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by @a1exam · last added 2026-08-12 · 34 items

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* First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star

* I Owe My Life to the Commodore 64

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* My car's OTA update broke Android Auto, and it's a indictment of modern software

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* Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters

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* EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams

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* How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s

* Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches

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* pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution

* Apple to Raise Prices Due to Memory Chip Crunch

* Lies, Damn Lies and Database Benchmarks

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* Reading the internals of Postgres: Database cluster, databases, and tables

* I ported Kubernetes to the browser

* Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless

* Apple Neural Engine: Architecture, Programming, and Performance

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* Swift Package Index joins Apple

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* Humans 40k yrs ago developed a system of conventional signs

* MCP server that reduces Claude Code context consumption by 98%

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* AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder

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* If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?

* /e/OS is a complete, fully 'deGoogled' mobile ecosystem

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* Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift

* I made an open-source laptop from scratch

* Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads

* Bose open-sources SoundTouch API

* Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade

* Physicists drive antihydrogen breakthrough at CERN

* New antibiotic that kills drug-resistant bacteria found in technician's garden

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* Universe expected to decay in 10⁷⁸ years, much sooner than previously thought

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* Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster

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* The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe

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* How to Read a Novel

* Modeling open-world cognition as on-demand synthesis of probabilistic models

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* A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers

* The story behind Caesar salad