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From The Wizard of Oz to Trainspotting: 25 films to watch before you turn 25 | Film

From The Wizard of Oz to Trainspotting: 25 films to watch before you turn 25 | Film

๐Ÿ”ฅ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Film,Family films,Animation in film,Culture,Children,Young people,Family,Parents and parenting,Drama films,Life and style,Society,Walt Disney Company,Studio Ghibli,The Muppets,The Wizard Of Oz,Chicken Run,Ferris Bueller's Day Off,Run Lola Run,The Umbrellas of Cherbourg,Get Out,Documentary films,Do the Right Thing ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Screentime has a bad rep these days: itโ€™s allegedly at the root of everything from the collapse of media literacy to the rise of the far right. For parents, and indeed anyone who cares about the future of the planet, the relationship children have to their screens is a particular hot potato.Orson…
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When random.bytes() runs but doesn’t work

When random.bytes() runs but doesn’t work

๐Ÿš€ Discover this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: This is a guest post from noted Core-Lightning developer, ddustin, who dug into the Coldcard firmware commit history to uncover what happened and why the code failed.I began investigating the Coldcard hack and was immediately shocked. I need to explain why.When we developers work on code, we organize or code changes into changesets we call โ€œcommits.โ€ The purpose of doing so is to show a clear history of what code was changed including why and how.This is done precisely for instances like this where it…
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Nerd culture is murdering intellectuals

Nerd culture is murdering intellectuals

๐Ÿ”ฅ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: A fact that never ceases to amaze me: due to the Marvel movies, a lot of moms know who Thanos is. No offense to moms! What I mean is that as a teenager in the early 2000s I personally knew why the Avengers were always fighting big purple Thanos because I sometimes read comic books. But back then I never would have expected a mom (mythic figures of great power, actual adults) to share this knowledge. Back then, Thanos existed only in overwrought pages like…
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Four Time Scales for Technology Development and Deployment โ€“ Rodney Brooks

Four Time Scales for Technology Development and Deployment โ€“ Rodney Brooks

๐Ÿš€ Explore this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: I have come to understand four very different time scales for development of technologies and their deployments. ย And I think people often jump between them and end up making outrageously wrong, and sometimes damaging, predictions of when in the future a technology is going to be able to do what. Time scale 1. New Research Ideas New research ideas take ten to twenty years to form before there is an understanding to bring them to really solid lab demonstrations. ย Some things take much longer as…
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Blocked

๐Ÿš€ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Blocked Your request has been blocked due to a network policy. Try logging in or creating an account here to get back to browsing. If you're running a script or application, please register or sign in with your developer credentials here. Additionally make sure your User-Agent is not empty and is something unique and descriptive and try again. if you're supplying an alternate User-Agent string, try changing back to default as that can sometimes result in a block. You can read Reddit's Terms of…
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Is memory the moat? | Wafer

Is memory the moat? | Wafer

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Over the past several months, weโ€™ve seen an explosion in the capabilities of open source models. With DeepSeek V4-Pro and GLM5.2 reaching near-Opus levels of intelligence, open source has emerged as a real, cost-efficient alternative to the closed source models weโ€™ve been married to. But we have yet to see one like Kimi K3. Promising Fable/Sol levels of intelligence, Kimi K3 marks the start of a new era for open source. But a smarter model means a bigger model โ€” and these models are expanding…
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MkLinux and the pimped-out Apple Workgroup Server 9150

MkLinux and the pimped-out Apple Workgroup Server 9150

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: As is typical here in the Floodgap lab, it all started so innocently: rebuilding a flaky Apple Workgroup Server 9150, the odd duck of the Workgroup Server line and older cousin to our beloved Apple Network Server. And then I just had to pimp it out for MkLinux. Before the sui generis IBM AIX-based Apple Network Server, one of our favourite machines here at Floodgap, there were the WGSes, the Workgroup Servers, Apple's well-intentioned but conflictingly received line of Macintosh rebadges hopped up with high-spec…
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Futurism says Meta has โ€œalmost nothingโ€ to show for AI. The numbers say otherwise

Futurism says Meta has โ€œalmost nothingโ€ to show for AI. The numbers say otherwise

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Futurism wanted a corpse. Meta gave it a messy earnings report, so the publication wrote an obituary. โ€œDespite having almost nothing to show from his enormous spending on AI,โ€ begins the July 31 article, headlined โ€œMark Zuckerbergโ€™s Pivot to AI Is Blowing Up in His Face Spectacularly.โ€ By the end, Meta is described as โ€œpractically absent from the frontier AI model race.โ€ Muse Spark is supposedly outdone by competitors in โ€œmost tasks.โ€ Muse Image is waved away as an โ€œafterthought.โ€ Metaโ€™s users and engagement…
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Go 1.27 interactive tour

Go 1.27 interactive tour

๐Ÿ’ฅ Read this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Go 1.27 is coming soon, so itโ€™s a good time to get a head start on whatโ€™s new. The official release notes are pretty dry, so hereโ€™s a hands-on version with runnable examples showing what changed and how the new behavior works.A quick credit first: the interactive Go tours were started by Anton Zhiyanov, who wrote one for every release from Go 1.22 through Go 1.26. Heโ€™s decided to stop, so weโ€™re picking up where he left off. His earlier tours are all still worth…
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A stray commit buried multiple levels deep cost me months

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Iโ€™ve been working on a spec for months. Finally…every stakeholder approves. Iโ€™ve cataloged every piece of code that needs to be migrated in a Notion DB. Iโ€™m working on one of the first PRs and then I see it…โ€œ…ffffuuuuuummmmccckkkk mmmmmmeee…โ€The fucking โ€œtransactionsโ€ are being committed while wearing a coat of atomicity.โ€œfuck, fuck, fuck, how the fuck did I miss this.โ€Looking through my notes…I see…โ€œinvestigate random-ass commitsโ€ and I forgot to account for them…ORMs can blow your leg off, this ainโ€™t that rant.Parametrized SQL statements can…
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