Hacker News

MAY 9, 2024

This is the story of a bug that was discovered and fixed in Telegram's self-rolled cryptographic protocol about seven years ago. The bug didn't get any press, and no one seems to know about it, probably because it was only published in Russian. To this day, it's the most backdoor-looking

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Hacker News

MARCH 11, 2024

The problem with too much consumption is that it can leave us feeling utterly empty inside. Ironically, it creates something: One big void. A small dose of creativity is good for us. It can help us become more present, less anxious, and much more fulfilled. And it doesn't take much to live a creative life. You just need to start.

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Hacker News

MARCH 25, 2024

It’s easy to set up an IDS or other infrastructure to drop packets that match rules. There are many tools for real-time inspection of connections that can handle higher level protocols like HTTP or TLS. This article aims to go a bit lower and address how to edit packets in flight.

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Tableau

JANUARY 26, 2021

January 27, 2021 - 2:58am. January 27, 2021. As we start a new year, we’re excited to share important updates, including: Analytics extensions on Tableau Online, Tableau Server in a container, the new file format for Hyper API, and In-Product Extensions Gallery. Geraldine Zanolli. Developer Evangelist. Kristin Adderson.

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Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

The term ‘roman-fleuve’ is used in modern fiction for a series of novels, each of which exists as a separate novel in its own right but all of which are inter-related because the characters (some or all) reappear in each succeeding work. The vogue for this kind of encyclopaedic and epic chronicle established in the […]

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Dataconomy

JANUARY 6, 2022

In August 2021, the news about Japan suspending 1.63 million doses of the Moderna vaccine shocked the world community. It was revealed that the vaccine was contaminated with metal particles due to “human error specific to visually misjudging the required 1mm gap between the star-wheel and the stopper” of the.

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Hacker News

APRIL 4, 2024

Calling a coroutine can be very expensive (requiring calls to new() and delete()) in a way that's not entirely under your control, and they're designed to make it… C++20 added minimal support for coroutines.

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Hacker News

MAY 12, 2024

The tallest building in Fort Worth, Texas, has been bought by a bank for $12.3 million, three years after it sold $137.5 Burnett Plaza has 40 stories and is 567 feet tall.

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Hacker News

MAY 17, 2024

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Hacker News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Funded on Kickstarter with more than 5,000 backers. This book introduces the basics of digital logic gates by having you smash huge arcade buttons to light up a fat LED.

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Hacker News

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Advanced aliens really are out there, and we have enough data to say roughly where they are in space and time, and when we will see or meet them.

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Hacker News

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Now for something completely different. In the spiritual vein of One Night in Rio: Vacation photos from Plan9 and AWK for multimedia, here is a tool that is the link that ties almost all the projects within the Arcan umbrella together into one - and one we have been building towards for a depressing number…

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Hacker News

MAY 3, 2024

The FTC just found evidence that American oil companies colluded with the Saudi government to hike gas prices, costing the average family $3,000 last year. The question is, what can we do about it?

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Hacker News

MARCH 5, 2024

The prevalence of approaches based on gradient boosted trees among the top contestants in the M5 competition is potentially the most eye-catching result. Tree-based methods out-shone other solutions, in particular deep learning-based solutions. The winners in both tracks of the M5 competition heavily relied on them.

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Hacker News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A collection of philosopher John Locke's papers at the Bodleian Library includes letters, accounts, poetry, notes on medicine and books, and recipes. When David Armitage posted this recipe for pancakes in the Bodleian collection on Twitter, I knew that I wanted to try it. These rich, nutmeg-scented pancakes are absolutely delicious.

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Hacker News

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

I have borrowed the musical idea of woodshedding to apply to business & investing. For those non-musicians out there, in jazz, woodshedding means to sequester oneself and dig hard into the mechanics of music. With enough patience, focus and the right methods the most complex piece of music becomes second nature.

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Hacker News

JULY 18, 2023

When I first started to get comfortable playing jazz on the piano, I was eager to learn how to play with an ensemble. I knew my way through lots of tunes, and how to voice each chord. But, I didn't understand what my role was supposed to be in the rhythm section, or what I was supposed to do in order to support the other players.

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Dataversity

JANUARY 18, 2021

So, I had to cut down my January 2021 list of things of importance in Data Modeling in this new, fine year (I hope)! The post 2021: Three Game-Changing Data Modeling Perspectives appeared first on DATAVERSITY. Common wisdom has it that we humans can only focus on three things at a time.

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Hacker News

MAY 4, 2024

An intuitive explanation of the James-Stein estimator.

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Dataversity

JANUARY 4, 2021

While technological advancements will be numerous in 2021, our prediction for revolutionary transformations is twofold: (I) industries will begin to mass-adopt internal, unstructured analytics, and (II) enterprises will prioritize bridging governance with analytics via in-place solutions.

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Hacker News

MARCH 9, 2024

In some Amish communities these days, e-bikes are beginning to outnumber buggies on the roads. Horse-drawn buggies, long a symbol of the Amish lifestyle, are finding less use as more people in Amish communities adopt electric-powered bicycles.

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Hacker News

MARCH 6, 2024

Why isn't "lukecool" an accepted antonym for "lukewarm"?

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Dataversity

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The post Emerging Cybersecurity Trends to Monitor in 2021 appeared first on DATAVERSITY. With more people than ever before accessing the internet for work or pleasure, the number of targets for cybercriminals continues to increase daily, as does the number of cyberattacks. In addition, factors such as the ongoing COVID-19 […].

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Hacker News

MAY 3, 2024

A human hand has the power to split wooden planks and demolish concrete blocks. A trio of physicists investigated why this feat doesn't shatter our bones.

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Hacker News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The Rosatom historical website has an entire section devoted to "Atomic Fun" — jokes and stories from the Soviet nuclear program. something.

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Hacker News

JANUARY 20, 2024

A handbook aiming to cause disruption from within during World War II has resurfaced after becoming declassified by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). How to sabotage and disturb meetings specifically resonated as relevant now as it was c.80 80 years ago.

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Dataconomy

JANUARY 26, 2022

Over 40 million employees quit their jobs in 2021. While this trend might look bad for the job market, it’s good news for technological development. They left in droves. The mass exodus of workers accelerated last year and shows no signs of slowing down in 2022. The Great Resignation is already fast-forwarding.

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Hacker News

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Woodworking was a new hobby I'd picked up. The smell of fresh pine sawdust filled the air, with more floating up as I sanded the last rough corner of the stool. My toddler was happily sanding her own block off to the side. My old ones, coding, reading, writing, had

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Hacker News

MAY 2, 2024

This thoroughly revised guide demonstrates how the flexibility of the command line can help you become a more efficient and productive data scientist. You’ll learn how to combine small yet powerful command-line tools to quickly obtain, scrub, explore, and model your data.

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Hacker News

MARCH 11, 2024

The information communication technology sector will experience huge growth over the coming years, with 29.3 billion devices expected online by 2030, up from 18.4 billion in 2018.

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Hacker News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Modern authoritarian regimes don’t attempt total, absolute control. Their censorship is more selective and calibrated — and thus more resilient.

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Dataversity

JANUARY 6, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to accelerate digital transformation into 2021, 73 percent of manufacturers plan to increase their investment in smart factory technology over the next year. The post Data Drives Digital Transformation’s Success in 2021 appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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Hacker News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Cartography is serious business in Switzerland — but once in a while, the occasional map gag slips through.

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Dataversity

JANUARY 21, 2021

In 2021, as remote work continues, social distancing requirements remain, and supply chains continue to face disruption, we’ll see enterprises refine their digital strategies to continue operations effectively across the value chain — from the […]. Digital transformation became critical for success amid the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

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Hacker News

DECEMBER 28, 2023

xssfox is hacking on cursed software, hardware and everything in between.

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Hacker News

MAY 15, 2024

There has been a ton of excitement around this chip since then, due to it using a custom ARM core from the Nuvia team that Qualcomm acquired in early 2021. In October of 2023, Qualcomm announced its newest Laptop SOC lineup called the Snapdragon X Elite (SDXE). That makes this chip a fairly unique offering…

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MARCH 4, 2024

Most founders don't know how liquidation preferences can enrich investors at the expense of startup employees. Visualize acquisition payouts with our free tool.

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