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From boiling lead and black art: The history of mathematical typography (2017)
http://www.practicallyefficient.com/2017/10/13/from-boiling-lead-and-black-art.html
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EndXA
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3d ago
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3d ago
Didn't know equation-heavy text was called penalty copy. The expense moved from typesetters to whoever has to learn LaTeX.
libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months
https://blog.hartwork.org/posts/libexpat-city-of-munich-open-source-sabbatical/
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Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3807963
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tchalla
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3h ago
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Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage
https://earendil.com/posts/pi-autoresearch-and-databricks/
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luispa
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4h ago
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Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation
https://mistral.ai/news/shieldstral/
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riadsila
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10h ago
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IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay
https://mysk.blog/2026/08/04/webkit-proxy-icloud-private-relay-ip-leak/
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lapcat
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DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023)
https://techascent.com/blog/just-ducking-around.html
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sourdecor
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5h ago
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Bugtraq Is Back
https://lists.securityfocus.com/hyperkitty/list/bugtraq@securityfocus.com/thread/CHKLXLA7SJEWLDFH...
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bashtoni
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3h ago
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After Losses, Retail Investors Flock to 3x Leverage as 2x Product Are Restricted
https://www.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2026080416131786841
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mapping365
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1h ago
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Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones
https://toneyalexander.github.io/inclusive-color-space/
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automatoney
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11h ago
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I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel
https://twitter.com/gwern/status/2084739205071343837
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6h ago
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In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/08/in-memory-of-my-wife-elise-cawley-1961-2026-with-than...
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jdcampolargo
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8h ago
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Show HN: Maple-Preview – ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone
https://deepgrove.ai/maple-preview
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edwardbzhang
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7h ago
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We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars
https://seg6.space/posts/center-div/
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seg6
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4h ago
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Zigbee vs. Matter over Thread:Understanding IoT Protocol Performance in Practice
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.04221
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teleforce
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AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol
https://www.africanews.com/2026/08/04/ai-fuels-more-than-half-of-cybercrime-in-africa-as-digital-...
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bookofjoe
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5h ago
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Show HN: SIMD Viterbi Decoder in Rust
https://github.com/brian-armstrong/fec
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brian-armstrong
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4h ago
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Pass the Passkey: A Novel Attack Surface in Passwordless Authentication
https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/passwordless-authentication-security-risks/
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jchanimal
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3h ago
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Video2NAND – Abusing video codecs for great computational power
https://sharedobject.blog/posts/vp8-combinatorial-logic/
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firer
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2d ago
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Waymo in Dallas
https://waymo.com/blog/shorts/dallas-open-to-all/
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xnx
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8h ago
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Flowise Is Shutting Down
https://flowiseai.com/sunset
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llmgraph
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3h ago
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From boiling lead and black art: The history of mathematical typography (2017)
http://www.practicallyefficient.com/2017/10/13/from-boiling-lead-and-black-art.html
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EndXA
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3d ago
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FIPS 140-3 is not a security guarantee, and auditors know it
https://808bits.com/articles/fips-140-3-not-a-security-guarantee/
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meehow
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3h ago
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Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack
https://www.aikido.dev/blog/keyv-and-friends-compromised-in-npm-supply-chain-attack
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cimi_
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16h ago
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Godox Transparent Viewfinder Camera C100
https://www.godox.com/product-e/C100.html
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routeroff
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1d ago
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Cloudflare Wallets: the programmable wallet for the agentic Internet
https://blog.cloudflare.com/wallets/
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hahahaa
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5h ago
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Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring in Berlin – GTM Lead
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/truemetrics/jobs/bIQQ7tP-founding-gtm-lead
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truemetricsIngo
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10h ago
Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed
https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/dont-stop-early-case-folding-source-cod...
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sbulaev
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4d ago
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There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]
https://users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Docs/BradburyStories(1).pdf
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pmg101
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1d ago
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Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1795071/000179507126000002/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml
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depr
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6h ago
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When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16763
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doppp
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11h ago
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