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85% of People Want Global Ban on Single-Use Plastics
An Ipsos poll finds overwhelming global support for banning harmful plastics and chemicals, with 87% backing reduced plastic production worldwide.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,840 posts.
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Stable Audio Open
Stable Audio Open is an open source model optimised for generating short audio samples, sound effects and production elements using text prompts.
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We improved the performance of a userspace TCP stack in Go
Learn how we enhanced TCP performance in Coder to achieve 5X faster throughput by optimizing buffer sizes, implementing the HyStart algorithm, and minimizing packet loss, significantly improving remote development experiences.
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Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas" problem
With the rise of 'okupación' in Spain, property owners and individuals alike are seeking to navigate the legal landscape and social implications of squatting.
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Kiosk mode bypass for an Ariane Allegro Scenario Player based hotel check-in te
A hotel check-in kiosk application crashed when entering a single quote into the guest search, which enabled access to the Windows Desktop. The terminal uses the Ariane Allegro Scenario Player.
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Arm64 on GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions now offers Arm-hosted runners with images built by Arm for developers to begin building on the latest and most sustainable processors on the market.
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Particle accelerators for the microchip era
Swinging for the fencesThe term “particle accelerator” might lead most people to envision long underground tunnels stretching tens of kilometers and rooms full…
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Influencer cartels manipulate social media
Social media influencers account for a growing share of marketing budgets worldwide. This column examines a problem within this rapidly expanding advertising market – influencer cartels, in which groups of influencers collude to increase advertising revenue by inflating each other’s engagement numbers. Influencer…
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Why do electronic components have such odd values? (2021)
If you've been around electronics for a while, you've probably noticed that components like resistors, capacitors, zener diodes and inductors come in some odd values. Looking at the chart above, there seems to be no clear rationale behind the values, but there is a pattern. 47kΩ resistors and 22μF capacitors are…
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The long-lost Tarzan Atari game, preserved
After 40 years, the Atari 2600 masterpiece Tarzan has been unearthed.
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Python's many command-line utilities
Every command-line tool included with Python. These can be run with python -m module_name.
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UMD study: N95 masks nearly perfect at blocking Covid
Researchers Found Even Lower-Performing Masks Were Protective
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Why YC went to DC
A few weeks ago, I went to DC to start engaging policymakers and be the voice of little tech. Here's why.
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Cirkoban: Sokoban meets cellular automata written in Scheme
Last week, we released a small puzzle game called Cirkoban . Cirkoban is the very first publicly accessible application developed by Spritely that features the Goblins distributed programming library running in web browsers. We bet big on Hoot , our Scheme-to-WebAssembly compiler, a little over a year ago in order to…
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DuckDB 1.0.0
The DuckDB team is very happy to announce that today we’re releasing DuckDB version 1.0.0, codename “Snow Duck” (anas nivis).
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How do our brains adapt to control an extra body part?
Members of the public have little trouble in learning very quickly how to use a third thumb – a controllable, prosthetic extra thumb – to pick up and manipulate objects.
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Seeing Like a Data Structure
Our data-centric way of seeing the world isn't serving us well. Barath Raghavan and Bruce Schneier argue that we need new socio-technical systems that leave room for the inherent messiness of reality.
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Loss of nearly a full decade of information from early days of Chinese internet
In a post to China’s popular WeChat platform last week, one writer bemoaned the shocking loss of nearly a full decade of information from the early days of the country’s domestic internet. Within hours the writer's reflections had vanished too.
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Can ketones enhance cognitive function and protect brain networks?
Researchers at the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Rochester have identified mechanisms in the brain’s hippocampal network that are rescued by ketones. These findings build on previous research showing that ketones can alleviate neurological and cognitive affects.
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How to Distribute Postgres Geographically
Documenting a pattern for making multi-tenant applications global by distributing the data, using only standard PostgreSQL functionality.
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Go: Sentinel errors and errors.Is() slow your code down by 3000%
An exhaustive set of benchmarks on different ways to approach error handling in Golang. We demonstrate that common sentinel error idioms are slow your code down by 5x.
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Heroku Postgres is now based on AWS Aurora
We’re thrilled to launch our new Heroku Postgres Essential database plans. These plans have pgvector support, no row count limits, and come with a 32 GB...
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What I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code
Lead programmer talks Lua’s flexibility, challenges, and integration with Defold game engine after 60k lines of code in Craftomation 101.
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Bento: Open-source fork of the project formerly known as Benthos
Announcing Bento, the open source fork of the project formerly known as Benthos.
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Civil society in Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland targeted with Pegasus spyware
At least seven more Russian, Belarusian, Latvian, and Israeli journalists and activists have been targeted with Pegasus within the EU.