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The business of wallets
How digital wallets work, and how payment costs drive a lot of product decisions inside and around them.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,899 posts.
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Rewriting the Technical Interview (2020)
Update, November 2023: here are the full term rewrite and language macros which formed the seed of this story. These files include OO notation as well as the basic Algol syntax shown here. There is also a sketch of an object-oriented language with classes and inheritance, implemented as a Clojure macro. I do not…
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A recent security incident involving Dropbox Sign
Information on a security incident involving Dropbox Sign.
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The world's loudest Lisp program to the rescue
Programming blog of Eugene
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Cognition: A new antisyntax language redefining metaprogramming
Other languages are inflexible and broken. Let's fix that.
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Hacking on PostgreSQL is hard
Hacking on PostgreSQL is really hard. I think a lot of people would agree with this statement, not all for the same reasons. Some might poin...
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The Adwaita Icon Theme no longer follows the FDO spec, breaking e.g. KDE apps
How it shall look… Linux & BSDs Windows macOS State on Fedora 40 Workstation & XFCE Spin… Screenshots taken from the GNOME bugtracker, copies to not stall their GitLab instance. I think that is rather unpleasant and for e.g. the left icon-only border just an unusable insult.
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The AWS S3 Denial of Wallet Amplification Attack
If you publicly host large data files on AWS S3 & pay for transfer costs, you may be vulnerable to a “Denial of Wallet” amplification…
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Evolving the Go Standard Library with math/rand/v2
Go 1.22 adds math/rand/v2 and charts a course for the evolution of the Go standard library.
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The LaserDisc
The first mass market optical media
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The European Union's remarkable growth performance relative to the United States
The EU has outperformed the US on per-capita output growth; in terms of output per hour worked, some EU countries are as productive as the US
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Invisible Stitch: Generating Smooth 3D Scenes with Depth Inpainting
We introduce a depth completion network that allows generating geometrically coherent 3D scenes, and present a new benchmarking scheme for scene generation methods that is based on ground truth geometry.
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LLMs can't do probability
I've seen a couple of recent posts where the writer mentioned asking LLMs to do something with a certain probability or a certain percentage of the time. There is a particular example that stuck in my mind which I've since lost the link to (If you're the author, please get in touch so I can link through to you): The…
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DEA Accepts Health Agency's Recommendation to Reclassify Cannabis
Determination must be reviewed by the White House Office of Management and Budget
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How to install Linux from a Windows installer
I'm not sure why you would want to do this. Presumably for the same reason as me? I also don't know what that was.
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Printing Music with CSS Grid
Music notation should be as accessible and as fluid as text is on the web. CSS Grid helps us get there.
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Passkey Implementation: Misconceptions, pitfalls and unknown unknowns
Read about the challenges, pitfalls and misconceptions we faced while developing our passkey-first authentication solution and passkey intelligence.
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Rama is a testament to the power of Clojure
It took more than ten years of full-time work for Rama to go from an idea to a production system. I shudder to think of how long it would have taken without Clojure. Rama is a programming platform …
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The File Filesystem (2021)
mount semi-structured data (like JSON) as a Unix filesystem
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Dear Europe, please wake up
Europe is special to me as I consider myself a proud European, but damn we need to talk. Europe please wake up.
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Alice's adventures in a differentiable wonderland
A free, self-contained introduction to neural networks and differentiable programming, from automatic differentiation to transformers, with additional chapters on advanced topics.
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Enzymes open new path to universal donor blood
Researchers at DTU and Lund University have discovered enzymes that remove hindrances that stood in the way of developing universal donor blood.
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OpenTofu 1.7.0 is out with State Encryption, Dynamic Provider-defined Functions
OpenTofu 1.7.0 is now available with full state encryption, dynamic provider-defined functions, the removed and loopable import blocks, new migration guides, and much more.
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Not all graphs are trees
It's pretty easy to imagine how to represent relational algebra expressions as a tree—they are already structurally rooted trees where each operator has its...
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A few facts about POSIX
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Why SQLite Uses Bytecode
Every SQL database engine works in roughly the same way: It first translates the input SQL text into a "prepared statement". Then it "executes" the prepared statement to generate a result.
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FireChat was a tool for revolution, then disappeared
With FireChat, people were free to communicate and coordinate with each other without the message having to first filter through someone's data center. Why did the app shut down without notice?