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Black currants were banned in the USA (2017)
Do you know what got black currants banned? They nearly destroyed a huge part of American forests. Find out how this healthy berry became a threat.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,909 posts.
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Reasons to not use your own domain for email
Reasons to not use your own domain for email on Eduardo Bautista's blog.
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Death by a Thousand Microservices
The software industry is learning once again that complexity kills
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Hacking the Book8088 for better accuracy
The Book8088 is an interesting little machine. It is essentially a 1980's computer in a laptop form factor. With apologies to Sergey Kiselev...
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Arxiv.org is experiencing a DDoS attack
arXiv users may be experiencing email disruption due to a DDOS attack. Over the past few days, a small number of users issued over a million email change…
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JEP 454: Foreign Function and Memory API
Introduce an API by which Java programs can interoperate with code and data outside of the Java runtime. By efficiently invoking foreign functions (i.e., code outside the JVM), and by safely accessing foreign memory (i.e., memory not managed by the JVM), the API enables Java programs to call native libraries and…
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OpenSSL 1.1.1 End of Life
OpenSSL 1.1.1 series has reached its End of Life (EOL). As such it will no longer receive publicly available security fixes.
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The Power of Prolog
Facets of Prolog
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Blood pressure should be measured lying down: study
Research Highlights: An analysis of data from a long-running study of more than 11,000 adults from four diverse communities in the United States has found that adults who had high blood pressure while both seated upright and lying supine (flat on ...
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A Multi-Level View of LLM Intentionality
Prompted by Keith Frankish's recent streamed discussion of LLM intentionality on YouTube , there's a particular idea I wanted to share which...
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WiFi can read through walls
UCSB researchers’ new method enables high-quality imaging of still objects with WiFi by using the Geometrical Theory of Diffraction and the corresponding Keller cones to trace edges of the objects.
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You Don't Need UUID
I've experienced first-hand how using UUID hurts the usability of computer systems, and I want you to understand why you certainly don't need it.
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Develop with Cocoa for Apple devices without using Objective-C
Summary In this post I’ll go into detail about how, during my contracting work for Shimmer Industries (a company founded by Eskil Steenberg which is focused on developing a real-time lighting designing software), I worked on a piece of software which enabled us to use the MacOS and iOS APIs using a custom C API…
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Nvidia’s AI supremacy is only temporary
Nvidia is an amazing company that has executed a contrarian vision for decades, and has rightly become one of the most valuable corporations on the planet thanks to its central role in the AI revol…
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Unix Domain Sockets vs Loopback TCP Sockets (2014)
Two communicating processes on a single machine have a few options. They can use regular TCP sockets, UDP sockets, unix domain sockets, or shared memory. A recent project I was working on used Node…
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Intuitively Understanding Harris Corner Detector
If you ever tried to learn how the Harris corner detection algorithm works, you might have noticed that the process is not intuitive at all. First, you start with an energy function, approximate it using Taylor approximation, get a matrix from that, then find the eigenvalues of that matrix, etc. But when you come to…
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Beyond OpenAPI
Let's write the docs like it's 2023.
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A LLM+OLAP Solution
The exploration of a LLM+OLAP solution is a bumpy journey, but phew, it now works well for the Tencent case, and they're writing down every lesson learned to share with you.
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A systematic approach to debugging
I've got a reputation at work as being a skilled debugger. It's a frequent occurrence that the weird stuff lands on my desk [1] after it goes through another skilled engineer or two. To say my job is substantially "debug the weird shit" would not be an understatement and I'm here for it.
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Removing garbage collection from the Rust language (2013)
I've been floating ways to simplify the memory management story in Rust around the core team lately. Memory management is a contentious topic, since we've worked hard to get to the current state of things, and with the push toward stability lately, there is a (quite reasonable!) resistance to any changes at this…
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HDMI ISA graphics card for vintage PCs by improving the Graphics Gremlin
HDMI is a relatively modern video connector we take for granted on modern PCs and monitors. Now vintage PCs can join in the fun too with a native connection to modern HDMI monitors without any additional adapter. (A production run has been made for this board. You can contact explit[at]mailbox[dot]org if you wish to…
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UK air traffic control meltdown
Some notes about the UK air traffic control meltdown
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Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users
Microsoft announces vague changes to the default web browser setting for Windows Insider. Nothing but wishful thinking. Still force-opens web links in Edge.
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The Awk book’s 60-line version of Make
A discussion of the minimal version of Make included in 'The AWK Programming Language', as well as a Python port of the AWK program.
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RISC-V SBI and the full boot process
Detailed explanation on how RISC-V boot process works and what role SBI has in the RISC-V software stack. Concrete example with OpenSBI.
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Static Hermes: Compile JavaScript to speed it up 300x (in microbenchmarks)
How to speed up a ubenchmark 300x Static Hermes: How to Speed Up a Micro-benchmark by 300x Without Cheating This is th...
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Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale (2014)
In the first 45-minutes the market was open the faulty software deployment sent millions of child orders into the market resulting in 4 million transactions against 154 stocks for more than 397 mil…
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Mistakes You Should Never Make (2014)
I was walking to a team meeting where I was going to announce that we would likely have to lay off nearly all of our employees because we unexpectedly had almost no money left, and that it was all my fault.
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Why SaaS prices are still going up when companies are spending less
Discover why software prices surge despite reduced spending. Explore the 2023 landscape of hikes, inflation, and AI investments.