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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 31,706 posts.
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RenderMan and Funko Games
Case study for Funkoverse JAWS artwork.
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Crooked to the Millimetre
The technology pioneered by the ETH spin-off incon.ai allows blocks to be positioned with pinpoint accuracy, creating structures with aesthetic designs and augmented acoustics.
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1. Trends in income and wealth inequality
Barely 10 years past the end of the Great Recession in 2009, the U.S. economy is doing well on several fronts. The labor market is on a job-creating streak that…
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Neural Supersampling for Real-Time Rendering
Real-time rendering in virtual reality presents a unique set of challenges — chief among them being the need to support...
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Estonian Electronic Identity Card: Security Flaws in Key Management
Arnis Parsovs, Software Technology and Applications Competence Center and University of Tartu
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RCE on Telia Routers
Multiple vulnerabilities could allow running arbitrary code on an intranet server and gain root access on all the customers' routers
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Understanding Convolutional Neural Networks
An interactive visualization system designed to help non-experts learn about Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs).
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Peppering (Password Storage)
Website with the collection of all the cheat sheets of the project.
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Ray Tracing in Nim
I am convinced that if you want to start a rendering project from scratch, Nim is the best language to use.
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Invasive, secretive “bossware” tracking workers
COVID-19 has pushed millions of people to work from home, and a flock of companies offering software for tracking workers has swooped in to pitch their products to employers across the country.The services often sound relatively innocuous. Some vendors bill their tools as “automatic time tracking”...
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Deconstructing Pinterest’s reverse-image-search SEO growth hack
Discover SEO strategies, AI search optimization tips, and digital marketing insights from RankScience. Boost your search rankings and grow your business.
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Museum of Digital Art forced to close its doors
It is with a heavy heart that the Museum of Digital Art announces today the untimely closure of its location in Zurich at the end of July 2020. After four years of successful growth, Europe’s first physical museum dedicated to digital art was hit hard by the Covid19 lockdown, as it runs without any public funding…
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New Mac ransomware spreading through piracy
We analyze a new Mac ransomware that appears to encrypt user files with a bit of a time delay. The ransomware encrypts files with little strategy.
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Holographic optics for thin and lightweight virtual reality
Facebook Reality Labs (FRL) is always exploring new optical architectures to improve form factor, comfort, and optical performance. Last fall,...
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System Hardening in Android 11
Posted by Platform Hardening Team In Android 11 we continue to increase the security of the Android platform. We have moved to safer def...
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Google Acquires North
Google has acquired North, a pioneer in human computer interfaces and smart glasses.
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Inefficient, but Smart
Comparing the process of furnishing two apartments—one in Ecuador, the other in the U.S.—was a reminder: order and efficiency aren't always what they're cracked up to be.
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Firefox 78
Firefox 78 is the last major release with support for macOS versions 10.9, 10.10 and 10.11 . If you use one of these versions, you’ll be supported through Firefox ESR (Extended Support Release) 78.x for the coming year.
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AI predicts effective depression treatment based on brainwave patterns
Tracking brainwave patterns and symptoms in patients with depression, researchers used artificial intelligence to predict best treatment options.
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Does scrum ruin great engineers or are you doing it wrong?
A question on Stack Overflow’s Software Engineering site caught our attention recently. It tries to come to terms with the impact of scrum on developers' ability to do a great job. The claim is a bold one: Scrum is turning good developers into average ones. Could that be true?
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How remdesivir works, and why it's not the ultimate coronavirus killer
How exactly does the antiviral drug remdesivir counter SARS-CoV-2 - the coronavirus strain responsible for COVID-19? And how well?
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Why we won’t be supporting Sign in with Apple
The official blog of the AnyList team.
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The KDE community is moving to GitLab
Open source software community giant KDE finished phase one of their migration to GitLab and has joined our GitLab open source program. Check out what's next for KDE and GitLab.
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A Few More Reasons Rust Compiles Slowly
Learn about the benefits of TiDB and the TiDB Cloud solutions from PingCAP. Read our latest post "A Few More Reasons Rust Compiles Slowly" here.