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The peril of laziness lost

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✨ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: In his classic Programming Perl — affectionately known to a generation of technologists as "the Camel Book" — Larry Wall famously wrote of the three virtues of a programmer as laziness, impatience, and hubris: If we’re going to talk about good software design, we have to talk about Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris, the basis of good software design. We’ve all fallen into the trap of using cut-and-paste when we should have defined a higher-level abstraction, if only just a loop or subroutine. To be sure, some folks have…

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European AI: a playbook to own it

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🔥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: While the continent has made significant strides in AI research and regulation, its infrastructure, the backbone of AI development, remains a weak point. Traditional data centers, designed for general-purpose cloud computing, are ill-equipped to handle the demands of frontier AI models, which require ultra-dense, high-performance compute infrastructure. Without this infrastructure, Europe risks falling further behind the United States and Asia, deepening its dependency on non-European hyperscalers for everything from model training to industrial applications. As AI is not just another technological advancement, building AI-ready infrastructure…

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The Closing of the Frontier — Tanya Verma

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🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Apr 10, 2026 The Anthropic Mythos announcement is the first time in my life I’ve felt truly poor. Maybe because I grew up on the internet and it was the one permissionless place where you could have leverage and a shot at uncapped exploration and ambition. That is now changing with the gap between models that are publicly available vs those reserved for the already wealthy and pre-established. In 1893, Frederick Jackson Turner argued that much that is distinctive about America was shaped by…

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Reading is magic – by Sam Kriss

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💥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: I have a piece in the spring issue of Jacobin, on the decline of literacy and what might happen to politics once our minds are no longer intimately structured by the written word. Like all these essays, it quotes Walter Ong. Apparently, some of you people are unware that you can just go and read Walter Ong for yourselves, because as soon as the essay was published I received several thousand emails all saying the same thing, which is that you really wanted to read…

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The Physics Of GPS | An Interactive Exploration

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🔥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: How geometry, stopwatches, and Einstein's theories work together to make GPS possible.Shri KhalpadaApril 11, 2026 If you're like me, you might be entirely dependent on GPS to navigate the world. At some point, you may have caught yourself wondering during those panicked moments when an exit is coming up and your phone is recalibrating: how does my phone even know where I am? The answer is in some ways simpler than you'd expect, and in other ways more complex. GPS is fundamentally a translation tool:…

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#4: Bring Back Idiomatic Design

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✨ Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: I’m part of the desktop software generation. From Windows 95 to Windows 7, I grew using mostly-offline software on computers operated via mouse and keyboard, well before tablets and smartphones. Recently, I’ve been missing one particular part of that era: its consistency in design. I want to tell you about idiomatic design, emphasize the importance of homogeneous interfaces, and suggest that we’ve lost something important.Suppose you’re logging into a website, and it asks: “do you want to stay logged in?” There are many ways in…

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Tell HN: docker pull fails in spain due to football cloudflare block

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🚀 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: I just spent 1h+ debugging why my locally-hosted gitlab runner would fail to create pipelines. The gitlab job output would just display weird TLS errors when trying to pull a docker images. After debugging gitlab and the runner, I realized after a while I could not even run "docker pull " on my machine as root:> error pulling image configuration: download failed after attempts=6: tls: failed to verify certificate: x509: certificate is not valid for any names, but wanted to match docker-images-prod.6aa30f8b08e16409b46e0173d6de2f56.r2.cloudflarestorage.comFirst blaming tailscale, dns…

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Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy

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✨ Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inboxSign up to our free IndyTech newsletterSign up to our free IndyTech newsletterSeven countries now generate nearly all of their electricity from renewable energy sources, according to newly compiled figures.Albania, Bhutan, Nepal, Paraguay, Iceland, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo produced more than 99.7 per cent of the electricity they consumed using geothermal, hydro, solar or wind power.Data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) and International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) also revealed…

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No one owes you supply-chain security

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✨ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: No one owes you supply-chain securityApril 11, 2026 LobstersIn case you’re unaware, I’m not a developer. I’m actually an autistic catgirl annoyed by suboptimal use of computing power, and fixing that happens to involve programming. Crucially, it also includes discussing foundational technology with people behind the scenes, and apparently that makes me more aware of social aspects of this sphere.So, I have opinions about criticism of crates.io for supply-chain attacks. After a dozen similar articles, I have some select words to voice about why it’s…

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What have been the greatest intellectual achievements?

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🚀 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: In yesterday's post I briefly mentioned Claude Shannon, founder of information theory. It occurred to me that even most Oxford students wouldn't know who he was, despite his work being crucial for the subsequent development of the "Information Age". How many other intellectual revolutions in obscure fields haven't become common knowledge yet? Perhaps the best way of finding out is just to start listing the greatest and most influential intellectual achievements ever, and seeing if anyone else has more to add - particularly in the…

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