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Early Days on Street View
A friend was asking about the early Street View timeline, which prompted a trip down memory lane. It's been at least five years for most of...
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Make your program slower with threads
Years ago, while taking a numerical methods course, I wrote some code to calculate the expected number of shared birthdays in a group. The code is very simple: each attempt constructs a vector of N birthdays, then counts the duplicates. The outer loop runs millions of attempts, and calculates the mean number of shared…
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Searching 20 GB/sec: Systems Engineering Before Algorithms
SentinelOne unifies AI-powered endpoint, cloud, identity, and data protection—enhanced by our Security Data Lake for seamless and efficient cybersecurity.
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The Unbalanced Design of Super Smash Bros
Blog and Portfolio site for Forrest Smith, aka ForrestTheWoods
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Shenzhen trip report – visiting the world's manufacturing ecosystem
Last year, a group of Media Lab students visited Shenzhen with, bunnie, an old friend and my hardware guru....
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Launching Today: Mathematica Online
Using Mathematica always involved installing software. For Mathematica Online, just use a web browser—zero configuration, instant collaboration.
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EFF Relaunches Surveillance Self-Defense Guide
We’re thrilled to announce the relaunch of Surveillance Self-Defense (SSD), our guide to defending yourself and your friends from digital surveillance by using encryption tools and developing appropriate privacy and security practices. The site launches today in English, Arabic, and Spanish, with...
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The Cargo Cult of Game Mechanics
On the existential crisis in gaming and the role of game design.
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Rethinking the origins of the universe
Laura Mersini-Houghton has mathematically proven that quantum effects are strong enough to stop the formation of black holes, work that opens up a new round of discussions and debates about the origins of the universe.
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Everything Is Bullshit: A Book by Priceonomics
Priceonomics wrote a book! We hope you enjoy it.
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On being targeted by the NSA
As quoted in the original article on Das Erste: We've been thinking of state surveillance for...
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A quick tutorial on implementing C memory management functions
This is basically an expanded explanation of what I did after reading this tutorial by Marwan Burelle and then sitting down and trying to write my own implementation, so the steps are going to be fairly similar. The main implementation differences are that my version is simpler and more vulnerable to memory…
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How to become a programmer, or the art of Googling well
*Note: Please read all italicized technical words as if they were in a foreign language. The fall semester of my senior year, I was having some serious self-confidence issues. I had slowly come to …
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The State of ZFS on Linux
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Conrod – A Rust GUI Library
A user friendly game engine written in Rust
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Overkilling the 8-queens Problem
Last night, a fellow Hacker Schooler challenged me to a running-time contest on the classic eight queens puzzle. Naturally, I pulled up my trusty …
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How to Minimize Politics in Your Company (2010)
Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The
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Welcome, Ali
Edit: Ali is now the CEO of YC Continuity [http://ycombinator.com/continuity] I’m delighted to announce that Ali Rowghani is joining YC as a part-time partner. He will mostly focus on helping our alumni that are a few years out of YC scale their companies, but I’m sure the current batch will enjoy getting to know him…
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It’s impossible to work your way through college nowadays
Randy Olson explains why it's impossible to work your way through college nowadays.