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Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep

Marfa Public Radio is literally never asleep. It operates 24/7 (except when lightning strikes) and there’s so much that goes on behind the scenes to make this happen– fundraising, compliance, protocols, emergency response, maintenance…the list goes on and on.Do you lay awake wondering what FCC compliance entails? Ever wondered what NPR's code of journalistic ethics involves for the newsroom?We may never be able to explain what it takes to operate the station, but we can put you to sleep trying to.For this fall membership drive we bring you Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep. It's a sleep podcast wherein we read you the boring documents essential to our jobs, in the hopes we might lull you into slumber.We do actually hope that you fall asl

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OpenRA

OpenRA is an open source project that recreates and modernizes classic real time strategy games, like Red Alert, Command & Conquer, and Dune 2000.

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Regular expressions that work "everywhere"

What regular expression features work everywhere. Very few unless you relax your definition of "everywhere."

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The Shape of the System - Engineering for Bounded Cognition

The mind that builds software is far smaller than the software it builds, and almost everything good in engineering is a way of living with that gap.

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Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

Releasing Town Square. Bring back the feeling that real people are browsing your site with you.

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The case for physical media ownership

An overview of physical media ownership, streaming shutdowns, content removals, and the limits of digital licenses.

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Show HN: Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching C

Learn to decompile GameCube PowerPC assembly into byte-matching C, graded live by the real Metrowerks CodeWarrior GC/2.0 compiler. Free, interactive lessons.

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Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly

‘We didn’t pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers,’ says automaker

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Space Shuttle Endeavour's 20-story vertical display

The California Science Center has begun the complex process of moving components into place for space shuttle Endeavour’s awe-inspiring vertical display.

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Fintech Engineering Handbook

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Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo. That Should Terrify You

Polestar is done in the U.S. market. Its sister brand Volvo, owned by the same Chinese parent company, was spared. No one has explained why.

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Choosing a Public DNS Resolver

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Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models

New models are launching in Asia that promise Mythos-like capabilities without fear of an export ban. U.S. AI labs may never recover this enormous market.

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WAL-RUS: a Rust Rewrite of WAL-G for PostgreSQL Backups

How we built WAL-RUS, an open-source Rust-based Postgres backup tool that reduces virtual memory usage by over 70% compared to WAL-G while maintaining full compatibility.

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Ancient Tablets Show Markets Worked 4k Years Before Economists Explained Them

Clay tablets unearthed in Asia Minor reveal a sophisticated commercial order emerging spontaneously nearly four thousand years before economists explained h ...

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Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs

A single Bash script to create blogs. Download, run, write, done! - cfenollosa/bashblog

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AMD Strix Halo RDMA Cluster Setup Guide

Contribute to kyuz0/amd-strix-halo-vllm-toolboxes development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days

A single archive of public exploit PoCs and vulnerability research writeups. At the time I post these, none have been reported. Feel free to report them yourself and take credit for the CVE if handed out lulz. Please do not abuse these. I do this so to allure people into the field, and I've always found this is the most efficient way. - bikini/exploitarium

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AI learns the “dark art” of RFIC design

AI for RF chip design slashes RFIC timelines, using RL and diffusion models to craft wild yet efficient circuits that supercharge 5G, radar, and more.

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Wayfinder Router: deterministic routing of queries between local and hosted LLM

Simple CLI tool for deterministic routing of queries between local and hosted LLM models - itsthelore/wayfinder-router

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On this day

A terrorist attack in Turkey's Istanbul Atatürk Airport kills 42 people and injures more than 230 others.

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Top Stories from Hacker News

Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep

OpenRA

Regular expressions that work "everywhere"

The Shape of the System - Engineering for Bounded Cognition

Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

The case for physical media ownership

Show HN: Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching C

Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly

Space Shuttle Endeavour's 20-story vertical display

Fintech Engineering Handbook

Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo. That Should Terrify You

Choosing a Public DNS Resolver

Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models

WAL-RUS: a Rust Rewrite of WAL-G for PostgreSQL Backups

Ancient Tablets Show Markets Worked 4k Years Before Economists Explained Them

Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs

AMD Strix Halo RDMA Cluster Setup Guide

Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days

AI learns the “dark art” of RFIC design

Wayfinder Router: deterministic routing of queries between local and hosted LLM

On this day

A terrorist attack in Turkey's Istanbul Atatürk Airport kills 42 people and injures more than 230 others.

The United States Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius.

Honduran president Manuel Zelaya is ousted by a local military coup following a failed request to hold a referendum to rewrite the Honduran Constitution. This was the start of the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis.

Iraq War: Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.

Slobodan Milošević is extradited to the ICTY in The Hague to stand trial.

Holyfield–Tyson II: Mike Tyson is disqualified in the third round for biting a piece off Evander Holyfield's ear.

On the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, Slobodan Milošević delivers the Gazimestan speech at the site of the historic battle.

For the first time in military history, a civilian population is targeted for chemical attack when Iraqi warplanes bomb the Iranian town of Sardasht.

Aeroflot Flight 8641 crashes in Mazyr, Belarus, killing 132 people.

A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of the Islamic Republican Party.

The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, bars quota systems in college admissions.

The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.

Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.

Stonewall riots begin in New York City, marking the start of the Gay Rights Movement.

Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.

In Poznań, workers from HCP factory go to the streets, sparking one of the first major protests against communist government both in Poland and Europe.

Korean War: Suspected communist sympathizers (between 60,000 and 200,000) are executed in the Bodo League massacre.

Korean War: Packed with its own refugees fleeing Seoul and leaving their 5th Division stranded, South Korean forces blow up the Hangang Bridge in an attempt to slow North Korea's offensive. The city falls later that day.

Korean War: The Korean People's Army kills almost a thousand doctors, nurses, inpatient civilians and wounded soldiers in the Seoul National University Hospital massacre.

Cold War: The Tito–Stalin Split results in the expulsion of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia from the Cominform.

Boxer Dick Turpin beats Vince Hawkins at Villa Park in Birmingham to become the first black British boxing champion in the modern era.

Poland's Soviet-allied Provisional Government of National Unity is formed over a month after V-E Day.

World War II: Nazi Germany starts its strategic summer offensive against the Soviet Union, codenamed Case Blue.

Romania cedes Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina to the Soviet Union after facing an ultimatum.

The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.

Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.

The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.

Serbian King Alexander I proclaims the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.

The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending the state of war between Germany and the Allies of World War I.

World War I: Greece joins the Allied powers.

Causes of World War I: Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo, beginning the July Crisis and providing the casus belli of World War I.

The Nakhla meteorite, the first one to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, falls to Earth, landing in Egypt.

The SS Norge runs aground on Hasselwood Rock in the North Atlantic 430 kilometres (270 mi) northwest of Ireland. More than 635 people die during the sinking.

The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.

An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.

The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis's claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent."

Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.

The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.

The Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed.

Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan.

The US Congress establishes the first federal holidays (New Year Day, July 4th, Thanksgiving, and Christmas).

The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.

The first conformation dog show is held in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

Sigma Chi fraternity is founded in North America.

The Paris Opera Ballet premieres Giselle in the Salle Le Peletier.

Coronation of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

Second British invasion of the Río de la Plata; John Whitelocke lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the locals.

French troops disembark in Corfu, beginning the French rule in the Ionian Islands.

American Revolutionary War: The American Continentals engage the British in the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse resulting in standstill and British withdrawal under cover of darkness.

American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Sullivan's Island ends with the American victory, leading to the commemoration of Carolina Day.

American Revolutionary War: Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.

A New England colonial army captures the French fortifications at Louisbourg (New Style).

The Battle of Berestechko between Poland and Ukraine starts.

Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.

Sengoku period of Japan: The combined forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu are victorious in the Battle of Nagashino.

Charles V is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

A French force heavily defeats a much larger Neapolitan and Spanish army at the battle of Seminara, leading to the creation of the Tercios by Gonzalo de Córdoba.

Edward, Earl of March, is crowned King Edward IV of England.