Flipping FLIP ship saved from scrapyard at last minute (❄️ Score: 150+ in 6 days)
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New Atlas
Flipping FLIP ship saved from scrapyard at last minute
The US Navy and Scripps Institution of Oceanography's unique FLoating Instrument Platform (FLIP) has been saved at the last minute from the breaker's yard. Scheduled to be scrapped in Mexico, it was purchased by undersea design company DEEP.
Y Combinator often backs startups that duplicate other YC companies, data shows (Score: 152+ in 6 hours)
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TechCrunch
Y Combinator often backs startups that duplicate other YC companies, data shows — it's not just AI code editors | TechCrunch
An analysis of all nearly 5,000 companies YC has backed to date reveals a surprising truth: YC startups don’t have to be unique. Far from it.
Show HN: Gemini LLM corrects ASR YouTube transcripts (Score: 150+ in 22 hours)
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ldenoue.github.io
Scribe - Beautiful YouTube Transcripts with Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B LLM
Revisiting the DOS Memory Models (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
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Blog System/5
Revisiting the DOS memory models
At the beginning of the year, I wrote a bunch of articles on the various tricks DOS played to overcome the tight memory limits of x86’s real mode. There was one question that came up and remained unanswered: what were the various “models” that the compilers…
A solution to The Onion problem of J. Kenji Lopez-Alt (2021) (Score: 154+ in 6 hours)
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Medium
A solution to the Onion Problem of J. Kenji López-Alt
Kenji López-Alt posed a mathematical problem on his YouTube channel about how to best cut an onion. I present a detailed solution.
Show HN: I am Building a Producthunt alternative (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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Huntlie
Discover new products in tech - Huntlie
Redis is trying to take over the all of the OSS Redis libraries (Score: 150+ in 23 hours)
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X (formerly Twitter)
Tom Hacohen (@TomHacohen) on X
Looks like Redis is trying to take over the all the OSS Redis libraries.
Jedis, Lettuce, and redis-py are down, they are now threatening redis-rs (link in reply).
Jedis, Lettuce, and redis-py are down, they are now threatening redis-rs (link in reply).
Setelinleikkaus: When Finns snipped their cash in half to curb inflation (Score: 151+ in 10 hours)
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www.moneyness.ca
Setelinleikkaus: When Finns snipped their cash in half to curb inflation
On the last day of 1945, with World War II finally behind it, Finland's government announced a new and very strange policy. All Finns were r...
California's most neglected group of students: the gifted ones (🔥 Score: 164+ in 3 hours)
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Los Angeles Times
Commentary: Meet California's most neglected group of students with special needs: the gifted ones
L.A. Unified deserves credit for maintaining education for fast learners. But schools across the state and country have been eliminating programs for them.
The AI reporter that took my old job just got fired (❄️ Score: 157+ in 4 days)
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WIRED
The AI Reporter That Took My Old Job Just Got Fired
A local newspaper in Hawaii experimented with AI-generated presenters to engage and boost its readership. After two months, the bots have been shelved.
Poisoning the Day (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
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ashore.io
Poisoning the day
The fatalist's guide to productivity, or how to get through the day before it gets to you.
Show HN: SQLite Plugin for Jekyll (Score: 150+ in 9 hours)
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I love Jekyll, especially the Datafiles[0] feature, which lets you use CSV/JSON/YAML files and iterate through them. Mixed with the Jekyll Data Pages generator[1], which lets you create a page for every row in your dataset, it is a very powerful combination.
However, Liquid is a terrible language for data-mangling, and simple filtering/sorting/merging can become very annoying. So I wrote a Jekyll SQLite plugin that lets you use the same data interface in Jekyll/Liquid, but backed by a SQLite file(s).
It gives you the simplicity of the Baked Data pattern[2], and the flexibility of using SQL for data-wrangling, within a static site generator.
As a demo, I took the northwind dataset, and generated a site[3] with a few sample queries[4]. It demos both site-level, and page-level queries alongside data-pages generator to generate a page for every product/category/customer.
I've been using this across a few sites in production for almost a year, looking for feedback on usage semantics and feature suggestions.
[0]: https://jekyllrb.com/docs/datafiles/
[1]: https://github.com/avillafiorita/jekyll-datapage_gen
[2]: https://simonwillison.net/2021/Jul/28/baked-data/
[3]: https://northwind.captnemo.in/
[4]: https://github.com/captn3m0/northwind
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I love Jekyll, especially the Datafiles[0] feature, which lets you use CSV/JSON/YAML files and iterate through them. Mixed with the Jekyll Data Pages generator[1], which lets you create a page for every row in your dataset, it is a very powerful combination.
However, Liquid is a terrible language for data-mangling, and simple filtering/sorting/merging can become very annoying. So I wrote a Jekyll SQLite plugin that lets you use the same data interface in Jekyll/Liquid, but backed by a SQLite file(s).
It gives you the simplicity of the Baked Data pattern[2], and the flexibility of using SQL for data-wrangling, within a static site generator.
As a demo, I took the northwind dataset, and generated a site[3] with a few sample queries[4]. It demos both site-level, and page-level queries alongside data-pages generator to generate a page for every product/category/customer.
I've been using this across a few sites in production for almost a year, looking for feedback on usage semantics and feature suggestions.
[0]: https://jekyllrb.com/docs/datafiles/
[1]: https://github.com/avillafiorita/jekyll-datapage_gen
[2]: https://simonwillison.net/2021/Jul/28/baked-data/
[3]: https://northwind.captnemo.in/
[4]: https://github.com/captn3m0/northwind
GitHub
GitHub - captn3m0/jekyll-sqlite: A Jekyll plugin to use SQLite databases as a data source.
A Jekyll plugin to use SQLite databases as a data source. - captn3m0/jekyll-sqlite
LLVM-powered devirtualization (Score: 150+ in 9 hours)
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THALIUM
LLVM-powered deobfuscation of virtualized binaries
Virtualization is a powerful technique for code obfuscation, and reversing it can be challenging. In this post, we cover the work done during an internship on developing an automated devirtualization tool. We explore a simplified taint-based approach and…
DEA passenger searches halted after watchdog finds signs of rights violations (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)
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NBC News
DEA passenger searches halted after watchdog finds signs of civil rights violations and racial profiling
Officials in the Justice Department, which oversees the DEA, ordered that the searches be suspended pending an internal evaluation.
Scientists are learning why ultra-processed foods are bad (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
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The Economist
Scientists are learning why ultra-processed foods are bad for you
A mystery is finally being solved
Teen mathematicians tie knots through a mind-blowing fractal (Score: 150+ in 6 hours)
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Quanta Magazine
Teen Mathematicians Tie Knots Through a Mind-Blowing Fractal | Quanta Magazine
Three high schoolers and their mentor revisited a century-old theorem to prove that all knots can be found in a fractal called the Menger sponge.
GenChess (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
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labs.google
GenChess
Turn your ideas into one-of-a-kind chess pieces you can play online with.
Marshall Brain died hours after alleging retaliation at NC State (🔥 Score: 153+ in 3 hours)
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Hacker in Snowflake extortions may be a U.S. soldier (Score: 153+ in 4 hours)
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Krebs on Security
Hacker in Snowflake Extortions May Be a U.S. Soldier
Two men have been arrested for allegedly stealing data from and extorting dozens of companies that used the cloud data storage company Snowflake, but a third suspect -- a prolific hacker known as Kiberphant0m -- remains at large and continues…
D-Link says it won't patch 60k older modems (Score: 153+ in 10 hours)
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TechRadar
D-Link says it won't patch 60,000 older modems, as they're not worth saving
Just get a new modem, the company says