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A Visual Intro to Complex Numbers
A visual and intuitive intro to complex number system providing a historical overview of how it was developed and why it is useful.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,964 posts.
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Over 5,200 Ebola cases recorded in Congo
Kinshasa—One hundred days have passed since the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared the ongoing Ebola outbreak, which has now become the country's fastest growing. Transmission is outpacing control efforts, requiring a substantial scale-up across all areas of response to halt the spread of the virus.
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GPT 5.6 Cyber
Meet GPT-5.6-Cyber, OpenAI’s cybersecurity-specific model available through Daybreak Red for authorized vulnerability research, exploit validation, and security testing.
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The F Word
Back in 2005, when I first joined the SUNY Buffalo CSE department, the department secretary was a wonderful lady named Joann, who was over 6...
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New plastic pollution discovered: 'Plasticorals' coral rubble fused with plastic
‘Plasticorals’, coral rubble fused with plastic, are long-lasting reminders of human activity and highlight a potential threat to critical marine environments.
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CSS Web Components for marketing sites (2024)
The truly No JavaScript web component.
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The current balance of power in open models
The expanded form of a testimony I prepared for Congress.
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Quartz crystals
(This is an adapted version of part of an article I wrote for the Dutch amateur radio magazine Electron , August 2016.)
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Using proxies to hide secrets from Claude Code
How to use HTTP proxies to prevent credential exposure in Claude Code sandboxes.
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SubQ 1.1 Small
Subquadratic is a frontier AI research and infrastructure company building a new class of LLMs.
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Taking another shot at the cheap IP camera, part 2
Eric Park's website
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Running Doom on Our Custom CPU and Going Viral
I get kidnapped by the MIG while adding DDR3 to our CPU
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OpenTitan Shipping in Production
Google has worked with the open source communities to build OpenTitan, the first open source silicon Root of Trust (RoT).
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Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer
Spacelab was a reusable laboratory that could be carried in the Space Shuttle's cargo bay, providing lab space for astronauts and experiment...
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CSS properties you should know for better text designs
Includes background-clip for masking backgrounds, vertical-align for aligning elements, box-decoration-mode for consistent edge styling, letter-spacing for spacing control, and text-combine-upright for vertical text layouts.
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WAL-RUS: a Rust Rewrite of WAL-G for PostgreSQL Backups
How we built WAL-RUS, an open-source Rust-based Postgres backup tool that reduces virtual memory usage by over 70% compared to WAL-G while maintaining full compatibility.
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A new way to think about borrow checking (in reverse)
Have you ever had a weird idea, and then it worked, but you can't really believe it?
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Gleam v1.17.0
News post: Gleam v1.17.0 released!
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Factoring RSA 260
How Devin and a Cognition researcher built the world’s highest-performance GPU lattice siever, to make factoring numbers 10x cheaper than the previous…
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How to build a `Git diff` driver
How to write an external tool for `git diff` to delegate complex diffs to.
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How JPEG works: Interactively explore JPEG's lossy compression methods
In the world of technology, “forever” means about 5 years. It’s humbling to think that the 1992 JPEG image standard is still going strong despite being more than 5 “forevers” old. Why has it been so successful? This article presents the key ideas behind JPEG in plain language and includes an interactive JPEG…
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The Lost Atomic Update on Loongson CPU
杰哥的{教学，运维，编程，调板子}小笔记
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Dude, where's my supersonic jet?
3 innovators reimagining how we fly
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People who grew up with high economic connectedness earn more
Hard work is grinding and only partly reliable. Luck is random by definition. Research on who you know is far more specific than most networking advice.
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PISA 2025 Students' reading and mathematics performance declined across the OECD
Student performance across OECD countries has continued to decline, reaching the lowest average ever recorded by the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in mathematics and reading. Across the OECD, one in five 15-year-old students is now a low performer in science, mathematics and reading, up…
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French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?
A complete explanation of how e, è, é, ê, and ë are used in French, with rules, examples and pronunciation.
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The cost YAGNI was never about
If you think YAGNI is about saving effort, cheap generation should retire it. It doesn't. Here's why.
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GDID Windows – Cut the tracker that follows you even under VPN
The GDID helped catch a hacker despite his VPN. I set up a VM to see if it can be neutralized: what works, what doesn't, and the scripts to stop it from ...
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Hunger beats tenure: Advice for junior engineers
The coding interview is dead, at least for my team at Anthropic. I've seen enough to know that it no longer provides signal. I have a spicily optimistic take: I think there's a huge opportunity for junior engineers.
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One item purchased, ten emails
A single online order now generates ten emails. A look at how retail email got this far out of hand.