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The internet is held together with spit and baling wire
A visualization of the Internet made using network routing data. Image: Barrett Lyon, opte.org.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,820 posts.
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Classification of Omicron (B.1.1.529): SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern
The Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evolution (TAG-VE) is an independent group of experts that periodically monitors and evaluates the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 and assesses if specific mutations and combinations of mutations alter the behaviour of the virus. The TAG-VE was convened on 26 November 2021 to…
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Microsoft pushes ahead with controversial ‘buy now, pay later’ feature for Edge
We enable the world to secure the web. Burp Suite, the Web Security Academy, and world-leading research from PortSwigger — the AppSec community’s home.
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I wish I'd self-published sooner
It took until this year to write my first eBook and now it generates revenue while I sleep. What's holding you back? Learn from my experience so far.
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Kropotkin's 'The Conquest of Bread'
A blog containing essays, of varying cogency, about various things that my mind have wandered to.
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Every pricing page should have GIFs
Made in Notion, the connected workspace where AI agents and teams organize docs, projects and knowledge together.
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Multi-Account Containers to “Exchange messages with programs other than Firefox”
A new version of Firefox Multi-Account Containers requires permission to “Exchange messages with programs other than Firefox.”
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GetElementById vs. QuerySelector
A while ago, I was curious how the speed of document.getElementById compared to document.querySelector in Javascript for selecting a single element by ID. querySelector has to do a lot more work, so one would expect that it would be slower, but I didn't know if the difference was enough to care about.
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PHP 8.1.0
PHP 8.1 is a major update of the PHP language. Enums, readonly properties, first-class callable syntax, fibers, intersection types, performance improvements and more.
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Vulnerabilities in chips in 37% of smartphones
Highlights Check Point Research discovered vulnerabilities in MediaTek’s chips, embedded in 37% of all smartphones globally CPR discovered several %
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New differential fuzzing tool reveals novel HTTP request smuggling techniques
We enable the world to secure the web. Burp Suite, the Web Security Academy, and world-leading research from PortSwigger — the AppSec community’s home.
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Neural-control family: what deep learning and control enables in the real world
With the unprecedented advances of modern machine learning comes the tantalizing possibility of smart data-driven autonomous systems across a broad range of real-world settings. However, is machine learning (especially deep learning) really ready to be deployed in safety-critical systems?
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New German government calls for European ban on biometric mass surveillance
The newly-agreed German government coalition has called for a Europe-wide ban on public facial recognition and other biometric surveillance. This echoes the core demands of the Reclaim Your Face campaign which EDRi has co-led since 2020, through which over 65 civil society groups ask the EU and their national…
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Batteries included with Emacs (2020)
Emacs has a reputation for being borderline unusable out of the box, of being bloated but somehow surprisingly bare. This is largely a discoverability problem1. The solution the Internet has settled on seems to be “Emacs distributions” like Doom, Spacemacs or Prelude that glue together dozens (sometimes hundreds) of…
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Abstract Clojure
Depend on abstractions, not on concretions
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The fish shell is amazing
I’ve been lurking the fish shell for a couple of years now (and the nushell but it is another story for another time). Not so long ago, I decided to try it, and it’s simply… amazing. If I had to state one feature that makes me like to use it, it’ll be the autocompletion, hands down. It’s the first time I just take a…
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Underrated Reasons to Be Thankful
30 underrated reasons to be thankful, starting with the fact that atomic bombs don’t ignite the atmosphere
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Loopless Code (2006)
Most J programs contain no loops equivalent to while and for in C. J does contain while. and for. constructs, but they carry a performance penalty and are a wise choice only when the body of the loop is a time-consuming operation. You are just going to have to learn to learn to code without loops.
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Buying an ebike
You thought your family was going to be talking about web3 this Thanksgiving. But they’re actually talking about ebikes. Let’s help you prepare. Ebikes are about to change the world. They are already the best selling electric vehicles, and are selling as fast as factories can make them.
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Nvidia releases Paint me Picture – A web app for GauGAN2
GauGAN2, the latest version of NVIDIA Research’s wildly popular AI painting demo, allows anyone to create photorealistic masterpieces.
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Decompressing a Gzip File by Hand
2024 Update: Part 2 is out! Let’s make a gzipped file and see what’s in it. We’ll keep it simple: just write 8 ‘a’s to a file. $ echo "aaaaaaaa" > test.out $ xxd test.out 00000000: 6161 6161 6161 6161 0a aaaaaaaa. As we can see, our file is 9 bytes long. We have 8 ‘a’ bytes written, plus a Line Feed (LF) character…
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Zillow lost money because they weren't willing to lose money
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The Secret History of ATAPI
The other day I asked myself a seemingly trivial question: What was the first ATAPI CD-ROM drive and when was it available? Given that ATAPI was a major technology which instantly obsoleted all proprietary CD-ROM interfaces and made SCSI much less desirable, one might expect that there would have been some press…