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Ways YC has changed in the last year
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Jared Friedman (@snowmaker) on X
Last week we celebrated the end of YC's S23 batch. It seems like a good time to share some thoughts on the batch, and on the ways YC has changed in the last year.
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LLM Falcon 180B Needs 720GB RAM to Run
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The Kaitchup – AI on a Budget
Falcon 180B: Can It Run on Your Computer?
Yes, if you have enough CPU RAM
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Workers who cut countertops are dying of silicosis
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Yahoo News
California workers who cut countertops are dying of an incurable disease
The booming popularity of countertops made of engineered stone has driven a new epidemic of silicosis, an incurable lung disease, researchers have found.
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NASA’s Osiris-Rex capsule lands in Utah with Bennu asteroid sample
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the Guardian
‘A treasure for scientific analysis’: Nasa holds Bennu asteroid sample press conference – as it happened
The blog is now closed, but you can read the full story about the successful Osiris-Rex sample touchdown here
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Cavities were cured in 1985, and no one knows it yet
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Electrons from Earth may be forming water on the moon
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phys.org
Electrons from Earth may be forming water on the moon
A team of researchers, led by a University of Hawai'i (UH) at Mānoa planetary scientist, discovered that high energy electrons in Earth's plasma sheet are contributing to weathering processes on the ...
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PiWrite – Kindle Paperwhite to Write
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GitHub
GitHub - rberenguel/PiWrite: Use your Kindle Paperwhite as a writing device
Use your Kindle Paperwhite as a writing device. Contribute to rberenguel/PiWrite development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Ditch That Else
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Preslav Rachev
Ditch That Else
Escape the maze of nested code. Embrace simplicity with the early return approach.
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How Australians made the early internet their own
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The Conversation
30 years of the web down under: how Australians made the early internet their own
What did Australians do online in the 1990s? Shared bioinformatics data, made cyberfeminist zines, cruised the information superhighway …
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Reverse-engineering the classic MK4116 16-kilobit DRAM chip
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Reverse-engineering the classic MK4116 16-kilobit DRAM chip
Back in the late 1970s, the most popular memory chip was Mostek's MK4116, holding a whopping (for the time) 16 kilobits. It provided stor...
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Why Australia’s Housing Crisis Is a Warning for the World [video]
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Why Australia’s Housing Crisis Is a Warning for the World
It’s getting harder than ever to find a home in Australia with less than 1% of rental properties available for occupancy. That’s sending rents soaring to eye-watering levels, deepening a cost-of-living crunch.
The population growth of Greater Sydney is…
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Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom
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FBI Warned Sikhs in the U.S. After Killing of Canadian Activist
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The Intercept
FBI Warned Sikhs in the U.S. About Death Threats After Killing of Canadian Activist
The warnings have taken on a new urgency after Canada alleged that India was involved in the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
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Two photographers captured the same millisecond in time (2018)
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DPReview
How two photographers captured the same millisecond in time
After being accused of stealing one another's photo, Ron Risman and Eric Gendron, both from New England, learned that they had captured the exact same millisecond in time, from the same location, using different cameras, to create virtually identical images.
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Low Tech Crypto: Solitaire (2020)
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alicegg.tech
Alice GG • Low Tech Crypto : Solitaire
In a previous post, I talked about the One-Time Pad, as an example of cryptography that’s achievable without a computer.It’s a very simple, yet perfectly sec...
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Hookworm gave the South a bad name (2016)
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How a Worm Gave the South a Bad Name | NOVA | PBS
Today, hundreds of millions of people in dozens of nations around the world suffer from hookworm infection.
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EU CAPTCHA, an Open Source solution for all Web services
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Joinup
EU CAPTCHA under EUPL-1.2
EU CAPTCHA is a test intended to distinguish human from machine input. It prevents the use of bots/machines (e.g. for automated account creation) in the framework of services provided by EU...
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CoRF: Colorizing Radiance Fields Using Knowledge Distillation
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Choose Postgres queue technology
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Adriano Caloiaro's personal blog
Choose Postgres queue technology
Introduction Postgres queue tech is a thing of beauty, but far from mainstream. Its relative obscurity is partially attributable to the cargo cult of “scale”. The scalability cult has decreed that there are several queue technologies with greater “scalability”…
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μMon: Stupid simple monitoring (2022)
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tomscii.sig7.se
μMon: Stupid simple monitoring
Let me introduce you to μMon, mypersonal, minimalist, opinionated take on host monitoring based onRRDtool, SNMP, some lightweightshell noscripting, and a small...
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‘Mind-boggling’ sea creature identified as digenean trematode
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Science
‘Mind-boggling’ sea creature spotted off Japan has finally been identified
Tiny, flittering swimmer wasn’t a worm, a mollusk, or a crustacean. What was it?
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