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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,332 posts.
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Strype, a Python frame-based editor
A frame-based Python editor for the BBC micro:bit
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Oxidation makes tea black
Oxidation radically alters everything we perceive in food. It changes the flavor, aroma, color, and texture of everything we eat and drink. Without oxidation, tea would taste unbearably bitter. Oxidation is what unlocks tea’s hidden flavors by removing bitter compounds and transforming flavorless proteins into…
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Arti – An implementation of Tor in Rust
Arti 0.1.0 is released, and available for download.
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Podman can transfer container images without a registry
The newly released Podman 4.0 includes the new podman image scp command, a useful command to help you manage and transfer container images.
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New WebKit features in Safari 15.4
With over 70 additions to WebKit, Safari 15.4 is packed with new web technologies, updates, and fixes.
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Ace, CodeMirror, and Monaco: A comparison of browser code editors (2021)
We compare and contrast the top code editors that you use in your browser.
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Introduction to K-Means Clustering
Under unsupervised learning, all the objects in the same group (cluster) should be more similar to each other than to those in other clusters; data points from different clusters should be as different as possible. Clustering allows you to find and organize data into groups that have been formed organically, rather…
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Updates to Google Cloud’s infrastructure capabilities and pricing
Google Cloud is adjusting infrastructure product and pricing structure to give customers more choice in how they pay for what they use
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Why I Prefer Makefiles over Package.json Scripts
Does your package.json file have a large scripts section? If you have more than a handful of extremely simple npm scripts, try Makefiles.
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iPhone lidar with applications for the geosciences
Lidar (light detection and ranging) is a common remote sensing technique used to create high-resolution three-dimensional models of landscapes and built features. Lidar uses laser pulses to measure distances to the ground or other features. Traditionally, lidar scanners are mounted to airborne or terrestrial…
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Tokamak Energy sets a temperature record among commercial fusion companies
Tokamak Energy has achieved a plasma temperature of 100m degrees Celcius, the threshold for commercial fusion energy.
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iCloud Private Relay: What Cloudflare Customers Need to Know
iCloud Private Relay is an Apple service for browsing more privately and securely. Learn how to ensure the best user experience using iCloud Private Relay.
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Electric fields, not individual neurons, may hold information in memory: study
A new study suggests that electric fields may represent information held in working memory, allowing the brain to overcome “representational drift,” or the inconsistent participation of individual neurons
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The Future of Kubernetes
Kubernetes is ubiquitous in container orchestration, and its popularity has yet to weaken. This does, however, not mean that evolution in the container orchestration space is at a stand-still.
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A lock with many keys: Spoofing DNSSEC-signed domains in 8.8.8.8
We discovered that, until recently, Google Public DNS was theoretically vulnerable to a DNS cache poisoning attack on DNSSEC-signed domain names. Google fixed the vulnerability as a result of our report
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The tech industry controls CS conference funding. What are the dangers?
Research about the influence of computing technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), on society relies heavily upon the financial support of the very companies that produce those technologies. Corporations like Google, Microsoft, and IBM spend millions of dollars each year to sponsor labs, professorships, PhD…
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Incident report: Spotify outage on March 8
On March 8, we experienced a global outage triggered by issues in a cloud-hosted service discovery system used at Spotify. We were made aware of issues with login at 18:12 UTC / 13:12 ET and started implementing fixes to critical systems at 18:39 UTC / 13:39 ET. This outage affected our users and we apologize for the…
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Why Single Sign on Sucks
A deep dive into the UX of current single sign-on and an overview of possible solutions.
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Shopify's Data Science and Engineering Foundations (2020)
Shopify’s Data team uses these foundational approaches to data warehousing and analysis empowering us to deliver the best results for our ecosystem.
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JetBrains suspends R&D activities in Russia and sales in Russia and Belarus
We have already made our position very clear in regard to the invasion of Ukraine. We condemn the attacks of the Russian government, and we stand with the Ukrainian people, including our own colleagues and their families.
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Arch Linux turned 20 years old today. It was released on 11/March/2002
About Arch Linux is an i686-optimized linux distribution based on ideas from CRUX , a great distribution developed by Per Lidén. It is lightweight and contains the latest stable versions of software. Packages are in .tar.gz format and are tracked by a package manager that is designed to allow easy package upgrades…
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Attackers exploit flaw in web’s security to steal $2M in cryptocurrency
By Henry Birge-Lee, Liang Wang, Grace Cimaszewski, Jennifer Rexford and Prateek Mittal On Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022, attackers stole approximately $2 million worth of cryptocurrency from users of the Korean crypto exchange KLAYswap. This theft, which was detailed in a Korean-language blog post by the security firm S2W…
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Face-to-face interaction enhances learning, innovation
Faces transmit social information about goals and motivations that can help learners overcome the inherent difficulty of sharing a teacher's visual perspective, new Cornell psychology research finds.
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820GB Database Dump of Roskomnadzor (Russian Government Censorship Organization)
In the Cyberwar category, we are listing 364,000 files from the Roskomnadzor, the Russian federal agency responsible for censorship of Russian media, specifically from the republic of Bashkortostan.