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The largest zip tie is nearly 4 feet long and $75
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The Drive
You'll Have That on Those Big Jobs: The World's Largest Zip Tie Is Nearly 4 Feet Long and $75
For when your work is both improvised and super-sized.
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Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany
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Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany - Online petition
Open-Source-Software builds the foundations of digital infrastructure in big parts - in administration, economy, science and daily life. Even the current coalition agreement of the Federal Government mentions Open-Source-Software as a fundamental building…
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GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2-Codex are now 40% faster
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OpenAI Developers (@OpenAIDevs) on X
GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2-Codex are now 40% faster.
We have optimized our inference stack for all API customers.
Same model. Same weights. Lower latency.
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Flying Around the World in under 80 Days
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pinchito.es
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Flying Around the World in under
80 Days — Avis LXXX: an Autonomous Airship Drone
A project to circumnavigate
the globe using an autonomous airship. Design, trajectory and budget for
maximum air endurance. Feasibility study, thought experiment and
daydreaming all in one.
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Ultra-processed foods should be treated more like cigarettes than food – study
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the Guardian
Ultra-processed foods should be treated more like cigarettes than food – study
UPFs are made to encourage addiction and consumption and should be regulated like tobacco, say researchers
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Why poor countries stopped catching up
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davidoks.blog
Why poor countries stopped catching up
The rise and fall of the Great Convergence
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Show HN: Ghidra MCP Server – 110 tools for AI-assisted reverse engineering
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GitHub
GitHub - bethington/ghidra-mcp: Production-grade Ghidra MCP Server — 132 endpoints, cross-binary documentation transfer, batch…
Production-grade Ghidra MCP Server — 132 endpoints, cross-binary documentation transfer, batch analysis, headless mode, and Docker deployment for AI-powered reverse engineering - bethington/ghidra-mcp
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The full history of Windows widgets, from 1997 to today
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XAKPC Dev Labs
Microsoft Has Killed Widgets Six Times. Here's Why They Keep Coming Back.
30 years of Windows widgets - from Active Desktop to the Widget Board. Six implementations, six deaths, and the scar tissue that shapes the platform you'd build on today.
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Tadpole – A modular and extensible DSL built for web scraping
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Goblins: Distributed, Transactional Programming with Racket and Guile
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Reimplementing Tor from Scratch for a Single-Hop Proxy
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Foxmoss
Reimplementing Tor From Scratch For A Single-Hop Proxy
Creative problem solving is following a single very stupid line of brute force logic.
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"time to GPT-2", down to 2.91 hours
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Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) on X
Enabled fp8 training for +4.3% improvement to "time to GPT-2", down to 2.91 hours now. Also worth noting that if you use 8XH100 spot instance prices, this GPT-2 repro really only costs ~$20. So this is exciting -
GPT-2 (7 years ago): too dangerous to release.…
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Sparse File LRU Cache
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Sparse File LRU Cache
An interesting file system feature that I came across a few years ago is sparse files . In short, many file systems allow you to create a lo...
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High-Altitude Adventure with a DIY Pico Balloon
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IEEE Spectrum
Explore the Stratosphere With a DIY Pico balloon
A $4 Raspberry Pi Pico can help you track a DIY balloon around the world.
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The Mathematics of Tuning Systems
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FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled
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404 Media
FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled
Lockdown Mode is a sometimes overlooked feature of Apple devices that broadly make them harder to hack. A court record indicates the feature might be effective at stopping third parties unlocking someone's device. At least for now.
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A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw
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brandon.wang
A sane but extremely bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw | Brandon Wang
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Brazilian Micro-SaaS Map
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saas-map.ssr.trapiche.cloud
Mapa de SaaS do Brasil | Trapiche
Mapa interativo de SaaS brasileiros por estado e cidade
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Cannabis usage in older adults linked to larger brain, better cognitive function
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Medicalxpress
Q&A: Cannabis usage in middle-aged, older adults linked to larger brain volume, better cognitive function
Research studying the effects of cannabis on the brain has often focused on adolescents, but a new study from CU Anschutz researchers looks at population-level impacts of cannabis usage on the brain in ...
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Exploring Different Keyboard Sensing Technologies
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LTT Labs
Welcome to LTT Labs - your go-to destination for all things tech. Explore comprehensive test results, insightful commentary, and the latest analysis in hardware.
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Attention at Constant Cost per Token via Symmetry-Aware Taylor Approximation
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arXiv.org
Self-Attention at Constant Cost per Token via Symmetry-Aware...
The most widely used artificial intelligence (AI) models today are Transformers employing self-attention. In its standard form, self-attention incurs costs that increase with context length,...
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