How Nestlé gets children hooked on sugar in lower-income countries
Link: https://stories.publiceye.ch/nestle-babies/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40067575
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Why the Arabic World Turned Away from Science (2011)
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The New Atlantis
Why the Arabic World Turned Away from Science — The New Atlantis
Scientific inquiry once flourished in the Arabic world. Why did it disappear? On the rise and fall of the Golden Age of Arabic science.
Why the Arabic World Turned Away from Science (2011) | Hacker News
Land Use Policies Make Urban Childcare Expensive and Rare
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Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39922294
Who Cares about Childcare?
How Land Use Policies Make Urban Childcare Expensive & Rare
Berlin's techno scene added to Unesco intangible cultural heritage list
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the Guardian
Germany adds Berlin’s techno scene to Unesco cultural heritage list
List recognises techno scene’s contribution to Berlin’s cultural identity
Berlin's techno scene added to Unesco intangible cultural heritage list | Hacker News
TextSnatcher: Copy text from images, for the Linux Desktop
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#linux
GitHub
GitHub - RajSolai/TextSnatcher: How to Copy Text from Images ? Answer is TextSnatcher !. Perform OCR operations in seconds on Linux Desktop.
How to Copy Text from Images ? Answer is TextSnatcher !. Perform OCR operations in seconds on Linux Desktop. - RajSolai/TextSnatcher
TextSnatcher: Copy text from images, for the Linux Desktop | Hacker News
The Good Soldier Švejk
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Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39702479
The Library of Congress
“The Good Soldier Švejk” | 4 Corners of the World
The blog,
Launching Default End-to-End Encryption on Messenger
Link: https://messengernews.fb.com/2023/12/06/launching-default-end-to-end-encryption-on-messenger/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38551993
Calibre – New in Calibre 7.0
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calibre - New in calibre 7.0
calibre: The one stop solution for all your e-book needs. Comprehensive e-book software.
Calibre – New in Calibre 7.0 | Hacker News
Apple Clarifies Why It Abandoned Plan to Detect CSAM in iCloud Photos
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#apple
WIRED
Apple’s Decision to Kill Its CSAM Photo-Scanning Tool Sparks Fresh Controversy
Child safety group Heat Initiative plans to launch a campaign pressing Apple on child sexual abuse material scanning and user reporting. The compan...
Apple clarifies why it abandoned plan to detect CSAM in iCloud photos | Hacker News
Random Load Balancing Is Unevenly Distributed
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Random Load Balancing is Unevenly Distributed (evanjones.ca)
Random Load Balancing Is Unevenly Distributed | Hacker News
AdNauseam: uBlock Origin fork silently clicking ads on behalf of users
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Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37230898
GitHub
GitHub - dhowe/AdNauseam: AdNauseam: Fight back against advertising surveillance
AdNauseam: Fight back against advertising surveillance - dhowe/AdNauseam
AMD's 7900 XTX achieves better value for Stable Diffusion than Nvidia RTX 4080
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#nvidia
Wccftech
AMD Radeon 7900 XTX Achieves 890% Speedup In Generative AI With Stable Diffusion Optimization
NVIDIA is absolutely dominating the AI conversation right and for good measure - their GPUs perform out-of-the-box and are a top choice for profess...
AMD's 7900 XTX achieves better value for Stable Diffusion than Nvidia RTX 4080 | Hacker News
Ubicloud – open, free and portable cloud
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GitHub
GitHub - ubicloud/ubicloud: Open source alternative to AWS. Elastic compute, block storage (non replicated), firewall and load balancer, managed Postgres, K8s, AI inference, and IAM services.
Open source alternative to AWS. Elastic compute, block storage (non replicated), firewall and load balancer, managed Postgres, K8s, AI inference, a...
Ubicloud – open, free and portable cloud | Hacker News
How the iMac Saved Apple
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#apple
The Verge
How the iMac saved Apple
Twenty-five years of the iMac.
How the iMac Saved Apple | Hacker News
Google Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men as It Addresses Wage Equity
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Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37143075
#google
Google Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men as It Addresses Wage Equity (Published 2019)
After a recent study, the company gave raises to thousands of men after determining they were earning less than women in similar jobs.
Most bosses regret how they mandated workers return to the office
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Fortune
Most bosses regret how they mandated workers return to the office | Fortune
They blamed it on not having enough data.
Most bosses regret how they mandated workers return to the office | Hacker News
Lack of Walkability in the US is destroying mental health
Link: https://makeamericawalkable.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37124015
Discord.io breached, 760k user accounts for sale on darknet
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Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37124187
Stack Diary
The data of 760,000 Discord.io users was put up for sale on the darknet
Note: I've gone ahead and updated the featured image, so it doesn't seem like this has something to do with Discord "directly". It was no...
Flying Toasters Screensaver After Dark in CSS
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Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37106550
#css
Flying Toasters Screensaver | After Dark in CSS
Experience Flying Toasters, After Dark
What is gained and lost with 63-bit integers? (2014)
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Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37097973
Jane Street Blog
What is gained and lost with 63-bit integers?
Almost every programming language uses 64-bit integers on typical modern Intelmachines. OCaml uses a special 63-bit representation. How does it aff...