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Banned Books: Analysis of Censorship on
Amazon.com
(2024)
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The Citizen Lab
Banned Books
We analyze the system Amazon deploys on the US “amazon.com” storefront to restrict shipments of certain products to specific regions. We found 17,050 products that Amazon restricted from being shipped to at least one world region. - While many of the shipping…
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Philosophy of Coroutines (2023)
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Apple Needs a Snow Sequoia
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Apple Needs a Snow Sequoia
The same year Apple launched the iPhone, it unveiled a massive upgrade to Mac OS X known as Leopard, sporting “300 New Features.” Two years later, it did something almost unheard of: it released Snow The same year Apple launched the iPhone, it unveiled a…
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Learning Theory from First Principles [pdf]
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Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi
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Kagi
Kagi Search
Better search results with no ads. Welcome to Kagi (pronounced kah-gee), a paid search engine that gives power back to the user.
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Clean, a formal verification DSL for ZK circuits in Lean4
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ZK/SEC Quarterly
Introducing clean, a formal verification DSL for ZK circuits in Lean4
We're diving into our new project called **clean**, aimed at creating an embedded DSL and formal verification framework for Zero Knowledge (ZK) circuits using Lean4. Imagine being able to not only define ZK circuits but also formally prove their correctness—sounds…
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Asking Good Questions Is Harder Than Giving Great Answers
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newsletter.dancohen.org
Asking Good Questions Is Harder Than Giving Great Answers
The tests we are using to assess the intelligence of AI are missing an essential aspect of human inquiry — the query itself
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University of Toronto Snags Yale Professors as Canada Raids American Brain Trust
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Substack
Canada’s Quiet Coup: U of T Snags Yale Professors as We Start Raiding America’s Brain Trust
If we do this right, America won’t be our neighbour—it’ll be our talent farm.
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A note on the USB-to-PS/2 mouse adapter that came with Microsoft mouse devices
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Microsoft News
A note on the USB-to-PS/2 mouse adapter that came with Microsoft mouse devices
It's a purely mechanical adapter that relies on smarts in the mouse itself.
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Things I would have told myself before building an autorouter
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Autorouting
13 things I would have told myself before building an autorouter
Important lessons from trying to build the world's fastest autorouter for about a year
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Executive order on Smithsonian targets funding programs with 'improper ideology'
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AP News
Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding for programs with 'improper ideology'
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order on the Smithsonian Institution that targets funding to programs that contain what he calls “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology.”
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Emacs Solo: A Surprise System Crafters Live Demo
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Emacs Solo: A Surprise System Crafters Live Demo | Rahul's Blog
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Arctic sea ice sets a record low maximum in 2025
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nsidc.org
Arctic sea ice sets a record low maximum in 2025 | National Snow and Ice Data Center
Arctic sea ice extent appears to have reached its annual maximum on March 22, 2025.
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A decompilation and port of Sonic Advance 2-a GameBoy Advance game written in C
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GitHub
GitHub - SAT-R/sa2: A decompilation and port of Sonic Advance 2 - a GameBoy Advance game written in C
A decompilation and port of Sonic Advance 2 - a GameBoy Advance game written in C - SAT-R/sa2
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LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subnoscription costs
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Computerworld
LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subnoscription costs
The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week.
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Using uv and PEP 723 for Self-Contained Python Scripts
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Thisdavej
Share Python Scripts Like a Pro: uv and PEP 723 for Easy Deployment
We all love Python’s comprehensive standard library, but let’s face it – PyPI’s wealth of packages often becomes essential. Sharing single-file, self-contained Python noscripts that rely on these external tools can be a headache. Historically, we’ve relied…
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Golang on the Playstation 2
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Ricardo
Golang on the PlayStation 2 (part 1)
The PS2 is more than capable of doing some wild things, including running Linux. I always wondered if we could just write baremetal Go code on it, so I decided to give it a try.
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Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada
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Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada
Jason Stanley, who says grandmother fled Berlin with his father in 1939, says US may become ‘fascist dictatorship’
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The Unbearable Loudness of Chewing
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Asteriskmag
The Unbearable Loudness of Chewing—Asterisk
Why do some people find certain sounds intolerable? And why has it taken so long for scientists to get even a preliminary answer?
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Giant, fungus-like organism may be a completely unknown branch of life
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Live Science
Scientists baffled at mysterious ancient creature that doesn't fit on the tree of life as we know it
An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown branch of life, researchers say.
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Signal Chat Leak Angers U.S. Military Pilots
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NY Times
Signal Chat Leak Angers U.S. Military Pilots
Men and women who have taken to the air on behalf of the United States expressed bewilderment after the leak of attack plans. “You’re going to kill somebody,” one pilot said.
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