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Message Queues: A Simple Guide with Analogies (2024)

This guide explains message queues with analogies: databases, warehouses and post offices.

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Show HN: AI in SolidWorks

LAD is an AI assistant integrated into SolidWorks that helps you create and modify 3D models through natural language. Create sketches, features, and automate CAD workflows.

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Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients

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Unauthenticated remote code execution in OpenCode

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Postal Arbitrage

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LLVM: The bad parts

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Reproducing DeepSeek's MHC: When Residual Connections Explode

Taylor Kolasinski - Engineering at FlowMode. ML systems & research, reinforcement learning, robotics. Based in Brooklyn, NY.

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Launch a Debugging Terminal into GitHub Actions

Code, Apps and Thoughts @lawrencegripper,Code, Apps and Thoughts @lawrencegripper

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Personal thoughts/notes from working on Zootopia 2

The home of Code & Visuals

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Computers that used to be human

Before Macs or mainframes, computers were people: a brief etymology of people becoming tools.,Before Macs or mainframes, computers were people: a brief etymology of people becoming tools.

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Clearspace (YC W23) Is Hiring an Applied Researcher (ML)

About Clearspace Clearspace is building the intentionality layer of the internet. Our mission is to build technology as effective at protecting human attention as social media is at exploiting it (infinite scrolling, short-form feeds, manipulative notifications, etc). Our category defining mobile app has been featured on Huberman Lab, New York Times Wirecutter, NPR Marketplace, Forbes, TBPN. People that want a better relationship with their devices have nowhere to turn except for willpower. We are building an agent that achieves this on all devices by processing and filtering network traffic based on natural language rules. About The Role We are looking for an ML-focused engineer that will be responsible for training and improving a model f

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Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids

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Date is out, Temporal is in

Temporal is the Date system we always wanted in JavaScript. It's extremely close to being available so Mat Marquis thought it would be a good idea to explain exactly what is better about this new JavaScript date system.

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Ai, Japanese chimpanzee who counted and painted dies at 49

Ai's cognitive abilities had been studied extensively since she was brought to a Japanese institute in 1977.

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Iran has now been offline for 96 hours

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TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875

A LLM trained only on data from certain time periods to reduce modern bias - haykgrigo3/TimeCapsuleLLM

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Building a 25 Gbit/s workstation for the SCION Association

Blogpost about building the SCION 25 Gbit/s Workstation - scionassociation/blog-25gbit-workstation

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Apple picks Gemini to power Siri

Google's market value surpassed Apple for the first time since 2019 as it rolls out updated artificial intelligence features.,Google's market value surpassed Apple for the first time since 2019 as it rolls out updated artificial intelligence features.

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Show HN: Yolobox – Run AI coding agents with full sudo without nuking home dir

Let your AI go full send. Your home directory stays home. - finbarr/yolobox

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Zen-C: Write like a high-level language, run like C

Write like a high-level language, run like C. Contribute to z-libs/Zen-C development by creating an account on GitHub.

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On this day

The World Health Organization declares the COVID-19 pandemic to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.

2020

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Naro-1 becomes the first carrier rocket launched by South Korea.

2013

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Microsoft Corporation releases Windows Vista, a major release of the operating system Microsoft Windows and the NT based kernel.

2007

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The Goleta postal facility shootings occur, killing seven people before the perpetrator took her own life.

2006

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Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ivory Coast, killing 169.

2000

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Hydroxycarbamide becomes the first approved preventive treatment for sickle cell disease.

1995

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The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan is closed.

1989

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Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".

1982

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A Varig Boeing 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.

1979

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The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary.

1975

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Turkish Airlines Flight 345 crashes into the Sea of Marmara near Istanbul Yeşilköy Airport, killing 42.

1975

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Pan Am Flight 806 crashes near Pago Pago International Airport in American Samoa, killing 97.

1974

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The Troubles: Bloody Sunday: British paratroopers open fire on anti-internment marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland, killing 13 people; another person later dies of injuries sustained.

1972

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Pakistan leaves the Commonwealth of Nations in protest of its recognition of breakaway Bangladesh.

1972

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The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.

1969

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Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies.

1968

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In a bloodless coup, General Nguyễn Khánh overthrows General Dương Văn Minh's military junta in South Vietnam.

1964

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The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.

1960

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The forces of the Sultanate of Muscat occupy the last strongholds of the Imamate of Oman, Saiq and Shuraijah, marking the end of Jebel Akhdar War in Oman.

1959

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MS Hans Hedtoft, specifically designed to operate in icebound seas, strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sinks, killing all 95 aboard.

1959

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In the United States, Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery bus boycott.

1956

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British South American Airways' Tudor IV Star Tiger disappears over the Bermuda Triangle.

1948

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Following the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in his home compound, India's prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, broadcasts to the nation, saying "The light has gone out of our lives". The date of the assassination becomes observed as "Martyrs' Day" in India.

1948

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World War II: The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with German refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, killing approximately 9,500 people.

1945

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World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: One hundred and twenty-six American Rangers and Filipino resistance fighters liberate over 500 Allied prisoners from the Japanese-controlled Cabanatuan POW camp.

1945

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World War II: The Battle of Cisterna, part of Operation Shingle, begins in central Italy.

1944

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World War II: Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies. Some 300 captured Allied troops are killed after the surrender. One-quarter of the remaining POWs remain alive at the end of the war.

1942

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During a speech in the Reichstag, Adolf Hitler makes a prediction about the end of the Jewish race in Europe if another world war were to occur.

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Adolf Hitler's rise to power: Hitler takes office as the Chancellor of Germany.

1933

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The Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union orders the confiscation of lands belonging to the Kulaks in a campaign of Dekulakization, resulting in the executions and forced deportations of millions.

1930

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The Government of Turkey expels Patriarch Constantine VI from Istanbul.

1925

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Japanese carmaker Mazda is founded, initially as a cork-producing company.

1920

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The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy 16 kilometres (10 miles) from Havana, Cuba.

1911

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Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month.

1908

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The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.

1902

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Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in the Mayerling.

1889

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American Civil War: The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched.

1862

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The first Hallé concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of The Hallé orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra.

1858

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Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco, California.

1847

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In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen as well as Jackson himself.

1835

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The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened.

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Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica.

1820

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The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened.

1806

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Tây Sơn forces emerge victorious against Qing armies and liberate the capital Thăng Long.

1789

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The Truce of Andrusovo is signed, ending the Russian-Polish War of 1654-1667.

1667

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Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, is ritually executed more than two years after his death, on the 12th anniversary of the execution of the monarch he himself deposed.

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Charles I of England is executed in Whitehall, London.

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Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster and Osnabrück is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain.

1648

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An estimated 200 square miles (51,800 ha) along the coasts of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in England are destroyed by massive flooding, resulting in an estimated 2,000 deaths.

1607

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King Wareru founds the Hanthawaddy kingdom, and proclaims independence from the Pagan Kingdom.

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Poland and the Holy Roman Empire conclude the Peace of Bautzen.

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