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Donald Knuth’s Christmas Lecture (2022) [video] (www.youtube.com)
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GitHub Statistics (ossinsight.io)
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Rotary Keyboard (squidgeefish.com)
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Meson Build System 1.0 (mesonbuild.com)
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BBC Subtitle Guidelines (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Haiku R1/beta4 (www.haiku-os.org)
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WLED Project (kno.wled.ge)
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Common Lisp – Myths and Legends (2002) (www.lispworks.com)
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Pico8 Music Synthesizer (johanpeitz.itch.io)
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FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried to be released on $250M bail (www.cnbc.com)
ByteDance confirmed it used TikTok to monitor journalists’ physical location (www.forbes.com)
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Palantir’s SPAC bets backfire (www.wsj.com)
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Philadelphia Phreakers installing free payphone (www.nbcphiladelphia.com)
Scientists created male and female cells from a single person (www.scientificamerican.com)
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Pfizer Penalties Since 2000: $10B (violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org)
‘My power’s low’: NASA’s Insight Mars lander prepares to sign off (www.theguardian.com)
Dolphin Progress September, October, and November 2022 (dolphin-emu.org)
Stable Diffusion on AMD RDNA3 (nod.ai)
Binance caught commingling funds between US and international exchanges (dirtybubblemedia.substack.com)
Apple launches Freeform: a powerful new app designed for creative collaboration (www.apple.com)
I still use Flash (foon.uk)
Wells Fargo Penalties Since 2000: $22B (violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org)
WebAssembly: Docker Without Containers (wasmlabs.dev)
Gitlab Web IDE Beta, Powered by Visual Studio Code (docs.gitlab.com)
D2 language, open source alternative to PlantUML (d2lang.com)
ThreeUK Is Blocking Tutanota (tutanota.com)
Bach’s Accidental Masterpiece (www.newstatesman.com)
Okta says its GitHub account hacked, source code stolen (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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Stable Diffusion 2 Depth Guided model: architecture photos from dollhouse (twitter.com)
3M to end 'forever chemicals' output (www.reuters.com)
Deep work. Essentialism in asynchronous culture (jorzel.github.io)
The recent Bank of Japan meeting and its implications for markets (themacrocompass.substack.com)
Is forced treatment for the mentally ill ever humane? (www.economist.com)
The cost of being poor: Why it costs so much to be poor in America (finmasters.com)
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More than 100 new designs discovered in Peru’s ancient Nazca plain (www.theguardian.com)
Signed distance functions in 46 lines of Python (vgel.me)
AI's Jurassic Park Moment (cacm.acm.org)
The Fermi paradox revisited: Technosignatures and the contact era (arxiv.org)
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Mozilla to explore healthy social media alternative (blog.mozilla.org)
The APL Source Code (2012) (computerhistory.org)
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Ruby delights built into the language (technology.doximity.com)
Password generator doesn't generate new password in the same session (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are open to all (web.law.duke.edu)
MariaDB plunges nearly 40% in NYSE debut after SPAC merger (www.bizjournals.com)
Point-E: Point cloud diffusion for 3D model synthesis (github.com)
Skilled tech workers snapped up despite downturn (www.bbc.com)
Host a website from a living room in 2022? (news.ycombinator.com)
Wells Fargo to pay $3.7B for mistreating customers (finance.yahoo.com)
A collection of Soviet control rooms (blog.presentandcorrect.com)
Death by AI (deathbyai.com)
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Wild mammals are making a comeback in Europe (ourworldindata.org)
OneCoin co-founder pleads guilty to $4B fraud (www.theregister.com)
Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition) (news.ycombinator.com)
WordPress to support SQLite back end (make.wordpress.org)
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Facial Recognition Tech Gets Woman Booted from Rockettes Show Due to Employer (www.nbcnewyork.com)
NY Governor stalls right-to-repair bill; has until Dec 28 to avoid “pocket veto” (arstechnica.com)
An Overview Of Upcoming Ruby on Rails 7.1 Features Part 1 (manny.codes)
What Happened to Pinboard (Dec '22 edition)? (news.ycombinator.com)
Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas (obsidian.md)
UK bank fined £49M over IT system meltdown (www.bbc.com)
The Topologist’s World Map (2020) (tafc.space)
Tencent WeChat is now a GitHub secret scanning partner (github.blog)
MelonJS – a fresh and lightweight JavaScript game engine (github.com)
Apple Is Struggling to Build Mac Pro Based on Its Own Silicon (www.tomshardware.com)
Amiga Forever (www.amigaforever.com)
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The Knights Templar started London's first bank (2017) (www.bbc.com)
Boring Python: Code quality (www.b-list.org)
How to draw ugly lines fast (cohost.org)
Towards a More Open Secure Element Chip (www.bunniestudios.com)
Fast memcpy, a system design (www.sigarch.org)
“Laws” of software estimation for complex work (2021) (mdalmijn.com)
Valve is paying open source developers to keep Steam Deck playable (www.pcgamer.com)
Hydrogel interfaces for merging humans and machines (www.nature.com)
Astronomical Calculations for Hard SF in Common Lisp (borretti.me)
The Windows Subsystem for Android now runs Android 13 in beta (github.com)
Amazon Ring cameras used in nationwide ‘swatting’ spree, US Justice Dept. says (www.bloomberg.com)
What happened to the first cryogenically frozen humans? (bigthink.com)
AI breakthrough ChatGPT raises alarm over student cheating (www.ft.com)
zstd (github.com)
How did Roomba-recorded photos end up on Facebook? (www.technologyreview.com)
What is the cheapest, easiest way to host a cronjob in 2022? (news.ycombinator.com)
Twitter archiver: Make your own simple, public, searchable Twitter archive (github.com)
GCC now includes Modula-2 and Rust. Do they work on OpenBSD? (briancallahan.net)
Special Relativity and Middle-Earth (terrytao.wordpress.com)
Tandem solar cell achieves 32.5 percent efficiency (www.helmholtz-berlin.de)
Video codec in 100 lines of Rust (blog.tempus-ex.com)
Spotifyd (github.com)
Google Maps location data is used for GeoIP updates (news.ycombinator.com)
Infisical – open-source secrets manager (github.com)
‘Perpetual broths’ that simmer for decades (www.atlasobscura.com)
A few new things in Emacs 29 (mbork.pl)
Power company money flows to news sites that attack their critics (www.npr.org)
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Cook whole grains like popcorn (2018) (www.treehugger.com)
Server stats say movetodon.org reached a new record of 49k users yesterday (mastodon.social)
Uber has blocked my account for years, won't tell me why (news.ycombinator.com)
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Structuring Clojure Applications (yogthos.net)
EABitTricks.h (github.com)
Did Insurance Fire Brigades let uninsured buildings burn? (www.tomscott.com)
Epic Games to pay $520M to resolve FTC allegations (www.wsj.com)
Who Is Rep.-Elect George Santos? His Résumé May Be Largely Fiction (www.nytimes.com)
Discovery identifies Australia as birthplace of all modern mammals (www.australiangeographic.com.au)
Digitally sign PDF files from your commandline – open-pdf-sign (github.com)
The keyboard controller (computer.rip)
Apple Music deletes your original songs and replaces them with DRM'd versions (old.reddit.com)
Ice not recommended for soft tissue injury treatment (2019) (blogs.bmj.com)
How many computers are in your computer? (2021) (www.gwern.net)
NIH can’t deny former research chimps sanctuary retirement, federal judge rules (www.science.org)
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NumPy 1.24 (github.com)
Wing: A cloud-oriented programming language (www.winglang.io)
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Twitter policy page forbidding links to other social media removed (news.ycombinator.com)
Nuclear physicist explains why fusion ignition is hailed as a major breakthrough (theconversation.com)
Reinventing backend subsetting at Google (queue.acm.org)
A math problem generator (github.com)
Anthropology in Ruins (www.mindingthecampus.org)
P-22 has been euthanized (www.bbc.com)
Enhance Speech from Adobe – Free AI filter for cleaning up spoken audio (podcast.adobe.com)
Pollution cleanup method destroys toxic “forever chemicals” (news.ucr.edu)
TV disappears, but HBO Max removing shows feels different (www.vulture.com)
Devpod: Remote development environment at Uber (www.uber.com)
Productivity Blocker (www.productivityblocker.com)
GNU/Linux shell related internals (biriukov.dev)
Richard Feynman on looking at the world from another point of view (1973) (cassandradispatch.org)
Why doesn’t Windows use 64-bit virtual address space below 0x00000000`7ffe0000? (devblogs.microsoft.com)