Articles by talonx
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Oliver Sacks put himself into his case studies. What was the cost? (newyorker.com)

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Cybersecurity Wakeup: Gen Z Tops the List for Falling for Phishing Attacks (yubico.com)

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The Best Companies Are Dictatorships (nikunjk.com)

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Neuralink Update, Summer 2025 [video] (youtube.com)

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Spatializing 6k years of global urbanization from 3700 BC to AD 2000 (nature.com)

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'40% IPL tax could build 10 IITs': Bengaluru prof questions India's priorities (businesstoday.in)

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Who Falls for Fake News? (neurosciencenews.com)

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Hardware-Aware Coding: CPU Architecture Concepts Every Developer Should Know (codingconfessions.com)

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Happy Eyeballs (wikipedia.org)

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Centennial Light (wikipedia.org)

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Google pushes an update that lowers battery life on "affected" Pixel 4a devices (linustechtips.com)

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3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation (twitter.com/3blue1brown)

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Show HN: SRE/Ops Podcast Summarizer (srenews.info)

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Slack in the System (2013) (archive.org)

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Out of the Landscape, into the Portrait (newcartographies.com)

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Changes at Basecamp (2021) (world.hey.com)

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Is Anyone Out There? (prospectmagazine.co.uk)

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The Copenhagen Book (thecopenhagenbook.com)

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I built a tool to monitor third-party cloud and SaaS services (incidenthub.cloud)

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SQLite – 50% faster than 3.7.17 (2014) (narkive.com)

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Show HN: I built a tool to monitor third-party cloud and SaaS services (incidenthub.cloud)

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Kubernetes Maintainers Read Mean Comments – Tim Hockin and Davanum Srinivas [video] (youtube.com)

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Writing Wikipedia-Like Articles from Scratch with LLMs (arxiv.org)

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Class-Action Lawsuit Against Google's Incognito Mode (schneier.com)

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OpenUI let's you describe UI using your imagination, then see it rendered live (github.com/wandb)

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Plants Do 'Scream'. We've Simply Never Heard It Until Now (sciencealert.com)

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The dark side of environmental activism (sciencedirect.com)

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Guess my RGB (susam.net)

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Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B (2009) (improvingsoftware.com)

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How to fix rogue social media platforms (deepplum.com)

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Tata Memorial Centre Unveils Cancer Metastasis Mechanism (amp.dev)

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UDP and Me (archive.org)

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Submarine Cable Map (submarinecablemap.com)

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Eight Sleep Interview Experience (twitter.com/designalily)

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World Pilgrimage Guide (sacredsites.com)

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NTP Timelord Dies (i-programmer.info)

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Each Facebook User Is Monitored by Companies (themarkup.org)

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Switching to Firefox's Deb on Ubuntu 22.04: A Guide to Avoiding Snap Packages (linuxconfig.org)

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Snowflake (Slang) (wikipedia.org)

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The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens (scientificamerican.com)

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AI can find your location in photos (npr.org)

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A Tech Conference Listed Fake Speakers for Years: I Accidentally Noticed (pragmaticengineer.com)

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My $0->$100M->$0 in 5 years story (archive.org)

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Dobb·E: An open-source framework for learning household robotic manipulation (dobb-e.com)

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'All work, no independent play' cause of children's declining mental health (sciencedaily.com)

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Chrome pushes forward with plans to limit ad blockers in the future (malwarebytes.com)

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The What, Why, and How of Mastering App Size (atspotify.com)

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Depot.ai – Docker registry for public machine learning models (github.com/depot)

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Gen Zers who work remotely are 'probably not going to become CEOs' says NYU Prof (businessinsider.com)

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Former Amazon engineer quits after stressful job (businessinsider.com)

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Crates.io Postmortem: Broken Crate Downloads (rust-lang.org)

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Bakhshali manuscript (wikipedia.org)

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DaPonte Quartet fired for not playing music that is diverse enough (2022) (thestrad.com)

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Ceasing print publication of ACM journals and transactions (acm.org)

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Privacy in the Age of Generative AI (stackoverflow.blog)

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GCP incident involving networking issues across multiple cloud products (cloud.google.com)

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AWS Post-Event Summaries (amazon.com)

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23andMe user data stolen, offered for sale (malwarebytes.com)

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Google Kubernetes Engine incident spanning 9 days (cloud.google.com)

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The PuzzleFS Container Filesystem (lwn.net)

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Editing Stuff in Prod (rachelbythebay.com)

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Google’s Bard conversations turn up in search results (malwarebytes.com)

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The European Cyber Resilience Act (lwn.net)

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Unix Clock Ticks Down to 2038 Problem (i-programmer.info)

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Retool blames breach on Google Authenticator MFA cloud sync feature (bleepingcomputer.com)

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[flagged] Global Google Kubernetes Engine Outage (cloud.google.com)

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More proof that pop songs are getting slower and sadder (2019) (ajournalofmusicalthings.com)

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The Ugly Reason Apple Acquired a Classical Music Label (honest-broker.com)

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SRE Stories (srestories.dev)

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We Are Not Supporting OpenTF (medium.com/hello_9187)

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Total data loss after botched GitOps and failed backups (firefish.social)

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So You Want to Study Mathematics (susanrigetti.com)

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Finding Fault: The crash of Korean Air Cargo flight 8509 (admiralcloudberg.medium.com)

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Send a Weekly Summary Email (jefago.medium.com)

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Active Music Listening Can Make Our Brains Bigger (psychologytoday.com)

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Quivr – Your Second Brain, Empowered by Generative AI (github.com/stangirard)

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Experiences won’t make you happier than possessions (every.to/p)

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Don Knuth plays with ChatGPT (stanford.edu)

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Voice of Tchaikowsky and Anton Rubinstein on Edison Cylinder (1890) (youtube.com)

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New faculty-led organization at Harvard will defend academic freedom (bostonglobe.com)

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Inaudible ultrasound attack can stealthily control your phone, smart speaker (bleepingcomputer.com)

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E. W. Dijkstra Archive (utexas.edu)

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Java’s Highly Scalable Low-Latency Garbage Collector: ZGC (youtube.com)

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An Wang – The Man Who Might Have Invented the Personal Computer (i-programmer.info)

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Real Gs Move in Silence Like Alignment (jg.gg)

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Google Cloud issue affecting 13 services across 35 regions (cloud.google.com)

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Who was Beethoven’s mysterious Elise? Historian concludes she never existed (theguardian.com)

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Horizontal pod autoscaler might not scale workloads in newly-created GKE cluster (cloud.google.com)

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A case for classical music, old and new, part I (theguardian.com)

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How the West handed classical music over to China – and may not get it back (telegraph.co.uk)

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Suvi Raj Grubb (wikipedia.org)

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Traits You Can Change, and Traits You Can't (staysaasy.com)

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The strange existence of RAM Charan (cnn.com)

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Incident Affecting Google Kubernetes Engine (cloud.google.com)

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Infrastructure between cost center and ego trip (lethain.com)

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Ziti: Programmable network overlay and edge components for zero-trust networking (github.com/openziti)

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Age – a simple, modern and secure file encryption tool, format, and Go library (github.com/filosottile)

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Stick to Tinkering

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Stateless Kubernetes overlay networks with IPv6