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Will boiling water ruin green tea?
A common myth regarding green tea is that it shouldn't be prepared with boiling water.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,299 posts.
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The AI research job market
There are plenty of jobs, but finding a place where you're happy is as hard as ever.
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Bing Image Creator
Last month we introduced the new AI-powered Bing and Microsoft Edge, your copilot for the web – delivering better search, complete answers, a new chat experience and the ability to create content. Already, we have seen that chat is reinventing how people search with more than 100 million chats to date. We’ve seen…
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The Sell ∀ ∃ as ∃ ∀ Scam
Artificial intelligence, like machine learning before it, is making big money off what I call the “sell ∀ ∃ as ∃ ∀ scam.” The scam works as follows. Build a sy…
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Bypassing Gmail's spam filters with ChatGPT
If you haven’t been living under a rock, you probably already know what ChatGPT is. I am an operator of high bandwidth Tor exit relays, and with that, I get a lot of abuse complaints. Combined with the fact that I have ai lease on a “/24” of IPv4 space, basically a block of 256 IP addresses, I have the IP space’s…
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I Built Linux from Scratch
Linux From Scratch or LFS is a project that provides and maintains a set of instructions of how to build your own Linux system from scratch. I am always curious to understand how things work ‘under the hood’, and since I’m a daily Linux user i decided to take on the challenge to try and complete building Linux From…
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An end to typographic widows on the web
Currently shipping in Chrome Canary, and thus soon to be in Blink-based browsers including Edge, is a relatively new CSS declaration which promises to virtually end typographic widows.
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Revenge bedtime procrastination
Revenge bedtime procrastination occurs when people delay going to sleep in order to feel in control of their life and schedule. This phenomenon is particularly associated with people who feel that they have little time for themselves during the day, for example due to their work schedule, so they delay sleep until…
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Backblaze Drive Stats for 2022
Check out the 2022 year-end Drive Stats data, and let us know your thoughts in the comments.
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Everything Is a Practice
There is no finish line. There is no winning, no losing.
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The strange and awful path of productivity in the US construction sector
Despite aggregate productivity for the US economy having doubled over the past 50 years, the country’s construction sector has diverged considerably, trending downward throughout that period. And this is no slight decrease. Raw BEA data suggest that the value added per worker in the construction sector was about 40…
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The infamous coin toss
In 2011 I gave a 15-minute talk to a lay audience in London. The topic I had chosen was ergodicity breaking, and the challenge was clear: how do you get this across? I invented a coin-toss gamble, which has since become a go-to illustration of ergodicity break
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The Stupid Programmer Manifesto
I'm not smart enough for modern web development, and that's ok
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SpaceX's Texas Rocket Is Going to Cause a Lot More Damage Than Anyone Thinks
On Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a license for SpaceX to launch the first orbital test of Starship, the largest rocket in human history, as soon as this Monday, April 17th.
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Case study: fake hardware cryptowallet
Fake hardware cryptowallet, and how bitcoins were stolen from it.
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Bun v0.7.0
vite dev support, Workers, bun --smol, WebSocket.ping(), structuredClone(), serialize() and better Node.js compatibility
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Using a Mac without a network connection
New version of ViableS runs in a sandbox, with no shared folders, and can now be isolated from networks. So how well does Ventura work without internet?
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Very Long-Term Backup (2008)
The Long Now Foundation fosters long-term thinking. Our work encourages imagination at the timescale of civilization — the next and last 10,000 years — a timespan we call the long now.
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The median return of 2022's SPAC mergers: -82%
Only 6 of the 94 SPACs have a positive return.
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Podman Desktop 1.2 Released: Compose and Kubernetes Support
Podman Desktop 1.2 has been released!
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WP20 and Audrey Scholars
Today is the 20th anniversary of the first release of WordPress. None of us knew what we were getting into when it started, but we had a shared conviction that the four freedoms of the GPL combined…
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An invitation to a secret society
Or: why you should be a lizard
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How SMS fraud works and how to guard against it
or why Twitter disabled SMS 2FA 💬
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Create a shortcut for even lower phone brightness
We're all addicted to our phones and many of us go to sleep with them in our hands 1 — so it's odd that manufacturers choose the default minimum brightness to be brighter than the sun.