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What happens in the brain while daydreaming?
Observations in mice hint at role of daydreams in remodeling the brain
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,692 posts.
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Announcing MongoDB 3.0
Official MongoDB Documentation. Learn to store data in flexible documents, create an Atlas deployment, and use our tools and integrations.
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Hyperloop: Not so fast
This week Matt Brauer is back to describe work he did to analyze the trajectory of the Hyperloop proposal. This is a key input to the Hyperloop Simulink models we are building. Matt's conclusion is surprising: From the perspective of geographic constraints and rider comfort, the 760 mph peak speed is not an issue…
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Fable 5 On Vending-Bench: Misbehaving, With Plausible Deniability
Claude Fable 5 is a partial step back in alignment from Opus 4.8 on Vending-Bench, returning to price collusion and deceptive negotiation while rationalizing misbehavior it knows is wrong.
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Google: We’ve acquired Motorola Mobility
I’m confident the team at Motorola will be creating the next generation of mobile devices that will improve lives for years to come.
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The guide to software development with Guix
Blog posts about GNU Guix.
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Rails adds support for Fiber-safe ActiveRecord ConnectionPools
ActiveRecord's ConnectionPool is now fiber-safe! Configure config.active_support.isolation_level for better throughput.
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Rocky Linux 10 Will Support RISC-V
🏗️ Rocky Linux 10 Will Support RISC-V! We're excited to announce that Rocky Linux 10 will officially support RISC-V! Thanks to the incredible work of...
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GitHub New pull request overview page in public preview
On a long pull request, checking what’s blocking often means scrolling past dozens of comments and timeline events just to reach the merge box. And once you’re there, you still…
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Quasar 438B: Europe's Leading AI Model
Quasar sets a new benchmark for European AI, outperforming comparable European models on seven of eight selected Artificial Analysis evaluations. ...
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A connection between after-hours work and decreased productivity
Slack’s Workforce Index uncovers new findings on how to structure the workday to maximize employee productivity, well-being and satisfaction
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Spotify Optimized the Largest Dataflow Job Ever for Wrapped 2020
In this post we’ll discuss how Spotify optimized and sped up elements from our largest Dataflow job, , for using a technique called Sort Merge Bucket (SMB) join. We’ll present the design and implementation of SMB and how we incorporated it into our data pipelines.
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FCC Temporary Waiver Permits Higher Symbol Rate Data for Hurricane Ida Traffic
The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the national association for amateur radio, connecting hams around the U.S. with news, information and resources.
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Positive news from 2023
Many bad things happened in 2023. You already know them. Many tragic events were so terrible we will never forget them and we shouldn’t. You can easily find them all over the news. But the good things that happened are much harder to encounter, and it is easy to get the impression nothing good happened at all. In…
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A new F# compiler feature: graph-based type-checking
Graph-based type-checking is a new F# compiler flag that allows the compiler to type-check files in a project in parallel whenever possible.
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Dropbox Cofounder & CTO Arash Ferdowsi responds to yesterday's bug
Modern work can be frustrating and chaotic—if you don’t have the right tools. From context engineering to multimodal search, go behind the scenes and hear how Dropbox engineers are building AI that actually understands you, so you can focus on the work that matters most.
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A built-in 'off switch' to stop persistent pain
J. Nicholas Betley has led collaborative research seeking the neural basis of long-term sustained pain and finds that a critical hub in the brainstem holds a mechanism for stopping pain signals from reaching the rest of the brain. Their findings could help clinicians better understand chronic pain and lead to new…
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AdGuard DNS: A Privacy-Oriented DNS Server
AdGuard DNS: a privacy-oriented DNS service that blocks trackers and ads anywhere, from your PC and mobile devices to smart TV and IoT.
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Apes may be closer to speaking than many scientists think
Koko the gorilla is best known for a lifelong study to teach her a silent form of communication, American Sign Language. But some of the simple sounds she has learned may change the perception that humans are the only primates with the capacity for speech.
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Microsoft's Xandr grants GDPR rights at a rate of 0%
noyb has filed a GDPR complaint regarding transparency issues, the right of access and the use of inaccurate information about users
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JEP 450: Compact Object Headers
Reduce the size of object headers in the HotSpot JVM from between 96 and 128 bits down to 64 bits on 64-bit architectures. This will reduce heap size, improve deployment density, and increase data locality.
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The threat on your desk: Building an evil USB-C dock
BadUSB attacks have been a threat for years, but is the USB-C dock sitting on your desk the latest threat in disguise?