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35RAG accuracy jumped from 10% to 60% when I added outcome scoring 7 11 3d +14m roampal.ai/blog-ai-learns.html 36Reasons not to become famous (2020) 132 161 3d +40m tim.blog/2020/02/02/reasons-to-not-become-famous 37What I learned about deploying AV1 from two deployers 28 47 8d +5d streaminglearningcenter.com/articles/what-i-learned-about-deploying-av1-from-two-deployers.html 38E.W.Dijkstra Archive 13 143 3d +5m cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/welcome.html 39Show HN: Mushak – Zero config zero downtime Docker/Compose to server deployment 15 27 3d +2h mushak.sh 40Show HN: RenderCV – Open-source CV/resume generator, YAML to PDF 41 95 3d +2h github.com/rendercv/rendercv 41Structured outputs create false confidence 66 150 3d +22m boundaryml.com/blog/structured-outputs-create-false-confidence 42ARIN Public Incident Report – 4.10 Misissuance Error 39 144 3d +7m arin.net/announcements/20251212 43Feds order Washington power plant to keep burning coal 13 30 3d +57m 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