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High RISC, High Reward: RISC-V at 15

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The Wizard and His Shell

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Fifty Years of Open Source Software Supply Chain Security

Amazon Nova Act: AI for devs to build browser-action agents

Systems Correctness Practices at AWS: Leveraging Formal and Semi-Formal Methods

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Pure Independence

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The Complete Guide to Cloud-Native Ransomware Protection in Amazon S3 and KMS

How the quick high of 'fast-food gambling' ensnared young men

How to have a career even when OpenAI's o3 drops

Seeing Software: Why we need to be choosers rather than users

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The secret sauce of Chinese social media apps

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The wild fall and last-minute revival of Bench, the accounting startup

The 2025 AI Engineer Reading List

Edward Thorp: How a Pioneering Blackjack Master Beats the Odds of Aging

Test Accounts: A Hidden Risk

Self-Designing Software

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Google Research 2024: Breakthroughs for impact at every scale

Self-Hosting a VPN with Tailscale on a Raspberry Pi

Compliance Is Different from Security

Intel Inside, Gelsinger Outside

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How YouTube Ate Podcasting

No Regrets

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Inside the Vatican’s secret saint-making process

Secure and low maintenance password management with pass and Git over network

Fedora Moves Towards Forgejo

Leadership Power Tools: SQL and Statistics

The Next Generation of the Heroku Platform

7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025

A16Z: Big ideas that will spur innovation in 2025

Facebook's Little Red Book for Employees in 20212 Remastered [pdf]

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How Libra Was Killed

Has AI scaling hit a limit?

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Warren Buffett's Philanthropic Vision and Legacy Planning in his latest note [pdf]

Prompting Considered Harmful

How OpenAI stress-tests its large language models

How Tech Created a ‘Recipe for Loneliness’

How the Ivy League Broke America

A Whimsical Odyssey Through the Maze of Scholarly Reviews

How Mark Zuckerberg has fully rebuilt Meta around Llama

Migrating billions of records: moving our active DNS database while it's in use

How to make Storybook Interactions respect user motion preferences

Why luxury cheese is being targeted by black market criminals

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