5k menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880-1920)

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Programmable Probabilistic Computer with 1M p-bits

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More evidence is consistent with possible ancient life on Mars (2025)

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I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI

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Daisugi, the Japanese technique of growing trees out of other trees (2020)

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The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online

Buried inside the KIDS Act are provisions that will push online services to verify all users’ ages, require government-directed moderation policies for online speech, and even create new rules about private and encrypted communications. While supporters continue to claim this bill protects minors online, its requirements come at the expense of privacy, free expression, and the,Buried inside the KIDS Act are provisions that will push online services to verify all users’ ages, require government-directed moderation policies for online speech, and even create new rules about private and encrypted communications. While supporters continue to claim this bill protects minors online, its requirements come at the expense of privacy, free expression

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The cost YAGNI was never about

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The Boeing 747 begins its final descent

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Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing

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Michigan bill would bar employers from requiring after-hours coms with workers

Under Senate Bill 948, Michigan employers who require workers to respond to job-related messages outside scheduled hours could face fines or be required to pay overtime.

A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex

What feature would you like to see? A mechanism to explicitly mark files/paths that the agent must not read or send to the model, at both repository and global levels (e.g., a repo-local .codexignore plus a global ignore file). Example: ...