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Queen Caroline turned King Arthur into an 18C royal PR strategy

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Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence

Score: 246 | Comments: 148

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MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID

Score: 769 | Comments: 377

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Valor, Point72 back General Intuition at $6B valuation as AI startup pushes into robotics

General Intuition, the startup building a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents how to move through space and time, is in talks to raise at a $6 billion pre-money valuation from new inves

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Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded

Score: 921 | Comments: 659

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OpenAI is building AI agents for everything. Will everyone use them?

Inside the frontier lab’s push to bring AI agents from software engineers to the masses.

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Walgit – a Git server that is one binary in front of an object store

Score: 120 | Comments: 39

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Peppermint oil reduces blood pressure by 8.48 mmHg in small study

Score: 187 | Comments: 90

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Show HN: Galaxium, an experimental WebGPU space explorer

Score: 18 | Comments: 10

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Crafting QR Codes: A deep dive into QR code art (2024)

Score: 105 | Comments: 11

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Experiments with Plotter Art

Score: 74 | Comments: 5

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api-diff v0.2.0 — 158 downloads in 3 days, now with array validation and onDrift callback

v0.2.0 of @nakshatra6350/api-diff is live 🚀 158+ downloads in 3 days since launch. Two new features shipped today: → Array item validation with exact index in error path → onDrift callback — pipe dr

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Your Data Structure Is Too Flexible

Python makes it easy to pass data around as dicts, nested JSON blobs, and “whatever the client sent”. That flexibility is useful when you own the shape. It gets expensive when the data crosses a trus

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Why I Couldn't Access My Own Site (But My Phone Could): A Cloudways Auto-Ban Story

I sat down to work on Rev6 and couldn't load the site. Not a slow load, not an SSL warning — nothing. The browser just spun until it gave up. My first assumption was the usual suspect: the server was

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On Knowing When to Leave

The manager called me in. I already knew. I'd known for weeks, in the way you know something before you're willing to say it out loud. The conversation was ten minutes. The decision had already been m

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What's new in Emacs 31.1

Score: 214 | Comments: 46

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How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs

Score: 1478 | Comments: 927

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I Kept Feeling Like I Was Wasting My Time — While Designing a Cross-Model Controlled Experiment

I pulled 1,427 of my own prompts from six weeks with AI. I meant to see "how did my way of asking change." The sharpest thing wasn't the capability curve — it was that the curve and how I saw myself

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Manually Proving and Documenting an IDOR (CWE-639) — A Full Walkthrough

Most IDOR write-ups stop at "change the ID in the URL and you get someone else's data." That's the easy part. The part that actually matters — proving it rigorously, ruling out the boring explanation,

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RAG vs. Fine-Tuning: The AI Engineer's Decision Framework

The Senior Engineer’s Decision Framework: RAG vs. Fine-Tuning For many engineering teams, the journey into Large Language Models (LLMs) often begins with a false sense of progression. We tr

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