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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,419 posts.
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YC’s 2018 Summer Reading List
A post about summer reading [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17513576] on Hacker News inspired us to put a list together for 2018. Here’s what we’ve been reading. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Years of Lyndon Johnson…
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Looking Glass – A new type of holographic interface
The holographic display of the future is here and you can have one on your desk for under $600. Ever since I saw Princess Leia appealing to Obi Wan that
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Around 90% of all river-borne plastic that ends up in the ocean comes from just 10 rivers
The world has become increasingly alarmed at the amount of plastic in its oceans. But where does all this plastic waste come from?
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Portable Cloud Programming with Go Cloud
Announcing Go Cloud, for portable cloud programming with Go.
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Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2018
This review looks at the quarterly and lifetime statistics for 98,184 hard drives with a focus on consumer vs. enterprise drive reliability.
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The Free Stack – Running Your Application for Free on AWS
We live in interesting times. The cloud offerings from Amazon, Google and Microsoft have led to a situation where world-class infrastructure is available to startups and solopreneurs for very cheap, and most of the times, they can even get started for free.
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Hackers Breached Virginia Bank Twice in Eight Months, Stole $2.4M
Hackers used phishing emails to break into a Virginia bank in two separate cyber intrusions over an eight-month period, making off with more than $2.4 million total. Now the financial institution is suing its insurance provider for refusing to fully cover the losses.
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Our Use of Haskell and Elm
Over the last year, our team has built a beautiful and advanced Smart Cities system using functional languages. I wrote this document to explain our technology choices to stakeholders and partners.
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Efficiently Generating a Number in a Range
The vast majority of my posts about random number generation have focused on looking at the properties of different generation schemes. But, perhaps surprisingly, the performance of your randomized a
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The Cosmetic Class
What happens when a society with a penchant for the cosmetic meets a medium dominated by it? “The medium is the message.” Or so goes the famous saying from media scholar Marshall McLuhan, widely re…
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ReactOS 0.4.9 released
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
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The Next 10 Years Will Be About “Market-Networks”
Market-networks will produce a new class of unicorn companies and impact how millions of service professionals will work and earn their living.
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Google: Security Keys Neutralized Employee Phishing
Google has not had any of its 85,000+ employees successfully phished on their work-related accounts since early 2017, when it began requiring all employees to use physical Security Keys in place of passwords and one-time codes, the company told KrebsOnSecurity.
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Optimizing a breadth-first search
Optimizing a breadth-first search of an implicit graph for secondary storage, and memory use in general.
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Sony Releases Stacked CMOS Sensor for Smartphones with 48 Effective Megapixels
Tokyo, Japan—Sony Corporation today announced the upcoming release of the IMX586 stacked CMOS image sensor for smartphone cameras. The new sensor features 48 effective megapixels, the industry's highest pixel count.
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Whole House Fan and Evaporative Cooler
In dry climates it's common for people to use evaporative ("swamp") coolers; same idea as sweat evaporating off your skin cooling you off. The downside is that they increase humidity in the air, and if it's already pretty humid then that can make things uncomfortable. This means evaporative coolers are rarely used…
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Scala: Understanding implicits
In previous posts, we covered the most popular implicit use cases. What is left to complete the picture is the mechanics of implicits itself.
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How JPEG actually works (2006)
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Shedding Too Much Light on a Microcontroller's Firmware Protection (2017)
Proceedings of the 11th USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT '17) - Vancouver, BC, Canada CVE number 2017-18347
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Why Intel will never let owners control the ME
The Intel Management Engine is an auxillary microprocessor embedded into modern Intel x86 CPUs or chipsets. 1 It runs an Intel-signed proprietary binary blob. Due to code signing restrictions enforced by the hardware, it cannot be modified or replaced by the user. (AMD x86 CPUs have a similar auxillary microprocessor…
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