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Five Most Productive Years: What Happened and What's Next
On his 65th birthday, Stephen Wolfram details how his 'now or never' thinking has made the last five years some of his most productive. Read about his projects in tech and science.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,273 posts.
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Bresenham's Circle Drawing Algorithm (2021)
Once upon a time I was given the following problem for a technical programming interview:
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Researchers find Alzheimer's-like brain changes in long Covid patients
New research from the University of Kentucky’s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging shows compelling evidence that the cognitive impairments observed in long COVID patients share striking similarities with those seen in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.
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Three questions to turn the table during technical interviews
Questions for when your interviewer says “Do you have any questions for me?”
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To Nerves from Elixir
I adore Nerves. I recently joined the core team. And I'll be doing my best to help people get along with this lovely way to co-mingle hardware and massively concurrent reliable software.
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500 Python Interpreters
As we approach the final release date for Python 3.13, I’ve seen an uptick in discussion regarding 3.13’s introduction of an optional GIL. While removing the GIL has been a long time coming for the average user (I’ve dreamt of this for nearly 20 years), there have actually been two concurrent efforts to improve…
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Programming Zero Knowledge Proofs: From Zero to Hero
Learn to write and modify Zero Knowledge Proofs from scratch. You'll build a digital signature scheme using hash-based commitments, gaining practical ZKP programming skills and intuition along the way. By the end, you'll have all the tools you need to implement things like group signatures.
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Tabbed out on the Oregon Trail
Powell's is rightly famed as a destination for book lovers, and I finally made my pilgrimage last weekend. The perils of air travel limited the inevitable splurge -- I had to fit my haul into a single backpack -- but I wound up with some nifty ...
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Rust's Ugly Syntax (2023)
People complain about Rust syntax. I think that most of the time when people think they have an issue with Rust's syntax, they actually object to Rust's semantics. In this slightly whimsical post, I'll try to disentangle the two.
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I'm blocking connections from AWS to my on-prem services
The direct result of bulletproof infrastructure / cloud providers which are "too big to fail" is the balkanized internet . I don't think this has fully come to pass, but it might be starting to happen or might come to pass soon.
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Firewall rules: not as secure as you think
A post outlining tricks for firewall privilege escalation
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The secret inside One Million Checkboxes
Teens wrote me a secret. I found them.
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Elasticsearch is open source, again
Elastic announces the return of open source licensing for Elasticsearch and Kibana, adding AGPL as an option alongside existing licenses. This change reinforces our long-standing commitment to open so...
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Dawn of a new era in Search: Balancing innovation, competition, and public good
Google search is in the news. Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google search is a monopoly and is behaving in a manner that suppresses search competition with their distribution agreements. The debate on this has started,...
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New 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 has 33% smaller die, 30% idle power savings
Raspberry Pi launched the 2 gig Pi 5 for $50, and besides half the RAM and a lower price, it has a new stepping of the main BCM2712 chip. This is the BCM2712 D0 stepping. Older Pi 5's shipped with a C1. In their blog post, they said: The new D0 stepping strips away all that unneeded functionality, leaving only the…
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Bypassing airport security via SQL injection
We discovered a serious vulnerability in the Known Crewmember (KCM) and Cockpit Access Security System (CASS) programs used by the Transportation Security Administration.
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Judges rule Big Tech's free ride on Section 230 is over
Algorithms are no longer a Get out of Jail free card. The Third Circuit ruled that TikTok must stand trial for manipulating children into harming themselves. The business model of big tech is over.
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Chrome is entrenching third-party cookies that will mislead users
Related Website Sets is a user-hostile weakening of the Web's privacy model, plainly designed to benefit websites and advertisers, to the detriment of user privacy.
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Update on Llama adoption
Llama models are approaching 350 million downloads to date, and they were downloaded more than 20 million times in the last month alone, making Llama the leading open source model family.
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Can solar costs keep shrinking?
The costs of some parts of solar farms will drop to near zero. But some obstacles remain to make this energy cheaply available everywhere. As a result, the entire energy industry will change. What are those obstacles? How will the industry change?
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Floating points between zero and one
floating-points-between-zero-and-one - Chad Nauseam Home
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How I learned to stop worrying and love userspace networking
Userspace wireguard is fun!
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How Intel Missed the iPhone: The XScale Era
Challenging the conventional narrative on Intel's smartphone miss
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Threads Enables Fediverse Replies
Last night Adam Mosseri, Head of Instagram, quitely announced the next step in the integration of Threads into the Fediverse. In addition to being able to follow Threads accounts from Fediverse/Mastodon accounts, we can now reply to and like Threads posts. Threads are taking a quiet, incremental approach to…
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Farewell Pandas, and thanks for all the fish
the portable Python dataframe library
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Memos: stick private notes on your email
Add a memo to an email to jot down private notes — remind yourself of tasks, record when you paid a bill, capture notes from a side conversation, or anything else!