Can’t send email more than 500 miles (2002) https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles
Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000) http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wkw/humour/carproblems.txt
Cisco Acquires Splunk https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/leadership/splunk-and-cisco-unite-to-accelerate-digital-resilience-as-one-of-the-leading-global-software-companies.html
Splunk
Splunk and Cisco Unite To Accelerate Digital Resilience as One of the Leading Global Software Companies | Splunk
Splunk is taking the next step in our journey to realize our vision for the future of security and observability by joining forces with Cisco.
The WebP 0day https://blog.isosceles.com/the-webp-0day/
Isosceles Blog
The WebP 0day
Early last week, Google released a new stable update for Chrome. The update included a single security fix that was reported by Apple's Security Engineering and Architecture (SEAR) team. The issue, CVE-2023-4863, was a heap buffer overflow in the WebP image…
A hacker's guide to language models [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkrNMKz9pWU
YouTube
A Hackers' Guide to Language Models
In this deeply informative video, Jeremy Howard, co-founder of fast.ai and creator of the ULMFiT approach on which all modern language models (LMs) are based, takes you on a comprehensive journey through the fascinating landscape of LMs. Starting with the…
Text editing on mobile: the invisible problem https://jenson.org/text/
An analysis of the Google antitrust trial https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/how-to-hide-a-2-trillion-antitrust
Thebignewsletter
How to Hide a $2 Trillion Antitrust Trial
We did an analysis of the Google antitrust trial. Last week, over half of the trial was held behind closed doors because the judge, Amit Mehta, is deferring to Google on the need for secrecy.
A journey into the shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma controversy https://www.cambridgeblog.org/2023/05/a-journey-into-the-shaken-baby-syndrome-abusive-head-trauma-controversy/
Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press - The Official Blog of Cambridge University Press
A journey into the shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma controversy - Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is publishing a textbook I have co-edited with five colleagues, Shaken Baby Syndrome, Investigating the Abusive Head Trauma Controversy, by Findley et al. With contributions by 32 authors, this book provides a thorough analysis…
WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight https://jamesbvaughan.com/southwest-wifi/
james vaughan
Wifi without internet on a Southwest flight
I spent a recent flight finding out what I could do with a connection to the flight’s wifi, but without access to the internet.
I was on my way home from Strange Loop, a direct flight from St. Louis to Oakland. It’s a long enough flight that I planned to…
I was on my way home from Strange Loop, a direct flight from St. Louis to Oakland. It’s a long enough flight that I planned to…
Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool – what we've learned https://posthog.com/blog/dev-marketing-paid-ads
Posthog
Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool – what we've learned - PostHog
Since starting PostHog in 2020, we’ve learned a bunch about what does and doesn’t work when it comes to marketing to engineers . Paid ads is a…
Things Every Hacker Once Knew (2017) http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/things-every-hacker-once-knew/
Show HN: RISC-V assembly tabletop board game (hack your opponent) https://punkx.org/overflow/
punkx.org
PROJEKT: OVERFLOW
RealFill: Image completion using diffusion models https://realfill.github.io/
realfill.github.io
RealFill: Reference-Driven Generation for Authentic Image Completion
What every software developer must know about Unicode in 2023 https://tonsky.me/blog/unicode/
tonsky.me
The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!)
Modern extension to classic 2003 article by Joel Spolsky
The short life of New York City’s first skyscraper https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2023/09/25/the-short-forgotten-life-of-new-york-citys-first-skyscraper/
Ephemeral New York
The short, forgotten life of New York City’s first skyscraper
In 1889, a slender building was unveiled on a commercial stretch of Lower Broadway, snugly situated between two older structures. Rising 11 stories, it wasn’t the tallest tower in the city. N…
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An interactive intro to CRDTs https://jakelazaroff.com/words/an-interactive-intro-to-crdts/
Jakelazaroff
An Interactive Intro to CRDTs | jakelazaroff.com
CRDTs don't have to be all academic papers and math jargon. Learn what CRDTs are and how they work through interactive visualizations and code samples.