Google Earning Q1 2024 [pdf] (abc.xyz)
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Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy (direct.mit.edu)
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MemoryDB: A fast and durable memory-first cloud database (www.amazon.science)
Jeff Geerling: Corporate Open Source Is Dead (www.jeffgeerling.com)
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Xz sshd backdoor collecting usernames from logs (isc.sans.edu)
FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote (arstechnica.com)
Rust Stream API visualized and exposed (github.com)
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Nango (YC W23) – Source-available unified API (news.ycombinator.com)
FCC Votes to Restore Net Neutrality Rules (www.nytimes.com)
Palm OS and the devices that ran it (arstechnica.com)
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Ex-athletic director arrested for framing principal with AI-generated voice (www.thebaltimorebanner.com)
Tribler: An attack-resilient micro-economy for media (github.com)
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Chechnya bans music outside the range of 80-116 beats per minute (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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FTC Announces Rule Banning Noncompetes (www.ftc.gov)
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JEDEC Extends DDR5 Memory Spec to 8800 MT/S, Adds Anti-Rowhammer Features (www.anandtech.com)
The Performance Impact of C++'s `final` Keyword (16bpp.net)
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NASA's Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth (blogs.nasa.gov)
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North Korean animation outsourcing for Amazon, HBO Max series (www.38north.org)
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Anti-municipal broadband budget amendment gets nixed in New York (communitynets.org)
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Amazon grows to over 750k robots, replacing 100k humans (finance.yahoo.com)
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Lunatik: Lunatik is a framework for scripting the Linux kernel with Lua (github.com)
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Glibc Buffer Overflow in Iconv (www.openwall.com)
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Volkswagen workers vote overwhelmingly to join the UAW (www.cnn.com)
The Basics of Legibility: A Short Guide for Non-Typographers (www.nubero.ch)
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U-M finds students with alphabetically lower-ranked names receive lower grades (record.umich.edu)
MuPDF WASM Viewer Demo (mupdf.com)
Ceefax Simulator (www.nathanmediaservices.co.uk)
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Children Need Neighborhoods Where They Can Walk and Bike (www.wsj.com)
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Talk to Me Human – my game about social persuasion (talktomehuman.com)
IBM and the Holocaust (en.wikipedia.org)
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Bitcoin Block 840000 (mempool.space)
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Robotic arms that assemble panels on solar farms (www.fastcompany.com)
Valkey Is Rapidly Overtaking Redis (devops.com)
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Multipath TCP for Linux (2022) (www.mptcp.dev)
JEP draft: Exception handling in switch (openjdk.org)
Quantum Algorithms for Lattice Problems – Update on April 18 (www.chenyilei.net)
The Curse of Monkey Island (www.filfre.net)
Quill v2 – Rich text editor (quilljs.com)
Apple deletes WhatsApp, Threads from China app store on orders from Beijing (www.cnn.com)
I spoke with a Google worker fired for protesting $1.2B Israel contract (www.thehandbasket.co)
Infected blood scandal: Children were used as 'guinea pigs' in clinical trials (www.bbc.com)
Meta.ai Oh My (www.tbray.org)
High quality Python scripts or small libraries to learn from (news.ycombinator.com)
C-Macs – a pure C macOS application (github.com)
Daniel Dennett (1942-2024) (dailynous.com)
3rd Edition of Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ by Stroustrup (www.stroustrup.com)
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DuckDuckGo AI Chat (duckduckgo.com)
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Tesla Recalls All Cybertrucks for Faulty Accelerator Pedals (techcrunch.com)
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Nestlé adds sugar to infant milk sold in poorer countries, report finds (www.theguardian.com)
Scale of the Universe (scaleofuniverse.com)
Mark Zuckerberg: Llama 3, $10B Models, Caesar Augustus, Bioweapons [video] (www.youtube.com)
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New Mexico: Psychologists to dress up as wizards when providing expert testimony (www.futilitycloset.com)
USAF Test Pilot School, DARPA announce aerospace machine learning breakthrough (www.edwards.af.mil)
I Used Netscape Composer in 2024 (plbrault.com)
A former slave who became a cowboy, a rancher, and a Texas legend (www.texasmonthly.com)
Supabase Storage: now supports the S3 protocol (supabase.com)
SeaMonkey All-in-One Internet Application Suite (www.seamonkey-project.org)
Women Who Code Closing (womenwhocode.com)
El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour (www.museodelprado.es)
OpenMCT: A web based mission control framework (github.com)
Chinchilla Scaling: A replication attempt (arxiv.org)
Insatiable: A life without eating (longreads.com)
Calculus Made Easy (calculusmadeeasy.org)
Vapi – Convince our voice AI to give you the secret code (blog.vapi.ai)
The Rust Calling Convention We Deserve (mcyoung.xyz)
Thoughts on Seed Oil (dynomight.substack.com)
Multi-tenant queues in Postgres (docs.hatchet.run)
One-person companies—how do you manage it all and stay sane? (news.ycombinator.com)
Dnsmasq wins the first BlueHats Prize (nlnet.nl)
Randar: A Minecraft exploit that uses LLL lattice reduction to crack server RNG (github.com)
Hermit is a hermetic and reproducible sandbox for running programs (github.com)
Windows 10 will start nagging you to switch from local account to MS Account (www.neowin.net)
My mother declared my bedroom a disaster area (1984) (news.lettersofnote.com)
Security Vulnerability in Browser Interface Allows Computer Access via GPU (www.tugraz.at)
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Inside Amazon’s Secret Operation to Gather Intel on Rivals (www.wsj.com)
Meta Llama 3 (llama.meta.com)
Halo 2 in HD: Pushing the Original Xbox to the Limit (icode4.coffee)
The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat (www.theverge.com)
Lions OS: secure – fast – adaptable (trustworthy.systems)
OpenBSD – Coming soon to a -current system near you: parallel raw IP input (www.undeadly.org)
Feathers Are One of Evolution's Cleverest Inventions (www.scientificamerican.com)
I Know the secret to the quiet mind. I wish I'd never learned it (2021) (www.theatlantic.com)
Cosmic Desktop: Hammering Out New Cosmic Features (blog.system76.com)
Implementing Natural Conversational Agents with Elixir (seanmoriarity.com)
Wayfair fired a bunch of people again today, after using them to train AI (news.ycombinator.com)
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (www.themarginalian.org)
Linus Torvalds adds arbitrary tabs to kernel code (arstechnica.com)
Google fires 28 employees involved in sit-in protest over $1.2B Israel contract (nypost.com)
Goldene: A single atom layer of gold (liu.se)
NetBSD 10: Proper old-school Unix, not like those lazy, decadent Linux types (www.theregister.com)
Google workers arrested after protesting company's work with Israel (www.washingtonpost.com)
Flying Aircraft Carriers (2019) (neverwasmag.com)
Short Stack: World’s smallest Nintendo Wii (github.com)
Everything we can't describe in music (hazlitt.net)
BiTE – Cross-platform executable viewer and reverse engineering tool (github.com)
Hardest Problem in Computer Science: Centering Things (tonsky.me)
Cyc: History's Forgotten AI Project (outsiderart.substack.com)
How Antithesis finds bugs (antithesis.com)
NSA publishes guidance for strengthening AI system security (www.nsa.gov)
CFPB Takes Action Against Coding Boot Camp BloomTech and CEO Austen Allred (www.consumerfinance.gov)
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