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The “Why your anti-spam idea won’t work” checklist
This comes up regularly on Slashdot and I find it hilarious each time, but can never find it when I go looking for it. So, here it is:
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,567 posts.
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Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Verizon’s websites
Verizon Media’s search engines promises “unbiased” search results, but serves results clearly favoring the company’s media websites over competitors.
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How to get your money back on a non-refundable hotel
From a friend, a few days ago: We were supposed to be in Vienna today for a short vacation, but the city is at high risk and we […]
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Looking inside a vintage Soviet TTL logic integrated circuit
This blog post examines a 1980s chip used in a Soyuz space clock. The microscope photo below shows the tiny silicon die inside the package, ...
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Don't Terminate People's Internet Connections
Here is a plea to keep Internet services on in these times where we rely on online communications.
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Outbreak – playable simulations of a disease outbreak
A playable disease simulation
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Rewriting the heart of our sync engine
Over the past four years, we've been working hard on rebuilding our desktop client's sync engine from scratch. The sync engine is the magic behind the Dropbox folder on your desktop computer, and it's one of the oldest and most important pieces of code at Dropbox. We're proud to announce today that we've shipped this…
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Air pollution
Air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year. WHO data shows that 9 out of 10 people breathe air containing high levels of pollutants. WHO is working with countries to monitor air pollution and improve air quality.
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NPM Is Joining GitHub
We're excited to announce that npm will be joining GitHub.
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GitHub blocked me and all my libraries
My name is Nikolay. I’m a web developer from Moscow, Russia. My hobby is writing Open Source libraries (libphonenumber-js…
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Formal GDPR complaint against Google’s internal data free-for-all
Brave filed a GDPR complaint v Google for infringing the GDPR “purpose limitation” principle. Enforcement would be tantamount to a functional separation of Google’s business.
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How I recorded an album on my own, in my room
Detailed overview of what I learned and what I did to record and publish an album on my own, from my room
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Writing an SDK with Core Bluetooth
Software Development For People That Help People.
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I am mesmerized by our new robotic vacuum (2019)
Disclaimer: this is more a rant than anything else. Maybe more #crazydudewontstoptalkingavoidthewate...
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Why Not WireGuard
The latest thing that is getting a lot of attention is WireGuard - the new shooting star in terms of VPN. But is it as great as it sounds? I would like to discuss some thoughts, have a look at the implementation and tell you why WireGuard is not a solution that will replace IPsec or OpenVPN.
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Text Processing in the Shell
A quick overview of the most common text processing terminal tools and why they should be part of your day-to-day toolbox.
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Getting started with shaders: signed distance functions
Getting started with shaders: signed distance functions!
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Mishap during experiment led quantum researchers to crack a 58-year-old puzzle
A mishap during an experiment led UNSW quantum computing researchers to crack a mystery that had stood since 1961.
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Timeouts and cancellation for humans (2018)
Your code might be perfect and never fail, but unfortunately the outside world is less reliable. Sometimes, other people's programs crash or freeze. Networks go down; printers catch on fire . Your code needs to be prepared for this: every time you read from the network, attempt to acquire an inter-process lock, or…
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Using JAX, numpy, and optimization techniques to improve separable image filters
By the end of this blog post, we aim to improve the results of my previous blog post of approximating circular bokeh with a sum of 4 separable filters and reducing its artifacts (left) through an o…
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Finding McAfee: a case study on geoprofiling and imagery analysis
Identify past, current, and possible future locations through the geolocation and chronolocation of media provided by a specific user.
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Zero Trust Networks
I am leery of jargon. I am as guilty of using it as the next engineer, but there comes a point where there are just too many precise, narrowly-understood terms polluting your vocabulary. The circle of people you can talk to shrinks until going to the store to buy milk feels like an exercise in speaking a foreign…
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Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big (1991)
Lisp has done quite well over the last ten years: becoming nearly standardized, forming the basis of a commercial sector, achieving excellent performance, having good environments, able to deliver applications. Yet the Lisp community has failed to do as well as it could have. In this paper I look at the successes, the…
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Our Experience with Stripe Atlas
What its like to start a company with Stripe Atlas
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Funding for Covid-19 Projects
I’m trying to fund startups/projects helping with COVID-19, because it’s basically the one thing I know how to do that can help. I think we will soon have enough testing capacity, so now I’d like...