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241. Y Combinator Reverses Decision to Stop Investing in Canada Firms
242. Chat Control 1.0: Civil Society Mobilizes Against Extending Mass Surveillance
243. Speculative Sampling Explained
Speculative Sampling The idea of speculative sampling is to use a draft sampling to achieve the same sampling result as the target sampling. We have a target sampling distribution $p(x)$ and a draft sampling distribution $q(x)$.
244. Microsoft Has Killed Widgets Six Times. Here's Why They Keep Coming Back
30 years of Windows widgets - from Active Desktop to the Widget Board. Six implementations, six deaths, and the scar tissue that shapes the platform you'd build on today.
245. What happens in early kernel boot on Apple Silicon?
After the Boot ROM, LLB and iBoot (stage 2), kernel boot starts setting up security services and putting the hardware to work. CPU cores are started up before file systems are mounted, and the Mac starts userspace boot.
246. 4-Hour Builds: Anatomy of a Developer Experience Collapse
When thousands of tests, hundreds of GB of RAM, and toxic culture collide: a complete anatomy of a developer experience disaster
247. The CIA Is Sunsetting the World Factbook
The quiet failure mode of public reference infrastructure
248. MySpace Founder Deletes Post Amid Backlash After Teasing Platform Return
249. OpenClaw (a.k.a. Moltbot) Is Everywhere All at Once, and a Disaster
250. Stelvio: Ship Python to AWS
Ship Python to AWS in minutes, not days. Contribute to stelviodev/stelvio development by creating an account on GitHub.
251. Open secrets about Hacker News
I spent a few days examining the mechanics of Hacker News (HN) and I discovered some open secrets. “Open” because they’re not private. …
252. Tesla likely can't escape 'Blade Runner 2049' lawsuit
253. EPA Advances Farmers' Right to Repair
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) advanced American farmers and equipment owners’ lawful right to repair their farm and other nonroad diesel equipment.
254. As Rocks May Think
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255. Waymo Seeking About $16B Near $110B Valuation
256. CSB: Fatal Explosions at Didion Milling [video]
A CSB safety video on its investigation into the fatal combustible dust explosions and fires at the Didion Milling facility in Cambria, Wisconsin, that occur...
257. Is it Really So Much Better Now?
Thoughts on the machines and food delivery, while stuck in a McDonald's (Again),
258. Frog 'saunas' could help endangered species beat a deadly fungus (2024)
259. Apple's MacBook Pro DFU port documentation is wrong
260. Leaked Chats Expose the Daily Life of a Scam Compound's Enslaved Workforce
A whistleblower trapped inside a “pig butchering” scam compound gave WIRED a vast trove of its internal materials—including 4,200 pages of messages that lay out its operations in unprecedented detail.
261. Banal but brutal: Career anxiety as a driving force behind authoritarianism
262. Show HN: AI Blocker by Kiddokraft
263. Banks seek out new buyers for Oracle data centre loans
264. Adding Canada Back to Our List of Accepted Countries of Incorporation
After hearing feedback from Canadian founders in our network, we are adding Canada back to our list of accepted countries of incorporation.
265. LLatte: Scalable Transformers for Ads at Meta
266. Pinterest sacks two engineers for creating software to identify fired workers
Digital pinboard business cutting 15% of workforce as it invests heavily in AI
267. AI coding gap: Why senior devs are getting faster and juniors spin their wheels
With close to one-third of code now AI-generated, a new study finds substantial increases in output and unexpected benefits.
268. Nvidia shares are down after report that its OpenAI investment stalled
Nvidia's Jensen Huang criticized OpenAI's business strategy as the chip giant plans to invest up to $100 billion into the AI startup, per reports.
269. The Vanilla Web Is Wonderful
I've been working on a new website using only vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It's been a fun challenge to build something without any frameworks or libraries.
270. Bruce Schneier: AI and the scaling of betrayal