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Being poor vs. being broke
The more I speak about being poor, the more I realize how fundamentally other folks misunderstand what it means to be poor versus being broke.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,220 posts.
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Manganese is Lyme disease's double-edge sword
Lyme disease is caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, which relies on the antioxidant manganese to protect it from its host’s immune system. Both removing or adding too much manganese weakens the bacteria. Disrupting this balance could lead to new treatments for Lyme disease.<br />
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Linear algebra explains why some words are effectively untranslatable
A modest mathematical framing of language
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AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering
AGI is a harmful and wasteful fantasy that runs counter to the principles of efficient and effective engineering.
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Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2025
Read the Q3 2025 Drive Stats report to see the latest annualized failure rates, and an analysis of how we define failure in the first place.
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Mullvad VPN present And Then? (Chat Control is back on the menu)
Chat Control is back on the menu. To highlight the corruption behind the proposal, Mullvad VPN now presents "And Then?"
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V8 Garbage Collector
wingolog: article: the last couple years in v8's garbage collector
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RegreSQL: Regression Testing for PostgreSQL Queries
Stop deploying broken SQL queries. RegreSQL provides regression testing for PostgreSQL queries with performance baselines and automated warnings.
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Lawmakers want to ban VPNs
It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to protect their privacy and bypass these invasive laws. Their solution? Entirely ban the use of…
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Why Fei-Fei Li and Yann LeCun are both betting on "world models"
Gaussian splats, SIMA 2, JEPA and Genie 3 — and why “world model” now means three very different things at once.
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HipKittens: Fast and furious AMD kernels
multi silicon ai is coming
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How to Get a North Korea / Antarctica VPS
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Kubernetes Ingress Nginx is retiring
To prioritize the safety and security of the ecosystem, Kubernetes SIG Network and the Security Response Committee are announcing the upcoming retirement of Ingress NGINX. Best-effort maintenance will continue until March 2026. Afterward, there will be no further releases, no bugfixes, and no updates to resolve any…
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Needy Programs
We used to use software; now software started to use us
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SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search
Your collective defense against AI-generated spam and content farms We made it our mission to prevent the web from becoming useless and a harmful space. That’s why today, Kagi Search introduces the first community-driven system to...
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GPT-5.1 for Developers
GPT-5.1 is now available in the API, bringing faster adaptive reasoning, extended prompt caching, improved coding performance, and new apply_patch and shell tools.
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IBM Patented Euler's 200 Year Old Math Technique for 'AI Interpretability'
IBM Slapped the Buzzwords 'AI Interpretability' on Generalized Continued Fractions and their Series Transformations and was awarded a Patent
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Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign
A report describing a highly sophisticated AI-led cyberattack and how we disrupted it.
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Rust in Android: move fast and fix things
Last year, we wrote about why a memory safety strategy that focuses on vulnerability prevention in new code quickly yields durable and compounding gains. This year we lo…
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The Eggstraordinary Fortress
It began, as many thought exercises do, with a discussion in the kitchen. My wife and I were debating whether a cooked egg was still safe to eat after spending the night on the kitchen counter. I am certainly not the type to throw away food lightly at the lightest hint of an issue. Confidently, I told her the egg…
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Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation
Nano Banana allows 32,768 input tokens and I’m going to try to use them all dammit.
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The Monks in the Casino
A brief theory of young men, "the loneliness crisis," and life in the 21st century
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Zed is our office
From the Zed Blog: A look at how we use Zed's native collaboration features to run our entire company.
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How many video games include a marriage proposal? At least one
Also: World League Basketball
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SIMA 2: An agent that plays, reasons, and learns with you in virtual 3D worlds
Introducing SIMA 2, the next milestone in our research creating general and helpful AI agents. By integrating the advanced capabilities of our Gemini models, SIMA is evolving from an instruction-follower into an interactive gaming companion.
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We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner
We moved MongoDB Atlas off AWS and onto self-hosted Hetzner boxes — 90% cost cut, no performance loss. Here's the setup, the Ansible, and what broke.
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How To Build A Smartwatch: Software
PebbleOS, mobile app, SDK improvements and more!
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Heartbeats in Distributed Systems
In distributed systems, one of the fundamental challenges is knowing whether a node or service is alive and functioning properly. Unlike monolithic applications, where everything runs in a single process, distributed systems span multiple machines, networks, and data centers. This becomes even glaring when the nodes…
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Blender Lab
Introducing an innovation space within the Blender project.