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Papers and Algorithms in LLVM's Source Code - chubot https://github.com/oilshell/blog-code/blob/master/grep-for-papers/llvm.txt ====== chubot context and summary: [https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/b22tw...](https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/b22tw6/papers_and_algorithms_in_llv...
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Multi-Value All the Wasm - feross https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/11/multi-value-all-the-wasm/ ====== reikonomusha Slowly but surely WASM is turning into Common Lisp! (: I kid, sort of. Greenspun and all that. (Common Lisp has support for multiple values built in. They’re not a “data structure” like a tuple, but rath...
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Search by Image, Recursively, Transparent PNG [video] - ccvannorman https://vimeo.com/34949864 ====== dang Url changed from [http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/en_uk/blog/this-is- what-h...](http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/en_uk/blog/this-is-what-happens- when-you-do-a-blank-google-image-search), which points to ...
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Startup that planned to deliver babies in space [is] suspending operations - exolymph https://www.businessinsider.com/space-life-origin-suspending-operations-babies-in-space-2019-7 ====== exolymph Had to trim down the BI title quite a bit. I am, frankly, gobsmacked by the existence of this startup.
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Show HN: Mobile consumable HackerNews cards - prats226 http://web.cubeit.io/web/index.html?id=7ee8b2b5-4aa9-49db-b054-b8cd1a9c28780 ====== brudgers Related: [http://cubeit.io/blog/2016/03/29/understanding-why-people- sh...](http://cubeit.io/blog/2016/03/29/understanding-why-people-share- screenshots-how-that-led-to-ou...
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New Clients for Recruiting - poornimaemani i am a looking for new US clients where me and my team can work with ====== Colegno We need more information about you and your team
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Emoji Number Plates Launched in Queensland - clouddrover https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-47301316 ====== gkoberger For people who just saw the title or have seen joke tweets on Twitter, it's a bit misleading. The article does a good job of outlining what's really happening. License plates have always been cus...
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Facebook's std::vector optimization - iamsalman https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/master/folly/docs/FBVector.md ====== jlebar If you're interested in these sorts of micro-optimizations, you may find Mozilla's nsTArray (essentially std::vector) interesting. One of its unusual design decisions is that the array's ...
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The FTC's PrivacyCon Is *Today* in DC (free to Public and Webcasted) - Dowwie &quot;.. to discuss the latest research and trends related to consumer privacy and data security&quot;<p>event url: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ftc.gov&#x2F;news-events&#x2F;events-calendar&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;privacycon<p>research submissions ...
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How to Find a Co-Founder Success Story: LegCyte - dglidden http://www.cofounderslab.com/find-a-co-founder/success-story-spotlight-legcyte/ ====== skaviani I was just with LegCyte, today - love seeing tech startups in DC tapping into local problems like legislative efficiency.
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Detective Who Threatened to Kill Teens and Plan Evidence Is Suspended, Not Fired - kyleblarson http://wamc.org/post/police-detective-who-threatened-kill-teens-and-plant-drug-evidence-suspended-not-fired ====== finid _A video of the interrogation, during which Bigda reportedly threatened to crush the skull of one of th...
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Why do Google ads point to adware? - jakepoz http://jakepoz.com/why_do_google_ads_point_to_adware.html ====== djnliung Google is a web company, why would Google invest significant money and engineering effort into filtering out things that only harm competing platforms? Google's own platforms (Chrome + the web and A...
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How Apple conquered China and learned to think like the Communist Party. - jibjab http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/08/01/red_delicious_and_rotten?page=full ====== buddylw I am no fan of Apple - mainly for their closed architecture, but I am also a cold-hearted economist when it comes to these types issues an...
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Detaining my partner: a failed attempt at intimidation - ptbello http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/18/david-miranda-detained-uk-nsa ====== rfnslyr " _Before letting him go, they seized numerous possessions of his, including his laptop, his cellphone, various video game consoles, DVDs, USB sticks, and...
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Show HN: ShouldYouBlank – Turn your followers into customers with a quiz - cmacole http://shouldyoublank.com ====== jiten_bansal Subscribed for early access. Submit your startup to [http://betapage.co](http://betapage.co)
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Evercookie used by NSA to track TOR users across browsers - grhmc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evercookie ====== sp332 That edit was made a year ago. It's not news. [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evercookie&diff=5...](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evercookie&diff=577190307&oldid=568209885)...
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Nintendo Switch Teardown - fictivmade https://www.fictiv.com/blog/posts/nintendo-switch-teardown ====== eludwig Just a few quick comments on the Switch after a day of use. First, a quick digression, Nintendo seems to have gauged the launch demand pretty well. There are some other comments here regarding Target mornin...
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Apple Fight Could Lead to “Virtually Limitless” Surveillance Powers, Judge Warns - DiabloD3 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/03/apple-all-writs-act-and-limitless-surveillance ====== mhurron Pretty sure 'Virtually Limitless Surveillance Powers' is kinda the whole point. ~~~ leecarraher they had to tone it down from ...
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Show HN: I built this vscode extension to manage tasks in TODO.md - ngvan https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=coddx.coddx-alpha ====== ngvan I don't need complicate Kanban SaaS on the market, so I built this vscode extension to simply manage tasks in TODO.md \- It can manage tasks in TODO.md - a plain...
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IA or AI? - rudenoise https://vanemden.wordpress.com/2015/10/09/ia-or-ai-2/ ====== dsr_ The IA advance which is most obvious to me (yet somehow not yet a reality) is the nomenclator. In Rome, a nomenclator was a slave who remembered people's names for you, and as they approached would whisper to you that this is Gaiu...
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Apple starts rejecting apps with “hot code push” features - dylanpyle https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/73640 ====== adjunct I'm Erez Rusovsky, the CEO of Rollout.io Rollout's mission has always been, and will always be about helping developers create and deploy mobile apps quickly and safely. Our current pro...
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How to make a better analog watch - chrkau http://christiankaula.com/how-make-better-analog-watch.html ====== jaypreneur I would have to agree with DanBC. Additionally, I am slightly confused as to how the idea/solution you've presented is different than from a military watch that has the numbers (often including th...
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Adsuck – a small DNS server that spoofs blacklisted addresses - userbinator https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/adsuck ====== egwynn I use `dnsmasq` and configured it to return `NXDOMAIN` for a giant list of ad domains I found. It doesn’t have feature-parity with this, but the software was readily available for my p...
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Unplanned Freefall? Some Survival Tips - Tomte http://www.greenharbor.com/fffolder/carkeet.html ====== sfeng > 120 divided by 5 = 24. Not bad! 24 mph is only a bit faster than the speed > at which experienced parachutists land. This is of course being a little silly, but it does get the physics wrong. Your energy is ...
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OpenTitan: An open-source silicon root of trust from lowRISC - gdk https://opentitan.org ====== paulgerhardt To clarify this is just open source fpga code. It's not an open chip. Yet. It does however get us one step towards open silicon. An open source root of trust would be the most useful application for open silico...
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Since 2016, Half of All Coral in the Great Barrier Reef Has Died - esalazar https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/since-2016-half-the-coral-in-the-great-barrier-reef-has-perished/558302/?single_page=true ====== Qworg Corals are fascinating creatures and incredible symbiots. Vulcan (where I work) has been...
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Control-R, my favorite Unix shell command - reuven http://blog.lerner.co.il/control-r-favorite-unix-shell-command/ ====== loevborg ^R is useful. But for me, there's something even more useful than searching for a string in your history using ^R: completing the line you're currently typing from your history using Alt-p...
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Examining Carlos Ghosn and Japan's System of 'Hostage Justice' - onemoresoop https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/17/national/crime-legal/examining-carlos-ghosn-japans-system-hostage-justice/ ====== anonu Ghosn's handling by the Japanese is utterly despicable. No habeas corpus ... no due process. Ghosn is credit...
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Ask HN: So I've learnt Ruby, now to choose where to go next? - mcdowall Hi Guys,<p>So I've project managed high budget e-commerce builds across different platforms and languages, multiple smaller sites and am a pretty dab hand at SEO to boot, but having the funds to outsource and manage the project myself was just n...
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Ethical OS and Silicon Valley’s Guilty Conscience - craftsman https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2018/08/24/striving-to-minimize-technical-and-reputational-risks-ethical-os-and-silicon-valleys-guilty-conscience/ ====== shawn This is an excellent time to ask for a counterargument to CGP Grey's stance that immorta...
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Ski Resorts Exaggeration of Snowfall Reduced Sharply Because of iPhone App - dean http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122084539&ps=cprs ====== s3graham My Dad used to work for IDRC (www.idrc.ca) and he told me a story about one of his earliest (and happiest) development projects. It's very simple: b...
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The $1bn hostage deal that enraged Qatar’s Gulf rivals - forkLding https://www.ft.com/content/dd033082-49e9-11e7-a3f4-c742b9791d43 ====== kristianp Archive version: [http://archive.is/LqMos](http://archive.is/LqMos) ------ bradknowles Paywalled.
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Our Pirate Game is Getting Owned By App Store Pirates - theappfarm http://silverskullgame.blogspot.com/2009/09/our-pirate-game-is-getting-owned-by-app.html ====== timcederman A nice sensible response, with some well-reasoned observations. The thing about piracy I've always found weird is how hysterical some people ...
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Toptal’s Selection of Top Developer Blogs - dselmanovic http://www.toptal.com/it/toptal-s-selection-of-top-developer-blogs ====== dror_liebenthal Great article! Extremely thorough discussion of 20+ established blogs. Interested to see what opinions will come up in the comments section. ------ silicon_ooze Nice select...
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+Pool: A Floating Pool in the River of NYC - pstinnett http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/694835844/pool-a-floating-pool-in-the-river-for-everyone ====== phlux Every city near water needs this - except I can imagine this only working where the temp of the water body is swimable. It would be best of they had the sq...
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Children learn best when engaged in the living world, not on screens - acconrad https://aeon.co/essays/children-learn-best-when-engaged-in-the-living-world-not-on-screens ====== jupp0r The whole article seems like a straw man. Nobody is proposing to replace real- world experience by technology. People are proposing to...
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Cicada 3301 challenge: partial solutions [video] - vinchuco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svJF_FoSI9o&t=25s ====== vinchuco Extensive previous discussion [https://hn.algolia.com/?query=cicada%203301&sort=byPopularit...](https://hn.algolia.com/?query=cicada%203301&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=s...
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Netflix picks up an Oscar nomination for “The Square”, a documentary - 0cool http://thenextweb.com/media/2014/01/16/netflix-picks-oscar-nomination-square-documentary-egyptian-revolution/ ====== smackfu Documentaries are a smart direction for Netflix. They can actually afford to license the best ones for streaming. Of ...
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Ask HN: You've got one month, what's your challenge? - mezod As simple as that, you have a month, what challenge do you tackle?<p>Typical examples: - write a book - code a game - train to run a marathon by the end of the month ====== adimitrov After 10 years of depression, carry over my good streak from last month and...
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How to set up a Raspberry Pi Web Server - JeremyMorgan http://www.jeremymorgan.com/tutorials/raspberry-pi/how-to-raspberry-pi-web-server/ ====== jgrahamc I have a Raspberry Pi attached to my home network with one of these tiny WiFi adapters ([http://www.expansys.com/edimax-wi-fi-150mbps-mini- usb-202741...](http://www...
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Google shelves plan for phone with interchangeable parts - _pius http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-google-smartphone-idUKKCN11806C ====== xenadu02 Anyone paying the slightest bit of attention knew this was the ultimate result on the very day they announced it. To make something modular you need to wrap each piece in i...
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The State of Breach Protection - geek-advised https://www.cynet.com/blog/2020-state-of-breach-protection-survey/# ====== geek-advised Few highlights from the survey: \- Only 11% rated their consolidation level in their organization as high \- 78% stated that their main obstacle is the Management, maintenance and ope...
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The 2020s will be known as the Remote Work decade - shizcakes https://twitter.com/chris_herd/status/1212412869251350529 ====== teddyuk Hope so
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Ask HN: phpmyadmin alternatives for simple db tasks - codegeek I am not a db expert and when it comes to db management, I am just using phpmyadmin on my dev server. Yes, I confess. It is not pretty&#x2F;secure etc but it does the task specially in dev.<p>However, I was wondering what other options are out there that...
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Ask HN: Why you keep coming back to HN? - pyeu ====== duiker101 Because I find interesting stuff and I get to interact with other like-minded people. I feel like I have always something new to learn. ------ philipkiely I found several of my clients and my most recent internship on HN, it may be small but for me it’s t...
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Ask HN: Please stop tearing each other up. - jacquesm I am beginning to believe that one of the unintended casualties of Aarons' passing is that HN is dying as well. I've never seen such a rift in the community as what is happening right now.<p>Can we please all stop this before there is no turning back? I understan...
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A Lawsuit Against Uber Highlights the Rush to Conquer Driverless Cars - easyd https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/technology/anthony-levandowski-waymo-uber-google-lawsuit.html ====== TillE “Our self-driving technology required human intervention. The vehicle operator had time to intervene, but failed to take over befor...
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StackOverflow bans one of its top contributors over frivolous matter - Envec83 https://plus.google.com/+BaukeScholtz/posts/GRjfSAXYw9t ====== fsk I contributed to StackOverflow a little when it first got started, got frustrated by the heavy-handed censorship (too aggressive about closing question), and then gave up ...
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God Help Us All - lfuller http://blog.loganfuller.com/god_help_us_all/ ====== ceejayoz God help his webserver, apparently. ~~~ lfuller I'm trying to get the cause figured out. Spun this up yesterday on a spare dev server - not the best idea in hindsight! ~~~ lfuller It's back up now. ~~~ mdonahoe FYI, I couldn't ...
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Google CEO: YouTube is too big to fix completely - Khelouiati https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/17/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-youtube-is-too-big-to-fix.html ====== charlesism It's only "too big to fix" because Youtube insists on fixing it centrally. They could fix it by delegating responsibility to creators, and implementing...
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Optimizing Dynamically-Typed Object-Oriented Languages With Polymorphic Inline Caches - qwph http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.36.6379&rep=rep1&type=pdf ====== Hexstream This provides good insight into some of the techniques used to make intuitively slow dynamic operations very fast in practic...
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Ask HN: Where best to sell an established website? - dawson Does anyone have advice/recommendation for where best to sell an established website?<p>The site was once mentioned/interviewed on The BBC, CNN, CNET, TheRegister, Forbes, Silicon etc and was receiving large numbers of unique visitors, now not so much thoug...
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CSS Animated Slide Toggle - tzm http://jsfiddle.net/joshnh/evePU/show/ ====== jmyc Just a suggestion: I was annoyed when I first tried to drag the slider. I figured out you have to click it instead, but some users may just quit first. ~~~ douglascalhoun You can drag it, you just can't end the drag motion outside of...
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I don't know mathematics, I want to learn it, where to begin? - l4m3r Practically the most advanced aspect of mathematics that I know is "1 + 1", I want to learn more advanced topics; where to begin? ====== Ixiaus These two books will get you started, I was very much in the same boat as you and endeavored to improve...
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Phil Schiller seems to deny talk of cheap iPhone - derpenxyne http://9to5mac.com/2013/01/10/apple-marketing-svp-phil-schiller-seems-to-deny-talk-of-cheap-iphone/ ====== matdrewin Would be sweet if Apple was developing a quality dumb phone a la iPod Nano or Shuffle. I like my phones small and with the iPad, I don't u...
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Building and Motivating Engineering Teams - yarapavan https://medium.com/@skamille/building-and-motivating-engineering-teams-24fd56910039#.suk0zdr0l ====== yarapavan > Respect that engineers are smart individuals who often have more to add to > your business than just their coding talents, and teach them to respect th...
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Postman - a JavaScript message bus - slace http://github.com/aaronpowell/postman Postman is a JavaScript library &#38; npm package which allows for cross-component messaging like traditional pub/ sub libraries but without the reqiurement on a message to be published after all the listeners are attached. ====== drdaem...
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Show HN: A New Game I Built in Two Months - felipemora Sorry for using a brand new account. I&#x27;ve lost access to my old account of several years.<p>This is a game that I spent the last two months working on: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=com.noatechnologies.android.shooter<...
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DreamHost offers free hosting (select apps, needs invite) - anuraggoel http://dreamhostapps.com/ ====== redrobot5050 Considering how oversold their servers are, and how draconian their copyright policies are, and abysmal service, you wouldn't want to host your app there. At least, no sensible person hosting an app ...
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Trash - tosh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trash_(computing) ====== tosh > In early versions of the Macintosh Finder, Trash contents were listed in > volatile memory. Files moved to the Trash would appear there only until the > Finder session ended, then they would be automatically erased. When System 7 > was released...
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They rap for funding (startup hustle) - mickhagen http://undrip.com/rap/ ====== samtp It seems nowadays that each startup team is trying to out "quirky" one another. Everyone is screaming about how unique and edgy they are. "Yeah, our brogrammer is a world class Japanese chef from France, who enjoys Native American ...
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Fire near LANL Whole town evacuated - lightweb http://nmfireinfo.wordpress.com There is a fire very close to Los Alamos National Laboratory. They have begun to evacuate the whole town. Here is some info from someone on the ground: Our main concern is that the Las Conchas fire is about 3 1/2 miles from Area G, the dum...
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Grakn – The Database for AI - nikolay https://grakn.ai/ ====== dreamcompiler Or you could just use prolog and then you wouldn't need to invent yet another graph query language. ~~~ zmonx Prolog indeed seems eminently suitable for this use case. For example, let us consider the first use case shown on the page: ...
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SourceWeb: A C/C++ source code indexer and navigator - vmorgulis http://rprichard.github.io/sourceweb/ ====== guruz There's a similar tool here which is running inside the web browser: [http://code.woboq.org/llvm/clang/include/clang/AST/ASTContex...](http://code.woboq.org/llvm/clang/include/clang/AST/ASTContext.h.htm...
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Ask HN: why is computer graphics research important? - phd_student Many areas of CS have "practical value": algorithms help us understand asymptotic speed of algorithms; security helps us avoid getting hacked; networks teach us how to deal with distributed, unreliable machines; machine learning helps us deal with no...
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Can BitCoin, the First Open Source Currency, Threaten the Dollar? - TuxPirate http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/90660/can-bitcoin-the-first-open-source-currency-threaten-the-dollar/ ====== markkat I have BitCoins, so this only is of benefit to me; but I have the feeling that stories about BitCoins are being promoted o...
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Evaluating potential co-founders? Try going camping. - jesselamb http://notmylawyer.com/post/745869535/evaluating-potential-co-founders-try-going-camping ====== hnote Vladimir Vysotsky, Song about a friend <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN0YzyUEhbo> Original version, without subtitles <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
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Web SQL Database: In Memoriam - daleharvey http://nolanlawson.com/2014/04/26/web-sql-database-in-memoriam/ ====== actsasbuffoon The great thing is that we're on the verge of not needing Web SQL anymore. sql.js ([https://github.com/kripken/sql.js](https://github.com/kripken/sql.js)) is SQLite compiled to JS (via Emscri...
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What being hopelessly single taught me about pitching tech celebs - iseff http://www.geekwire.com/2011/hopelessly-single-taught-pitching-tech-celebs ====== pg Maybe my case is unusual because YC takes applications online, but I don't like it when people walk up to me and "pitch" me by reciting some preformulated spe...
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Work in Silicon Valley and Spooked About Trump? Canada Wants You - kushti http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-01/work-in-silicon-valley-and-spooked-about-trump-canada-wants-you ====== n00b101 What exactly do they propose is the incentive for founding a startup in Canada instead of just doing it in the US? I...
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Connect Watch: first AsteroidsOS powered smartwatch - PascalW http://connect-watch.com/en/ ====== PascalW Very excited to see AsteroidsOS getting it's first hardware product. Hopefully this will stir AsteroidsOS adoption in general. I like having an open source, free smartwatch OS as alternative to Wear.
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EU dropped plans for safer pesticides because of TTIP and pressure from US - de_Selby http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/05/eu-dropped-plans-for-safer-pesticides-because-of-ttip-and-pressure-from-us/ ====== tzs See also extensive discussion from 2 days ago: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9587772](https:/...
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Ask HN: How do I know if my startup is infringing on patents? - maxmzd_ With all of the patents out there, what is the best way to figure out which features I&#x27;ve added might infringe on a patent&#x2F;idea I&#x27;ve never heard of? ====== davismwfl Well. First IANAL. But from my understanding you are better off ...
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China’s TikTok Sued by U.S. College Student over Data Use - JumpCrisscross https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-03/china-s-tiktok-sued-by-u-s-college-student-over-data-use ====== li-z "...her lawyers said in a filing that didn’t provide evidence to back up the allegations." WTF
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Funding Brooklyn Castle - maudlinmau5 http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2013/06/funding-brooklyn-castle.html ====== Sealy I admire the VC companies that pledge towards charitable causes. Its nice to see one that actively works towards promoting these causes too.
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Show HN: ChessBoss – enhancing physical chessboards with computer vision - yeldarb https://devpost.com/software/chess-boss We built ChessBoss at the TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon this week. It didn’t make the top 10 but I thought Hacker News might think it’s pretty cool.<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;devpost.com&#x2F;software&#...
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Alum Charged With Hacking Into Texas A&M - terpua http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-College-Hacking.html?ex=1346817600&en=2b7a3ceda0264fcf&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss ====== jsjenkins168 I actually know a few people who go to A&M who discovered similar vulnerabilities. A friend gained access to the Wind...
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Alexis Ohanian is speaking at Justin.tv Thursday the 26th at 5:30pm (Tomorrow) - as Reddit co-founder Alexis and his good friend 'Pierre' will be here at the JTV office to talk about his experience in Web 2.0 startups and a bit more! Free pizza served at 5pm.<p>Everyone is welcome. We're located at 36 Clyde St. San ...
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Ask HN: What robotics company would you start? - nraphael8 ====== gradschool Drone swarms for high-speed low-cost temporary housing construction -- A shipment of bricks arrives at a disaster area or refugee camp by helicopter or truck, drones file into a holding pattern around it, the bricks are dispersed into the air...
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Amazon EC2 Issues in Frankfurt AZ - mrmattyboy https://status.aws.amazon.com/#Europe ====== intsunny It is baffling that the Europe tab for AWS' Status page posts timestamps in PST. What the fuck is PST? We have the ability to do everything and anything in Javascript EXCEPT for fucking UTC or localized time zones. I...
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Your Startup’s First Hire: Leading and Learning at the Same Time - ttunguz http://tomtunguz.com/management-and-teaching ====== applecore _Anna Karenina_ is a novel by Tolstoy, not Dostoevsky :)
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New Tesla car comes with a button for biological weapon attacks - janisS http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/tesla-model-x-new-electric-car-comes-prepared-for-biological-weapon-attack-and-has-sweeping-falcon-a6673506.html ====== loco5niner Yes, it has a funny name, but really it's purpose is to co...
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How to Build a Discovery Feature for Course Platforms with PredictionIO - smhchan http://blog.prediction.io/build-discovery-feature-course-platforms-predictionio/#.Uji_7WAyWid.hackernews ====== smhchan PredictionIO is an open source that you can download form github.
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Is The Web Really Just Links Or Is It Evolving? - jpro http://www.dzone.com/articles/web-really-just-links-or-it ====== dlsym No - there are awful lot of dead links, too.
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Ask HN: How did you get over your fear of shipping? - fratlas Currently building a web app and feature creep and an intense feeling that the product is worthless (I enjoy using it, but it&#x27;s niche so hard to user-test) is a daily occurrence. is this normal? ====== rgbrgb Here's an open secret that might make you f...
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The Art and Skill of Radio-Telegraphy 3rd Edition [pdf] - pmoriarty http://cw.hfradio.org/cw_resources/The_Art_and_Skill_of_Radio_Telegraphy-3rd-edition.pdf ====== Animats If you want to listen to some Morse code, the ARRL has an archive of MP3s. This is perfect machine-sent code with long spaces between the character...
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The Limited Role of Utility Calculations in Moral Judgment - randomname2 http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0160084 ====== throwaway3042 I'm kind of disapointed that this doesn't really reference existing philisophical ideas about morals or ethics. A lot of what the article talks about is...
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Encounter 2001 Message (for aliens) - alexwg http://www.matessa.org/~mike/dutil-dumas.html ====== biot This is like a combination of the Voyager message and the math/logic primer from Contact. It's fairly easy to eyeball what is going on: mathematical and geometric equivalents are laid out while introducing new symb...
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Cumulus: A free, open-source replacement for CloudApp that uses your own S3 - nrj https://github.com/nrj/Cumulus ====== mykel242 Sweet!
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High Class Escort 2013 InfoGraphic - 1.4K Hours - $2K/Hour - act9 http://averyplayfulblog.com/ta-da/ ====== TrainedMonkey Interestingly enough most of her hours are spent in DC by a large margin. City with second most hours is graced with only a third of the time DC gets. ------ weaksauce Unless I am missing someth...
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The Real Kings of Chess Are Computers - ColinWright http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-real-kings-of-chess-are-computers-1420827071 ====== asdfologist A major point missed in the article is that computers aren't just stronger than humans but also play an extremely monumental role in human chess itself. The entire opening...
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How many problems does this solution create? - eswat http://dl.dropbox.com/u/506504/solving_problems_by_yongfook.txt ====== patio11 If I can make one comment, hard won from painful experience: if there is just one of you, there are only two acceptable answers as to when you'll have something done: "It is already don...
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Booking system for makeup artists and hair stylists - xxxxtj https://www.appearancer.com/start ====== xxxxtj Welcome!
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Manchin Demands Federal Regulators Ban Bitcoin - imd23 http://www.manchin.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=237cbd66-6a26-4870-9bcb-20177ae902b0 ====== ColinWright Extensive discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7307299](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7307299)
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First complete dinosaur skeleton ever found has finally been studied in detail - woldemariam https://phys.org/news/2020-08-dinosaur-skeleton-ready-closeup.html ====== brzozowski The paper has some nice illustrations in case anyone is interested in reading about it in more detail: [https://sci- hub.tw/https://doi.org/1...
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Which hosted and simple acceptance testing tools are out there? - matlock I am currently researching which hosted tools there are to get started with testing your application. Something that everyone in the company could set up and start using instantly. Testing here encompasses clicking through the website and asse...
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Spire.io: A New Platform For Serverless Apps That Work On Web & Mobile - airnomad http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/09/spire-io-a-new-platform-for-serverless-apps-that-work-on-web-mobile/ ====== jtchang I have no problem with these new backend as a service providers. Parse, FireBase, Spire.io, etc. The problem I have is...
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Toolkit - prostoalex http://titon.io/en/toolkit ====== n8m It's good to see something else than Bootstrap. If you like this, have a look at: [http://www.semantic-ui.com/](http://www.semantic-ui.com/) \- I love using this as every component can be downloaded separately. ~~~ im_dario I tried to use Semantic UI and I di...
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Watch Paul Graham write his latest essay - jballanc http://etherpad.com/ep/pad/slider/foundervisa ====== dctoedt As a lawyer, I was both fascinated and horrified by the replay. Imagine a company routinely using EtherPad (really cool, BTW) to create documents -- in the process saving thousands if not millions of inter...
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Infinity Hook – Hook system calls, context switches, page faults and more - MikusR https://github.com/everdox/InfinityHook ====== MikusR "Hook system calls, context switches, page faults, DPCs and more. InfinityHook works along side Patchguard and VBS/Hyperguard to subtly hook various kernel events. InfinityHook is in...
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