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21 years and counting of ‘eight fallacies of distributed computing’

21 years and counting of ‘eight fallacies of distributed computing’

✨ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: You’d think that by now, networks were well enough understood that people would stop making assumptions that we have known, almost since the dawn of networking, to be untrue. Yet as users, developers, and network administrators, we still seem curiously unable to let go of long-held beliefs. Perhaps the best-known collection of mistaken ideas about networks is the eight fallacies of distributed computing. The eight fallacies The network is reliable Latency is zero Bandwidth is infinite The network is secure Topology doesn’t change There is one administrator Transport cost is zero The…
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The hallucinogenic mushroom that contains no known psychedelic

The hallucinogenic mushroom that contains no known psychedelic

✨ Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A globally distributed genus of boletes called Lanmaoa may represent a third family of psychoactive mushrooms, working through a chemistry that no one understands yet. The genus already holds one of the strangest entries in the toxicological literature. In Yunnan, in southwestern China, eating an undercooked bolete known locally as jian shou qing can bring on vivid hallucinations of tiny people. Patients describe colourful figures only a few centimetres tall, marching, dancing and climbing over the furniture. The effect sharpens with the eyes closed. More…
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What even is food authenticity? Why we guard carbonara — and flatten chicken rice.

What even is food authenticity? Why we guard carbonara — and flatten chicken rice.

🔥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: There is a peculiar theater to the internet’s culinary landscape, and if you spend enough time observing it, you will inevitably stumble into a warzone over authenticity. For example, no action incites internet fury faster than recipes of spaghetti carbonara that includes a splash of cream (or, god forbid, garlic). The discourse inevitably devolves into discussion about the ‘authentic’ way to cook something, with self-appointed gate-keepers stating (if they are feeling generous) “this looks delicious, but you can’t call this carbonara”. But food authenticity, as we…
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US and Iran announce deal to end military operations as Trump says ‘let the oil flow!’ – follow live

US and Iran announce deal to end military operations as Trump says ‘let the oil flow!’ – follow live

✨ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: UK, France, Germany and Italy welcome peace deal to 'restore regional stability'published at 00:18 BST00:18 BST In a joint statement about the deal, the leaders of the UK, France, Germany and Italy say they will work closely with the US, Iran and regional partners to "seize this moment". "We congratulate the United States, the Iranian government and all those involved, including Pakistan, Qatar and all other mediators, on this diplomatic breakthrough," the group, known as the E4, says.“This is a moment of opportunity to…
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Why Is Claude Turning Into An Asshole?

Why Is Claude Turning Into An Asshole?

💥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Claude is turning into as asshole.It started with Opus 4.7, got a bit better in 4.8, and became insufferable with Fable. It frames everything as an argument between you and it, gives caveats about things you didn’t say, and raises beside-the-point semantic nits all over the place. Never, ever does it use the word ‘technically’. Everything is a confrontation. If you win an argument (by, say, telling it to stop arguing about what’s happened recently in the news and to do a web search…
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zinnia

🔥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: about The kernel is written in (almost) 100% Rust and attempts to avoid unsafe code where possible. It implements a big range of POSIX APIs in system calls, but also exposes common extensions found in Linux and BSDs, like epoll and timerfd. This allows it to run a somewhat modern desktop using Wayland and X11 sessions. Most drivers are implemented as modules. These are Rust ELF dylibs which get loaded and linked during boot from an initrd, similar to Linux systems. Zinnia can boot…
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Rome Fell and Nobody Noticed

Rome Fell and Nobody Noticed

🔥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: When I first began learning about the Roman Empire in middle school, I was most interested in what everyone else seems to be interested in — the time of Caesar and Augustus. Recently, however, I’ve become far more interested in the decline & fall of the Roman Empire. You always hear the date 476 as the definitive end. As far as dates go, 476 is as good a date as any to mark the end of the official Roman Empire, but it always struck me…
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Chaosnet

💥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: 1 Introduction ¶ Chaosnet is a local network, that is, a system for communication among a group of computers located within one or two kilometers of each other. The name Chaosnet refers to the lack of any centralized control element in this network. Chaosnet was originally developed in 1975 by the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as the internal communications medium of the Lisp Machine system [CHINUAL, AIM444]. It has since come to be used to link a variety of machines…
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tamnd/kage: Shadow any website for offline viewing, with the JavaScript stripped out · GitHub

tamnd/kage: Shadow any website for offline viewing, with the JavaScript stripped out · GitHub

💥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: kage (影, "shadow") clones a website into a folder you can browse offline, with every script stripped out. It opens each page in real headless Chrome, waits for the page to settle, snapshots the DOM a human would have seen, then deletes all the JavaScript and pulls the CSS, images, and fonts down to local paths. What lands on disk looks like the live site and runs no code. Install • Quick start • Commands • Clone • Pack • Native window • How…
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Swiss voters reject proposal to cap population at ten million

Swiss voters reject proposal to cap population at ten million

✨ Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Members of the left-wing Social Democratic Party on Sunday celebrated early projections that showed Swiss voters have said "no" to the initiative to cap the population at ten million. Keystone / Anthony Anex Swiss citizens have rejected by a 55% majority the right-wing Swiss People's Party proposal to limit the population to ten million, final results of Sunday's polls show. The civilian service reform, for its part, has passed. Listen to the article Listening the article Toggle language selector English (US) English (British) Generated with…
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