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Scientists Release Biggest 2D Map of the Universe

Scientists Release Biggest 2D Map of the Universe

πŸš€ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: Covering roughly 75% of the sky in visible and near-infrared light, the updated map provides a deep view of the extragalactic universe not blocked by the dust and stars of our own Milky Way. Researchers expect it will remain the most comprehensive 2D map of our universe for years to come.Β  More than 160 scientists contributed to data collection for the project, and a team of 20 produced the final dataset released today. It was built by combining 263,407 telescope exposures from three ground-based sky…
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I’m Upset Again About a Co-Creator of RSS Being Prosecuted For Something Meta Is Doing With Little Consequence – quailblog

I’m Upset Again About a Co-Creator of RSS Being Prosecuted For Something Meta Is Doing With Little Consequence – quailblog

πŸ”₯ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: I'm Upset Again About a Co-Creator of RSS Being Prosecuted For Something Meta Is Doing With Little Consequence – quailblog Blog|About|Music|RSS 19 Aug, 2026 Also here's a cool unrelated photo of a chipmunk Look at this little guy. They don't know what an AI model is and they're so much better off It’s nothing short of an indictment of our society at large that Aaron Swartz, one of the co-creators of the RSS protocol (among many other things) was effectively assasinated by…
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Stop eating Lady Gaga’s Oreos

Stop eating Lady Gaga’s Oreos

πŸ’₯ Read this insightful post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: photo cred: my dadHere’s a story from 30 years ago that would make no sense today.It’s 1992. Pearl Jam’s debut album Ten is selling well. But then MTV puts the music video for their song β€œJeremy” in heavy rotation, and the band rockets into superstardomβ€”shows suddenly sold out, fans smashing record store windows, the whole shebang.That’s familiar enough, but what happens next is not. Pearl Jam responds to this hullabaloo by refusing to make music videos for the next five years. They decline photoshoots and…
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Huzzah

✨ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: August 2026 A new experimental way to code with AI If you’re a software engineer like me, the first few months of 2026 were incredible. Coding agents suddenly became good enough that we no longer needed to manually write code. But if you’re like me, then sometime later you hit a wall. The honeymoon period ended, and the novelty wore off. No more dopamine hits. It’s August, and I feel utterly fatigued. To be honest, I’m sick to death of writing longform English to describe…
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Optimizing things in the USSR Β· Chris Said

Optimizing things in the USSR Β· Chris Said

πŸ”₯ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: 11 May 2016 As a data scientist, a big part of my job involves picking metrics to optimize and thinking about how to do things as efficiently as possible. With these types of questions on my mind, I recently discovered a totally fascinating book about about economic problems in the USSR and the team of data-driven economists and computer scientists who wanted to solve them. The book is called Red Plenty. It’s actually written as a novel, weirdly, but it nevertheless presents an accurate…
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Software Engineering Intern at Sixtyfour

Software Engineering Intern at Sixtyfour

πŸ”₯ Read this trending post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: The Opportunity Sixtyfour turns a single name, email, or domain into a full, verified picture of a person or company β€” by sending AI agents out to research the open web the way a sharp analyst would, then checking and scoring what they find. You'll build real parts of that: the agents that reason and gather evidence, the systems that run them at scale, and the product people use to see the results. How We Work We spend most of our time β€” call it…
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How to compromise your system with a job interview | code and society

How to compromise your system with a job interview | code and society

✨ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: Table of contentsThe current situation on the IT job market is hard. So you are lucky when a recruiter on LinkedIn reaches out to you having a suitable match for a new position based on your prior experience. It might not be what it seems at a first glance.β€œA relevant opportunity” with part-time remote work and a great hourly compensation is what surely pulls a lot of current Software Engineers into the conversation when a new job offer on LinkedIn comes in - so it…
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Doubly Blackbox Checker | Find your unclaimed MLC royalties

Doubly Blackbox Checker | Find your unclaimed MLC royalties

✨ Read this insightful post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: Because it does not sit at The MLC forever. Starting in early 2027 they begin distributing accrued royalties that were never matched or claimed, by market share, splitting them among the publishers and writers already collecting in proportion to what they already earn.Claiming and matching stay open indefinitely, and anything you fix now protects every month not yet distributed. But each month that passes with your name missing from a recording is a month of its royalties paid to somebody else. The MLC's own explanation…
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DSCI – [D]ead [S]imple CI

πŸš€ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: job-artifacts # Job Artifacts DSCI dramatically simplify working with artifacts process inside pipelines. To create artifact file just create it in `~/artifacts/` directory in some task file, for example: ```bash #!/bin/bash echo "DSCI is cool" > ~/artifacts.txt ``` The the next job will see it in the same directory: ```python #!/usr/bin/python3 from pathlib import Path file_path = Path.home() / "artifacts.txt" # 2. Read the file safely using a context manager try: with open(file_path, "r", encoding="utf-8") as file: content = file.read() print(content) except FileNotFoundError: print(f"Error:…
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The best books to read in August: new paperbacks from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Salman Rushdie and Werner Herzog | Books

The best books to read in August: new paperbacks from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Salman Rushdie and Werner Herzog | Books

πŸ’₯ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Books,Culture,Paperbacks,Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,Karl Ove KnausgΓ₯rd,Patricia Lockwood,Gary Shteyngart,Salman Rushdie,Nicola Sturgeon,Elizabeth Gilbert,Werner Herzog πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: FictionFictionDream CountChimamanda Ngozi AdichieDream Count is billed as β€œa publishing event 10 years in the making”. Composed of the interlocking stories of four women, Chiamaka (β€œChia”), Zikora, Omelogor and Kadiatou, it is also quintessential Adichie: ambitious, astute and powered by an accumulation of feather-light sentences that build to devastating weight.The women are immigrants in the US. Chia, a travel writer, Zikora, a lawyer, and Omelogor, a former banker turned grad student, are…
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