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Musk-Linked Engineer Gains Full Control Over US Payment Systems: Treasury Officials in Panic

2025-02-04
Musk-Linked Engineer Gains Full Control Over US Payment Systems: Treasury Officials in Panic

A 25-year-old engineer with ties to Elon Musk has been granted full read-and-write access to the US Treasury Department's payment systems, sparking alarm among insiders. This access encompasses nearly all government payments, including Social Security and tax refunds, raising concerns about potential for irreversible changes or security breaches. Sources express worry about data leaks to Musk allies within the General Services Administration (GSA) and a lack of reporting channels. The incident highlights critical vulnerabilities in government IT systems and potential threats to crucial infrastructure.

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(www.rawstory.com)
Tech Government IT

Blue Origin's New Glenn Rocket Achieves Orbit on Maiden Flight

2025-01-16
Blue Origin's New Glenn Rocket Achieves Orbit on Maiden Flight

After several delays, Blue Origin's massive New Glenn rocket successfully launched and reached orbit. The launch overcame engine chilling issues and a boat that strayed into the restricted zone. While the first stage booster failed to return to Earth, this marks Blue Origin's first-ever orbital flight in nearly 25 years of existence, a monumental achievement for the private space industry. This success is a major win for Blue Origin and its founder Jeff Bezos, injecting new hope into the future of space exploration.

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(arstechnica.com)
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Roe AI: Revolutionizing Data Warehousing, Seeking Founding Engineer

2025-02-06
Roe AI: Revolutionizing Data Warehousing, Seeking Founding Engineer

Roe AI, backed by Gradient Ventures and Y Combinator, is building the next-generation data warehouse aiming to be the last data warehouse you'll ever need. They're looking for a founding engineer to develop their core SQL engine, multi-modal AI data engines, and multi-modal RAG system. The ideal candidate will have experience with generative AI, front-end and back-end development, and strong computer science fundamentals. Excellent benefits and a hybrid work arrangement are offered.

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(www.ycombinator.com)
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Berkeley Researchers Replicate DeepSeek R1 for $30: A Small Model Revolution

2025-01-28
Berkeley Researchers Replicate DeepSeek R1 for $30: A Small Model Revolution

A Berkeley AI team replicated DeepSeek R1-Zero's core technology for under $30, demonstrating sophisticated reasoning in a small (1.5B parameter) language model. Using the countdown game as a benchmark, they showed that even modest models can develop complex problem-solving strategies via reinforcement learning, achieving performance comparable to larger systems. This breakthrough democratizes AI research, proving that significant advancements don't require massive resources.

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(xyzlabs.substack.com)
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SICP Exercise Runtime Statistics

2025-03-04
SICP Exercise Runtime Statistics

This data table records the interpreter runtime of each exercise in Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP). The table reveals a huge variation in runtime across exercises, ranging from milliseconds to seconds. This reflects the impact of algorithmic efficiency and programming techniques on program performance. Some recursive algorithms show rapid runtime growth, while iterative counterparts prove more efficient. This data provides valuable insight for learning and understanding the algorithms and data structures presented in SICP.

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(lockywolf.wordpress.com)
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Brazilian Supreme Court Orders Rumble Offline, Sparking Free Speech Debate

2025-02-22
Brazilian Supreme Court Orders Rumble Offline, Sparking Free Speech Debate

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered video platform Rumble to be taken offline within 24 hours for non-compliance with court orders, including failing to appoint a legal representative in Brazil and refusing to remove the channel of Brazilian conservative journalist Allan dos Santos. Rumble responded by claiming "unprecedented censorship" and, along with Trump Media & Technology Group, sued Moraes for violating US First Amendment free speech rights. This echoes a similar order against X (formerly Twitter), raising concerns about free speech and jurisdictional reach.

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(www.dw.com)
Tech Brazil

SimplexDocsPlaygroundRequest API: Code Execution Preview

2025-01-15

The SimplexDocsPlaygroundRequest API provides code execution and preview functionality. Users submit code to the server via this API, which executes the code and returns the results, along with a preview of the execution process. This is useful for developers debugging code, testing APIs, and rapidly prototyping. The API is currently loading; results will be available after code execution.

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(www.simplex.sh)
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Maestro: A Simple and Effective UI Testing Framework for Mobile and Web

2025-03-01
Maestro: A Simple and Effective UI Testing Framework for Mobile and Web

Maestro is a simple and effective UI testing framework for mobile and web applications. Built upon the lessons learned from Appium, Espresso, UIAutomator, and XCTest, Maestro boasts built-in tolerance for flakiness (handling unstable UI elements and taps) and delays (automatically waiting for content to load without `sleep()` calls). Its interpreted nature allows for blazing fast iteration, while its declarative YAML syntax simplifies test definition. A single binary makes setup a breeze. Check out docs.maestro.dev to get started.

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(github.com)
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A Medieval Castle Rises: The Guédelon Construction Project

2025-01-23

Guédelon isn't just a replica; it's an ambitious experiment in building a medieval castle using only medieval techniques and materials. Rejecting modern tools, craftsmen use only those available in the era, meticulously following medieval methods from quarrying stone to laying bricks. The project is not only an architectural marvel, but a testament to medieval ingenuity and skill, offering valuable historical insights and practical knowledge.

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(www.guedelon.fr)
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Oliver Heaviside and the Untold Story of Transmission Lines

2025-01-27

This article unveils the groundbreaking contributions of Oliver Heaviside to transmission line theory. Starting as a humble telegraph operator, Heaviside, through self-study and a deep understanding of Maxwell's equations, solved the signal distortion problems plaguing telegraph technology. He corrected Thomson's model, incorporating inductance, and derived formulas for transmission line impedance and signal propagation speed. Heaviside's invention of Pupin coils, used to compensate for transmission line losses and improve signal quality, continues to impact modern communication technology.

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(www.pa3fwm.nl)
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Paged Out!: Resurrection and Evolution of a Tech Zine

2025-03-29
Paged Out!: Resurrection and Evolution of a Tech Zine

After a four-year hiatus caused by pandemics and various challenges, the tech zine *Paged Out!* has been successfully revived and is back on track. This blog post chronicles the magazine's journey from stagnation to resurgence, introducing the new management team and operational model. It also outlines future plans, including improvements to PDF processing, achieving financial self-sufficiency, and expanding the scope of topics covered.

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(pagedout.institute)
Misc zine publishing

California Wildfires Wipe Out Decades of Climate Progress

2025-01-20
California Wildfires Wipe Out Decades of Climate Progress

A University of Chicago study reveals that California's 2020 wildfires negated nearly two decades of emission reduction efforts. The fires caused billions of dollars in economic losses and fatalities, significantly jeopardizing the state's climate goals. The study shows that a single year's wildfire emissions amounted to almost half of California's 2030 emission reduction target, highlighting the critical need for wildfire prevention in state climate policy.

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(news.uchicago.edu)
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Trump Admin Ends Paper Checks, Goes All-Digital

2025-03-31
Trump Admin Ends Paper Checks, Goes All-Digital

President Trump's executive order, effective September 30th, eliminates paper checks for all US Treasury disbursements. This includes tax refunds, vendor payments, benefits, and intergovernmental transfers. The move aims to combat waste, fraud, and abuse, citing that paper checks are 16 times more likely to be lost, stolen, or altered than electronic transfers. Maintaining the paper check system cost $657 million in 2024. While check usage declines, fraud is rising, prompting the American Bankers Association to applaud the change and encourage digital banking. Exceptions will be made for those lacking banking access, emergencies, law enforcement, and other specified cases.

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(bankingjournal.aba.com)
Tech fraud prevention

Drawing World Flags with Python's Turtle Graphics Library

2025-01-21

This post details the author's journey of using Python's Turtle graphics library to draw flags of various countries by parsing SVG files. Starting from a simple Java drawing exercise, the author progressed to a more complex SVG parsing implementation using Python and Turtle. They overcame numerous challenges including coordinate transformation, Bézier curve rendering, and style application. The author successfully rendered a large number of flags, including complex ones previously considered 'impossible,' such as the flag of Wales. While some issues remain unresolved, this post showcases the author's programming skills and persistence.

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(jtanx.github.io)
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Stolen Van Dyck Portrait Recovered After 73 Years

2025-03-29

In July 1951, Anthony van Dyck's Portrait of Wolfgang Wilhelm of Pfalz-Neuburg was stolen from Boughton House, Northamptonshire. This grisaille, one of thirty-seven oil sketches from van Dyck's Iconography series, embarked on a 73-year journey through the hands of experts, auctioneers, and collectors, spanning continents. A meticulous investigation, involving archival research and international collaboration, ultimately led to its return to Boughton House in 2024, revealing a captivating tale of theft, intrigue, and the persistent pursuit of justice.

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(britishartjournal.co.uk)
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Vestigial Ear Muscles Activate During Effortful Listening

2025-01-31
Vestigial Ear Muscles Activate During Effortful Listening

A new study reveals that human auricular muscles, once used to move our ears, reactivate during challenging listening tasks. Scientists used electromyography to measure muscle activity while participants listened to audiobooks with competing sounds. The results showed increased activity in the superior auricular muscles when hearing was difficult, suggesting these vestigial muscles may play a role in attentional mechanisms. While the muscle movements are minuscule and likely don't improve hearing, their activation could serve as an objective measure of listening effort.

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(www.frontiersin.org)
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The Rise of Open, Multi-Engine Data Lakehouses: An S3 and Python Implementation

2025-02-18
The Rise of Open, Multi-Engine Data Lakehouses: An S3 and Python Implementation

The data industry is experiencing a surge in the adoption of open, multi-engine data lakehouses. This six-part series details building an open lakehouse using S3 and Python, supporting multiple engines. Snowflake's Open Catalog manages metadata, while PyArrow and Polars enable data processing and analysis. The result? Concurrent read/write capabilities across Spark, Snowflake, and Polars, eliminating costly ETL processes and representing a significant data stack evolution.

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(tower.dev)
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FreeWHA: Free Web Hosting Since 2005 – Still Going Strong!

2025-01-27
FreeWHA: Free Web Hosting Since 2005 – Still Going Strong!

Free Web Hosting Area (FreeWHA) offers free web hosting services since 2005, boasting reliable uptime and a robust feature set. Users get 1500MB of free space, unmetered bandwidth, Apache 2.4, PHP 7.1, MariaDB 10.4, FTP access, and an autoinstaller. While free, FreeWHA runs on fast servers and provides responsive support, accepting donations to maintain its operations. The service guarantees 99.8% yearly uptime.

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(www.freewebhostingarea.com)
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Hobby Lobby, the Lost City of Irisagrig, and a Multi-Billion Dollar Evangelical Empire

2025-03-24
Hobby Lobby, the Lost City of Irisagrig, and a Multi-Billion Dollar Evangelical Empire

This article details how the Green family, owners of Hobby Lobby, amassed a vast collection of ancient artifacts, including tens of thousands of cuneiform tablets from the lost city of Irisagrig. Driven by their faith, the Greens channeled their profits into evangelical missions, viewing artifact acquisition as a means to this end. The article explores their acquisition methods and the ensuing controversy surrounding the artifacts' provenance and legality, prompting reflection on the complex interplay between commercial interests, religious beliefs, and the preservation of cultural heritage.

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(meghanboilard.substack.com)
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FCC Chair Brendan Carr: A Tech Regulatory Storm Brewing?

2025-01-21
FCC Chair Brendan Carr: A Tech Regulatory Storm Brewing?

Brendan Carr's ascension to FCC chair signals significant regulatory changes for the tech and media industries. His involvement in Project 2025, proposing limitations on Section 230 immunity for tech companies and content prioritization disclosures, foreshadows a stricter regulatory environment. He also plans to leverage the FCC's power to revoke spectrum licenses for networks violating the equal time rule. However, Trump's shift on TikTok complicates Carr's approach to national security threats posed by the app. His success hinges on securing support from other Republican commissioners.

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(www.theverge.com)
Tech Tech Regulation

Is Online Debate Making Us Dumber?

2025-02-17
Is Online Debate Making Us Dumber?

The internet promised a renaissance of discourse, but instead, we find ourselves engaged in low-quality arguments amplified by social media algorithms. These platforms reward conflict, making it difficult to change minds and fostering a Dunning-Kruger effect where confidence outweighs understanding. The author argues that online debate actively harms our thinking, suggesting we shift towards deep reading, writing, and more conducive environments for genuine learning, rather than focusing on winning arguments.

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(www.joanwestenberg.com)
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YouTube Mass Channel Ban: A Music Copyright Purge?

2025-02-16

This code snippet reveals a mass ban of YouTube channels by administrators between January and February 2025. The affected channels primarily featured background music, spanning genres like Lo-Fi, City Pop, and Ambient. The action has sparked speculation, with some suggesting copyright infringement as the cause, while others point to algorithmic misjudgment by YouTube. The impact on independent musicians and creators is significant, leading to discussions about the platform's content moderation practices.

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(surasshu.com)
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Conquering HN Overload: AI-Powered Personalized Tech News

2025-05-12
Conquering HN Overload: AI-Powered Personalized Tech News

The author, a long-time Hacker News user, struggled with information overload. To combat this, he built two tools: Tobie, a Telegram bot that delivers personalized HN posts based on keywords and vote thresholds; and HaNe, a Chrome extension that provides archived links for paywalled articles, quick access to HN threads, and AI-summarized comments. These tools significantly improved his reading efficiency, reduced screen time, and alleviated information anxiety.

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(reorientinglife.substack.com)
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Differentiable Logic Cellular Automata: From Game of Life to Pattern Generation with Learned Recurrent Circuits

2025-03-07

This paper introduces DiffLogic CA, a novel neural cellular automata (NCA) architecture using a fully discrete cell state updated via a learned, recurrent binary circuit. Replacing neural network components with Deep Differentiable Logic Networks allows differentiable training of discrete logic gates. The success of applying differentiable logic gates to cellular automata is demonstrated by replicating Conway's Game of Life and generating patterns through learned discrete dynamics. This highlights the potential of integrating discrete logic within NCAs and proves differentiable logic gate networks can be effectively learned in recurrent architectures. While promising, training for complex shapes remains a challenge, suggesting future work on hierarchical architectures and specialized gates for improved state management.

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(google-research.github.io)
AI Differentiable Logic Gates Pattern Generation

Tracing Myanmar's Military Command Chains: A Data-Driven Case Study

2025-01-19

DOT • STUDIO partnered with the Security Force Monitor (SFM) to build "Under Whose Command," a platform leveraging cutting-edge technology to precisely trace Myanmar's complex military command chains. Employing sophisticated data modeling (EAV and Datalog databases) and precise handling of time and location, the platform overcomes the challenges of dynamic and overlapping command structures, providing journalists, courts, and researchers with a powerful tool for accountability. The project successfully integrated existing research workflows with new technologies, resulting in a user-friendly and sustainably maintained public platform.

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(www.dot.studio)
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British Entrepreneur Challenges US-Europe Work Ethic Narrative: It's Not Effort, It's Optimism and Ambition

2025-02-06
British Entrepreneur Challenges US-Europe Work Ethic Narrative: It's Not Effort, It's Optimism and Ambition

Monzo founder and former CEO Tom Blomfield challenges the narrative that Americans work harder than Europeans. He argues the difference lies in "positivity, optimism, and ambition." The deeply American belief that anyone can achieve anything through hard work contrasts sharply with British culture. He notes that top UK students gravitate towards finance or consulting, while US students are more entrepreneurial. This cultural divergence contributes to Europe's productivity gap with the US. Blomfield's own experience reflects this; he faced hurdles securing a banking license in the UK but found more support in the US.

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(finance.yahoo.com)
Startup entrepreneurial culture

The Two Hardest Things in Computer Science: A Deep Dive

2025-01-20
The Two Hardest Things in Computer Science: A Deep Dive

A classic programmer joke states: "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." This article traces the origin and evolution of this witty phrase, exploring its humor and deeper meaning. From its initial concise form to variations incorporating 'off-by-one errors' and more, the joke reflects the numerous challenges programmers face daily, highlighting the complexity and amusement inherent in programming.

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(martinfowler.com)
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Exploring the Fourth Dimension: A Journey into 4D Geometry

2025-01-28

This article uses engaging analogies to explain the concept of the fourth dimension. By imagining a 2D being observing a 3D object, the author illustrates how we might perceive a 4D hypercube. It clearly explains how to understand 4D geometry through cross-sections, and utilizes rotation matrices and linear algebra to calculate and visualize the projection of a rotated hypercube into 3D space, resulting in complex geometric forms.

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(axalatar.github.io)
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Planet's Daily Global Aircraft Detection from Satellite Imagery

2025-03-24

Planet has developed a daily global aircraft detection analytic feed using PlanetScope and SkySat imagery combined with machine learning. The system identifies aircraft ≥25 meters in length or wingspan, leveraging high-resolution SkySat imagery for improved accuracy. This technology offers valuable insights for defense, intelligence, and commercial sectors, enabling analysis of global air traffic patterns, economic trend prediction, and anomaly detection.

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(www.planet.com)
Tech Satellite Imagery Aircraft Detection
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