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Secret 3D scans in the French Supreme Court
The Rodin Museum and the French Ministry of Culture threaten freedom of information and public access to cultural heritage
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,273 posts.
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Using static websites for tiny archives
I've been creating small, hand-written websites to organise my files. It's a lightweight, flexible approach that I hope will last a long time.
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DHL pioneered the sharing economy (2016)
DHL was guaranteed timely delivery of critical business documents by giving away airplane tickets. That made it was a pioneer in the sharing economy.
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SOFA - Start Often Finish rArely
SOFA is the name of a hacker/art collective, and also the name of the principle upon which the club was founded.
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Why does everyone run ancient Postgres versions?
Many companies are running old Postgres versions and missing out on many improvements. The reasons: Postgres works and upgrades suck.
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Where the Digital Sidewalk Ends
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Is Matt Mullenweg defending WordPress or sabotaging it?
I realize that many people may not know or care who or what Matt Mullenweg and WordPress are, or why some people are upset about them, but after giving it a lot of thought (okay, about 10 minutes of thought) I decided to write about it anyway. I'm writing
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setBigTimeout
setTimeout breaks after 25 days. setBigTimeout doesn't.
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Qualcomm cancels Snapdragon Dev Kit, refunds all orders
This afternoon I received the following email from Arrow, regarding the Snapdragon Developer Kit for Windows: Dear Valued Customer, Please see this important message from Qualcomm: ”At Qualcomm, we are dedicated to pioneering leading technology and delivering premium experiences to our valued customers. The launch of…
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JSON Patch
JSON Patch is a simple, efficient, and standardized way to apply partial updates to JSON documents, especially over HTTP. Learn how it works in production.
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Industrious Dice
I’m a professional mathematician. That means somebody pays me to do math. I’m also a recreational mathematician. That means you might have to pay me to get me to stop. Wearing my recreational mathe…
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Unit tests as documentation
Unit tests are always in sync with the code, making them a powerful tool for up-to-date documentation.
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NotebookLM launches feature to customize and guide audio overviews
NotebookLM is piloting a way for teams to collaborate, and introducing a new way to customize Audio Overviews.
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Pg_parquet: An extension to connect Postgres and parquet
Crunchy Data is excited to release a new extension so you can write Postgres data to Parquet and or pull data from Parquet to Postgres. Craig has the details and sample code.
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Why conventional wisdom on health care is wrong (a primer) (2020)
Rich countries consume much higher quantities via higher intensity/tech. It's NOT high and rising: wages, profits, administration, encounters, etc. Income well explains American behavior here too.
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Understanding how bureaucracy develops
understanding how actions taken with the best of intentions can put your organization in a straightjacket
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What do you visualize while programming?
Thinking about thinking when coding, and the differences in what we see in our minds eye
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Video scraping: extracting JSON from a 35s screen capture for 1/10th of a cent
The other day I found myself needing to add up some numeric values that were scattered across twelve different emails. I didn’t particularly feel like copying and pasting all of …
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My solar-powered and self-hosted website
How I built a solar-powered, self-hosted website with a Raspberry Pi to explore sustainable, local-first web hosting.
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Adding syntax to the CPython interpreter
Now lets's change the grammar so that if we don't have an else condition we default to None .
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Escaping the Chrome Sandbox Through DevTools
This blog post details how I found CVE-2024-6778 and CVE-2024-5836, which are vulnerabilities within the Chromium web browser which allowed for a sandbox escape from a browser extension.
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Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users
Cloudflare's security features could be blocking RSS feed users from accessing your website
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Should We Chat, Too? Security Analysis of WeChat's Mmtls Encryption Protocol
This report performs the first public analysis of MMTLS, the main network protocol used by WeChat, an app with over one billion users. The report finds that MMTLS is a modified version of TLS, however some of the modifications have introduced cryptographic weaknesses.
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We outsmarted CSGO cheaters with IdentityLogger
Learn how IdentityLogger used fingerprinting to combat ban evasion, protecting our CSGO community from relentless cheaters.
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Optimizing the Ion compiler back end
In September, machine learning engineers at Mozilla filed a bug report indicating that Firefox was consuming excessive memory and CPU resources while running Microsoft’s ONNX Runtime (a machine learning library) compiled to WebAssembly.
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ArchiveBox is evolving: the future of self-hosted internet archives
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It's not enough for a program to work – it has to work for the right reasons
Successful software is buggy software.
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Un Ministral, Des Ministraux
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