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Twenty years after Pokémon launched, its impact on Wikipedia remains
Years ago, the English Wikipedia was being overrun by a deluge of articles on Pokémon characters and creatures.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,689 posts.
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Corrosion
Corrosion is distributed service discovery based on Rust, SQLite, and CRDTs.
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Find You: Building a stealth AirTag clone
We built an AirTag clone capable of silently and continuously tracking someone. The device accomplishes this by sending just one beacon per generated public key, thereby staying invisible to tracking notifications for iOS users and Apple’s Tracker Detect Android app.
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The Advantage of Being a Little Underemployed
To realize how outdated the five-day, 40-hour workweek is, you have to know where it came from.
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Sandstorm Oasis Is Shutting Down
Take control of your web by running your own personal cloud server with Sandstorm.
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“Is PayPal good for your microISV business?” A short PayPal horror story
Dec 18 Update: This morning I was contacted by a PayPal manager from their fraud department who talked with me close to an hour. He went out of his way to apologize for their mishandling of my case. He told me that...
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ESP32 Undocumented Bluetooth Commands: Clearing the Air
The developer resources in just one place!
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Do you need ID to read the REAL-ID rules?
[“The welcoming, friendly and visually pleasing appearance” of the TSA’s headquarters at 6595 Springfield Center Drive, Springfield, VA.]
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Pine64 September update
We have been fortunate to welcome many new members into our ranks over the past 30 days. This is in large part due to the continued interest in the Pinebook Pro and PineTab, which have just shipped, as well as the ongoing massive demand for the PinePhone. By my estimate, come December we will have shipped more…
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Racket v7.2
_posted by Vincent St-Amour_ Racket version 7.2 is now available from http://racket-lang.org/ Racket-on-Chez is done in a useful sense, but we'll wait until it gets better before making it the default Racket implementation. For more information, see htt...
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Referees’ home-bias in football disappears without audience: study
We analyzed referees’ performances in 1283 games from the top four Eu
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Spooky Alignment of Quasars Across Billions of Light-years
New observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile have revealed alignments over the largest structures ever discovered in the Universe. A European research team has found that the rotation axes of the central supermassive black holes in a sample of quasars are parallel to each other over distances of…
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Anguish: Invisible Programming Language and Invisible Data Theft
DISCLAIMER: data theft is a serious crime in many jurisdictions. The author does not condone or encourage anyone to break laws. The information provided here is for educational purposes only.
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A Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway
We’re launching a new 27 billion parameter foundation model for single-cell analysis built on the Gemma family of open models.
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Gog.com Now Supports Linux
Download the best classic and new games on Windows, Mac & Linux. A vast selection of titles, DRM-free, with free goodies and 30-day money-back guarantee.
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Ternary Bonsai: Top Intelligence at 1.58 Bits
Today, we’re announcing Ternary Bonsai, a new family of 1.58-bit language models designed to balance strict memory constraints with high accuracy requirements.
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Optimizing ClickHouse for Intel's ultra-high core count processors
Intel's latest processor generations are pushing the number of cores in a server to unprecedented levels. For analytical databases like ClickHouse, ultra-high core counts represent a huge opportunity and a complex challenge.
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GoDaddy and Felons.io – The life of an unregistered domain
GoDaddy never has and never will use customer search data to register domain names. Read on to learn more.
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Clojure 1.13 adds support for checked keys
Clojure 1.13.0-alpha1 is now available! Find download and usage information on the Downloads page.
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Protein biomarkers predict dementia 15 years before diagnosis in new study
In the largest study of its kind, scientists have shown how protein “biomarkers” predict dementia 15 years before diagnosis.
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Open-sourcing F14 for memory-efficient hash tables
Hash tables provide a fast way to maintain a set of keys or map keys to values, even if the keys are objects, like strings. They are such a ubiquitous tool in computer science that even incremental…
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EFF: Stop Congress from Reauthorizing the Warrantless Spying Bill
We could be celebrating the New Year by ripping out the fiber optic cables that are sending copies of all our emails to the National Security Agency. But instead, Congress is planning on ringing in 2013 by re-authorizing parts of the FISA Amendments Act, the controversial 2008 bill that allows...
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Recovering Nintendo’s Lost SimCity for the NES
The Super Nintendo classic started life on the 8-bit NES. That version was considered lost...until now.