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Flattening Quadratic Béziers
Blog of Raph Levien.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,838 posts.
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Stock Option Pricing Inference
I’m a stock market enthusiast 📈, so lately I have spent my spare time on the topic of stock option pricing, and I was curious to find out whether or not I could build a script that accurately reflected real market option prices. It turns out I came close, and learned a lot along the way, which I share in this article.
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Flight stats, entertainment, and trying to crack Widevine
Investigating onboard flight entertainment APIs, flight telemetry, and Widevine-protected media.
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The investigation into ToTok
triaging a massively popular iOS application, with a dark side
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Java JIT vs. Java AOT vs. Go for Small, Short-Lived Processes
Mario Macias' handcrafted blog
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Minimalism – An undervalued development skill
Here's a cheap trick to make a difference: focus on the bare essentials and get rid of the rest. It's easy to be different, because others are mostly doing
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Implementing WebGPU in Gecko
As WebGPU specification is approaching a usable shape, we are working on prototype implementations in both Gecko and Servo. If you ever wondered about what i...
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My Business Card Runs Linux
I’m an embedded systems engineer. I spend a lot of my free time looking for things I could use in future designs, or things that tickle one of my fancies.
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Social media bots often tweet fake health claims about cannabis: study
USC researchers analyzed thousands of tweets and found that social bots frequently shared false information about cannabis’s health benefits.
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How to Ruin a Company with One Bad Process (2014)
“Real quick, whole squad on that real sh*t 0 to 100, n***a, real quick” —Drake, “0 to 100/The Catch Up” I am a giant advocate for technical founders running their own companies, but one consistent way that technical founders deeply harm their businesses is by screwing up the budgeting process. Yes, the budgeting…
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Randomize HN: Removing the vote threshold for getting to the front page
You ever notice that there's this funny threshold for getting to the front page on sites like HN? The exact threshold varies depending on how much traffic there is, but, for articles that aren't wildly popular, there's this moment when the article is at N-1 votes. There is, perhaps, a 60% chance that the vote will…
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How to undo almost anything with Git (2015)
One of the most useful features of any version control system is the ability to "undo" your mistakes. In Git, "undo" can mean many slightly different things.
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How to Create the Apple Fifth Avenue Cube in WebGL
In September 2019 Apple reopened the doors of its historic store in the Fifth Avenue and to celebrate the special event
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Reviewing Bad Schematics as EE Interview Tactic
help your EE candidates strut their stuff
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Story of Odoo: Open-Sourced Competitor to Oracle, SAP
The most underrated Open Core Company out there
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Beyond L2 Loss – How We Experiment with Loss Functions
Estimating expected time of arrival (ETA) is crucial to what we do at Lyft. Estimates go directly to riders and drivers using our apps, as…
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Post-Mortem for Bra Theory
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Downsides to working at a tech giant
Hey everyone, new vlog for this morning. I was in Seattle last week and it made me nostalgic. When I lived there, I made a career decision that cost me a lot, so I wanted to share it with you with...
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Windows 0-day exploit used in Operation WizardOpium
During our investigation, we discovered that yet another 0-day exploit (CVE-2019-1458) was used in Operation WizardOpium attacks.
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Bazel 2.0
A new major version of Bazel, Bazel 2.0 has just been released. In particular, it brings some important flag flips that did not make it into Bazel 1.0 .
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Learn Rust the Dangerous Way
LRtDW is a series of articles putting Rust features in context for low-level C programmers who maybe don’t have a formal CS background — the sort of people who work on firmware, game engines, OS kernels, and the like. Basically, people like me.
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Simpler UI Logic With Finite State Machines
A site for cataloging the many technical musing of Andy Desmarais
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What's Amazon's market share? 35% or 5%?
Amazon is a big company, but what does that mean? How big is ‘big’? What does ‘dominant’ or ‘scale’ or ‘huge’ mean when US retail is $6 trillion every year?
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NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus Notes (2002)
Before the US crypto export regulations were finally disolved the export version of Lotus Notes used to include a key escrow / backdoor feature called differential cryptography. The idea was that they got permission to export 64 bit crypto if 24 of those bits were encrypted for the NSA's public key. The NSA would then…
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Predicting When P=NP Is Resolved
Has it outlasted the ability to estimate when? Composite of src1, src2 Ryohei Hisano and Didier Sornette wrote in 2012 a paper titled, “On the distribution of time-to-proof of mathematical co…
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JSON on the Command Line with Jq
A series of how to examples on using jq, a command-line JSON processor
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