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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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X (formerly Twitter)
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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Blogspot
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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Guinea worm on track to be 2nd eradicated human disease; only 10 cases in 2025
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Ars Technica
Guinea worm on track to be 2nd eradicated human disease; only 10 cases in 2025
When the eradication program began in 1986, there were a 3.5 million cases.
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A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs
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Voxtral Transcribe 2
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mistral.ai
Voxtral transcribes at the speed of sound. | Mistral AI
Precision diarization, real-time trannoscription, and a new audio playground.
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How watercolor brushes are made (2015)
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Broken Proofs and Broken Provers
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Old Insurance Maps – Georeferencing Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps on Modern Maps
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oldinsurancemaps.net
OldInsuranceMaps.net
A crowdsourcing site for creating and viewing georeferenced mosaics of historical Sanborn fire insurance maps
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Fastmail Donates USD 10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation
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Perl.com
Fastmail Donates USD 10,000 to The Perl and Raku Foundation
Fastmail stuck with Perl because Perl stuck with them. TPRF can fund community grants again because of donors like this.
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