The road to hell is paved with asphalt
Most roads are paved with asphalt. Unfortunately, there are a lot of problems with asphalt. Bricks, cobblestones, and pavers are often much better options, because: 1. Asphalt degrades fast, so once you account for maintenance, it’s more expensive it first appears Asphalt ages and falls apart quickly. It needs to be replaced after 10-15 years […]
SAT (and ACT) scores are highly predictive of academic achievement at Dartmouth [pdf]
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Weaveworks is shutting down
Hi everyone I am very sad to announce – officially – that Weaveworks will be closing its doors and shutting down commercial operations. Customers and partners will be working with a financial trustee whom we shall announce soon. The company was turning over double digit (>$10M) revenue and had more than doubled the number of […]
Show HN: CPU Prices on eBay
AMD A10-5700 (636) AMD A10-5800K (41) AMD A10-6700 (44) AMD A10-6700T (7) AMD A10-6790K (7) AMD A10-6800B (6) AMD A10-6800K (19) AMD A10-7700K (35) AMD A10-7800 (84) AMD A10-7850K (24) AMD A10-7860k (14) AMD A10-7870K (9) AMD A10-7890K (9) AMD A10-9700 (45) AMD A10-9700E (36) AMD A12-9800 (31) AMD A12-9800E (21) AMD A4-3300 (44) AMD […]
Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read the first scroll
The 2000-year-old scroll discusses music, food, and how to enjoy life’s pleasures. February 5th, 2024 We’re announcing the winners of the Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize. We’ll look at how they did it, what the scrolls say, and what comes next. Join the winners for a celebration at the Getty Villa Museum in Los Angeles […]
Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read the first scroll
The 2000-year-old scroll discusses music, food, and how to enjoy life’s pleasures. February 5th, 2024 We’re announcing the winners of the Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize. We’ll look at how they did it, what the scrolls say, and what comes next. Join the winners for a celebration at the Getty Villa Museum in Los Angeles […]
The Underground Site Where ‘Neural Networks’ Churn Out Fake IDs
This piece was produced with support from The Capitol Forum. An underground website called OnlyFake is claiming to use “neural networks” to generate realistic looking photos of fake IDs for just $15, radically disrupting the marketplace for fake identities and cybersecurity more generally. This technology, which 404 Media has verified produces fake IDs nearly instantly, […]
Show HN: Natural-SQL-7B, a strong open-source text-to-SQL model
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Programming in 1969, by Emilk
Programming in 1969 # Programming in 1969 An interview with a pioneer (my mum) July 8, 2019  !!! Note I conducted this interview with my mother, Marianne Ernerfeldt, in December 2018. This is a slightly abridged English translation. The full interview can be [read in Swedish here](2019_07_08_programmering_1969.html). ## Why did you […]
How Condé Nast bought and destroyed Pitchfork
As Pitchfork grew from a niche blog to the tastemaker of the indie music wave, and from Chicago to Brooklyn, bankers began to circle. VCs offered to inject capital. The swaggering Vice repeatedly suggested an acquisition that would’ve made Pitchfork the company’s flagship music arm. Founder Ryan Schreiber and longtime CEO Chris Kaskie were wary […]