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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,763 posts.
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Debugging an evil Go runtime bug
From heat guns to kernel compiler flags
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How Jet Built a GPU-Powered Fulfillment Engine with F# and CUDA
Have you ever looked at your shopping list and tried to optimize your trip based on things like distance to store, price, and number of items you can buy at each store? The quest for a smarter…
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Andrew Wiles on the struggle and beauty of mathematics
Roger Highfield explores the beauty of mathematics at a recent event at the Science Museum
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The Trouble with Politicians Sharing Passwords
Yesterday I had a bunch of people point me at a tweet from a politician in the UK named Nadine Dorries [https://twitter.com/NadineDorries]. As it turns out, some folks were rather alarmed about her position on sharing what we would normally consider to be a secret. In this
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Building a Regex Engine in Fewer Than 40 Lines of Code
A blog about programming and modern web development, particularly Node.js and React
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Theoretical Machine Learning Lecture Series: Deep Learning and Cognition
Deep learning, which is the reemergence of artificial neural networks, has recently succeeded as an approach towards artificial intelligence. In many fields, including computational linguistics, deep learning approaches have largely displaced earlier machine learning approaches, due to the superior performance they…
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Hands-on with the PocketBeagle: a $25 Linux computer with lots of I/O pins
The PocketBeagle is a tiny but powerful inexpensive key-fob-sized open source Linux computer. It has 44 digital I/O pins, 8 analog input...
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Redoing all my home networking
How I set up my home lab to be my very own cloud.
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Randomize your WiFi MAC address on Ubuntu
Your device’s MAC address can be used to track you across the WiFi networks you connect to. That data can be shared and sold, and often identifies you as an individual. It’s possible to limit this tracking by using pseudo-random MAC addresses.
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Can I erase sensitive data on an old hard drive with Neodymium Magnets?
Discover secure hard drive destruction methods using powerful magnets to safeguard sensitive data.
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Where People Spend the Most and Least on Rent in America
The places in America where you'll spend a lot of your income on rent. And places where you won't.
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Postmortem: Every Frame a Painting
Every Frame a Painting is officially dead. Nothing sinister; we just decided to end it.
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Taking Children Seriously
Read Elliot Temple's essay about Taking Children Seriously.
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A Secretly Detained American Has Asked for a Lawyer – But Gov Won’t Give Him One
An American being held without charges by the U.S. military in Iraq has asked for an attorney, the ACLU finally learned last night following an extraordinary court hearing . The government is resisting our efforts to make contact with the man so he can challenge his detention, in an outrageous violation of the basic…
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Maintaining an Independent Browser Is Expensive
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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A primer on Elixir Stream
ReactJS Elixir Erlang Golang D3 scalable web services developers
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When the Judge Distrusts Your Lawyers
Uber is in trouble. The trial between Alphabet’s Waymo and Uber over Waymo’s self-driving car trade secrets was scheduled to begin on December 4th before Judge William Alsup, of Oracle v. Google fame. (Readers familiar with coverage of that case know how smart and tough he is). According to published reports, at the…
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Detailed Financial Histories Exposed for Thousands
111 GB of internal customer information from National Credit Federation was left exposed in a publicly downloadable data repository. This is its story.
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A faster way to make Bose-Einstein condensates
MIT physicists have developed a faster way to make Bose-Einstein condensates, to speed up investigations into magnetism and superconductivity.
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The destruction of graduate education in the United States
If and when you emerged from your happiness bubble to read the news, you’ll have seen (at least if you live in the US) that the cruel and reckless tax bill has passed the House of Representat…