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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,419 posts.
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Ditching the MacBook Pro for a MacBook Air
I'm Brad Frost, an independent creator, web designer & developer, teacher, speaker, writer, musician, and artist based in Pittsburgh, PA.
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Speeding up the charting of sensor information as a waveform graph
A common problem that we have seen come up in several projects, is how to plot large datasets over time in an efficient manner using Qt. Here is one approach that we have found to work well in some situations, maybe it helps you out in your project.
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Still in love with Rust
Notes by `dpc`
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Advanced web security topics
(Updated 22 May 2020) This post discusses web security issues that I come across – so far thankfully mostly by reading about them. It is a work in progress which I’ll keep updating. The…
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Slow Software
What it means for software to be fast, and why most software is not.
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Fast, Constant-Time Sphere Indexing
Map any 3D point on or above a triangle-subdivided sphere to a triangle index in constant time, without recursion, table lookups or complicated branching logic.
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Why Aren't There C Conferences?
Most widely-used programming languages have at least one regular conference dedicated to discussing it. Heck, even Lisp has one . It’s a place to talk about the latest developments of the language, recent and upcoming standards, and so on. However, C is a notable exception. Despite its role as the foundation of the…
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My hiring experience as a submarine sonar operator in the Norwegian Navy
As some of you know I spent a year on a submarine. This is the story about how that came about.
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CUDA 10 in Clojure
CUDA 10 support has just landed in ClojureCUDA with the latest version 0.6.0.
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Secure Boot in the Era of the T2
Explore the Duo Blog for expert tips, security insights, and resources to stay updated on the latest in security and access management trends.
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Concurrency Glossary
🦑 Informal definitions of terms used in concurrency modeling
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The EU Terrorist Content Regulation – a threat to the ecosystem and user rights
The EU has proposed a new law aimed at terrorist content online. Here we outline how the proposal poses a risk for rights and the internet ecosystem.
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Wooden bikes
WOODEN BIKES Do they break easily?Can they withstand rain?Can they be compared to regular bikes? – Questions similar to these are completely logical and expected since wooden bikes aren't too common. We have had the same questions and concerns ourselves and have tried our best to answer them. Not so long ago we even
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D compilation is too slow and I am forking the compiler
While working on my current project, the constant creep of increasing compilation times was becoming more and more noticeable. Even after throwing my usual tools at the problem, the total time was still over 7 seconds.
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Autodesk to Acquire PlanGrid (YC W12) to Accelerate Construction Productivity
Companies Aim to Improve Information Exchange Across All Construction Project Teams SAN RAFAEL, CA, Nov 20, 2018 — Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire PlanGrid, a leading provider of construction productivity software, for $875 million net of cash. This acquisition will enable…
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Django core no more
If you're not the sort of person who closely follows the internals of Django's development, you might not know there's …
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To predict the future, the brain uses two clocks
In sports, music and other activities, our movement is calculated in two different parts of the brain
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You might not need Kubernetes
Why use something bloated when you could use something minimal.
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For a brief period, the Windows kernel tried to deal with gamma rays
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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Shamir’s Secret Sharing Scheme
Consider a scenario in which you are tasked with managing the security of a bank's vault. The vault is considered impenetrable without a key, which you are g...
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The present phase of stagnation in the foundations of physics is not normal
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
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The Graphic Art of Incredibles 2
I remember seeing the first Incredibles film in college with a few friends. We went on opening night and the theater was packed. I remember thinking that the way the movie opened with the old film footage of a younger Mr Incredible, Elastigirl and Frozone being interviewed was such a different way t
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2018 Engineering Gift Guide
The INSPIRE Research Institute for Pre-College Engineering is a research center in the School of Engineering Education (the world's first) at Purdue University focusing on pre-college engineering education research and integration with science, technology, mathematics and literacy.
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A Guide to Statistics on Historical Trends in Income Inequality
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities2018105 points186 commentscited by 18Society, Policy & Culture details
Data from a variety of sources contribute to a broad picture of strong growth and shared prosperity during the early postwar period, followed by slower growth and greater inequality since the 1970s. Within these broad trends, however, different data tell slightly different parts of the story, and no single data source…
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Want to Recruit Better Engineers? Open Source Your Code
We analyzed the 30 most-applied-to U.S. tech companies of all time on AngelList and found that over half host open-source projects.
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