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<< 2017-08 >>

• 2017-08-31: Following Hurricane Katrina, an amazing decade of climate research.
• 2017-08-31: Does disabling Wi-Fi prevent my Android phone from sending Wi-Fi frames?
• 2017-08-30: A Polaroid-style Raspberry Pi camera that prints a GIF instantly.
• 2017-08-31: Reducing Python's startup time.
• 2017-08-31: Concurrent JavaScript: It can work!
• 2017-08-30: Gifpop: turn your GIFs into lenticular prints.
• 2017-08-30: "Torrential": a cruelly ironic etymology.
• 2017-08-30: Fully automatic DNSSEC delegation updates at CZ.NIC with FRED and Knot.
• 2017-08-30: Relaxed-memory concurrency synchronization patterns.
• 2017-08-30: Urban maths: tipping point, or, what is the bias of perfect dice?
• 2017-08-30: Eyes change over time, thwarting iris scanners.
• 2017-08-30: How to use `dig` to find details of the Google Public DNS cluster you are using.
• 2017-08-30: Hurricane Harvey didn't come out of the blue. Now is the time to talk about climate change.
• 2017-08-30: Don't fall for Babylonian trigonometry hype.
• 2017-08-29: Fascinating experiments that show what happens when mercury and aluminium are combined. (video)
• 2017-08-29: Hurricane Harvey is what climate change looks like.
• 2017-08-29: How to make Python run as fast as Julia.
• 2017-08-28: What makes a good REPL?
• 2017-08-28: Disabling Intel ME 11 via undocumented US Government High Assurance Platform mode.
• 2017-08-28: AWS Parameter Store: the right way to manage secrets with AWS.
• 2017-08-28: 6 months of working remotely taught me a thing or ten.
• 2017-08-28: Akira Miyagawa live orchestral mashup: Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 vs Mambo No. 5. (YouTube)
• 2017-08-28: On (respect for) children as autonomous human beings.
• 2017-08-28: Attack of the 50 foot blockchain! Bitcoin, Ethereum, and smart contracts.
• 2017-08-27: Where in Europe does an electric car reduce CO2 emissions?
• 2017-08-26: Two spirits, one heart, five genders: how Europeans tried to extinguish Native American views on gender.
• 2017-08-26: How the music of Rogue One links to A New Hope.
• 2017-08-25: Rules for new FPGA designers.
• 2017-08-25: Threading the celestial needle: catching the Great American Eclipse at 35,000 feet.
• 2017-08-25: How to piss off a failed super-soldier.
• 2017-08-25: Better letterer: comic lettering tips.
• 2017-08-25: VW's strike in Slovakia exposes a European divide.
• 2017-08-25: Same day ACH: moving payments faster in the USA.
• 2017-08-25: How American bank payments (ACH) work: A developer perspective.
• 2017-08-25: On crimes and punishments, torture and retribution, deterrence and Beccaria.
• 2017-08-25: Enlightenment technology; A culture of growth: the origins of the modern economy.
• 2017-08-25: On progress and historical change.
• 2017-08-24: Got Phish: how/where to report malicious web sites.
• 2017-08-24: Here at the end of all things: on losing oneself in maps of fantasy worlds:
• 2017-08-24: What made the Moon? New ideas try to rescue a troubled theory.
• 2017-08-24: We're racing towards another private debt crisis, so why did no one see it coming?
• 2017-08-24: Rethinking the dbus message bus.
• 2017-08-24: D as a better C.
• 2017-08-23: The only 4 spaghetti recipes you'll ever need.
• 2017-08-23: Mathematicians tame rogue waves, illuminating future of LED lighting.
• 2017-08-23: The beauty of Bresenham's algorithm.
• 2017-08-22: Hackers are the real obstacle for self-driving vehicles.
• 2017-08-22: IPv6, large UDP packets, and the DNS.
• 2017-08-22: Reverse engineering a 1970s DTMF dialler chip.
• 2017-08-22: Typing with pleasure, and low latency.
• 2017-08-22: Four MLs (and a Python).
• 2017-08-21: Starting Star Wars: How George Lucas came to create a galaxy.
• 2017-08-21: Inequality in the USA: understanding the historic divergence between productivity and a typical worker's pay.
• 2017-08-20: Poland's oldest university denies Google's right to patent ANS compression.
• 2017-08-20: How do I improve my storytelling?
• 2017-08-20: "I teach dirty tricks": the explosives expert who shows armies how to deal with terrorists.
• 2017-08-20: Everything you always wanted to know about optical fibre networking, but were afraid to ask.
• 2017-08-20: BothanSpy and Gyrfalcon: CIA SSH hacking tools.
• 2017-08-19: Why PS4 downloads are so slow.
• 2017-08-19: A crash course on ML modules.
• 2017-08-19: Linguistic antipatterns: what they are and how developers perceive them.
• 2017-08-19: Towards a JavaScript binary AST.
• 2017-08-19: Vue.js vs React.
• 2017-08-19: What next in programming languages?
• 2017-08-19: What a border collie taught a linguist about language.
• 2017-08-18: NASA's sound suppression water system.
• 2017-08-18: How Postgres makes transactions atomic.
• 2017-08-17: At last, a big, successful trial of probiotics.
• 2017-08-17: Hands on with the SHACamp 2017 badge.
• 2017-08-17: Dilution of whisky and flavour: a molecular perspective.
• 2017-08-17: The origin of complex life on Earth just got a little less mysterious.
• 2017-08-17: Peanut allergy cured in majority of children in immunotherapy trial.
• 2017-08-16: The dwarfs of our vocabulary: etymologies of small words.
• 2017-08-16: APIs as infrastructure: future-proofing Stripe with versioning.
• 2017-08-15: Iris: a scalable, accurate, and ethical method to measure global manipulation of DNS resolution.
• 2017-08-15: The Meson build system, used by GTK/Gnome.
• 2017-08-15: rustgo: calling Rust from Golang with near-zero overhead.
• 2017-08-14: German universities take on Elsevier.
• 2017-08-14: The reasons HMS Queen Elizabeth has two islands.
• 2017-08-14: Consistent hashing with bounded loads.
• 2017-08-13: A theory of jerks: Are you surrounded by fools? Are you the only reasonable person around?
• 2017-08-11: The end of Libor.
• 2017-08-11: OpenGeofiction: a map of an imaginary world, created by a community of worldbuilders.
• 2017-08-12: Hyperscan: a high-performance PCRE-compatible multiple regex matching library.
• 2017-08-11: British bank regulators are abandoning LIBOR, the benchmark for hundreds of trillions of dollars in financial transactions.
• 2017-08-11: UX brutalism.
• 2017-08-11: Small functions considered harmful.
• 2017-08-11: Compromise on checkout: vulnerabilities in gIt and other SCM tools.
• 2017-08-11: Crafting plausible fantasy maps.
• 2017-08-11: Font-size: an unexpectedly complex CSS property.
• 2017-08-11: Why Github can't host the Linux kernel.
• 2017-08-10: Scrapmetal: scrap your boilerplate in Rust.
• 2017-08-10: Why does Sattolo's algorithm produce a permutation with exactly one cycle?
• 2017-08-10: For fans of the movie WARGAMES: a list of all the nuclear war scenarios stored in the W.O.P.R. computer.
• 2017-08-09: IETF 99 DNS activity.
• 2017-08-08: Approaching the physical limits of storage technology.
• 2017-08-08: Counting quotient filter: making every bit count. (Better than Bloom filters!)
• 2017-08-08: Localhost entries in DNS zones can lead to "same site" scripting web vulnerabilities.
• 2017-08-07: Tolkien's map and the messed-up mountains of Middle-Earth.
• 2017-08-07: "Not even wrong!" Why does nobody like pilot-wave theory?
• 2017-08-07: Why don't more quantum physicists subscribe to pilot wave theory?
• 2017-08-07: A brief history of quantum alternatives.
• 2017-08-07: Pilot-wave quantum theory gains experimental support.
• 2017-08-07: An 18th-century horse that Eclipsed all the others.
• 2017-08-07: Prostitution decriminalized: Rhode Island's experiment.
• 2017-08-07: How do you find integer solutions to x/(y + z) + y/(x + z) + z/(x + y) = 4?
• 2017-08-07: Why many smart contract use cases are simply impossible.
• 2017-08-07: Can a living creature be as big as a galaxy?
• 2017-08-05: Optimizing HAMT (hash array mapped tries) for fast and lean immutable JVM collections.
• 2017-08-05: What the ctenophore says about the evolution of intelligence.
• 2017-08-05: Which DNS registries offer the best protection for domain owners?
• 2017-08-04: The slow currentTimeMillis().
• 2017-08-04: The languages which almost became CSS.
• 2017-08-04: The development of Chez Scheme.
• 2017-08-03: Users, clients, and servers: the robustness principle and the web.
• 2017-08-03: 306 million freely downloadable pwned passwords.
• 2017-08-03: Elsevier acquires bepress, increasing its hold on open access and institution repositories.
• 2017-08-02: TypeScript's type system is Turing complete.
• 2017-08-02: IBM and Sony cram up to 330 terabytes into tiny tape cartridge.
• 2017-08-02: A practical guide to SQL transaction isolation levels.
• 2017-08-02: RTFM v2: real-time for the masses on a Cortex-M with Rust.
• 2017-08-02: Parsing NES ROM headers with nom and Rust.
• 2017-08-02: Grokking Diesel, Rust's ORM.
• 2017-08-01: Brexiteers using Ireland.
• 2017-08-01: New evidence of British torture could overturn Northern Ireland ruling that became a blueprint for US torture.
• 2017-08-01: Review: Nabokov's favorite word is mauve: what the numbers reveal about [] writing.
• 2017-08-01: US DoD encyclopedia of ethical failure.
• 2017-08-01: see-phit: A C++ HTML template engine that uses compile time HTML parsing.
• 2017-08-01: Recursives in the wild: engineering authoritative DNS servers.