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Unrelated but in name: Agar-Agar, the Parisian artsy synth-pop duo - "How do we find out if we already live in a simulation?" https://youtu.be/7Qp44a0uaeU

We posted simultaneously! :)

"99 Luftballons", Mariachi remix.

> The sky is not falling. Great analysis, thank you! New thread: Reports of Telnet's Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46980355

Never mind telnetd. Tier 1 transit providers doing port filtering is EXTREMELY alarming. They have partitioned the Internet, and in a way that automatic routing (BGP) can't get aro…

"The Pentagon is at odds with artificial-intelligence developer Anthropic over safeguards that would prevent the government from deploying its technology to target weapons autonomo…

Some good information in video form: What was the Anthropophagic Movement and how did it EAT European art? // A 1m30s video: https://youtu.be/oh0gZxX1WNM How Brazil Redefined Moder…

Groups of large language models playing simple interactive games can develop social norms, such as adopting their own rules for how language is used https://archive.is/moB6H

I agree. The pages on Brazilian politics are often grotesque propaganda. There was even a famous case in which a slanderous and fraudulent edit on two journalists' pages was traced…

There's the classic “four fours”, which I learned as a child in the book “The Man Who Counted”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_fours https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_C…

Tuva or Bust!

"STH may say “home” in the title which confuses some. Home is actually a reference to a users /home/ directory in Linux. We scale from those looking to have in home or office serve…

RIP Iohan Gueorguiev, my tragic cycling poet! He is a great inspiration, as an earthling, as a human being and as a cyclist. https://www.cyclingabout.com/tribute-to-iohan-gueorguie…

Inside Windows NT, the 1st edition, by Helen Custer, is one of my all-time favorite books! A forgotten gem. It's good to see it being praised.

"Why Do Mainframes Still Exist? What's Inside One? 40TB, 200+ Cores, AI, and more! - Dave explores the IBM z16 mainframe from design to assembly and testing. What's inside a modern…

For anyone interested in the basics of nuclear weapons, I highly recommend the "Nuclear 101: How Nuclear Bombs Work" lectures by Matthew Bunn, a man heavily involved in nuclear arm…

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Starlink will not block X-Twitter in Brazil: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41421531

Starlink will not block X-Twitter in Brazil: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41421531

Starlink tells Anatel (Brazil's FCC) it won't block access to X Elon Musk's satellite internet company says it will not comply with Alexandre de Moraes' decision until its accounts…