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Digitizing Smell: Using Molecular Maps to Understand Odor
Posted by Richard C. Gerkin, Google Research, and Alexander B. Wiltschko, Google Did you ever try to measure a smell? …Until you can measure their ...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,153 posts.
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Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs
We've got the wrong theory about how minds work and it's ruining our lives
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We Are Changing the License for Akka
Today, we're announcing a change to Akka's license model so that Akka can be a thriving project for many decades.
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Difftastic, the fantastic diff
programming, language design, and human factors
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New Text and Array Functions for Excel
We are excited to announce fourteen new Excel functions that will allow you to easily manipulate text and arrays.
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NASA selects SiFive and makes RISC-V the go-to ecosystem for future missions
SiFive X280 delivers 100x increase in computational capability with leading power efficiency, fault tolerance, and compute flexibility to propel next-generation planetary and surface missions
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A sequel to SQL? An intro to Malloy
Homepage of Carlin Eng
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Health insurers just published close to a trillion hospital prices
Blog for DoltHub, a website hosting databases made with Dolt, an open-source version-controlled SQL database with Git-like semantics.
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TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML
The HTML capture attribute is interesting because it allows you to activate a user's camera with just HTML. This article covers it in more depth.
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Someone’s Been Messing with My Subnormals
TL;DR: After noticing an annoying warning, I went on an absurd yak shave, and discovered that because of a tiny handful of Python packages b...
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Vulnerability Management for Go
Announcing vulnerability management for Go, to help developers learn about known vulnerabilities in their dependencies.
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What Should You Work On?
David shares how to make the best choices of what to work on in your life. Read here.
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The death of the PCIe expansion card
With the AM5 platform from AMD on the horizon, five major motherboard manufacturers have annonced their flagship motherboards with the X670E chipset. Some of them are having fun with this generation’s multi-faceted step into “five”: AM5, PCIe Gen 5.0, DDR5, 5nm process, boost clocks over 5GHz, you catch the drift. But…
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The tyranny of the wagon equation
A mathematical extension to ACOUP's recent blog post on military logistics
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Bitwarden raises $100M
A message from the Bitwarden CEO on accelerating value for Bitwarden users and customers.
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Weird Al had 100 gigs of RAM
So many lines in that song have been surpassed, but RAM sticks out as something that hasn’t.
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Revisiting the design approach to Zig
Zig is a general-purpose programming language that can act as a drop-in replacement for C / C++, letting you incrementally improve your code base.
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A Message from Signal's New President
On September 12 I’ll be stepping into the role of Signal’s President, a new position created in collaboration with Signal’s leadership. I am thrilled, and I can’t think of a more meaningful use of my time, or a greater honor. I’ve been a friend, admirer, and champion of Signal since it was RedPho...
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The history of sending signals to Unix process groups
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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OpenWrt 22.03
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My goal of closing 10% of Emacs bugs (2020)
Hey! Target reached: Bragging time! I mean, this is the irregular Emacs update … stats … report… thing… So, I’m gamifying Emacs development by setting myself a goal of…
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Dreamy Blur
One day I saw a few pictures shared by my friend Fish. I was attracted by their slight blur and the subtle glowing effects, and wondered what kind of filter function was used. But then she told me it's just because the camera lens wasn't wiped clean.
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Static site hosting hurdles
When it comes to static sites, there are a myriad of solutions for authoring and compiling, but talk about hosting these static sites, and we are still in the early 2000s. I discuss the challenges one faces when hosting, and even make a proposal to solve some of these.
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How to present backend demos
Made in Notion, the connected workspace where AI agents and teams organize docs, projects and knowledge together.
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Cheating at chess with a computer for my shoes
I have come up with a new way to win at chess: I have connected up a Raspberry Pi Zero in my pocket to some buttons and vibration motors in my shoes, so that I can surreptitiously communicate with a chess engine running on the Pi. The project is called "Sockfish" because it's a way to operate Stockfish with your socks.
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Accidental complexity, essential complexity, and Kubernetes
Cloud infrastructure for teams that develop, train, and serve AI applications at scale.
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Apple II Desktop Updated
The Apple II Desktop has been updated. Version 1.2 Alpha 48 includes a ton of updates. The program is now available in eight languages. Updated features include: General Added Sample.Media folder with some samples of various file types.Improved appearance of keyboard shortcuts in buttons.Improve appearance of ()^…
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The Sheer Terror of PAM
Xe Iaso's personal website.