🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn`t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
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U.S. Congress passed the Coinage Act, which authorized the minting of the two-cent piece (pictured), the first U.S. coin to bear the phrase "In God We Trust".
Read more on Wikipedia
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AI-aided recruitment scams are surging, using tailored, polished messages and cloned profiles to sell fake dream jobs. Victims are pushed to pay for CV edits, training, or checks, or give personal data. Key defences: verify contacts, domains, and never pay upfront.
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Extra, from ex-Pinterest team BuildForever, redesigns email around a “Today” view and life-based tabs instead of subjects and folders. Using AI quietly, it surfaces action items, events, shopping, and newsletters, emphasizing decluttering, automated organization, and a more visual, enjoyable inbox.
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Amazon is investing another $5B into Anthropic (total $13B), tied to Anthropic committing $100B+ on AWS over 10 years for up to 5 GW of compute using Amazon’s Trainium chips. Structure mirrors Amazon–OpenAI cloud-heavy deals, amid rumored $800B Anthropic valuation.
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Nasa’s Curiosity rover has discovered several ancient organic molecules in a 3.5bn‑year‑old Martian lakebed. These “building blocks of life” could come from biology, meteorites or geology, but confirm complex organics can persist, boosting hopes for future life‑detection missions.
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💪 Jeff Dean Fact of the Day
Jeff Dean remembers only one password. For each site, he concatenates it with the site name, computes its SHA-256 hash, and then types the result.
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⭐ 2266, 🖖 86
An async ORM for Rust
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⭐ 2798, 🖖 192
Lightweight and powerful real-time audio/speech translation tool based on Windows LiveCaptions.
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⭐ 2133, 🖖 279
CADAM is the open source text-to-CAD web application
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⭐ 4944, 🖖 137
A framework for finding JavaScript memory leaks and analyzing heap snapshots
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⭐ 41765, 🖖 12915
Cal.diy: open-source community edition of cal.com
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