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20 years of Firefox: How a community project changed the web
Article URL: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-milestones/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42179007
Points: 1
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The Dollar Still Has Its Mojo. X, Not So Much
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/opinion/columnists/elon-musk-twitter-bluesky.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42178975
Points: 2
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Why I Hate the Index Finger (1980)
Article URL: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2997957/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42178916
Points: 2
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AMD Drops After Chief Accounting Officer Smith Resigns
Article URL: https://news.bloombergtax.com/financial-accounting/amd-drops-after-chief-accounting-officer-smith-resigns
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42178907
Points: 1
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Ubuntu Praises 5~7% PGO Compiler Optimization Performance Benefits
Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-PGO-Praises-Performance
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42178900
Points: 3
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Ask HN: What projects are you going to work on if no need to work?
I think we can all dream. I'll start:
- I will read geological surveys and find fossils.
- I will teach myself Physics and see what happens.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42178885
Points: 2
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Way to avoid egress fees for backups?
Medium sized startup, I am trying to distribute S3 storage bucket backups across at least one other storage provider for redundancy. Are there any services known for having relatively reasonable egress/ingress fees?
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42178870
Points: 1
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Face to face with a preserved dinosaur that looks like it was alive yesterday
Venture funding in Europe in 2024 fell to $45B, says Atomico
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/18/venture-funding-in-europe-in-2024-fell-to-45-billion-says-atomico/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42178826
Points: 1
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Looking for participants for a study about debugging practices
Do you often use debugging tools while programming? Would you like to help us improve them? We are researchers from the computer science department at Université de Montréal and looking for participants for a study about debugging practices. Participants will be required to:
* Find and fix bugs in 3 different programs using different debugging tools. * Consent to having their screen and audio interactions recorded. * Complete a brief survey and participate in an interview.
The study will last a maximum of 90 minutes and take place online. Participants will receive $20 CAD by Interac transfer or Paypal. If you are interested, please sign up here:
https://ls.sondages.umontreal.ca/536189?lang=en
Participants must be at least 18 years old, and:
* Able to converse in and read in English or French for the study * Have at least 2 years of programming experience in Python * Use debugger features regularly (breakpoints, stepping, watch values, etc) * Never used CodeBoot (web programming environment for beginners)
The students conducting the study are Léonard Oest O’Leary and Jingyue Zhang. If you have questions or concerns, please contact Léonard at leonard.oest.oleary@umontreal.ca. This research is conducted by the Computer Languages and Parallel Programming Lab and supervised by Marc Feeley, [Projet no 2024-6219].
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42178805
Points: 2
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Llama 3.1 405B now runs at 969 tokens/s on Cerebras Inference
Article URL: https://cerebras.ai/blog/llama-405b-inference
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42178761
Points: 2
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Don't sit on the toilet for more than 10 minutes, doctors warn
Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/12/health/phones-on-toilet-wellness/index.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42178746
Points: 1
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Cheerleading Became Acrobatic, Dangerous and Popular
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/magazine/cheerleading-jeff-webb.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42178718
Points: 1
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Metal Hurlant: The Legendary Graphic Novel Anthology Returns in 2025
Article URL: https://www.ign.com/articles/metal-hurlant-the-legendary-graphic-novel-anthology-returns-in-2025
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42178712
Points: 1
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U.S. NHTSA Investigating "Excessive Frame Flex" in Winnebago Grand Design RVs
Article URL: https://hntrbrk.com/winnebago-update/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42178686
Points: 1
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Inside-Out Templates
Article URL: https://honza.pokorny.ca/2024/11/inside-out-templates/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42178682
Points: 1
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Keep Your Repo Clean with Repo Pruner
Article URL: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/repo-pruner
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42178676
Points: 2
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Centrus confirms loss of access to Russian enriched uranium
The Rise of One Person Unicorns in the Age of AI – Ft. Finbarr Taylor
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViQ3Espcm3U
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42178669
Points: 1
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Deprecating PyTorch's official Anaconda channel
Article URL: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/138506
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42178660
Points: 1
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