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Sutskever and LeCun: Scaling LLMs Won''t Yield More Useful Results (www.abzglobal.net)
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Alan.app – Add a Border to macOS Active Window (tyler.io)
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Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch (thoughtbot.com)
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Lambda Calculus – Animated Beta Reduction of Lambda Diagrams (cruzgodar.com)
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Japan''s gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub (www.bbc.com)
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Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts (www.ft.com)
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New magnetic component discovered in the Faraday effect after nearly 2 centuries (phys.org)
ISPs more likely to throttle netizens who connect through CG-NAT: Cloudflare (www.theregister.com)
X''s new country-of-origin feature reveals many ''US'' accounts to be foreign-run (www.hindustantimes.com)
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Liva AI (YC S25) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
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Halfbakery: Purely functional programming with heat output (www.halfbakery.com)
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Gitlogue – A terminal tool that replays your Git commits with animation (github.com)
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Thiel, Karp, Ellison, Catz, Bezos, Lessin appear in newly leaked Israel emails (sfstandard.com)
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Forever Object: The Staple-Less Oceanus Brass Stapler (www.core77.com)
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Darts, Dice, and Coins: Sampling from a Discrete Distribution (2011) (www.keithschwarz.com)
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Native Secure Enclave backed SSH keys on macOS (gist.github.com)
SVG.js v3.2 (svgjs.dev)
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Raycast for Windows Is Here (www.raycast.com)
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Spectral rendering, part 2: Real-time rendering (momentsingraphics.de)
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Asymptotically optimal approximate Hadamard matrices (arxiv.org)
UK minister ducks cost questions on nationwide digital ID scheme (www.theregister.com)
Racket v9.0 (blog.racket-lang.org)
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Silicon Valley startups: being evil, again and again (notesfrombelow.org)
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Claude Code Is Down (status.claude.com)
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