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Self-Portrait by Ernst Mach (1886) Austrian physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach's unique self-portrait, from the perspective of his left eye.

Self-Portrait by Ernst Mach (1886) | Discussion

Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse I have never been an "online community first" person. The internet is how I stay in touch with people I met in real life. I'm not a "tweet comments at celebrities" guy. I was never funny enough to be the funniest person on Twitter. So when Twitter was accidentally purchased

Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse | Discussion

US economy sheds 92,000 jobs in February in sharp slide Figure far below expectations comes as doubts persist over labour market strength

US economy sheds 92,000 jobs in February in sharp slide | Discussion

48x32, a 1536 LED Game Computer | Discussion

TANSTAAFL Mail — No Free Lunch Email where senders pay satoshis for your attention. Spam dies when it costs money.

Show HN: Tanstaafl – Pay-to-inbox email on Bitcoin Lightning | Discussion

Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues * TorrentFreak In an ongoing lawsuit, Meta now argues that uploading pirated books to strangers via BitTorrent qualifies as fair use.

Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues | Discussion

Lock Scroll With a Vengeance – Unsung A blog about software craft and quality

Lock Scroll with a Vengeance | Discussion

Open-Sourcing Sarvam 30B and 105B | Sarvam AI

Sarvam 105B, the first competitive Indian open source LLM | Discussion

QGIS 4.0 | Discussion

Working and Communicating with Japanese Engineers Working on an international tech team comes with communication challenges that go beyond just language. Here’s some practical advice I’ve gathered in my ten years of working in Japan.

Working and Communicating with Japanese Engineers | Discussion

Modernizing swapping: virtual swap spaces The kernel's unloved but performance-critical swapping subsystem has been undergoing multiple r [...]

Modernizing swapping: virtual swap spaces | Discussion

Former leader Ardern has left New Zealand. She’s not the only one | CNN Twenty years of memories spilled across Jacinda Thorn’s yard. Teddy bears and textbooks, a jumble of whisks and frying pans catching the morning sun.

Why New Zealand is seeing an exodus of over-30s | Discussion

German police probe student poster slur (Lick my balls Merz) against Merz | Discussion

Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing Pentagon investigators believe a bombing of a girls' school in Iran on Saturday likely resulted from inaccurate information provided by AI.

AI Error May Have Contributed to Girl's School Bombing in Iran | Discussion

Helix: A post-modern text editor | Discussion

The Longing (1999) | Discussion

Editing changes in patch format with Jujutsu | Discussion

Querying 3 billion vectors Requirements are hard

Querying 3B Vectors | Discussion

Can a wealthy family change the course of a deadly brain disease? | Discussion

proposal: crypto/uuid: add API to generate and parse UUID · Issue #62026 · golang/go I would like to suggest the addition to the standard library of a package to generate and parse UUID identifiers, specifically versions 3, 4 and 5. The main reason I see to include it is that the m...

UUID package coming to Go standard library | Discussion

Show HN: 1v1 coding game that LLMs struggle with | Discussion

Maybe there’s a pattern here? Inventors and impacts

Maybe There's a Pattern Here? | Discussion

What canceled my Go context? How Go 1.20's WithCancelCause and Go 1.21's WithTimeoutCause let you attach a reason to context cancellation, plus a gotcha with manual cancel and the stdlib pattern that covers every path.

What canceled my Go context? | Discussion

Your LLM Doesn't Write Correct Code. It Writes Plausible Code. One of the simplest tests you can run on a database:

LLM Doesn't Write Correct Code. It Writes Plausible Code | Discussion

GitHub - c0m4r/kula: Lightweight, self-contained Linux® server monitoring tool Lightweight, self-contained Linux® server monitoring tool - c0m4r/kula

Show HN: Kula – Lightweight, self-contained Linux server monitoring tool | Discussion

I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has ignited a passion again | Discussion

Galileo's handwritten notes found in ancient astronomy text | Discussion

Math Notepad | Discussion

Show HN: The Roman Industrial Revolution that could have been (Vol 2) | Discussion

How C# Strings Silently Kill Your SQL Server Indexes in Dapper If you're using Dapper with anonymous objects to query varchar columns, you're probably sending nvarchar(4000) parameters — causing CONVERT_IMPLICIT on every row and defeating your indexes. Here's the fix.

C# Strings Silently Kill Your SQL Server Indexes in Dapper | Discussion