Nota is a language for writing documents, like academic papers and blog posts https://nota-lang.org/#def-nota
nota-lang.org
Nota: A Document Language for the Browser
Making a world where you never have to use LaTeX again.
In search of the least viewed article on Wikipedia (2022) http://colinmorris.github.io/blog/unpopular-wiki-articles
colinmorris.github.io
In search of the least viewed article on Wikipedia
Wikipedia sure is popular. The most popular articles in a given week routinely get millions of views. But with 6 million plus articles, Wikipedia has plenty ...
Encrypted traffic interception on Hetzner and Linode targeting Jabber service https://notes.valdikss.org.ru/jabber.ru-mitm/
A Dutch graphic artist reconstructed Tenochtitlan in 3D https://tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl/index.html
tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl
a portrait of Tenochtitlan
a 3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec Empire
Stealing OAuth tokens of Microsoft accounts via open redirect in Harvest App https://eval.blog/research/microsoft-account-token-leaks-in-harvest/
eval.blog
Stealing OAuth tokens of connected Microsoft accounts via open redirect in Harvest App
Reported an OAuth token leak via open redirect in Harvest.
The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat (1990) https://web.stanford.edu/class/history34q/readings/Virtual_Worlds/LucasfilmHabitat.html
Protomaps – A free and open source map of the world https://protomaps.com/
Protomaps
The open source map for developers
California suspends Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/california-suspends-gm-cruises-driverless-autonomous-vehicle-permits-2023-10-24/
Reuters
California sidelines GM Cruise's driverless cars, cites safety risk
California on Tuesday ordered General Motors' Cruise unit to remove its driverless cars from state roads, calling the vehicles a risk to the public and saying the company had "misrepresented" the safety of the technology.
Show HN: OpenAPI DevTools – Chrome extension that generates an API spec https://github.com/AndrewWalsh/openapi-devtools
GitHub
GitHub - AndrewWalsh/openapi-devtools: Browser extension that generates API specs for any app or website
Browser extension that generates API specs for any app or website - AndrewWalsh/openapi-devtools
Cold war satellite images reveal unknown Roman forts https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/oct/26/cold-war-satellite-images-hundreds-unknown-roman-forts
the Guardian
Cold war satellite images reveal hundreds of unknown Roman forts
Declassified spy images point to 396 undiscovered forts in Syria and Iraq, shifting understanding of Roman frontier
Lean4 helped Terence Tao discover a small bug in his recent paper https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/111287749336059662
Mathstodon
Terence Tao (@tao@mathstodon.xyz)
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As a consequence of my #Lean4 formalization project I have found a small (but non-trivial) bug in my paper! While in the course of formalizing the arguments in page 6 of https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.05328.pdf , I discovered that the expression…
As a consequence of my #Lean4 formalization project I have found a small (but non-trivial) bug in my paper! While in the course of formalizing the arguments in page 6 of https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.05328.pdf , I discovered that the expression…
NixOS Reproducible Builds: minimal ISO successfully independently rebuilt https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-reproducible-builds-minimal-installation-iso-successfully-independently-rebuilt/34756
NixOS Discourse
NixOS Reproducible Builds: minimal installation ISO successfully independently rebuilt
We have successfully created an independent, bit-by-bit-identical rebuild of the nixos-minimal ISO published by Hydra 🎉 Why is this useful? While there are a number of ‘side-benefits’, the main point of Reproducible Builds is that it gives us a reliable…
Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/10/apple-unveils-m3-m3-pro-and-m3-max-the-most-advanced-chips-for-a-personal-computer/
Apple Newsroom
Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, the most advanced chips for a personal computer
M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max feature groundbreaking technologies that deliver dramatically increased performance and unleash new capabilities for Mac.
I've overlayed stays on a light pollution satellite map https://darkhotels.co
In 1886, the US commissioned watercolor paintings of every known fruit (2019) https://www.openculture.com/2019/06/the-us-government-commissioned-7500-watercolor-paintings.html
Open Culture
In 1886, the US Government Commissioned 7,500 Watercolor Paintings of Every Known Fruit in the World: Download Them in High Resolution
T.S. Eliot asks in the opening stanzas of his Choruses from the Rock, “where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” The passage has been called a pointed question for our time, in which we seem to have lost the ability to learn, to make meaningful…
Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/11/02/business/sam-bankman-fried-trial
Nytimes
Sam Bankman-Fried Trial: Fallen Crypto Mogul Convicted in Collapse That Cost Users Billions (Published 2023)
Sam Bankman-Fried, whose FTX cryptocurrency exchange collapsed last year, was found guilty on all seven charges of fraud and conspiracy. Prosecutors said he orchestrated a scheme to steal as much as $10 billion from his users.
Bringing garbage collected programming languages efficiently to WebAssembly https://v8.dev/blog/wasm-gc-porting
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