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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,426 posts.
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Using Waifu2x to Upscale Japanese Prints
In my spare time I’ve been working on a database of Japanese prints for a little over 3.5 years now. I’m fully aware that I’ve never actually written about this, personally very important, project on my blog — until now. Unfortunately this isn’t a post explaining that project. I do still hope to write more about the…
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Ta'izz
I wake up to a gorgeous morning in Ibb. This time I’ve slept through the morning call to prayer and the sun is well up in the sky. Out the window there’s a view of a regular city against a backdrop of green mountains, with some construction equipment in the near foreground, and it takes my groggy mind a minute to…
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Understanding C by learning assembly
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
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Voxel Quest Fluid Dynamics and New Rendering Method
Fluid works quite well now. Constant volume, pressure, multithreaded, 2 mil units. #gamedev pic.twitter.com/mYUoF9L9wj
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Just Don't Hire 0x Engineers
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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WooThemes joins Automattic
Today marks the beginning of the next exciting chapter in our journey as WooThemes: we are joining the Automattic family!
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How to Write with Style (1985)
Newspaper reporters and technical writers are trained to reveal almost nothing about themselves in their writings. This makes them freaks in the world of writers, since almost all of the other ink-stained wretches in that world reveal a lot about themselves to readers. We call these revelations, accidental and…
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CoreOS and the the Future of the Internet
Use Equinix Fabric to establish direct, low-latency connections to a variety of services providers.
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I Want Your AOL CDs
Yes, yes I do. As you might expect, someone who does a lot of something (collecting) like I do, in a pretty public fashion, tends to get some pretty shiny-polished chestnuts tossed over the fence. …
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Internet.org Is Not Neutral, Not Secure, and Not the Internet
Facebook's Internet.org project, which offers people from developing countries free mobile access to selected websites, has been pitched as a philanthropic initiative to connect two thirds of the world who don’t yet have Internet access. We completely agree that the global digital divide should be...
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Look Before You Leap – The Coming Leap Second and AWS
My colleague Mingxue Zhao sent me a guest post designed to make sure that you are aware of an important time / clock issue. Note: This post was first published on May 18, 2015. We made some important additions and corrections on May 25, 2015. — Jeff; The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems (IERS) […]
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A Bitcoin miner in every hand
By Balaji S. Srinivasan (@balajis)
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Graphics Study
2015/03/12: Back online after Reddit and Slashdot killed my bandwidth with 30,000 visits in the last hours. Followed by HN. 2015/03/11: Update with …
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Signalfd is useless
UNIX (well, POSIX) signals are probably one of the worst parts of the UNIX API, and that’s a relatively high bar. A signal can be sent to your program at any point when it’s running, and you have to deal with it somehow. Traditionally, there are three ways …
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Thoughtcrime
Back to: The Ultimate Tech Frontier: Your Brain | Forward to: The Evil Business Plan of Evil (and misery for all)
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Introducing Preemptible VMs
Many developers are going beyond web services and are leveraging the cloud’s scalability and pay-as-you-go nature for other compute-intens...
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We have a problem with promises
No, not with promises themselves. Promises, as defined by the A+ spec , are awesome.
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Inside Look at Valve's New Lighthouse Tracking System
While walking around the Bay Area Maker Faire this weekend, I stumbled across an amazing piece of technology: Valve's "Lighthouse" tracking system. Valve's demos were (supposedly) a major contributor to Oculus' fundraising efforts and ultimate sale to Facebook, and this device may have been a key piece of those demos…
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Top data mining algorithms in plain English
Today, I'm going to explain in plain English the top 10 most influential data mining algorithms as voted on by 3 separate panels in this survey paper. Once you know what they are, how they work, what they do and where you ... Read More
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About the supposed factoring of a 4096 bit RSA key
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