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Ask HN: If you wanted to 'hardware jailbreak' a device, how might you do this? - hwhatwhatwhat Most rootings&#x2F;jailbreaks that have been widely released use software vulnerabilities to escalate privilege.<p>If instead you had access to the hardware of a device, and could make any reasonable modification or interven...
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OpenStreetMap is now navigation-ready - dalek2point3 http://stevecoast.com/2014/05/19/why-openstreetmap-is-now-navigation-ready-for-people-like-you/ ====== schabernakk I tried switching to OSM in an effort to get away from google maps. People always say 'OSM is consumer ready' but forget that OSM first and foremost is...
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Twitter comes clean - vaksel http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009/02/01/twitter-comes-clean/ ====== jacquesm That's an amazing example of candid communication with your userbase, it really impresses me very much. I can think of (quite) a few other companies that I would very much appreciate such candor from (but I gues...
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More Than Half a Million Raspberry Pis Sold - interconnector http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/3011 ====== hosay123 Pricing for similar hardware has literally crashed in the time it's taken Pi production levels to ramp up. There are now multiple ARM vendors with open source BSPs supporting hardware that's much more ...
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Bitcoin trademark filed at USPTO - shii http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26527.0 ====== shii <http://i.imgur.com/HALV8.png>
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Programming Is a Losers Game - mpweiher https://tomgamon.com/posts/a-losers-game/ ====== shams93 So how will remote work modify this equation? Certainly the h1b visa program is a brutal institution both for those trying to get the visas for work and those who have the visa holders used against them as weapons. The iro...
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Ask HN: What are your goals for next year? - l33tbro Been reflecting a lot myself and would be interested to hear others thoughts for the coming year? Be as specific or vague as you like. ====== yesnoyesnoyes Get my teeth fixed. Will have to get braces and wear them for 18 months. Terribly scared of that. But it has ...
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Rules for happiness (from a hacker who sold his company) - johnmax https://medium.com/@snoopy2233/my-lifes-manual-for-happiness-from-a-hacker-who-sold-his-company-99ea9ef3c800 ====== tyrex2017 for me rule 8 (mindfulness/meditation) has helped most. but all those rules are easier written down than practiced. I would lo...
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Transistors go 3D as Intel re-invents the microchip - evo_9 http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/05/intel-re-invents-the-microchip.ars ====== JohnsonB Great, and what exactly is the improvement seen with tri-gate transistors as an independent variable? Without that it's hard to judge what the significance is for ...
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Australian police want phone, web data kept indefinitely - damncabbage http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/police-want-phone-web-data-kept-indefinitely-20120926-26kj2.html ====== zoowar Which is why the Woz is a crackpot.
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BPA-free plastics seem to disrupt sperm and egg development in mice - sahin-boydas http://www.newscientist.com/article/2179481-bpa-free-plastics-seem-to-disrupt-sperm-and-egg-development-in-mice/ ====== Apotheos More and more disadvantages seem to come out against plastic every year, not to mention the environmental i...
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How To Get Great Ratings For Your Mac App - EvanMiller http://www.evanmiller.org/how-to-get-great-ratings-for-your-mac-app.html ====== alexkearns Great article and perfect timing - I have just submitted my first app to the Mac store. Two questions: You mention in the article that some of your customers amended bad ...
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Social Skills Are Last Line of Defense for Humans Seeking Work - spking http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-19/social-skills-are-last-line-of-defense-for-humans-seeking-work ====== antod Does that automated personal assistant still need social skills when it is no longer emailing the journalist directly, bu...
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Open Big Data Computing with Julia - astrieanna http://istc-bigdata.org/index.php/open-big-data-computing-with-julia/ ====== EvanMiller I like Julia because in many ways, it's a better C than C: * You can inspect a function's generated LLVM or (x86, ARM) assembly code from the REPL. (code_llvm or code_native) * Yo...
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"One Move Too Many". The $3750 rock-climbing book. - heelhook http://www.amazon.com/One-Move-Too-Many-Understand/dp/3928026208 ====== Pinckney Probably related to this: [http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358](http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358) ------ sdoowpilihp Two of my favorite things. Edge cases in code,...
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Show HN: Submit your ideas for improving HN - sgdesign http://hnwishlist.com/ ====== phillmv [http://hnwishlist.com/posts/54520ba4-f32e-473a-8590-365e893f...](http://hnwishlist.com/posts/54520ba4-f32e-473a-8590-365e893fe7f7) ("Implement a real name policy") Seriously? Why does anyone think this is a good idea? Can't...
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EQGRP Auction - mrb https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:owtq6OBSmgEJ:https://theshadowbrokers.tumblr.com/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us ====== binaryanomaly Torrent still works for those who want to have a look. magnet:?xt=urn:btih:40a5f1514514fb67943f137f7fde0a7b5e991f76&tr=[http://diftracker.i2p/annou...
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Sal Khan and the Khan Academy to the rescue - derekc http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2329-sal-khan-and-the-khan-acadamy-to-the-rescue ====== pavs Free online accredited college/school is an idea up for grabs and needs to happen. Monetization could be paying for the exams (fixed price per course as opposed to per cre...
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Groupon Slashing Online Ad Spending in Q3 - rogk11 http://blog.mixrank.com/new-data-groupon-slashing-online-ad-spending ====== meritt Groupon has simply gotten big enough they don't have to advertise as aggressively, especially in search advertising. Their partnership with AdParlor via Facebook is also running very ...
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I love the Stackoverflow discussion format - mdemare Reading the article on stackoverflow on bad habits the other day (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/164432?sort=votes) I noticed how much I loved their discussion format.<p>Generally, discussion boards for techies opt for full threading, while nontechie boards ar...
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Handling 1M Requests per Minute with Go - mcastilho http://marcio.io/2015/07/handling-1-million-requests-per-minute-with-golang/ ====== peterwaller There are two other solutions that spring to mind, which might require quite a bit less code: 1) Take the original code, do the upload exactly in place in the original re...
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The Startup Playbook - tedmiston http://startup-playbook.com/ ====== tedmiston The Startup Playbook is #1 on Product Hunt today - [https://www.producthunt.com/posts/the-startup- playbook-2](https://www.producthunt.com/posts/the-startup-playbook-2) Also, the Kindle edition is on sale for $0.99 for the first week - [ht...
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A vote against spaced repetition (2014) - gabor-meszaros http://lesswrong.com/lw/juq/a_vote_against_spaced_repetition/ ====== trump2016 Literally every guide on spaced memory tells users to avoid making the mistakes he made. Nobody argues that you can learn big concepts through spaced repetition. Personally, I used A...
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14 free tools that reveal why people abandon your website - jwilliams http://www.conversion-rate-experts.com/articles/understanding-your-visitors/ ====== andr #1 free tool that causes people to abandon your website: porn.
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18 Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies indicted in FBI jail probe - goldenkey http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/7-la-sheriff-deputies-arrested-fbi-jail-probe-article-1.1542319 ====== a3n > Four grand jury indictments and a criminal complaint allege unjustified > beatings at downtown Los Angeles jail facilit...
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Ask HN: How to Organize? - rthomas6 Most people seem to go through a life phase from around ages 9 to 15 where they learn how to organize and arrange their environment, how to clean up, etc. I am 27 and never went through this phase. Every day I look around my massively cluttered apartment and feel like I&#x27;m mis...
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Page views required to generate $1M in ad revenue? - thinkzig http://www.microsoftstartupzone.com/Blogs/the_next_big_thing/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=6bab7b08-81ca-4602-bd97-4b7b2c893e88&ID=675 ====== russell 300 million in page views net $15K in revenue. Not a business I want to be in. Google makes a very nice livi...
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Swift syntax for Vim - SmileyKeith https://github.com/Keithbsmiley/swift.vim ====== tendom It would be great to post an image of what this looks like in a couple code examples. I've been working on this as well, primarily because I haven't seen a syntax that gets it right, usually it's rushed or sloppy, and some jus...
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New database tools worth learning about? - throughaway092 From 2013 to 2015, the hottest NoSQL databases like MongoDB and Apache Cassandra roughly doubled in popularity (on the expense of Oracle, MySQL and Microsoft), but there was practically no growth in the last 2 years. There were many new names like Vertica Syste...
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Why good people turn bad online - anotherevan https://mosaicscience.com/story/why-good-people-turn-bad-online-science-trolls-abuse/ ====== rainbowmverse >> _After collecting data, including from people who had engaged in trolling behaviour in the past, Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil built an algorithm that predicts with 80 p...
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Green Lights Forever: Analyzing Security of Traffic Infrastructure (2014) [pdf] - chatmasta https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot14/woot14-ghena.pdf ====== spoiledtechie I've said it for years. If there were any technology that needed to be radically upgraded, it would be traffic lights. We are still usi...
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CERN's iPod-like control devices, from 1973 - mfrw https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2018/02/cerns-ipod-like-control-devices-from.html ====== basicplus2 May just invalidate a few patents.. ~~~ eesmith I read the paper and I'm trying to figure out what "iPod-like" means, and what patents you think might be broken. C...
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Show HN: Bashcached – memcached built on bash and ncat - make_now_just https://github.com/MakeNowJust/bashcached ====== stonewhite It can be used with a relevant Bash HTTP server for minimal developer learning curve. [https://github.com/avleen/bashttpd](https://github.com/avleen/bashttpd) ------ thecopy Awesome! The...
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Ask HN: Why does Google search redirect links instead of using JavaScript? - thinkloop I am sure you have noticed that google search results point to a google.com link first instead of the actual result directly. This comes with a heavy price in terms of speed and usability.<p>Why does google not instead silently trac...
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The 10 biggest tech scandals of the decade - paran http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=1947 ====== unwind Two nitpicks that disturbed me: \- Hans Reiser is said to have developed a "computer filing system", not a "file system". \- The rootkit installed by Sony is called "copy-protection software". It was...
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Animated Atari Logo - pajju http://cssdeck.com/labs/animated-atari-logo ====== vonkow If anyone's looking for a good front-end dev/designer, they should totally hire the guy that made this when he gets back from backpacking in China / Southeast Asia. I've worked with him before and he knows his stuff.
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Man, 30, Dies After Attending a ‘Covid Party,’ Texas Hospital Reports - gigama https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/12/us/30-year-old-covid-party-death.html ====== gigama "It doesn't discriminate and none of us are invincible," Appleby said. "I don't want to be an alarmist, and we're just trying to share some real-world ex...
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Irish-born English speaker in visa limbo: low score in voice recognition test - ozfive http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-09/voice-recognition-computer-native-english-speaker-visa-limbo/8789076 ====== sumo89 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAz_UvnUeuU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAz_UvnUeuU) ~~~ imrehg Good ol'...
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Leap Motion's Augmented-Reality Computing Looks Stupid Cool - Hansi http://www.wired.com/2015/07/leap-motion-glimpse-at-the-augmented-reality-desktop-of-the-future ====== rabedik Hi HN, I was one of the engineers who worked on this. It was just a hackathon demo, but we're really excited about improving the way you i...
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Guy accidentally says Google's AMP helps rankings - williamle8300 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puUqJTJVz5A&feature=youtu.be&t=2055 ====== sidcool The way he was cut off says volumes. ------ mdotk who is the guy?
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Make coders develop Blackberry apps, says firm's boss - GotAnyMegadeth http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30932399 ====== codezero Previous discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8927539](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8927539) ------ Someone1234 That has absolutely nothing to do with net neutral...
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Samsung to put its voice assistant Bixby in all devices by 2020 - JumpCrisscross https://www.google.com/amp/www.cityam.com/269405/samsung-put-its-voice-assistant-bixby-all-devices-2020/amp ====== masonic Rerouts to cityam.com
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Show HN: DebOps – Ansible framework for managing Debian-based environments - drybjed https://github.com/debops/debops/ ====== drybjed Hello, DebOps author here. I thought that I'd write an overview of the project here for new or interested users. On a basic level, DebOps is a set of Ansible roles and playbooks that m...
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China’s Mobike plans move into services and international expansion - janober https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/20/mobike-cto-joe-xia-techcrunch-china-shenzhen ====== IIAOPSW I'm in China and use Mobike a lot. I've said it before and I'll say it again. MoBike totally nails it. In terms of bike sharing they blow everythin...
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National Videogame Museum Chronicles the Power of the Pixelated Arts - 6stringmerc http://www.dallasobserver.com/arts/friscos-national-videogame-museum-chronicles-the-power-of-the-pixelated-arts-8196105 ====== VonGuard In the Bay Area? Come visit the MADE! [http://www.themade.org](http://www.themade.org) We're a lot ...
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Ask HN: Good working spaces in London (late night pref) - stegosaurus Sometimes it&#x27;s refreshing to get out of the house.<p>Any recommendations for good working spaces? Cafes, bars, libraries, whatever?<p>I&#x27;m finding it really hard to find a place that closes after, say, 9pm. ====== northernmonkey It's diffic...
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Who watches the watchers? --shirt - jjsz http://teespring.com/opengov ====== jjsz I'll appreciate any criticism and advice.
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Using Microscheme to write a keyboard controller, part 1 - technomancy http://atreus.technomancy.us/firmware ====== blt Cool to see languages besides C running on small hardware. I would guess that memory consumption, not speed, is the limiting factor vs. C. I skimmed through the source code and couldn't find a way t...
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How many IT Consultants does it take to migrate a business into the cloud? - ManuJ http://www.getapp.com/blog/how-many-it-consultants-does-it-take-to-migrate-a-business-into-the-cloud/ ====== eitally If you're only using consultants you're doing it wrong. I moved 16,000 employees to Gmail in three months, but the pi...
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Own a Shape - rglover http://interuserface.net/2011/06/own-a-shape/ ====== pedalpete I disagree with this. Would anybody be able to identify the shape associated with the brand without the brand logo being shown as well? Though shape and color combined may hint at the brand, owning a shape is extremely challenging....
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Jacob Appelbaum: Inconsistencies in Rape Allegations - Tomte http://www.zeit.de/kultur/2016-08/jacob-appelbaum-rape-allegations-contradictions ====== cjbprime Seems like an irresponsible article -- there were many credible reports, some even given by people who've seen identified themselves with real names, and this a...
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Why should children program? A review of Seymour Papert's Mindstorms - dannas http://dannas.github.io/2016/08/27/review-of-seymor-paperts-mindstorms.html ====== todd8 At my age I can barely read the article's thin, small, low-contrast font, but I believe that I agree with the author. I read Mindstorms back when it was...
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Populism takes a wrong turn - sajid https://www.janus.com/insights/bill-gross-investment-outlook ====== ciconia > [Trump's] tenure will be a short four years but is likely to be a damaging > one for jobless and low-wage American voters. The second part of that sentence - probably. The first part - not so sure.
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Ask HN: Too much code cleaning, not enough results (data science) - throwawaystress How important is it for data scientists to have clean, modular, reusable code? Here’s my problem: while working on a project, I’ll start off in Jupyter notebooks, toying around with the data, doing some EDA, etc. Eventually I’ll pull o...
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Nintendo Makes It Clear That Piracy Is Only Way to Preserve Video Game History - ingve https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wjm5kw/nintendo-makes-it-clear-that-piracy-is-the-only-way-to-preserve-video-game-history ====== cableshaft I basically already had this happen on my end years ago. I worked as a designer/p...
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Characteristics of Great Software Design - edw519 http://bie.no/blog/computers/software-engineering/pragmatic-programming/2006/03/characteristics-of-great-software-designtm/ ====== bjornbjorn "When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, ...
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Comparing clusterings–an information based distance [pdf] - espeed http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047259X06002016/pdf?md5=71251a6300127946404246c8f8d8f7ea&pid=1-s2.0-S0047259X06002016-main.pdf ====== espeed Note this is the paper on the information theoretic metric, the "Variation of Information": ...
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Ask HN: What's the best SMS API provider for a uk startup - JayInt I have a great idea in the SMS market but I can't tell which provider is best a startup just trying to get away with paying as little as possible.<p>options are: (a) https://www.tropo.com/ (b) http://www.fastsms.co.uk/topic-pages/bulk-sms.html?source...
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Every sci-fi spaceship, to scale, in one infographic - johnpark http://visual.ly/all-sci-fi-spaceships-known-man ====== iamdanfox High res: [http://thumbnails.visually.netdna-cdn.com/all-scifi- spaceshi...](http://thumbnails.visually.netdna-cdn.com/all-scifi-spaceships- known-to-man_52448ad9767ff.jpg)
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Show HN: Hazmat Math – Elliptic curve arithmetic for Cryptography.io objects - tuxxy https://github.com/tuxxy/hazmat-math ====== lvh The cryptography library currently already supports the most basic elliptic curve operation you need: scalar multiplication. Sometimes you need fancier operations. For example, this supp...
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Two spaces after a period: Why you should never, ever do it - prostoalex http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2011/01/space_invaders.html ====== kjs3 Must be interesting to have enough spare time to scribble that many words devoted to something so monumentally trivial. ------ eli Sometimes I think it...
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Show HN: Daily Grooves, keep-it-simple music discovery - ronjouch http://www.dailygrooves.org/ ====== ronjouch Hi, OP and creator here. Motivation for this small app grew up as I became frustrated of reading music blogs in my RSS reader. I just want a stream of fresh music and bands to discover, but instead of that...
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German intelligence agencies can decrypt PGP (Google translate) - ungerik http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.golem.de%2Fnews%2Fbundesregierung-deutsche-geheimdienste-koennen-pgp-entschluesseln-1205-92031.html ====== nhaehnle Most likely th...
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Bog Butter - bookofjoe https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-bog-butter-made-of ====== bookofjoe See also: [https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/03/study-finds- people-i...](https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/03/study-finds-people-in- ireland-and-scotland-made-bog-butter-for-millennia/) Original paper: [htt...
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Write Junior Code - bibyte https://www.parsonsmatt.org/2019/12/26/write_junior_code.html ====== reikonomusha This might be a little bit of a “hot-take”, but if idiomatic code written by a competent senior engineer remains inscrutable and unmodifiable after around 2 weeks of training an engineer who is at the beginning...
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Review my app: Rmmbr. - sahillavingia Here's the URL: http://rmmbrapp.appspot.com/<p>Rmmbr lets you easily create notes. Type in whatever permalink you'd like to use and it'll create one if it doesn't exist. I use it to replace the Life.txt I've had on my desktop for ages.<p>It truly is an MVP. I'll add more feature...
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Astronaut's Video Satirizes NASA Bureaucracy - blogimus http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100346538 ====== alabut Direct link to the video: <http://youtube.com/watch?v=_424YskAfew> The thing that makes it watchable is the speech bubbles above the actors' heads point out the subtext of the conver...
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Did Apple Make A Mistake Choosing Objective-C For iPhone SDK? - breily http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2008/04/25/did-apple-make-a-mistake-choosing-objective-c-for-iphone-sdk/ ====== comatose_kid Language popularity is one small component in determining success of an SDK, and is the wrong thing to focus on. He should h...
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The Intel 80386, part 12: The stuff you don’t need to know - matt_d https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190205-00/?p=100865 ====== DiabloD3 Raymond Chen always writes the neatest shit.
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The little book about OS development - pykello http://littleosbook.github.io/ ====== gregonicus Thanks for this awesome work! I would love to see a littlehypervisorbook too! ------ sriram_malhar This is amazingly comprehensive. Thanks so much.
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Show HN: Clojure Job Board - ertucetin https://clojurecademy.com/clojure-jobs# ====== max0563 Constructive Criticism: Get people to post some jobs before posting it to HN. If I saw that there were a lot a jobs on here I'd be more inclined to stick around especially if I was looking for a Clojure job. If I am looking ...
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Anatomy of a Program in Memory (2009) - Tomte http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/anatomy-of-a-program-in-memory/ ====== haberman Really great article and blog. > You can examine binary images using the nm and objdump commands to display > symbols, their addresses, segments, and so on. You can also use my new tool ...
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The CHIP Is a $9 Computer That Can Almost Do It All - Errorcod3 http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/08/the-chip-is-a-9-computer-that-can-almost-do-it-all/ ====== dmitrygr The CPU they use is famous for lack of GPL sources and lack of stability when using their GPL-non-compliant binary blobs YMWV! (Your mileage _WILL_ vary)...
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Journalism is treason in Germany - muhpirat http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2015/07/30/german-digital-rights-pioneers-investigated-for-treason/ ====== creshal It's a sad tradition: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiegel_scandal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiegel_scandal) (Interestingly, the Spiegel caref...
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The Refactor Party: An idea I shared on GitHub - Zaskoda https://github.com/Zaskoda/RefactorParty ====== Zaskoda I'm OP. I'm a dev, but not particularly spectacular at dev. I'm also not qualified to host or run an OSS project. I'm full of noobness in that regard. But I had this idea and I thought this would be the bes...
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11M households could be evicted over the next four months - onetimemanytime https://www.fastcompany.com/90532305/11-million-households-could-be-evicted-over-the-next-four-months ====== joe_the_user So I see 553,742 people homeless at last estimate (2017, unfortunately). 11M would 20x this amount, an amount that seems ...
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New home door locks can be controlled online - acesamped http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jl_aDdGkqkb7Oxvbnu-FyznhbiqQD92VEVU80 can somebody say "iphone app?" ====== acesamped can somebody say "iphone app"?
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The Untold Story of Larry Page’s Incredible Comeback - taigeair http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2014/04/25/google_s_larry_page_the_co_founder_s_untold_story.html ====== hellbreakslose Worth the read!
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NFC as a Service - Flomio. Thoughts? - auston http://flomio.com/ ====== lightblade Very interesting. This might be a viable business in Asian countries where NFC is pervalent. But the technology have not reached wide adoption here in North America for this kind of business to be viable. Its definitely worth watchi...
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Is the iPhone a banana? (European court precendent) - notauser http://theplanis.com/blog/iphonebanana/ ====== kbob In US law, I'd think the more relevant precedent would be US vs. Microsoft. Judge Jackson wrote a lengthy decision procedure for when a platform is a monopoly. Microsoft's position was that Windows is ...
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Bloodborne creator Hidetaka Miyazaki: ‘I didn’t have a dream, wasn’t ambitious' - alacritythief http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/31/bloodborne-dark-souls-creator-hidetaka-miyazaki-interview ====== WillPostForFood Great quote from Miyazaki, who rose from programmer to president of the company. _“Now I’m...
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Ideological Segregation Online and Offline - shrikant http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1588920 ====== _delirium Intriguing result. The conventional wisdom is that the internet makes political groupthink worse, on the theory that while RL requires people to mix with lots of people around them, the int...
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ShopList - mobile phone shopping list that's actually usable - davidw http://shoplist.dedasys.com ====== danielha Simple and nifty. I'm already accustomed to typing out a shopping list (or whatever else I need to remember) on the PC and texting that to my mobile. But you're right; the most interesting aspect of this ...
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Clojure/core quick reference - fogus http://clojuredocs.org/quickref/Clojure%20Core ====== michaelty Excellent reference! This is going to be handy for "->" and "->>".
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How efficient-market theory has been proved both wrong and right - flavio87 http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13240822 ====== nazgulnarsil will the economist links ever be blacklisted? Or am i the only one who finds their journalistic standards to be lacking? ~~~ alecst It would be more con...
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Ask HN: Favorite language for coding webpages? - ImaBauss I've dabbled in many languages such as Ruby, php, and Java. However I want to choose a language to really stick to master! What are your guyses preferred languages for coding websites/webapps? If you could put benefits as well as drawbacks to your favorite la...
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Ask HN: Feasibility of a GPU Service Provider? - nobody271 Say you go out and buy a couple 2080&#x27;s and put them into an Ubuntu Server box. Could you use that box to provide GPU support to local computers (either in the same building or other buildings on the same ISP within, say, a mile)?<p>Of course, NVIDEA offer...
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Ask HN: Best tips for holding great conversations with liberal arts alumni? - Emore I'm attending a university alumnus dinner, being the only CS-student there. ====== Jun8 After my PhD in EE, when I started my graduate work in Linguistics I had quite a shock to see how different they thought and argued (and then I too...
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Who's buying the Mac Pro? - abennett http://www.itworld.com/personal-tech/82746/whos-buying-mac-pro ====== nickyp Basically: people who need to fill the slots to connect hardware that's as expensive as their computing platform and/or are running a software stack that can also cost as much as an iMac. In generally thes...
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Latvia blocking extradition of Gozi writer due to disproportionate US sentencing - Libertatea http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/08/05/latvia-blocking-extradition-of-gozi-writer-thanks-to-disproportionate-us-sentencing/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nakedsecurity+%28Naked+Security+-+Soph...
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Intel Confirms 8th Gen Core on 14nm, Data Center First to New Nodes - richardboegli http://www.anandtech.com/show/11115/intel-confirms-8th-gen-core-on-14nm-data-center-first-to-new-nodes ====== dogma1138 The focus in this thread appears to be on the wrong thing. Intel has introduced a new process here for die intercon...
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Twenty Rules for Amazon Cloud Security - chaostheory http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2008/11/20-rules-for-amazon-cloud-security.html ====== wmf There's an assumption here that you use EC2 even though you don't trust Amazon. What is the cost of this assumption? It would be interesting to separate these rules into univers...
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Introducing Apple Music - brbcoding http://www.apple.com/live/2015-june-event/215baa98-f26b-4a74-8f50-bdfb062ea294/ ====== mercer I don't quite understand why they put so much emphasis on 24/7 radio. First, I knew few (younger) people who listen to radio. Second, it's technically not that impressive. But most importa...
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Jay Z Reveals Plans for Tidal, a Streaming Music Service - ValG http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/business/media/jay-z-reveals-plans-for-tidal-a-streaming-music-service.html?_r=0 ====== DIVx0 I'd pay $20/month or more for a service that: * had high quality streams * had gigantic library * _biggest of all_ cracked t...
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Ask HN: How to 100% turn off Google personalization for search? - tlogan I have problem that me (I'm in US) and my college (he is Europe) are getting different results for a search a Google query. We use the following to turn off personalization:<p>- we added `&#38;pws=0` to query<p>- we use browser in incognito mod...
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IMF predicts slowest global economic growth since 2008 financial crisis - hhs https://www.axios.com/imf-global-economic-growth-great-recession-financial-crisis-8ce86d7e-698a-4947-bddb-100f8548cf22.html ====== acd I am proposing that the newly printed money from central banks causes deflation not inflation. Newly print...
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NextDNS first to block ALL third-party trackers disguised as first-party - poitrus https://medium.com/nextdns/nextdns-added-cname-uncloaking-support-becomes-the-first-cross-platform-solution-to-the-problem-e3f437f84342 ====== yegor Neat, but Windscribe ROBERT already supported this for over a year: [https://windscribe...
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Show HN: BeardedSpice: Mac Media Keys for the Masses - trhodes http://beardedspice.com ====== stephanvd Nice, thanks! I needed this for my Synology NAS, so I added bindings for it: [https://github.com/beardedspice/beardedspice/pull/4](https://github.com/beardedspice/beardedspice/pull/4) ------ matthiasak so music....
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The Washington Post Releases U.S. Climate Data on GitHub - infodocket https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/2020/08/07/washington-post-releases-us-climate-data-github/ ====== jonnydubowsky More info on how to access the data: [https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate- environment/2020/08/0...](https://www.washingtonpost.co...
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Cultivating Failure - bootload http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/201001/school-yard-garden ====== ctrager Caitlin Flanagan is one of my favorite essayists, and here is my favorite essay of hers, "The Wifely Duty": <http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200301/flanagan> If you are young or single or childless, it's not f...
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