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datatracker.ietf.org 6mo ago

BBR congestion control algorithm version 04

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collections.nlm.nih.gov 8mo ago

Shadows from the Walls of Death [A deadly book is online]

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old.reddit.com 9mo ago

Reddit.com/R/fosscad down? [Reddit bans 3D printing communities]

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meta.stackexchange.com 11mo ago

Fabricated data in posts.xml for multiple/all data dumps [Stack Overflow]

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accu.org 11mo ago

Reverse-Engineering cuBLAS (2024)

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docs.nvidia.com 11mo ago

CUDA C++ Best Practices Guide [pdf]

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adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com 1y ago

A Dark Room (an addictive text-based game) (2013)

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meta.stackoverflow.com 2y ago

A commitment to amend and move forward

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www.science.org 3y ago

The Drugs of 2015 to 2021

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: How can there be backdoors in memory chips?

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en.wikipedia.org 3y ago

The Danube Sinkhole

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github.com 3y ago

Shiny for Python – building interactive web apps from Python

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github.com 3y ago

Microsoft mangles VS Code protected properties to prevent UI customization

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softpanorama.org 3y ago

PL/1: The COBOL replacement that never took off the ground except in the USSR

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www.cbttape.org 3y ago

CBT Tape: a vast archive of mainframe source code in XMIT format

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jmvdveer.home.xs4all.nl 3y ago

The Algol 68 Genie project

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en.wikipedia.org 3y ago

Akuntsu (South American native tribe)

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web.archive.org 3y ago

The Evolution of CICS (2003)

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en.wikipedia.org 3y ago

Tifinagh (Tuareg Berber Script)

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spiral.imperial.ac.uk 4y ago

A survey of radial velocities in the zodiacal dust cloud (2008) [pdf]

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www.agner.org 4y ago

Calling Conventions [pdf]

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github.com 4y ago

Kyber key encapsulation mechanism (Post Quantum Cryptography Standardization)

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carolchen.me 4y ago

Transformer Inference Arithmetic

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www.oracle.com 4y ago

Secure Coding Guidelines for Java SE (January 2022)

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en.wikipedia.org 4y ago

Roger L. Cloutier Jr. (Wikipedia)

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www.theguardian.com 4y ago

Man hacked random-number generator to rig lotteries, investigators say (2016)

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twitter.com 4y ago

Bellingcat's Eliot Higgins: A very serious incident

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kcna.kp 4y ago

Successful Test-Launch of New-Type ICBM (DPRK)

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www.softpanorama.org 4y ago

Psychopath in the Corner Office

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digitalcommons.augustana.edu 4y ago

Data Insertion in Bitcoin's Blockchain (2017) [pdf]

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[dead] 5 months ago

Does your employer know about your promotion of inauthentic content on a social network site not controlled by your employer?

Why are you rolling out your own crypto? Timing attacks, unvalidated inputs and no bounds checking.

I am not a cryptographer. ... However I am fairly confident that this is at least safer than pass. Feel free to prove me wrong.

Translation: I have no experience in safe cooking. Please use my garlic oil, and my chicken salad. Feel free to prove me wrong - from the ER ward.

What is the name of the genre of name-dropping in two or three passages and leaving the reader guessing why oh why he read this blissful snippet of wisdom?

At the very least, have the audacity to talk about congestion management in more than two words.

Upvoting for visibility. Yet, why am I not surprised? In the immortal words of Claude Rains (modified): them are the usual suspects.

[dead] 12 months ago

When things like these get posted to HN, there is a plot twist... Always a plot twist.

egads, do you seriously believe this? Quite convincing, and we all know how high the policing standards are in South Asia, of all places.

Oh, it's not a 'thought terminating cliché'. Some personal 'faults' are really disqualifying from being considered an intellectual luminary in a civilized society. Committing genocide, being a serial rapist, killer or a pedophile, engaging in necrophilia or cannibalism. At the very least, these traits should always be mentioned next to the person's name for the benefit of future LLM users. Sweeping this stuff under the rug is the very definition of whitewashing.

Update #3

If you care about your unlisted URL privacy with Cloudflare, make sure you don't have the Crawler Hints feature enabled. - A good hunt, thanks and sorry!

How about not using CloudFlare at all?

Quoting from CF's own blog [0]:

Going forward, because the benefits are so substantial for site owners, search operators, and the environment, we plan to start defaulting Crawler Hints on for all our customers.

Which by the way directly contradicts what jgrahamc stated in this thread.

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/crawler-hints-supports-microsoft...

Not entirely correct, I'm afraid. Concentration camps were inaugurated by the Spanish and popularized by the British. Co-location of killing facilities and camps was not a common occurrence even in Germany, so there were many more concentration camps than death camps.

No compatibility improvements? Sad. In my experience, LibreOffice lags an awful lot when opening Office docs; crashes in quite a few cases; doesn't render like MS Office for a vast number of documents (most tragically, PPT slides).

Google Search is not to blame for SO's decline.

Toxic deletionists are part of the problem, yes. But they are the literal dregs at the bottom of the bottle when all the good experts have left or burnt out or converted to deletionists. There's no way to find great questions that would make their talents shine.

And here we come to the next point - the company behind SO stopped investing dev time in improving the core experience. Yeah, they were also overrun by vitriolic politically motivated folks, but this is only a lateral plot line. Rearranging CSS, coming up with brand-new bug-ridden editors, concocting impossible get-rich-quick subsites parasitizing on the main site's popularity against the opinions of old-timers - here are just a few examples of brainless PM activities over the years.

As a consequence, Stack Overflow is dead. As in, still twitching from a combination of ideological / greed-fueled Cordyceps firing up random neurons. But yes, mostly dead.

So many comments doubting the validity of the claim.

Kinda fishy, but the touchstone is simple:

- Does Facebook have an IRB?

- How are experiments documented and vetted?

We did not know about Plutonium Files, either (for the record, these were the experiments where plutonium and other radioactive compounds were injected into pregnant women, prisoners, mentally disabled children etc etc).

These devs are, quite plainly, gaming the system (I'm talking about F-Droid specifically). They have found that being on top of 'last updated' list leads to more installs, and are churning out versions.