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Scientists discover mechanism of hearing
Discovery made possible by more than 60 million worms and state-of-the-art imaging accessible only at OHSU, two other national cryoEM centers in the U.S.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,153 posts.
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The future of innovation has patent-free standards
Supposedly “open“ standards – including those ratified by ISO, CEN and ETSI – can’t be implemented without going cap-in-hand to the world’s largest companies to buy a license.
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On building 30k Debian packages
As part of my ongoing attempts to create some nice datasets for training large code models for C/C++ , I've recently been attempting to buil...
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Supercharging GitHub Actions with Job Summaries
You can now output and group custom Markdown content on the Actions run summary page.
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MoonBounce: The dark side of UEFI firmware
At the end of 2021, we inspected UEFI firmware that was tampered with to embed a malicious code we dub MoonBounce. In this report we describe how the MoonBounce implant works and how it is connected to APT41.
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Multiranges in Postgres
Multiranges are a new feature in PostgreSQL 14. Here's a brief introduction on how to use them - learn the basics & important new uses.
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Hacking around with the ScotRail audio announcements
Scottish train operator ScotRail released a two-hour long MP3 file containing all of the components of its automated station announcements. Messing around with them is proving to be a huge …
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Effective Go
Go is an open-source programming language that focuses on simplicity, reliability, and efficiency, specifically designed to make it easy to build software at scale. Although it borrows ideas from existing languages, it has unusual properties that make effective Go programs different in character from programs written…
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Scaling Kubernetes to Thousands of CRDs
Over the past few months Crossplane has pushed the boundaries of Kubernetes with the number of Custom Resources it supports. In this post we’ll explore the limitations Upbound engineers have discovered and how we’ve helped to overcome them.
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Vintage-Style Map of the Mandelbrot Set
Bill Tavis designed this lovely vintage-style map of the familiar fractal shape, the Mandelbrot set. He is selling a poster version of the map, starting at the
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Making fifty TIC-80 carts in a weekend
Ever since I read about the Make 50 of Something technique in Vi Hart's blog post about Fifty Fizzbuzzes, I wanted to try it for myself! Creating 50 of, well, anything, in quick succession seemed like a fun challenge!
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Optimizing Postgres text search with trigrams
In this post, we’ll implement and optimize a text search system based on Postgres Trigrams
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I used indie hacking to sponsor my own green card
The longest project of my life
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European Central Bank rises rates by 0.5%
The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so preserve the purchasing power of the single currency.
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High-Security Mechanical Locks (2020)
Outside of a very few specialized fields high-security locks are almost totally unknown. Even in the field of locksmithing where high-security locks are known, they are often misunderstood. Today I am going to offer you a primer on the fascinating world of high-security mechanical locks, the securit
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Large scale Internet SSH brute force attacks seem to have stopped here
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Emacs on an iPad
With my iPad having replaced my MacBook, the last thing I was missing was Emacs , which I not only enjoy hacking on, but is also how update my blog and resume! Let’s just say that it’s an integral tool in my life which I wanted access to, and I managed to make it happen.
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How France Changed the Tides of the American Revolution (2018)
From French arms to French fleets, how France changed the tides of the American Revolution
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Einstein-Bohr debate settled once and for all
In Steven Pinker’s guest post from last week, there’s one bit to which I never replied. Steve wrote: After all, in many areas Einstein was no Einstein. You [Scott] above all could speak…
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Protecting Against Browser-Language Fingerprinting
Brave has further strengthened its fingerprinting protections by preventing users from being identified based on preferred browser language. Starting with version 1.39, Brave randomizes how your browser informs sites of what language(s) you’ve set as default, and what fonts you have installed on your system.
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Porting Graphing Calculator from C++ to Swift
Developer Spotlight is a series highlighting interesting Swift developers from around the world. This post is authored by Ron Avitzur, author of the Pacific Tech Graphing Calculator.
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We asked 100 humans to draw the DALL·E prompts
Where do human artists fit in a world of rich, creative AI? We asked 100 Surgers to draw the DALL-E prompts.
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Tech debt gets worse before it gets better
Projects to pay down tech debt tend to start by making more tech debt. The level of tech debt gets worse before it gets better. The new, cleaner code is just adding to the mess until it allows you to finally delete the old code.
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YOLOv6: Redefine state-of-the-art for object detection
YOLOv6: review and comparison of the next generation object detection.
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Hitachi Wood Plug Cutter Works Perfectly in Hand Held Drills (2013)
I had meant to post on this some time back and forgot. I don’t altogether like plug cutters much, but good quality ones work well in drill presses (pillar drill UK). It’s the drill press that’s the problem more than anything. Often when I need a plug
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Using SNI proxying and IPv6 to share port 443 between webapps
I hate HTTP reverse proxies and want my webapps to listen directly on port 443. How can I make this work in a world of IPv4 scarcity?