Articles by xrd
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ICE Agents Menaced Minnesota Protesters at Their Homes, Filings Say (nytimes.com)

4

Let the Chinese Cars In (noahpinion.blog)

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Ask HN: Is there a "good" (non-privacy horror) aftermarket HUD for your car?

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Ask HN: Why don't programming language foundations offer "smol" models?

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Ask HN: Second generation of intro to software dev for 3rd graders

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Chinese EV giant BYD sees UK sales soar by 880% (bbc.com)

2

How to Orchid, by Jemaine Clement (telepathicinstruments.com)

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Ask HN: What's the best hackable smart TV?

2

Ask HN: Can I use grapheneos or flx1 Linux phone to prevent cell tower hacking?

4

Ask HN: Good resources for DIY-ish animatronic kits for Halloween?

2

Why Radiology AI didn't work and what comes next (outofpocket.health)

3

Trump Solo (newyorker.com)

8

Ask HN: Best way to get a land line for my kids?

8

Ambsheets (inkandswitch.com)

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MCP Run Python (github.com/pydantic)

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Emergent Misalignment (thezvi.substack.com)

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How and why I version my blog (rishikeshs.com)

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Grossly negligent in Oregon's Wildfires, it's asking lawmakers for protection (wweek.com)

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Statistical Literacy (entropicthoughts.com)

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MBA Class Project Got a Bit Too Real (bloomberg.com)

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Wikipedia information quality is not consistently high (wikipedia.org)

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The Steam Deck has been surpassed – by a fork of Valve's own experience (theverge.com)

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Malleus Maleficarum or "Hammer of Witches" (wikipedia.org)

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Ask HN: Any open source/firmware smart-ring?

6

Ask HN: Help assembling hacker Xmas presents for kids?

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Ask HN: Teaching the "magic" of software development to 3rd graders?

5

Ask HN: Is there a good hackable smart watch?

3

Ask HN: Easiest way to maintain a static HTML resume?

4

P-Diddy and SBF sharing same prison cell (thedailybeast.com)

5

Ask HN: How do you customize Emacs for Python?

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AI predicts earthquakes with unprecedented accuracy (scitechdaily.com)

3

Miami's Francis Suarez blurs line between public duty, pursuit of wealth (miamiherald.com)

3

Django-HTTP-debug, a new Django app mostly written by Claude (simonwillison.net)

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Citizens to End SuperPACs (citizenstoendsuperpacs.org)

2

SQLite Cloud (sqlitecloud.io)

4

The cosine distance between Shawn and Sean (webiphany.com)

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Itchio and coroutines (using OpenResty and Lua/Lapis) (2016) (leafo.net)

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ChatGPT can bridge languages like Python and JavaScript (webiphany.com)

5

Ask HN: Is Cloudflare DNS Broken?

1

Tiled scrollable window manager for macOS (github.com/mogenson)

5

Monopoly Round-up: did Texas join OPEC? (thebignewsletter.com)

2

Paul Graham's Simple Rhetoric (commonreader.co.uk)

1

Developer.zoom.us has been down for hours (zoom.us)

1

Alexandra Elbakyan, Science's Pirate Queen (wikipedia.org)

3

Parimutuel Betting (wikipedia.org)

1

Day 6/10: the words I never thought I would hear (about Hiragana practice) (webiphany.com)

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Day 5/10: in Japanese, why is fu in the ha row? (webiphany.com)

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Day 4/10: hiragana loses out to Legos (webiphany.com)

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Day 3/10: teaching my kids to write Japanese (webiphany.com)

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I'm teaching my kids Japanese over ten days (webiphany.com)

1

Ask HN: "Time travel" into a SQLite database using the WAL files?

4

Ask HN: Is there a global site rank API (like the old Alexa)?

1

Iseult Gonne (wikipedia.org)

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Ask HN: Self-hosted task mgmt software for managing transition to elder care?

1

Sicilian Defence, Accelerated Dragon (wikipedia.org)

1

Ask HN: Are there APIs for building your own flight scraper?

1

The Failure of SPACs (hubspot.com)

2

Slovakia's Election Deepfakes Show AI Is a Danger to Democracy (wired.co.uk)

1

Some startups need a second chance (Money Stuff) (bloomberg.com)

2

Nvidia's AI Success (ieee.org)

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Bank financing and bad urban planning make the retail apocalypse worse (businessinsider.com)

3

Did violent crime go up or down last year? Yes, it did (counciloncj.org)

2

Nix Lang in One Page (github.com/tazjin)

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The Crimes Behind the Seafood You Eat (newyorker.com)

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Japan has the worst inequality in the developed world (konichivalue.com)

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Vento, a new template engine for Deno (vento.js.org)

1

Learning Programming with a Turtle (anto.pt)

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Ask HN: Is there any way to create a virtualized build machine for macOS?

1

Graphic Design in the Middle Ages (apollo-magazine.com)

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Ask HN: How do I make sure my mom's garage door is closed?

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I'm a dad. I replaced myself with an LLM (katarismo.com)

2

Android in wireguardland: pushing extensions down the Firefox hole using OCR (plzat.me)

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What do we need for Perl 8? (reddit.com)

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Ask HN: Best solution for homelab service monitoring?

2

Ask HN: Are there “open” source AI translation models?

2

Ask HN: What are the best books on AI available at the library?

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Ask HN: What is the most cost effective way to do backups?

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Japan's most famous avant-garde artist banned us from her studio (vice.com)

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Ask HN: What would you do with 5000 unique QR code stickers?

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Ask HN: How do you self-host WireGuard and expose services to public internet?

4

Downtown LA Office Vacancy Sets Record, Causes Distress (bloomberg.com)

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Writing Is My Main Freedom. One Day My Work Disappeared (2021) (themarshallproject.org)

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The aesthetic usability effect / paradox (wikipedia.org)

3

Pale Fire, by Nabokov (wikipedia.org)

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Writers and Readers Paying the Price for Twitter and Substack “Fight” (husseini.substack.com)

3

Clarence Thomas Benefactor Harlan Crow Bought Citizenship in Island Tax Haven (theintercept.com)

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Brandolini's Law (wikipedia.org)

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A Naples doctor, bitten by two tarantulas, did not suffer the dancing illness (wikipedia.org)

1

Janet Macros (janet-lang.org)

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Tell HN: Spirit airlines website is down

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Ask HN: Can we rename the site from HN to LLM+ChatGPT.ycombinator.com

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Nemawashi: Laying the Groundwork (In Japanese) (wikipedia.org)

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Quick VMs with NixOS (galowicz.de)

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Generative Artistry (generativeartistry.com)

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Letter claims Mexican cartel handed over men who killed Americans (apnews.com)

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The extensible vi layer for Emacs (github.com/emacs-evil)

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An Emacs framework for the stubborn Martian hacker (github.com/doomemacs)

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devenv: Generating containers and instant shell activation via Nix (devenv.sh)

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Mexico's former public security head convicted by U.S. of taking cartel bribes (npr.org)

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The Janet Language (janet-lang.org)