RFC 3092 – Etymology of “Foo” (2001)
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Nobody knows how the whole system works
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A tough labor market for white-collar workers has turned recruiting upside down
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TSMC to make advanced AI semiconductors in Japan
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Claude’s C Compiler vs. GCC
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NanoClaw now supports Claude's Agent Swarms in containers
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Show HN: I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars books
I built a desktop Mars colony survival game called Underhill, in homage to Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. Land on Mars, build solar panels and greenhouses, and try not to pass out during dust storms. Eventually your colonists split into faction
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Exploiting signed bootloaders to circumvent UEFI Secure Boot (2019)
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A Project Hail Mary final trailer? Yes please
"There are infinite possibilities for this to go wrong."
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In the AI gold rush, tech firms are embracing 72-hour weeks
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Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord
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AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder
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Show HN: A custom font that displays Cistercian numerals using ligatures
Article URL: https://bobbiec.github.io/cistercian-font.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46939312 Points: 13 # Comments: 0
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Stop Generating, Start Thinking
Article URL: https://localghost.dev/blog/stop-generating-start-thinking/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46938958 Points: 18 # Comments: 2
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Art of Roads in Games
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