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zakirullin/files.md: ๐ŸŒฑ Your life in plain .md files ยท GitHub

zakirullin/files.md: ๐ŸŒฑ Your life in plain .md files ยท GitHub

๐Ÿ’ฅ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: A simple application for your .md files. You can store whole your life: ๐Ÿ“Œ Notes ๐Ÿ“ Documents, Projects ๐Ÿ’š Journal, Habits โœ… Checklists, Tasks All in plain .md files, local-first. LLM-friendly. Try it out: app.files.md (Beta) Maybe. But this time: Only necessary features, restrictions foster creativity No need to install anything, all you need is a browser Works offline Local first, you own all your files Free and open source, you can tweak it however you want Extremely simple code. One person or an…
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Open source tool maker Grafana Labs says hackers stole its code, and refuses to pay ransom.

Open source tool maker Grafana Labs says hackers stole its code, and refuses to pay ransom.

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this awesome post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Security,cyberattack,cybersecurity,data breach,extortion,grafana,open source ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Grafana Labs, the maker of its popular open source web visualization software, confirmed it had been hacked but refused to pay hackers who threatened to release the company's database. In a series of posts on social media, the lab said its investigation found that hackers had misused stolen token credentials allowing access to the company's GitLab environment, which it uses to develop code. The code did not provide access to customer records or financial data, but it did allow hackers to obtain company…
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‘We mould trees to grow into the shape of chairs’

‘We mould trees to grow into the shape of chairs’

โœจ Read this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Gavin said the first seed for the project was sown when he was a young boy and saw an overgrown bonsai tree that he thought looked like a chair.The idea grew when Gavin was in and out of hospital with Klippel-Feil syndrome - a rare congenital condition characterised by the abnormal fusion of two or more neck vertebrae.He underwent several operations to straighten his spine during his youth, when he said he had time to "reflect and learn patience"."It was only after doing this project…
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The backwards logic of chickenpox parties

The backwards logic of chickenpox parties

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this must-read post from WIRED ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Science,Viral Content ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Anyone who has Chickenpox had one distinct memory: a constant, all-consuming itch.Ciara DeVita was only 3 years old when she contracted the virus, but she remembers it well, as well as the oven mitts she was forced to wear to prevent herself from getting scratched. She also recalls being taken to hang out with her cousin while covered in blisters, in the hopes of deliberately infecting them both.Devita, now 30, was the second in the chain, having been taken in by her parents for…
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stephenlthorn/auto-identity-remove: Automated data broker opt-out runner โ€” removes your personal info from 30+ people-search sites on a monthly schedule ยท GitHub

stephenlthorn/auto-identity-remove: Automated data broker opt-out runner โ€” removes your personal info from 30+ people-search sites on a monthly schedule ยท GitHub

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS. Removes your personal information from 500+ people-search sites and data broker databases on a monthly schedule โ€” with CAPTCHA solving, persistent state tracking (so completed opt-outs aren't resubmitted every run), and an iMessage notification when done. Each month, the script: Searches each data broker site for your name + state Finds your specific listing (for sites that need a profile URL) Fills and submits the opt-out form automatically Solves CAPTCHAs via CapSolver (AI-powered, ~$0.001/solve) Skips brokers you were…
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South Korean company LetinAR is building optics behind AI glasses

South Korean company LetinAR is building optics behind AI glasses

๐Ÿ”ฅ Discover this must-read post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Startups,Hardware,AI,optics,SMART Glasses,ai glasses,LetinAR,optics technology ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Imagine you are riding a motorcycle at 160 kilometers per hour when an arrow appears floating on the road in front of you, telling you exactly where to go. No phone, no dashboard. Just your helmet and a thumbnail sized lens. This is not a concept video. It's headed to European roads early this year. This is an early glimpse of where smart glasses are headed. Over the past few years, big tech companies have been quietly (and not very quietly) placing…
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NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code in a 1970s-era programming language that almost nobody on Earth fully understands anymore, and the handful of engineers who do are now in their 80s

NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code in a 1970s-era programming language that almost nobody on Earth fully understands anymore, and the handful of engineers who do are now in their 80s

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: The popular version of this story has hardened into a fixed shape. NASA still runs the Voyagers on software written in a programming language nobody alive can read, kept going by a handful of engineers all in their eighties, with no one queued up to replace them. In our reading of the record, parts of this are accurate. Parts are not. The underlying problem is real, and more specific than the headline suggests. What the spacecraft actually run The Voyager onboard computers run assembly language…
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Supercharging immune cells may help control HIV in the long term

Supercharging immune cells may help control HIV in the long term

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this trending post from WIRED ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Science,Science / Health,Super Cells ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Miracle cancer A treatment that involves engineering a patient's own immune cells is being repurposed to treat HIV, and early results from two people suggest it holds promise for controlling the virus in the long term.As part of a clinical trial, scientists took people's own immune cells and reprogrammed them in the laboratory to recognize and attack HIV in the body. After a single injection of the modified cells, two people with HIV had undetectable levels of the virus, one for about…
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Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speechesย 

Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speechesย 

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.Man on death row fights conviction after testimony from hypnotized witness03:41Good News: Wrong number leads to unlikely friendship01:51Now PlayingMultiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speechesย 01:35UP NEXTMidair jet collision forces lockdown at Idaho Air Force base show01:29Millions on alert for severe weather with dangerous conditions expected02:02WHO declares global health emergency over new Ebola outbreak01:36Thousands attend prayer rally in Washington00:43Trump targets political rivals ahead of midterms02:01Mass casualty explosion at…
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โ€˜Depraved in all the right waysโ€™: why forgotten no wave visionary Gordon Stevenson is about to take off | Art

โ€˜Depraved in all the right waysโ€™: why forgotten no wave visionary Gordon Stevenson is about to take off | Art

๐Ÿ’ฅ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Art,Art and design,Culture,New York,Punk ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Gordon Stevenson was a mover and a shaker within late-70s New York, back when the city was, in the words of photographer Julia Gorton, โ€œa nihilistic playground for people with traumaโ€. Tall, rail-thin, hair cut into a severe widowโ€™s peak, Stevenson was an artist, jewellery designer, musician and the auteur behind one of no wave cinemaโ€™s most notorious works, Ecstatic Stigmatic.Four decades after his death, however, heโ€™s best remembered as a footnote in other peopleโ€™s stories. Thatโ€™s all about…
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