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All about automotive lidar
A comprehensive overview of automotive lidar technology — what lidar measures, how it measures distance, and how it determines bearing.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,690 posts.
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A Secretly Detained American Has Asked for a Lawyer – But Gov Won’t Give Him One
An American being held without charges by the U.S. military in Iraq has asked for an attorney, the ACLU finally learned last night following an extraordinary court hearing . The government is resisting our efforts to make contact with the man so he can challenge his detention, in an outrageous violation of the basic…
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How we put IPFS in Brave (2021)
This integration marks a major milestone for IPFS, and lays the groundwork for further experiments into improving the experience of interacting with the network via web browsers.
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Hubble Captures Crisp New Image of Jupiter and Europa
This latest image of Jupiter, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope on 25 August 2020, was captured when the planet was 653 million kilometres from Earth. Hubble’s sharp view is giving researchers an updated weather report on the monster planet’s turbulent atmosphere, including a remarkable new storm brewing…
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Atherton spent $145K to delay train electrification. The rest of us paid $400M
The Town of Atherton's lawsuit against Caltrain electrification is the clearest case study we have of how a tiny, wealthy minority can hijack a…
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ReactOS 0.4.0 Released
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
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Privacy for Students: Surveillance Self-Defense
Schools are increasingly adopting surveillance technology to spy on students while they’re at school, at home, or even on their social media. The companies that make these surveillance products and services advertise them to schools as a way to keep students safe–but there’s no evidence so far that they actually...
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A New Bytecode Format for JavaScriptCore
In revision r237547 we introduced a new bytecode format for JavaScriptCore (JSC).
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Zed Decoded: Async Rust
From the Zed Blog: In this episode of Zed Decoded, Thorsten and Antonio explore how we use async Rust in the Zed code base to ensure perfect cooperation with macOS to always maintain responsiveness and high-performance.
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MemShrink progress report, week 23
The only significant MemShrink-related change that landed this week was that David Anderson removed TraceMonkey , the tracing JIT compiler. In fact, TraceMonkey was disabled a while ago, so the effects on code size and memory consumption of its removal have been felt since then. But it feels more real now that the…
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Go crypto: bridging the performance gap
It is no secret that we at CloudFlare love Go. We use it, and we use it a LOT. There are many things to love about Go, but what I personally find appealing is the ability to write assembly code!
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Off-path TCP hijacking in NAT-enabled Wi-Fi networks
Guest Post: New off-path TCP hijacking attack in Wi-Fi networks that exploits vulnerabilities in the NAT mapping strategies of routers discovered.
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Google AMP – The Newest of Evasive Phishing Tactic
Author: Dylan DuncanA new phishing tactic utilizing Google...
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HTTPS provides more than just privacy
Identity, SEO, HTML5, and not having your content modified
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Introducing OpenCellular: An open source wireless access platform
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Firefox 71
Please welcome Firefox 71 to the stage! This time around, we have a plethora of new developer tools features including the web socket message inspector, console multi-line editor mode, log ...
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With book on Go, Kernighan guides students at Princeton and beyond
Rob Pike and colleagues at Google have written a new computer language called Go; and Brian Kernighan, professor of computer science at Princeton, has co-written the book on it — "The Go Programming Language."
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Astro 7.0
Astro 7.0 brings faster builds with Vite 8, a new Rust compiler, Advanced Routing, background dev server support, and structured logging.
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Source code from Apollo 11 open-sourced
On this day 40 years ago, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon. This was quite an achievement for mank...
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Designing state machines
Explore exciting job opportunities at Getaround. Join our international team revolutionizing carsharing and sustainable transportation. Apply today!
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How Obama Raised $60 Million by Running a Simple Experiment
Fundraising dinners are a great way to raise money. But how can you raise money if no one has heard of you and all you have is a website?
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Nóirín Plunkett has died
It is with great sadness that the Foundation and its members were notified about the sudden passing of Nóirín Plunkett.
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The Wayback Machine: Fighting Digital Extinction in New Ways
Extinction isn’t just a biological issue. In the 21st century, it’s a technical, even digital one, too. The average web page might last three months before it’s altered or deleted forever. You never know when access to the information on these web pages is going to be needed. It might be three months from now;
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Byte-Sized Swift: Building Tiny Games for the Playdate
I’m excited to share swift-playdate-examples, a technical demonstration of using Swift to build games for Playdate, a handheld game system by Panic.