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America’s Covid job-saving programme gave most of its cash to the rich

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Singapore prime minister Lee Hsien Loong’s Sudoku Solver (2018)

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AdaCore and Ferrous Systems Joining Forces to Support Rust

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WebVM: Server-less x86 virtual machines in the browser
 

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North Korea hacked him, so he took down its internet

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A toy DNS resolver

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Run Your Home on a Raspberry Pi

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Retrospective and technical details on the recent Firefox outage

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Over-reliance on CGI in movies
 

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A Wordle clone in 50 lines of Bash

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Running Lisp in Production (2020)

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mmWave radar, you won’t see it coming

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Analysis of Magic Leap 2 at SPIE AR/VR/Mr 2022

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Furiosa’s Cat Feeder (2016)
 

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