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Bjarne Stroustrup: “I Did It for You All” (2007)
On the 1st of January, 1998, Bjarne Stroustrup gave an interview to the IEEE’s ‘Computer’ magazine..
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,323 posts.
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Researchers shrink camera to the size of a salt grain
Researchers at Princeton University and the University of Washington have developed an ultracompact camera the size of a coarse grain of salt. The new system can produce crisp, full-color images on par with a conventional compound camera lens 500,000 times larger in volume.
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Simple SSH Security
Simple SSH Security Within a couple of minutes you can improve your SSH security significantly.
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How to fight back against Google FLoC
Here’s a closer look at Google’s Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) initiative and how you can fight back and opt-out as a web user and a web developer.
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A no-go fantasy: writing Go in Ruby with Ruby Next
Dive into both the Ruby and Go languages, learn to write Go in Ruby, and gain the ability to modify Ruby exactly as you desire
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Practical HTTP Header Smuggling: Sneaking Past Reverse Proxies to Attack AWS
Modern web applications typically rely on chains of multiple servers, which forward HTTP requests to one another. The attack surface created by this forwarding is increasingly receiving more attention, including the recent popularisation of cache poisoning...
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Monster Mash: A Sketch-Based Tool for Casual 3D Modeling and Animation
Posted by Cassidy Curtis, Visual Designer and David Salesin, Principal Scientist, Google Research 3D computer animation is a time-consuming and hig...
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Mealworms can compost styrofoam
Within our living systems, we have been raising several types of mealworms in order to compost polystyrene (styrofoam). We recently came across the study by 2015 Standard University that confirms our suspicions that they are indeed turning styrofoam into usable organic matter! Their notes are not m
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Browser Fingerprinting Without JavaScript
Turning off JavaScript blocks ads but not device tracking. Discover how no-JavaScript fingerprinting works.
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The Lakota: A Human Story
Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power by Pekka Hämäläinen. Yale University Press, 2019. Hardcover, 544 pages, $35.
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Mouse studies show gene therapy can cause big drop in latent herpes infections
Improved gene therapy techniques cleared up to 95 percent of latent herpes virus in mice. Human trials? At least 3 years away. Fred Hutch virologist Dr. Keith Jerome hopes this study "opens up the idea that we can start thinking about cure, rather than just control of the virus."
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A long-lasting, stable solid-state lithium battery
Researchers demonstrate a solution to a 40-year problem
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Cynthia Rudin wins the 2021 AAAI Squirrel AI Award
Cynthia Rudin becomes second recipient of AAAI Squirrel AI Award for pioneering socially responsible AI
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Playable English Localizations of Slovak Digital Games from the Late 80s Period
English translations of early Slovak digital games from the late 80s period, created in cooperation with Slovak Game Developers Association by Stanislav Hrda, Slavomír Labský, Marián Kabát, Darren Chastney, Jakub Celušák and Maroš Brojo. Download gamesENG versions of all games Accompanying contentGuides for all…
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OK Lenovo, we need to talk
I’ve been wanting to publicly comment on Lenovo’s statement on Linux support for a while, as there’s much to say about it, and my failing attempt at finding a suitable replacement for my venerable T510 gave me an excuse to document …
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Chrome 89 Beta: advanced hardware interactions, web sharing on desktop
Unless otherwise noted, changes described below apply to the newest Chrome beta channel release for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, macOS, and Wi...
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Telegram: Voice Chats 2.0:Channels, Millions of Listeners, Recorded Chats
Voice Chats first appeared in December, adding a new dimension of live talk to Telegram groups. Starting today, they become available in channels too – and there are no more limits on the number of participants. This update also brings recordable voice chats, rich lists of participants, raise hand mechanics, invite…
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Some Night-Shift Workers May Have a 300% Higher Risk of Car Crashes
Researchers at the University of Missouri College of Engineering also examined the relationship between vehicle crashes and two other sleep disorders, sleep apnea and insomnia.
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Is It Time for the JavaScript Temporal API?
Date handling in JavaScript is a pain, it's time for a proper Temporal API
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What's an SPF Record?
SPF records are DNS records that help prevent SPAM and forged emails
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FreeBSD 2020 Q4 Status Report
This report covers FreeBSD related projects for the period between October and December, and is the fourth of four planned reports for 2020.
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Cuda.jl v3.3: union types, debug info, graph APIs
There have been several releases of CUDA.jl in the past couple of months, with many bugfixes and many exciting new features to improve GPU programming in Julia: CuArray now supports isbits Unions, CUDA.jl can emit debug info for use with NVIDIA tools, and changes to the compiler make it even easier to use the latest…
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Busting the 10x software engineer myth
Leaders often feel proud of their high performers. In reality, having “10x engineers“ in your software organization may be a sign of an organization that is set out to fail in the long run.
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Leaky sewers are likely responsible for large amounts of medications in streams
American Chemical Society: Chemistry for Life.