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FedEx shipping damage creates fractured artworks
Since 2007, artist Walead Beshty has been cleverly using FedEx’s shipping infrastructure to create a series of artworks. He constructs glass objects that fit ex
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,820 posts.
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Porting Firefox to Apple Silicon
The release of Apple Silicon based Macs at the end of last year generated a flurry of news and some surprises at the machine’s performance.
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Flow-Based Programming
Official website for flow-based programming
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I no longer trust The Great Suspender
I know a number of folks use The Great Suspender to automatically suspend inactive browser tabs in Chrome. Apparently recent versions of this extension have been taken over by a shady anonymous entity and is now flagged by Microsoft as malware . Notably the most recent version of the extension (v7.1.8) has added…
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Red Hat announces no-cost RHEL for small production environments
Introducing new no-cost RHEL programs for small production deployments and enterprise development teams.
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Update: YouTube-dl reinstated thanks to EFF (2020)
In October, the popular and famous archivist tool youtube-dl was taken down by GitHub due to a DMCA request by the Recording Industry Association of America. I posted a detailed analysis explaining the relation between international, US, EU and German law, and showing why this request was very different from what most…
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Tailscale on NixOS: A New Minecraft Server in Ten Minutes
How to provision a new NixOS machine on Digital Ocean with nixos-infect and automatically connect it to your Tailscale network, then use that server to set up a fully private Minecraft world.
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The Unauthorized Story of Andreessen Horowitz
Why media whisperer Margit Wennmachers is going direct.
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USN AN-1 Submarine Aircraft Carrier (2018)
**US Navy SubmarineAircraft Carrier design** In the late 1950s the US Navy experimented with the concept of aircraft carrying submarines armed with jet fighters… Read More >….
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Java on Truffle – Going Fully Metacircular
Up until now, GraalVM has offered two ways to run Java programs: using the Java HotSpot VM with the GraalVM JIT (just-in-time) compiler…
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Exploring the Supply Chain of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 Vaccines
Sections of this post were co-authored by Cornelia Scheitz. Noah Leidinger created a German translation. Piotr Kwapin created a Polish translation. Last updated on February 7, 2021. Bert Hubert’s excellent and widely shared article about Reverse Engineering the source code of the Pfizer-BioNTech SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine is…
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Storming Reddit's Moat
A Guide to Reddit, Its Key Competitive Advantages, and How to Unbundle It
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IPFS Support in Brave
Over the past several months, the Brave team has been working with Protocol Labs on adding InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) support in Brave. This is the first deep integration of its kind and we’re very proud to outline how it works in this post.
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The State of State Machines
Posted by Natalie Silvanovich, Project ZeroOn January 29, 2019, a serious vulnerability was ...
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Make Your Own Internet Archive with Archive Box
Nixintel Open Source Intelligence & Investigations2021257 points77 commentsTools & Productivity details
One of the biggest challenges of internet investigation is preserving data once you’ve found it. We have access to more information than ever before, but so much of it can be easily lost if w…
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Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook
Facebook suspended President Trump following the mob attack on Congress. But the platform allowed organizing for the pro-Trump rally, as well as the spread of conspiracy theories and militant extremism that drove the rioters.
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Radio users reminded not to use radios in crimes
The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the national association for amateur radio, connecting hams around the U.S. with news, information and resources.
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Python 3's F-Strings: An Improved String Formatting Syntax
Python f-strings give you a readable, concise way to interpolate and format strings, and they beat .format() and the % operator on speed.
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Container networking is simple (2020)
Begin with the basics to understand Docker and Kubernetes networking: learn how to create and interconnect Linux network namespaces using only command-line tools.
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Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing
We've had a few questions about our recent license change to Elasticsearch and Kibana.
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Parler Tricks: Making Software Disappear
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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Intel Problems
Intel is in much more danger than its profits suggest; the problems are a long time in the making, and the solution is to split up the company.
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Again on 0-based vs. 1-based indexing
André Garzia made a nice blog post called “Lua, a misunderstood language” recently, and unfortunately (but perhaps unsurprisingly) a bulk of HN comments on it was about the age-old 0-based vs. 1-based indexing debate. You see, Lua uses 1-based indexing, and lots of programmers claimed this is unnatural because “every…
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Soyuz spacecraft digital clock teardown
We recently obtained a clock that flew on a Soyuz space mission. 1 The clock, manufactured in 1984, is much more complex inside than you'd ...
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Raspberry Pi Lego Sorter
Raspberry Pi is at the heart of this AI-powered, automated sorting machine that's capable of recognising and sorting any LEGO brick.
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Periodical cicada Brood X will emerge in 15 states in 2021
Magicicada periodical cicadas often emerge one or four years earlier or later than their main brood is expected to emerge. When they do, we call them precursors or stragglers (the most common name in scientific literature). This behavior is natural and expected, and how Magicicada have branched off into new broods…
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User power, not power users: htop and its design philosophy
This short story is not really about htop, or about the feature request that I’ll use as an illustration, but about what are the core principles that drive the development of a bit of software, down to every last detail. And by “core principles” I really mean it.