A tale of debugging hardware with unconventional methods. How I perfected the firmware of BrakeBright (a motorcycle safety device) using a vibrator.

Sublinear-space ZKP system in Rust: a streaming prover that uses only O(√T) memory to commit wires/Z/Q via KZG (BN254) with blocked IFFT and aggregate-only Fiat–Shamir. Supports eval/coeff bases, d...

XTX Markets as one of the largest algorithmic trading firms that handles $250 billion in daily traded volume and relies on around 650+ petabytes of storage for its price forecasts and other algorithmic trading data has open-sourced its Linux file-system

On one side is AI swallowing millions of jobs, and on the other is humans being hired to clean up the nonsense AI often generates, finds Satyen K. Bordoloi This was early 2023, a few months after ChatGPT had just made the perfect superintelligence landing…

A webshell and a normal file that have the same MD5 - phith0n/collision-webshell

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The phenomenon of biological ultraweak photon emission (UPE), that is, extremely low-intensity emission (10–103 photons cm–2 s–1) in the spectral range of 200–1000 nm, has been observed in all living systems that have been examined. Here, we report experiments…

Why we edit our past online: hindsight bias, self-image, and how to post useful, honest lessons.

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I’ve been learning Persian (Farsi) for a while now, and I’m using a bunch of
tools for it. The central one is certainly Anki, a spaced
repetition app to train memory. I’m creating my own never-ending deck of cards,
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