh...
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Ken Silverman's Official Home Page

advsys.net
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"No Mow May" Won't Fix Our Biodiversity Problems

motherjones.com

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AI Books4 Dataset for training LLMs further

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Building a Waitlist (The Wrong Way)

jrhizor.dev

2024-05-13Last December, I tried to start a bootstrapped SaaS “the right way”. According to the advice...
2024-05-13Last December, I tried to start a bootstrapped SaaS “the right way”. According to the advice of several bootstrappers, one possible process to find a good niche SaaS idea is:Think of a problem.Verify if it’s a problem from search volume.Run search ads on intent-based keywords to drive waitlist signups.Wait...
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You could have invented fractional cascading

ezyang.com
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