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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,327 posts.
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Physicists offer new theory on cancer
ASU's Paul Davies has proposed a new way to look at cancer by tracing its deep evolutionary roots to the dawn of multicellularity, more than a billion years ago.
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The San Francisco Rent Explosion
An apartment in San Francisco costs how much?! Surely you jest, Priceonomics.
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Xamarin raises $16 million to help you go mobile
Use an agent skill to prepare your existing .NET MAUI app for Xcode 27, with the scene lifecycle changes and manual migration steps explained.
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Police Documents on License Plate Scanners Reveal Mass Tracking
Automatic license plate readers are the most widespread location tracking technology you’ve probably never heard of. Mounted on patrol cars or stationary objects like bridges, they snap photos of every passing car, recording their plate numbers, times, and locations. At first the captured plate data was used just to…
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Why JavaScript web applications should embrace traditional URLs
Combining finest craftsmanship with elegant design to ship innovative digital experiences.
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Gotk3: GTK3 the Go way
Today marks the first release of gotk3, Conformal’s own GTK3 bindings for Go (available on Github here ). These bindings were developed out of a frustration with other GTK bindings for Go either using ancient versions of GTK, not handling memory in a way a Go developer would expect, or simply not working at all on our…
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Malware Hidden Inside JPG EXIF Headers
A few days ago, Peter Gramantik from our research team found a very interesting backdoor on a compromised site. This backdoor didn’t rely on the…
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EFF sues the NSA Over Illegal Surveillance
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Yahoo's Fight for its Users Earns the Company Special Recognition by EFF
Each year, EFF’s Who Has Your Back campaign assesses the policies and practices of major Internet companies as a way to encourage and incentivize those companies to take a stand for their users in the face of government demands for data. Normally, when a company demonstrates it has a policy or...
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Bills Introduced by Congress Fail to Fix Unconstitutional NSA Spying
In the past two weeks Congress has introduced a slew of bills responding to the Guardian's publication of a top secret court order using Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act to demand that Verizon Business Network Services give the National Security Agency (NSA) a record of every customer's call history...
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Link between quantum physics and game theory found
A deep link between two seemingly unconnected areas of modern science - quantum physics and game theory - is described by researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Geneva in a paper published in Nature Communications.
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Perl Startups: Lacuna Expanse
Lately while there's been discussions of various new (for varying definitions of 'new') companies who have chosen Perl, there's not been a huge amount of discussion about how they use Perl. I contacted JT Smith of Plain Black Corporation and he graciously agreed to talk about The Lacuna Expanse , a MMORPG with a Perl…
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Bose founder, Amar Bose, has died at 83
Entrepreneur served on faculty for 45 years; championed long-term corporate research.
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So You Wanna Build a Crowdfunding Site
The tools to get funded by the crowd should belong to the crowd. That's why I want to show you how to roll your own crowdfunding site, in less than ...
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5D ‘Superman memory’ crystal could lead to unlimited lifetime data storage
Scientists at the University of Southampton have made a major step forward in the development of digital data storage that is capable of surviving for billions of years.
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Microsoft reorganizes
The latest news and stories about how technology is helping people around the world solve problems, innovate and do more each day.
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Chemists Work to Desalt the Ocean for Drinking Water, One Nanoliter at a Time
Discover groundbreaking research, inspiring student stories and more from The University of Texas at Austin.
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Useful GitHub patterns
Both my day job and my open-source work involve constant use of git and GitHub. These are some useful patterns that I’ve found myself using regularly. (From this point onwards, I shall abbreviate a “pull request” as PR).
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NeoCities can now handle two million web sites
A few weeks ago, I put together a blog post describing my goals for NeoCities, and why I thought it was an important project. And I asked for your help , because we needed the funding to get the servers to put the site on solid footing.