Articles by whalesalad
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Sky – an Elm-inspired language that compiles to Go (github.com/anzellai)

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An Inside Look at the Subway's Archaic Signal System (nytimes.com)

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Claude Opened the Straight of Hormuz (chinatalk.media)

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Fedora Asahi Remix 43 is now available (fedoramagazine.org)

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The Palantir Impact: Ontology Strategy Connecting Data and AI (github.com/leading-ai-io)

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Cloudflare pages builds are down (cloudflarestatus.com)

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Fictional Brands Archive (fictionalbrandsarchive.com)

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A Brief History of Domains (dotcom.press)

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Kohler Dekoda – an IoT camera for your toilet (kohlerhealth.com)

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Bcachefs (bcachefs.org)

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Vala Programming Language (vala.dev)

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Debian 13: My list of new features (samueloph.dev)

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Debian ships 3rd and final release candidate for Debian 13 Trixie (debian.org)

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Omarchy – an opinionated Arch/Hyprland setup (omarchy.org)

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VA-based DOGE associate gets 'the boot' after publicly discussing his work (nextgov.com)

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I was alone on shift when Newark air traffic control went dark (thetimes.com)

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Trump Decimates NOAA Lab Protecting Great Lakes from Toxic Algae Blooms (propublica.org)

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White House launches their own Drudge Report (whitehouse.gov)

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Donald Trump might believe these Calibri labels are real MS-13 tattoos (theverge.com)

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[dupe] Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data (krebsonsecurity.com)

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Suffering-Oriented Programming (2012) (nathanmarz.com)

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Time to Better Know the Time in PostgreSQL (boringsql.com)

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ChatGPT Is Down (status.openai.com)

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Critical PostgreSQL bug tied to zero-day attack on US Treasury (theregister.com)

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Chinese AI threat triggers $1T market panic (telegraph.co.uk)

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M0n0wall Gallery (m0n0.ch)

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Ask HN: Anyone on macOS 15.x having issues with gevent/greenlet?

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90-hour-a-week Wall Street bankers snorting lines of Adderall at their desks (telegraph.co.uk)

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A brief history of Mac servers (eclecticlight.co)

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PyGyat – a Python preprocessor that translates Python into brainrot (pygyat.vercel.app)

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Ask HN: What are you using for project management?

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Scripts to simplify setting up a Windows developer box (github.com/microsoft)

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Jails – High value but shitty Virtualization (2016) (freebsd.dk)

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What's so great about PostgreSQL 17? (cybertec-postgresql.com)

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China tightens the screws on online unfair competition (hoganlovells.com)

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The Pitch Deck for 'Active Listening' Ad Targeting (404media.co)

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Palmdale UFO Scare Leads to Revelations About Mystery Drones over Plant 42 (twz.com)

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GoDaddy phases out domain backorders (godaddy.com)

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Please do not attempt to simplify this code (github.com/kubernetes)

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Ask HN: Anyone experiencing sudden AWS RDS issues?

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OpenSUSE infrastructure experiencing a major outage (opensuse.org)

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In shock decision, Google abandons third-party cookie deprecation plans (thedrum.com)

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One-Line Patch for Intel Meteor Lake Yields Up to 72% Better Performance (phoronix.com)

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Data Fetching Patterns in Single-Page Applications (martinfowler.com)

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The Vue Ecosystem in 2024 (frontendmasters.com)

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World faces 'deathly silence' of nature as wildlife disappears, warn experts (theguardian.com)

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The 2024 Periodical Cicada Emergence (uconn.edu)

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Special Volkswagen Badge Keeps Kangaroos Away (motor1.com)

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Meshtastic (meshtastic.org)

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RedHat announces Nova, a new Nvidia driver written in Rust (kernel.org)

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Introducing GNOME 46, "Kathmandu" (gnome.org)

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Helldivers II Was Built on an Archaic Engine That You Can't Access Anymore (80.lv)

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The Great Lakes Are Nearly Ice-Free (wsj.com)

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Apostrophe – A Markdown Editor for Linux (gnome.org)

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China's Spaceplane Has Released Multiple Mystery Objects in Orbit (thedrive.com)

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The Feynman Learning Technique (fs.blog)

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Netdata v1.43.0 – with systemd-journal log integration (github.com/netdata)

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PgBouncer 1.21.0 – "The one with prepared statements" (github.com/pgbouncer)

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CA Gov. Newsom vetoes bill that would have decriminalized psychedelic mushrooms (go.com)

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Yarn: Efficient Context Window Extension of Large Language Models (github.com/jquesnelle)

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‘Significant security concern’ prompted internet outage at Univ of Michigan (mlive.com)

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AMD announces Radeon RX 7800 XT, 7700 XT, and FSR 3 (theverge.com)

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Hono and Htmx and Cloudflare is a new stack (blog.yusu.ke)

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Kitty – a fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal emulator (kovidgoyal.net)

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All your base are belong to us (wikipedia.org)

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Vega-Lite – A Grammar of Interactive Graphics (vega.github.io)

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Head of engineering for Trump’s Truth Social app resigns (reuters.com)

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Linoleic acid–good or bad for the brain? (2020) (nature.com)

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Rise of pill-popping tech execs (axios.com)

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Tad is a free (MIT) desktop application for viewing and analyzing tabular data (tadviewer.com)

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Defguard – OpenID Provider, WireGuard VPN, MFA, with a Nice GUI (defguard.net)

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Scaling Mastodon: The Compendium (hazelweakly.me)

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Scientists identify mind-body nexus in human brain (reuters.com)

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[dupe] They’re selling nudes of imaginary women on Reddit (rollingstone.com)

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TIV 2 – an armored, hole drilling vehicle that saw inside an EF 4 tornado (reddit.com)

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[flagged] Florida bill to require bloggers writing about governor to register with state (wfla.com)

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Ask HN: Dealing with ADHD Without Medication?

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The toxic tide of ship breaking (chemistryworld.com)

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Advent of Clojure: Need for Speed (narimiran.github.io)

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How Microsoft attempted to make the Xbox 360 dashboard load faster (eaton-works.com)

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Codon – a high-performance, zero-overhead, extensible Python compiler using LLVM (exaloop.io)

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Number Stations and Enigma Stations (sigidwiki.com)

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Everything You Need to Know About the Chrysler Security Gateway (americankeysupply.com)

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Go Concurrency Patterns: Pipelines and cancellation (2014) (go.dev)

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Diabetes, arthritis, and multiple sclerosis trace roots back to the Black Death (studyfinds.org)

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Gevent for the Working Python Developer

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Sparkline Theory and Practice

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Borgmatic – server/workstation backups powered by borg

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Frictionless External Backups with Systemd