Articles by throwoutway
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'Big Short' Investor Michael Burry Says OpenAI Is Headed for 'Netscape Fate' (businessinsider.com)

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Oseberg longship, built by Vikings, completes its final voyage (npr.org)

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EU–INC: Pan-European legal entity (eu-inc.org)

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Institutions That Accept Duolingo English Test (duolingo.com)

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Why George R.R. Martin Broke the Cardinal Rule of Hollywood (2024) (hollywoodreporter.com)

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Lowe's X Perplexity (AI) (lowes.com)

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Walmart's lax vetting helped Marketplace boom, but came with fakes and frauds (cnbc.com)

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Ukraine Unmanned Drone Tracker (sbs-group.army)

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Pyautogui: A cross-platform GUI automation Python module for human beings (github.com/asweigart)

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Sunset – We Help Companies Wind Down (sunsethq.com)

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OpenRouter (openrouter.ai)

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Can science be both open and secure? Nations grapple with tightening research (theconversation.com)

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Women Laughing Alone with Salad (ridiculouslyinteresting.com)

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Ukrainian Engineers Design 'Kronos' Submarine That Fires Torpedoes (kyivpost.com)

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A Man Who Found Forrest Fenn's Treasure (outsideonline.com)

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Time to Rethink University Accreditation (jamesgmartin.center)

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SFO Ballot Measure Reflects 10-Year Battle to Reinstate 8th-Grade Algebra (justequations.org)

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Inkle blog – ink version 1.0 release (inklestudios.com)

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GitHub Spark (githubnext.com)

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Big Poultry: How a secretive industry rules the roost in North Carolina (casw.org)

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Safari and Firefox on iPhone Sharing Data (support.mozilla.org)

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Fixing a $30k Mistake [video] (youtube.com)

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Bhutan airport landing is so tricky only 50 pilots can do it (cnn.com)

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Michigan Micro Mote (M3) makes history as the smallest computer (2015) (umich.edu)

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Perfect Number (wikipedia.org)

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$75B Lost to Pig-Butchering Scam, New Study Estimates (time.com)

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Collusion Rings Threaten the Integrity of Computer Science Research (acm.org)

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Vinyl-on-demand service will press anything you want (factmag.com)

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What it's like to go to summer camp in North Korea (cnn.com)

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Noplace, a mashup of Twitter and Myspace for Gen Z, hits No. 1 on the App Store (techcrunch.com)

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Why Is the DOJ Investigation into McKinsey Still Going? (ticklethewire.com)

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Two astronauts wait to come home as Boeing races to understand spacecraft issues (cnn.com)

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MH370 mystery 'solved' by Google Maps as plane remains found in Cambodia jungle (mirror.co.uk)

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Russian Navy begins using protective cages on nuclear submarines (armyrecognition.com)

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Planned crewed launch of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft scrubbed (cbsnews.com)

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Why Marriott, Hilton and Hyatt Don't Own Nearly 99% of Their Hotels (yahoo.com)

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Brinc delivers first Lemur 2 drones to U.S. public safety agencies – GeekWire (geekwire.com)

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What Nvidia Didn't Say – Groq (groq.com)

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Wreck of Shackleton's 'Endurance' discovered in Antarctic depths (2022) (smithsonianmag.com)

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Why dictionary.com's word of the year is "hallucinate" (cbsnews.com)

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Meta Platforms and Namecheap settle trademark lawsuit (domainnamewire.com)

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The Little Book of Investing in Nature [pdf] (globalcanopy.org)

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Readwise (readwise.io)

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Nobel Prize winner Gregg Semenza tallies tenth retraction (2023) (retractionwatch.com)

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Benchmark Assessment System reading test is widely used and often wrong (apmreports.org)

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Adam Neumann wants to buy WeWork out of bankruptcy, 5 years after ouster (fortune.com)

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White House science chief signals US-China co-operation on AI safety (ft.com)

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Nintendo CEO's refusal to layoff staff goes viral following industry-wide cuts (nme.com)

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The fight over US solar tariffs hasn't gone away (canarymedia.com)

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X-59: NASA's 'quiet' supersonic plane revealed (ksltv.com)

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DRM Free Audiobooks (downpour.com)

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Samsung Odyssey Ark review: curved and cursed (theverge.com)

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Elon Musk Breaks Down Starship IFT-2 Failure and Future Mission Strategies [video] (youtube.com)

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Gladwell Could Enable a Campus Conversation of 'I Hate the Ivy League' (insidehighered.com)

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On Language – 'Have Your Cake and Eat It Too' (nytimes.com)

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U.S. Military to 3D Print Its Way Out of Supply Chain Woes (forbes.com/sites/carolynschwaar)

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Marginnote (marginnote.com)

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A Lighthouse Keeper Hangs Up Her Bonnet (hakaimagazine.com)

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First All-Electric Bugatti Reportedly Not Due Until After 2030 (insideevs.com)

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Russia Punched an $11B Hole in West's Sanctions Regime (bloomberg.com)

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Ex-Facebook diversity manager pleads guilty to bilking $4M from company (nypost.com)

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Tesla recalling 2M US vehicles over Autopilot safeguards (reuters.com)

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Tech Billionaires' Quest to Build a New City in California Goes Terribly (gizmodo.com)

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Tech Billionaires' Quest to Build a New City in California Goes Terribly (beamstart.com)

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Hilbert's Paradox of the Grand Hotel (owlcation.com)

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Heterarchy: An Idea Finally Ripe for Its Time (forbes.com/sites/stratfor)

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Getting an infinite captcha loop on archive.is and archive.today (reddit.com)

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OpenAI chief seeks new Microsoft funds to build 'superintelligence' (ft.com)

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Updates to IFTTT Free Tier (ifttt.com)

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Ukrainian pilots begin F-16 training in Arizona (airforcetimes.com)

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7,000 pubs forced to close in last 10 years (harpers.co.uk)

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Zettlr – Markdown Editor for Writers and Researchers (itsfoss.com)

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Auschwitz Digital Exhibit (unionstation.org)

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Omni Labs – OmniDiskSweeper, OmniWeb, and OmniPresence (omnigroup.com)

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Netflix spent $55M on sci-fi series that will almost certainly never be released (filmstories.co.uk)

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Ulysses (ulysses.app)

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Post-breach, Okta binds session tokens to network location (itbrew.com)

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Why does the volume of a hypersphere decrease in higher dimensions? (math.stackexchange.com)

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Surprises in High Dimensions [pdf] (ucdavis.edu)

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When Light Flashes for a Quintillionth of a Second, Things Get Weird (getpocket.com)

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Netflix and World Maker Launch Anime Making Contest (goodereader.com)

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Wearable 'AI Pin' launched by Humane, backed by ex-Apple execs and Microsoft (reuters.com)

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The largest aircraft begins flight testing today (techcrunch.com)

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Phind – AI Search Engine and Pair Programmer (phind.com)

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'Balloon Boy' Parents Pardoned by Colorado Governor for 2009 Hoax (npr.org)

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Advanced Radar Threat System Helps Aircrews Train to Evade Enemy Missiles (gatech.edu)

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Evernote Lays Off Most of Staff, Triggering Fears of Closure – Slashdot (slashdot.org)

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Western Digital and Kioxia to Announce Merge This Month (tomshardware.com)

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30-year fixed mortgage rate just hit 8% for the first time since 2000 (cnbc.com)

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Spice is a general-purpose circuit simulation program (eecs.berkeley.edu)

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Stage Manager was a thing in 2006 OS X beta (macrumors.com)

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Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test (nih.gov)

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Ukraine tricks Russia into wasting bombs to destroy decoy ‘artillery’ (washingtonpost.com)

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If the Fed Didn't Hike, Why Did Mortgage Rates Hit Long Term Highs? (mortgagenewsdaily.com)

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Twitter Cortex (cortex.twitter.com)

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FTX Hired Private Planes to Fly Amazon Packages to the Bahamas (businessinsider.com)

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Lightning (Cable) Was Great (theverge.com)

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How much garden you would need to survive on (lifehacker.com)

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US gives Ukraine industrial-sized 3D printer for repairing trucks, weapons (cnn.com)

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A ufologist claims to show 2 alien corpses to Mexico's Congress (npr.org)