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Rivers
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Futility Closet
Rivers - Futility Closet
Occasionally, by coincidence, the gaps between words on a page of printed text will become aligned, producing “rivers” of white space that descend across multiple lines. These occur most commonly when the font is monospaced and justification is full. Because…
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About Asteroids, Atari's biggest arcade hit
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About Asteroids, Atari's biggest arcade hit
After the breakout success of Space Invaders in 1978, Atari was no longer the hot game maker.
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is-even-ai – Check if a number is even using the power of AI
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Kilo: A text editor in less than 1000 LOC with syntax highlight and search
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GitHub
GitHub - antirez/kilo: A text editor in less than 1000 LOC with syntax highlight and search.
A text editor in less than 1000 LOC with syntax highlight and search. - antirez/kilo
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DDoSecrets publishes 410 GB of heap dumps, hacked from TeleMessage
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micahflee
DDoSecrets publishes 410 GB of heap dumps, hacked from TeleMessage's archive server
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Update May 21, 2025: I've written a new detailed analysis of the heap dump dataset itself: TeleMessage customers include DC Police, Andreessen Horowitz, JP Morgan, and hundreds more
Update May 26, 2025: I've published the source code for TeleMessage Explorer:…
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WireGuard vanity keygen
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GitHub
GitHub - axllent/wireguard-vanity-keygen: WireGuard vanity key generator
WireGuard vanity key generator. Contribute to axllent/wireguard-vanity-keygen development by creating an account on GitHub.
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A shower thought turned into a Collatz visualization
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What are people doing? Live-ish estimates based on global population dynamics
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Terraform MCP Server
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GitHub
GitHub - hashicorp/terraform-mcp-server: The Terraform MCP Server provides seamless integration with Terraform ecosystem, enabling…
The Terraform MCP Server provides seamless integration with Terraform ecosystem, enabling advanced automation and interaction capabilities for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) development. - hashicorp/...
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I got fooled by AI-for-science hype–here's what it taught me
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www.understandingai.org
I got fooled by AI-for-science hype—here's what it taught me
I used AI in my plasma physics research and it didn’t go the way I expected.
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Ask HN: When will managers be replaced by AI?
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Making Video Games (Without an Engine) in 2025
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noelberry.ca
Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)
Thoughts, tools, and libraries I use to make games
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Show HN: A free, privacy preserving, archive of public Discord servers
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A man who visited every country in the world without boarding a plane (2023)
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the Guardian
Take the high road: the man who visited every country in the world – without boarding a plane
At 34, Torbjørn Pedersen embarked on a seemingly impossible journey that would take 10 years – and involve cerebral malaria and being held up at gunpoint. He reflects on the highs, the lows and the joy of getting married en route
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Finland announces migration of its rail network to international gauge
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Trenvista
Finland announces migration of its rail network to international gauge
The Finnish government announces the migration of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to international gauge (1,435 mm) from 2032. The change aims to improve military mobility and regional security.
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Patience too cheap to meter
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Seangoedecke
For many, patience is the killer LLM feature
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, famously said that his goal was to make intelligence “too cheap to meter”. Right now, buoyed by venture capital, we’re living in that…
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The truth behind the accuracy of weather forecasts
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www.abc.net.au
How many days ahead can the weather be accurately predicted?
Increasingly complex technology means forecasts are significantly better than they were decades ago — here's why.
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Using elliptic curves to solve a math meme
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The Behavior of LLMs in Hiring Decisions: Systemic Biases in Candidate Selection
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Substack
The Strange Behavior of LLMs in Hiring Decisions: Systemic Gender and Positional Biases in Candidate Selection
Hints of discrimination and lack of principled reasoning in frontier AI systems
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UK study: Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet
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the Guardian
Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet, UK study finds
Half of 16- to 21-year-olds support ‘digital curfew’ and nearly 70% feel worse after using social media
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