I accidentally saved my company half a million dollars — π in Other Universes

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I accidentally saved my company half a million dollars ludic.mataroa.blog \| points: 638 \| comments: 307

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π in Other Universes azeemba.com \| points: 319 \| comments: 99

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AI.gov ai.gov \| points: 297 \| comments: 219

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Raspberry Pi 5 has no hardware video encoding and only HEVC decoding raspberrypi.com \| points: 296 \| comments: 206

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The costs of microservices (2020) robertovitillo.com \| points: 269 \| comments: 266

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Global CO2 Levels co2levels.org \| points: 260 \| comments: 270

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Apple’s Blue Ocean hypercritical.co \| points: 250 \| comments: 235

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Web FM synthesizer made with HTML5 taktech.org \| points: 236 \| comments: 45

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Threads Software Limited gives Meta 30 days to stop using the name Threads businesswire.com \| points: 216 \| comments: 189

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New York Times tech workers to strike this afternoon bloomberg.com \| points: 215 \| comments: 207

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DIY IP-KVM Based on Raspberry Pi github.com \| points: 212 \| comments: 75

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Google Brain founder says big tech is lying about AI danger afr.com \| points: 210 \| comments: 257

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Razor 1911 en.wikipedia.org \| points: 200 \| comments: 105

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Private equity is devouring the U.S. economy theatlantic.com \| points: 197 \| comments: 285

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How deep is the brain? The shallow brain hypothesis nature.com \| points: 187 \| comments: 173

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Replacing WebRTC: real-time latency with WebTransport and WebCodecs quic.video \| points: 177 \| comments: 62

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Alan Wake 2 is an unexpected visual marvel even on older GPUs xfire.com \| points: 172 \| comments: 218

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eBPF-based auto-instrumentation outperforms manual instrumentation odigos.io \| points: 155 \| comments: 52

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Meta to charge for ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram in Europe nytimes.com \| points: 147 \| comments: 157

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Kubernetes releases ingress2gateway tool for upcoming GA of Gateway API kubernetes.io \| points: 147 \| comments: 32

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