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A record 42 startups became decacorns so far in 2026, beating 2021's 34; PitchBook: the average time to hit $10B dropped to 5.5 years in 2025 vs. 9.4 in 2020 (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/10/09/decacorns-record-venture-capital

Minting decacorns at a record pace
Startups are reaching $10 billion valuations faster, and more frequently.

I've been waiting for more powerful const generics in #RustLang for since 2020 (blog post at <https://christian.amsuess.com/blog/website/2020-09-24_rust_2021/>). Se…

Heute vor 25 Jahren: Am 10. August 2001 wurde Reaktor 2 im #Kernkraftwerk #Philippsburg nach einer Abschaltung mit zu niedrigen Wasserständen in den Borwasser-Tanks gestartet. Trotz Alarms ignorierte das Personal die Gefahr, die Tanks wurden erst am 12. August befüllt.

mist: MIST protein interaction database (2020)
The Molecular Interaction Search Tool (MIST) is a comprehensive resource of molecular interactions, assembled from severla primary sources. MIST currently supports several species, including:.
This network has 7050 nodes and 14969 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted
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Byrne's Euclid.
https://www.c82.net/euclid/
saved 2020-04-27 https://dotat.at/:/YEFV2.html

Byrne's Euclid
A reproduction of Oliver Byrne's celebrated work from 1847 plus interactive diagrams, cross references, and posters designed by Nicholas Rougeux

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Weighted round robin / weighted random integers with the golden ratio low discrepancy sequence.
https://blog.demofox.org/2020/06/23/weighted-round-robin-using-the-golden-ratio-low-discrepancy-sequence/

Weighted Round Robin (Weighted Random Integers) Using The Golden Ratio Low Discrepancy Sequence
UPDATE 6/25/2020: The bottom of the post now has a section about using 2D low discrepancy sequences with an alias table and compares results vs the 1D methods. The code has been updated as well to …

The BBC reports license fee payers fell 539K YoY to 23.3M in 2025-26, the biggest fall since 2020-21; license fee income rose £36M to £3.9B after the fee uplift (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/bbc-licence-fee-payers-plummet-c…

BBC License Fee Payers Plummet By Half A Million
The number of BBC licence fee payers fell by 539,000 last year as charter renewal negotiations enter a new stage, according to the annual report.

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Modelling BBR's interactions with traditional TCP loss-based congestion control.
https://blog.apnic.net/2020/01/24/modelling-bbrs-interactions-with-loss-based-congestion-control/
saved 2020-01-25 …

Modelling BBR’s interactions with loss-based congestion control | APNIC Blog
Guest Post: While BBR is supposed to be a rate-based algorithm, when competing with other flows, BBR is window-limited.

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Lambda calculus diagrams.
https://tromp.github.io/cl/diagrams.html
saved 2020-10-04 https://dotat.at/:/5LRAR.html

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A tale of a build system bug. (ninja/gcc/Windows)
https://gist.github.com/Som1Lse/2fbb0e22cb59a158bb8e09bf6f527f7e
saved 2020-10-30

A tale of a build system bug
A tale of a build system bug. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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Capability-based computer systems. (1984)
https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~levy/capabook/
saved 2020-03-08 https://

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yubikey-agent: a seamless ssh-agent for YubiKeys.
https://github.com/FiloSottile/yubikey-agent
saved 2020-07-08 https://

GitHub - FiloSottile/yubikey-agent: yubikey-agent is a seamless ssh-agent for YubiKeys.
yubikey-agent is a seamless ssh-agent for YubiKeys. - FiloSottile/yubikey-agent

All the Dictator's Men -- The assault on liberal democracy is a whole-of-government Trumpist project. (The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-dictators-men-trump-blanche-clayton-democracy-midterms-elections-2020
http://www.memeorandum.com/260716/p49#a260716p49

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Fuzzing Sequoia-PGP.
https://blog.hackeriet.no/fuzzing-sequoia/
saved 2020-06-03 https://dotat.at/:/PJ56H.html