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A cryptography research body held an election and they can't decrypt the results
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NY Times
Cryptographers Held an Election. They Can’t Decrypt the Results.
A global group of researchers was unable to read the vote tally, after an official lost one of three secret code keys needed to unlock a hyper-secure election system.
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Gwern's "Stem Humor" Directory
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gwern.net
‘STEM humor’ directory
Bibliography for directory <code>math/humor</code>, most recent first: 4 <a class='icon-not' href='/doc/math/humor/index#see-alsos'>related tags</a>, 194 <a class='icon-not' href='/doc/math/humor/index#links'>annotations</a>, & 66 <a class='icon-not' hre…
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Google Revisits JPEG XL in Chromium After Earlier Removal
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Windows Report
Google Revisits JPEG XL in Chromium After Earlier Removal
Google has resumed work on JPEG XL support in Chromium after removing it three years ago. A developer says the current version is feature complete and under review.
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After my dad died, we found the love letters
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Jenneral HQ
after my dad died, we found the love letters
a few days after , we found the love letters, hidden away among his things. one of them said,
my parents were not a love match. at 27 and 26, they were e...
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Show HN: A tool to safely migrate GitHub Actions workflows to Ubuntu-slim runner
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GitHub
GitHub - fchimpan/gh-slimify:
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Automatically detect and migrate GitHub Actions workflows to `ubuntu-slim` for cost-efficient CI
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Automatically detect and migrate GitHub Actions workflows to `ubuntu-slim` for cost-efficient CI - fchimpan/gh-slimify
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MCP Apps just dropped (OpenAI and Anthropic collab) and I think this is huge
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Model Context Protocol Blog
MCP Apps: Extending servers with interactive user interfaces
Today we’re introducing the proposal for the MCP Apps Extension (SEP-1865) to standardize support for interactive user interfaces in the Model Context Protocol.
This extension addresses one of the most requested features from the MCP community and builds…
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Signal knows who you're talking to
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Show HN: I built a wizard to turn ideas into AI coding agent-ready specs
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vibescaffold.dev
Vibe Scaffold - Turn Ideas into Crystal Clear Specs
AI-powered wizard for generating comprehensive technical specs and development plans.
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Almost all Collatz orbits attain almost bounded values
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mathvideos.org
Terence Tao: Almost all Collatz orbits attain almost bounded values – MathVideos.org
Define the Collatz map Col on the natural numbers by setting Col(n) to equal 3n+1 when n is odd and n/2 when n is even. The notorious Collatz conjecture asserts that all orbits of this map eventually attain the value 1. This remains open, even if one is willing…
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Silicon Valley startups: being evil, again and again
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Notes From Below
Silicon Valley startups: being evil, again and again
by Ian Wright // Silicon Valley's startup culture believes it's changing the world for the better. But in reality its culture is deeply unethical since it institutionalises theft on a global scale.
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Shaders: How to draw high fidelity graphics with just x and y coordinates
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Racket v9.0
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Racket v9.0
_posted by Stephen De Gabrielle and John Clements_ We are pleased to announce Racket v9.0 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org/. **Racket 9.0 is here!** A major release is always exciting and Racket 9.0 is no exception in that it intr...
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Demand for UK Food Bank Up 15% Year on Year
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Budget 2025: how inflation and the two-child benefit cap have increased poverty
A visit to Kent reveals more people struggling with rising food bills and turning to food banks already suffering higher demand and fewer donations
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The 1957 “Spaghetti-Grows-on-Trees” Hoax
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Open Culture
The 1957 “Spaghetti-Grows-on-Trees” Hoax: One of TV’s First April Fools’ Day Pranks
In 1957, the BBC program Panorama aired one of the first televised April Fools’ Day hoaxes. Above, you can watch a faux news report from Switzerland narrated by respected BBC journalist Richard Dimbleby. Here's the basic premise:
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Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand
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Ars Technica
Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand
Google's AI infrastructure chief tells staff it needs thousandfold capacity increase in 5 years.
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Court filings allege Meta downplayed risks to children and misled the public
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Court Filings Allege Meta Downplayed Risks to Children and Misled the Public
Court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.
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Parallel Threads in Racket v9.0
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blog.racket-lang.org
Parallel Threads in Racket v9.0
posted by Matthew Flatt, Ryan Culpepper, Robby Findler, Gustavo Massaccesi, and Sam Tobin-Hochstadt With the version 9.0 release, Racket includes support for shared-memory threads that can take advantage of multicore hardware and operating-systems thread...
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UK minister ducks cost questions on nationwide digital ID scheme
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The Register
UK minister ducks cost questions on nationwide digital ID scheme
: Committee hears departments may have to stump up cash before savings materialize
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73% of AI startups are just prompt engineering
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Medium
I Reverse-Engineered 200 AI Startups. 146 Are Selling You Repackaged ChatGPT and Claude with New UI.
Three weeks of network monitoring revealed the truth: 73% of funded AI startups are running $33M valuations on $1,200/month in OpenAI…
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Dark Mode Sucks
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Calculus for Mathematicians, Computer Scientists, and Physicists [pdf]
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