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Right to Repair Fight
Manufacturers of vehicles, electronics, appliances, and more are making it tough for independent shops and DIYers to make repairs. Shouldn’t you be able to get stuff you own fixed where and how you want?
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,332 posts.
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Rebranding FLoC Without Addressing Key Privacy Issues
The Topics API does not address the core harmfulness of FLoC: that it’s arrogant and dangerous for Google to be the arbiter of what users consider “sensitive” data.
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Devious SQL: Message Queuing Using Native PostgreSQL
An interesting question came up on the postgresql IRC channel about how to use native PostgreSQL features to handle some sort of queuing behavior. While the specific usage was related to handling serialization of specific events to some external broker, the specifics are less important than the overall structure.
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Over 20k servers have their iLO interfaces exposed to the internet
Over 20 thousand servers have their iLO interfaces exposed to the internet, many with outdated and vulnerable versions of FW, Author: Jan Kopriva
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How to excel in tech without learning to code
Technical literacy is key to career success, even for non-engineers. Learn how to master the tools of your trade and build a solid tech foundation.
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Simulation of a 2B-atom cell that metabolizes and grows like a living cell
Researchers from the University of Illinois developed GPU-accelerated software to simulate a cell that metabolizes and grows like a living cell.
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United flies passenger flight on sustainable aviation fuel supplying one engine
United Flies World’s First Passenger Flight On 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel Supplying One Of Its Engines
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Magic-trace: Diagnose tricky performance issues with Intel Processor Trace
Intel Processor Trace is a hardware technology that can record all program execution flow along with timing information accurate to around 30ns. As far as I ...
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Prime Video Uses WebAssembly
The switch to WebAssembly increases stability, speed.
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Writing an open source GPU driver without the hardware
Until now, no Valhall devices (Mali-G57, Mali-G78) ran mainline Linux - whilst this made driver development obviously difficult, there’s no better time to write drivers than before the devices even get into the hands of end users.
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The baseline for web development in 2022
TL;DR:The baseline for web development in 2022 is: low-spec Android devices in terms of performance, Safari from two years before in terms of W...
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Aligning Language Models to Follow Instructions
We’ve trained language models that are much better at following user intentions than GPT-3 while also making them more truthful and less toxic, using techniques developed through our alignment research. These InstructGPT models, which are trained with humans in the loop, are now deployed as the default language models…
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I read the federal government’s Zero-Trust Memo so you don’t have to
Yesterday, the Office and Management and Budget (OMB) released a memo:“Moving the U.S. Government Towards Zero Trust Cybersecurity Principles”. The memo…
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Mysterious object unlike anything astronomers have seen before
A team mapping radio waves in the Universe has discovered something unusual that releases a giant burst of energy three times an hour, and it’s unlike anything astronomers have seen before. The team who discovered it think it could be a neutron star or a white dwarf—collapsed cores of stars—with an ultra-powerful…
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Society has a trust problem. More censorship will only make it worse
We will always view censorship as a last resort, because we believe open discourse is better for writers and better for society.
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Google rewrites many page titles
Because titles are typically the first things users see in Google results, titles can have a large impact on click-through rates and the number of vis
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Run Ordinary Rails Apps Globally (2021)
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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The history of the end of poverty has just begun
The decline of global poverty is one of the most important achievements in history, but the end of poverty is still very far away.
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Why does the "chart increasing" emoji show in red?
It's a small but persistent emoji query: one that finds new life whenever there's a new development in the "stonks" discourse: why is the upward line on 📈 Chart Increasing displayed in the seemingly-counterintuitive color red? The answer to this question is actually quite simple, but is an
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Deno in 2021
Retrospect of what happened in 2021 and what's coming in 2022
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Radicale v3 Documentation
Free and Open-Source CalDAV and CardDAV Server
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Recovering redacted information from pixelated videos
We explore the history of image unblurring and present a simple yet effective technique to get a high-resolution image from a pixelated video in order to recover redacted information (with no guessing involved).
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We purchased a machine from China and it came with malware preinstalled
Zhengbang ZB3245 review. We bought a Zhengbang Pick & Place machine and this page tells you all about our experience of setting up and using.
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Around one-in-three children globally suffer from lead poisoning
Estimates suggest that around every third child in the world suffers from lead poisoning. What can we do to reduce this?
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Highlights from Git 2.35
The open source Git project just released Git 2.35. Here's GitHub's look at some of the most interesting features and changes.
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An Experience with Modafinil
An Experience with Modafinil. 'Caffeine's Smarter Sibling' by Medifinil
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Are popular toxicity models simply profanity detectors?
Are popular toxicity models simply profanity detectors? We show how toxicity models overweight profanity, and make mistakes when profanity is used in a positive way.