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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,859 posts.
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We bootstrapped to $11M in ARR
This year Thinkst Canary crossed the line to $11M in ARR. That number is reasonably significant in the startup world, where Lemkin refers to it as “initial scale”. For us; it’s a happy reminder of Canary's spread into the market. $11M ARR certainly isn’t our end goal, but it provides the fuel for us to…
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Making Python faster with Rust
Update: I gave a talk on this topic at P99 CONF 2023 and at PyCon IL 2024 (Hebrew). A while ago at $work, we had a performance issue with one of our core Python …
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How (not) to write Factorial in Java
I will admit this post was inspired by How would you write factorial(n) in java? So excuse me while I rant in code: I have a point to make at the bottom of this article. Now most people who write f…
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A4 Paper Stories
I sometimes resort to a rather common measuring technique that is neither fast, nor accurate, nor recommended by any standards body and yet it hasn't failed me whenever I have had to use it. I will describe it here, though calling it a technique might be overselling it. Please do not use it for installing kitchen…
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How many radioactive bananas would you need to power a house?
I heard that bananas are radioactive. If they are radioactive, then they radiate energy. How many bananas would you need to power a house?
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Remotely Compromising Android and iOS via a bug in Broadcom's WI-FI Chipsets
Author: Nitay Artenstein Introduction Fully remote exploits that allow for compromise of a target without any user interaction have become something of a myth in recent years. While some are occasionally still found against insecure and unpatched targets such as routers, various IoT devices or old versions of Windows…
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It's easier than ever to de-censor videos
Last month I asked people to hack part of my YouTube video, specifically to de-pixelate the contents of a folder I had pixelated starting at the 4:57 mark. Your browser does not support the video tag. For years, people have used the censor tool to blur or pixelate out parts of videos where there's sensitive…
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Dear Al-Jazeera: Why Steal Our Code?
Our AI transforms your ideas into immersive, interactive stories in just a few clicks — built to drive 17x more engagement than static pages.
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Verisign seizes .com domain registered via foreign registrar
Yesterday Forbes broke the news that Canadian Calvin Ayre and partners who operate the Bodog online gambling empire have been indicted in the U.S., and in a blog post Calvin Ayre confirmed that their bodog.com domain had been seized by homeland security. As reported in Forbes (hat tip to The Domains…
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Opus 1.5 released: Opus gets a machine learning upgrade
This 1.5 release is unlike any of the previous ones. It brings many new features that can improve quality and the general audio experience. That is achieved through machine learning. Although Opus has included machine learning — and even deep learning — before (e.g. for speech/music detection ), this is the first time…
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Git security vulnerabilities announced
Git users are encouraged to upgrade to the latest version, especially if they use `git archive`, work in untrusted repositories, or use Git GUI on Windows.
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API Tokens: A Tedious Survey
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Hyperdrive v10 – a peer-to-peer filesystem
Hyperdrive is now faster and more reliable. Plus it comes with a daemon.
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Lisa Source Code Release
CHM publicly releases the source code to Apple's Lisa computer, including its system and applications software.
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Lucet: Native WebAssembly Compiler and Runtime
Today, we're thrilled to announce the open sourcing of Lucet, our native WebAssembly compiler and runtime. WebAssembly is a technology created to enable web browsers to safely execute programs at near-native speeds, and it's been shipping in the four major browsers since early 2017.
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‘Dancing molecules’ successfully repair severe spinal cord injuries
Researchers have developed an injectable therapy based on nanofibers that has enabled paralyzed mice with severe spinal cord injuries to regain the ability to walk.
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Why I can no longer recommend a Mac to fellow blind computer users
As many of you will know from personal experience, there is a longstanding issue with VoiceOver on Mac where Safari may become unresponsive with VoiceOver repeatedly announcing the message “Safari not responding.” When this issue occurs, the user's Mac may become unusable for up to several minutes at a time. Sometimes…
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Remote code execution in Homebrew by compromising the official Cask repository
この記事は日本語でも投稿されています: https://blog.ryotak.net/post/homebrew-security-incident/ (もし日本語が読める場合、筆者は英語がそこまで得意ではないため、日本語の記事を読むことをお勧めします。) (Official blog post about this incident is available here: https://brew.sh/2021/04/21/security-incident-disclosure/) Preface Homebrew project is running a “Vulnerability Disclosure Program”…
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Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol
DuckDB instances can now talk to each other using the Quack remote protocol. This lets you run DuckDB in a client-server setup with multiple concurrent writers. In DuckDB's spirit, Quack is simple to set up and builds on proven technologies such as HTTP. It's also fast, which allows it to support workloads ranging…
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Minuteman missile communications
A programming note: I am looking at making some changes to how I host things like Computers Are Bad and wikimap that are going to involve a lot more recurring expense. For that and other reasons, I want to see if y'all would be willing to throw some money my way. If everyone reading this gave $3 a month, we could…
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Simulating water over terrain
If you don't want a long an boring introduction, skip directly to the virtual pipes method description . I will get a little bit sad if you do this, though x)
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