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Major AWS outage takes down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more
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The Verge
Major AWS outage took down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more
Many of the internet’s largest services rely on AWS.
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Don't Force Your LLM to Write Terse [Q/Kdb] Code: An Information Theory Argument
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Medium
Don’t Force Your LLM to Write Terse Code: An Argument from Information Theory for q/kdb+ Developers
Update [October 20, 2025]: I’ve discovered a methodological error in the perplexity measurements below. I used an Instruct-tuned model…
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Oskar Speck's 1932 Kayak Journey from Germany to Australia
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NSW Sea Kayaker
Incredible Journey [50]
Part 1 of Oskar Speck’s Epic Journey From Germany to Australia By Oskar Speck (As told to Duncan Thompson) Reprinted With Kind Permission of Australasian Post Magazine You might think that it…
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The MacBook Air 2025 Is Now Cheaper Than a Random Mid-Range Windows Laptop
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Kotaku
Apple Is Going Nuts, The MacBook Air 2025 Is Now Cheaper Than a Random Mid-Range Windows Laptop - Kotaku
An official (and new) MacBook Air has never been this cheap.
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AWS Outage: A Single Cloud Region Shouldn't Take Down the World. But It Did
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FAUN.dev()
AWS Outage: A Single Cloud Region Shouldn’t Take Down the World. But It Did.
A major AWS outage disrupted high-profile services like Amazon, Snapchat, and Disney+, affecting over 70 AWS services and causing widespread operational issues.
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Beaver-engineered dam in the Czech Republic
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AI-generated 'poverty porn' fake images being used by aid agencies
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the Guardian
AI-generated ‘poverty porn’ fake images being used by aid agencies
Exclusive: Pictures depicting the most vulnerable and poorest people are being used in social media campaigns in the sector, driven by concerns over consent and cost
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Servo v0.0.1 Released
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GitHub
GitHub - servo/servo: Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies…
Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications. - servo/servo
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Matrix Conference 2025 Highlights
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Element Blog
The Matrix Conference 2025; a seminal moment for Matrix
The Matrix Conference 2025 was a huge success, and the energy and enthusiasm was just incredible!
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Alibaba Cloud claims to reduce Nvidia GPU use by 82%
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South China Morning Post
Alibaba Cloud claims to slash Nvidia GPU use by 82% with new pooling system
The new Aegaeon system can serve dozens of large language models using a fraction of the GPUs previously required, potentially reshaping AI workloads.
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Give Your Metrics an Expiry Date
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adrianhoward.com
Give Your Metrics an Expiry Date
TL;DR: Set expiry dates for your metrics!
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BERT Is Just a Single Text Diffusion Step
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nathan.rs
BERT is just a Single Text Diffusion Step
This article appeared on Hacker News. Link to the discussion here. Additionally, Andrej Karpathy wrote his thoughts about the post, linked here.
A while back, Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini Diffusion, an experimental language model that generates text using…
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Calculating legally compliant rent late fees across U.S. states
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RentLateFee.com
RentLateFee.com - Rent Late Fee Calculator
Calculate legal rent late fees for all 50 states + DC. Verify compliance instantly with our free calculator.
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Show HN: Playwright Skill for Claude Code – Less context than playwright-MCP
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GitHub
GitHub - lackeyjb/playwright-skill: Claude Code Skill for browser automation with Playwright. Model-invoked - Claude autonomously…
Claude Code Skill for browser automation with Playwright. Model-invoked - Claude autonomously writes and executes custom automation for testing and validation. - lackeyjb/playwright-skill
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Anthropic and Cursor Spend This Much on Amazon Web Services
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Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
This Is How Much Anthropic and Cursor Spend On Amazon Web Services
So, I originally planned for this to be on my premium newsletter, but decided it was better to publish on my free one so that you could all enjoy it. If you liked it, please consider subscribing to support my work. Here’s $10 off the first year of annual.
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Commodore 64 Ultimate
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Commodore
Commodore 64 Ultimate: BASIC Beige | Commodore
[quotes-carousel] Your childhood just leveled up.The first official Commodore 64 in over 30 years is here - a faithful recreation of the original motherboard on FPGA hardware.
Play 10,000+ original games with more RAM & 48Mhz Turbo mode!
Plug in dusty old…
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How to stop Linux threads cleanly
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mazzo.li
How to stop Linux threads cleanly
Stopping a Linux thread is a surprisingly annoying affair. In this post I present common pitfalls and some solutions -- although no truly satisfactory method exists.
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How to Enter a City Like a King
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Substack
How to Enter a City Like a King
Spectacle, negotiations, and the "Joyous Entry"
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Production RAG: what I learned from processing 5M+ documents
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blog.abdellatif.io
Production RAG: what I learned from processing 5M+ documents
Lessons learned from building RAG systems for Usul AI and enterprise clients, processing over 13 million pages.
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LoC is a dumb metric for functions
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Axol's Blog
LoC Is a Dumb Metric for Functions
What’s the quickest giveaway that someone’s an amateur developer? When they tell you to break out a function into smaller functions, and the first reason they cite is “it’s …
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The Peach meme: On CRTs, pixels and signal quality (again)
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