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Show HN: I built a fast RSS reader in Zig
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GitHub - superstarryeyes/hys: Terminal RSS Reader for Digital Minimalists in Zig — Tool for Escaping the Doomscroll
Terminal RSS Reader for Digital Minimalists in Zig — Tool for Escaping the Doomscroll - superstarryeyes/hys
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What is an elliptic curve? (2019)
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John D. Cook | Applied Mathematics Consulting
What is an elliptic curve? Informal and formal definition
The informal definition of an elliptic curve is simple. The formal definition is more involved.
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Explaining the Widening Divides in US Midlife Mortality: Is There a Smoking Gun?
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Explaining the Widening Divides in US Midlife Mortality: Is There a Smoking Gun?
The education-mortality gradient has increased sharply in the last three decades, with the life-expectancy gap between people with and without a college degree widening from 2.6 years in 1992 to 6.3 years in 2019 (Case and Deaton 2023). During the same period…
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Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Lesson 1
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The Number That Turned Sideways
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More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review, often against guidance
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Nature
More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance
Nature - A survey of 1,600 academics found that more than 50% have used artificial-intelligence tools while peer reviewing manunoscripts.
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Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles for you
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Ars Technica
Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles for you
Preview: Order of the Sinking Star started small but became a “combinatoric explosion.”…
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How getting richer made teenagers less free
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Theargumentmag
How getting richer made teenagers less free
We value children more than ever. But we're suffocating them.
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GitHub Actions for Self-Hosted Runners Price Increase Postponed
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GitHub Actions for Self-Hosted Runners Price Increase Postponed - PriceTimeline
GitHub update on the postponement of the price increase for GitHub Actions for self-hosted runners to $0.002 per minute. Below is a screenshot of the update shared on X (@github).
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Fast SEQUENCE iteration in Common Lisp
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After Ruining a Treasured Water Resource, Iran Is Drying Up
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Yale Environment 360
After Ruining a Treasured Water Resource, Iran Is Drying Up
Iran is looking to relocate the nation’s capital because of severe water shortages that make Tehran unsustainable. Experts say the crisis was caused by years of ill-conceived dam projects and overpumping that destroyed a centuries-old system for tapping underground…
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Don MacKinnon: Why Simplicity Beats Cleverness in Software Design [audio]
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Maintainable Software Podcast
Don MacKinnon: Why Simplicity Beats Cleverness in Software Design
In this conversation, Robby speaks with Don MacKinnon, Lead Architect and Engineering Manager at Searchcraft, about reducing unnecessary complexity, choosing the right abstractions, and designing software for the long haul.
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RCE via ND6 Router Advertisements in FreeBSD
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Creating apps like Signal could be 'hostile activity' claims UK watchdog
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TechRadar
Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog
An independent review of the newly implemented National Security Act suggests that developers of encrypted messaging apps may be considered hostile actors. This, as lawmakers' pressure against encryption keeps growing.
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Slowness Is a Virtue
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Jakobschwichtenberg
Slowness is a Virtue
... at least when you're doing research, not development
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It's all about momentum
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combo.cc
It's all about momentum, innit? · Stephane Travostino
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A school locked down after AI flagged a gun. It was a clarinet
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The Washington Post
A school locked down after AI flagged a gun. It was a clarinet.
A growing number of schools across the country use AI-powered surveillance to detect guns and contraband, all in the name of making schools safer.
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Classical statues were not painted horribly
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worksinprogress.co
Were classical statues painted horribly? - Works in Progress Magazine
Many claim that modern viewers dislike painted reconstructions of Greek and Roman statues because our taste differs from theirs.
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Most parked domains now serving malicious content
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Krebs on Security
Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content
Direct navigation -- the act of visiting a website by manually typing a domain name in a web browser -- has never been riskier: A new study finds the vast majority of "parked" domains -- mostly expired or dormant domain…
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Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem?
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Daring Fireball
Are Apple Gift Cards Safe to Redeem?
Link to: https://tidbits.com/2025/12/17/compromised-apple-gift-card-leads-to-apple-account-lockout/
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My payment agent is named George, not stripe-agent
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blog.kestrelsnest.social
Why My Payment Agent Is Named George, Not stripe-agent
I name my AI sub-agents after people who inspire me—not whimsy, but a practice for remembering who the work is actually for.
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