Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country

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Erin Brockovich created a map to track data centers across the US, showing 33 operational, 44 under construction, and 27 proposed. The map reveals growth, conflict, and uncertainty as data center demand rapidly increases.

Chemistry behind the Garden Grove chemical tank

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Cloudflare Flagship

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Flagship is Cloudflare's feature flag service that controls application visibility without redeploying code. It integrates with OpenFeature and supports Workers, Node.js, and browsers.

A few interesting modern pixel fonts

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Designers created pixel fonts like Analog Mono, Coral Pixels, and Two Slice to evoke nostalgia and visual interest. Geist Pixel is a functional pixel font designed for real usage, solving problems like scaling and typographic rigor.

I Bypassed Adobe and Microsoft to Build a Git-Tracked Book Production Pipeline

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The author discusses the importance of story and writing quality in fiction, then shares their process for formatting and publishing their Christian historical novels. They use Microsoft Word, Adobe InDesign, and Calibre to create print and electronic versions of their books.

A portentous reunion

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The author attended their 30th college reunion and noticed a trend of anxiety about AI's impact on the future. They reminisced about their old game BattleTris, which they created in college, and with the help of AI, they were able to revive it and play it again after 20 years.

Stripe is friendly to "friendly fraud"

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A customer committed friendly fraud by disputing a legitimate order for Ciglue, a cigar glue product, and was granted the dispute despite evidence of delivery. Stripe did not take action against the customer despite being provided with evidence of chargeback abuse.

Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia

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The Wikimedia Foundation fired its longtime lead developer and disbanded a team that listened to volunteers, prompting a potential strike by Wikipedia editors. The Foundation has $296 million in reserves and a profitable AI revenue stream, but its actions have sparked a confrontation with global implications.

C array types are weird

The author discusses how arrays in C decay to pointers, which can be confusing, and proposes a strict separation of arrays and pointers to make the language easier to learn. They also explore how arrays can be treated as pointers and propose a new operator, @, to create an array from a pointer, and discuss the implications of this on the language.

Rosalind: A genomics toolkit in Rust running whole-genome pipelines on a laptop

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Rosalind is a Rust genomics engine with a compact memory footprint, running whole-genome workloads in under 100 MB RAM. It achieves deterministic replay and O(√t) working memory, ideal for clinical diagnostics, outbreak monitoring, and education.

Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence

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The Steinwinter Supercargo

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The Steinwinter Supercargo is a retro-futuristic truck designed by Manfred Steinwinter in 1983 with a modular platform and low profile for efficiency. It was a flop due to handling issues and reliability problems, but appeared in several films and TV shows before disappearing from public view.

Sonny Rollins, Jazz's Saxophone Colossus and Greatest Improvisor, Dead at 95

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Sonny Rollins, the legendary jazz saxophonist known as the Saxophone Colossus, died at 95 in Woodstock, NY. He left a lasting legacy in jazz with his improvisational skills and iconic albums like Saxophone Colossus and Way Out West.

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down

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Drew Houston is stepping down as Dropbox CEO, transitioning to executive chairman role, while Ashraf Alkarmi will take over as co-CEO. Houston will focus on AI entrepreneurship after nearly two decades at Dropbox.

Launch HN: Minicor (YC P26) – Windows desktop automations at scale

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Minicor builds and maintains desktop automations for teams to focus on deals and product shipping. It adapts to UI changes and edge cases with 93-96% click accuracy.

Liverpool and Manchester Railway

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The Liverpool and Manchester Railway was the world's first inter-city railway, opening on September 15, 1830, between Liverpool and Manchester in England. It was a significant innovation in transportation, using steam locomotives and a signalling system to carry passengers and freight.

The real cost of owning a home

Home ownership has many hidden costs including loan fees, interest, insurance, taxes, maintenance, and repairs. These costs can add up quickly and may not be immediately apparent when deciding whether to rent or buy a home.

C64 Basic: Game Map Overhead “Camera View”

To create an Ultima-style map view, you need to decouple the world coordinates from the visible screen coordinates and treat the playable area as a window into a larger 'world' buffer. Optimizations such as using lookup tables, unrolling loops, and replacing slow pokes with print statements can significantly improve performance, but it's essential to measure the hot path before optimizing.

The Ballad of TIGIT

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TIGIT, a protein target for cancer treatment, failed in clinical trials despite initial promise and significant investment. The failure highlights the complexity of biology and the challenges of translating scientific theory into effective treatments.

Use boring languages with LLMs

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Jacob, a software consultant, believes consistency compounds in software development and large language models amplify this effect, favoring languages with strong conventions over fragmented ones. He recommends using Go with a coding agent for building non-visual software due to its consistent corpus, one-right-way tooling, and performance advantages.

What color is your function? (2015)

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The author discusses how many programming languages, including JavaScript, have a problem with asynchronous code, which can be thought of as "red functions" that can only be called by other "red functions". This problem is solved by languages like Go, which use threads to eliminate the distinction between synchronous and asynchronous code.

Sage Care (YC S24) Is Hiring Software Engineers

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Sage Care Home is a home care agency operating system that uses AI to automate paperwork and streamline client intake. They're hiring engineers to build their platform and drive growth.

Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs

The essay concludes that hiring an engineer in a cheaper country with a capable model becomes more economical than using top frontier models around month 11. The rising costs of AI can only go so far before becoming a concerning cash burn for enterprises, putting a price ceiling on frontier lab offerings.

Opaque Types in Python

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To avoid compatibility issues when evolving a complex object like ShippingOptions, use the opaque data type design pattern by wrapping a private class with a public type that can be used in type annotations. This approach preserves flexibility and allows for future changes without breaking existing APIs, as shown by using Python's NewType to create a public ShippingOptions type with minimal overhead.

RescueRadar – UK Emergency Services Flight Tracking Since 2013

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This website is an initiative of SNOEI.NET. A company that has been working on emergency services information apps and websites for 13 years (since 2013). The websites originated from a hobby. The driving force is to provide everyone with the most accessible access possible to public emergency services information.

Wikipedia Whitewashes Mao – The Anatomy of Ideological Capture

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Mao zhu: wikipedia frames his legacy in a way that seems self-evident to me. he says it's balanced, but it also mentions other things that undeniably matter historically. editors should fix this, or at least make it more editable, mr xiaoping says. the article is based on the 2011 version, which is technically defensible, and flawed, his friend says

Show HN: Rapel – chunked resumable downloads in unstable networks

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rapel merge # Auto-detects output name rapel merge --pattern 'file.*.part' # Auto-detects as "file" rapel merge -o output.bin --delete # Explicit name, delete after merge

DeepSWE: A contamination-free benchmark for long-horizon coding agents

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DeepSWE is a long-horizon software engineering benchmark that delivers four major advances over existing benchmarks. It produces a sharper comparison of frontier coding agents, with models separating into wide gaps that match real-world differences.

Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier

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Commission chief says EU can learn from “pioneer” Australia in imposing minimum age for social media. European cyber and AI authorities in past weeks failed to gain access to superhacking AI, causing anxiety among officials.

Are we self-sovereign PKI yet?

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The current public-key infrastructure for people relies on a tower of custody, where trust is placed in a server or a CA, and this setup is vulnerable to various attacks and compromises. A new system called Spaces aims to provide a self-sovereign identity layer by using Bitcoin's proof-of-work security and a Merkle trie to bind names to keys without relying on a trust anchor or a signing key.