Sort, sweep, and prune: Collision detection algorithms (2023) https://leanrada.com/notes/sweep-and-prune/
DUNE scientists observe first neutrinos with prototype detector at Fermilab https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2024/08/12/dune-scientists-observe-first-neutrinos-with-prototype-detector-at-fermilab/
Berkeley Lab News Center
DUNE Scientists Observe First Neutrinos with Prototype Detector at Fermilab
DUNE’s prototype particle detection system, designed and built by a collaboration led by Berkeley Lab, has successfully recorded its first neutrino tracks.
Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach https://www.troyhunt.com/inside-the-3-billion-people-national-public-data-breach/
Troy Hunt
Inside the "3 Billion People" National Public Data Breach
I decided to write this post because there's no concise way to explain the nuances of what's being described as one of the largest data breaches ever. Usually, it's easy to articulate a data breach; a service people provide their information to had someone…
How one ED mobilized his department during a mass casualty incident (2017) https://epmonthly.com/article/not-heroes-wear-capes-one-las-vegas-ed-saved-hundreds-lives-worst-mass-shooting-u-s-history/
Emergency Physicians Monthly | Independent news and analysis in emergency medicine
How One Las Vegas ED Saved Hundreds of Lives After the Worst Mass Shooting in U.S. History | Emergency Physicians Monthly
The night that Stephen Paddock opened fire on thousands of people at a Las Vegas country music concert, nearby Sunrise Hospital received more than 200 penetrating gunshot wound victims. Dr. Kevin Menes was the attending in charge of the ED that night, and…
Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand https://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcoms-extradition-to-the-u-s-given-green-light-by-new-zealand-240815/
Torrentfreak
Kim Dotcom's Extradition to the U.S. Given Green Light By New Zealand * TorrentFreak
After years of legal proceedings, New Zealand's Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith has approved Kim Dotcom's extradition to the United States.
Show HN: High-precision date/time in SQLite https://antonz.org/sqlean-time/
antonz.org
High-precision date/time in SQLite
A rich set of functions for working with date, time and durations.
Nomad, communicate off-grid mesh, forward secrecy and extreme privacy https://github.com/markqvist/NomadNet
GitHub
GitHub - markqvist/NomadNet: Communicate Freely
Communicate Freely. Contribute to markqvist/NomadNet development by creating an account on GitHub.
One man's quest to restore the first-ever Air Force One https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/first-air-force-one
Atlas Obscura
One Man’s Quest to Restore the First-Ever Air Force One
President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s plane is starting to look like itself again.
PyScript: An open source platform for Python in the browser https://pyscript.net/
Pyscript.net
PyScript is a platform for Python in the browser.
Crafting a 13KB Game: The Story of Space Huggers https://frankforce.com/space-huggers-how-i-made-a-game-in-13-kilobytes/
Killed By A Pixel
Crafting a 13KB Game: The Story of Space Huggers
One of my favorite game jams is the legendary Js13kGames competition, where participants have one month to make a web browser game that fits in a 13 kilobyte zip file. To put that into perspective,…
A Texas "moth man" photographed 550 species in his own yard https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/curtis-eckerman-photographer-moth-man/
Texas Monthly
More Than 4,000 Moth Species Flit Across Texas. One Scientist Photographed 550 in His Yard.
Small, obscure moths are Curtis Eckerman’s favorites: “I love seeing the little jewels that you can’t normally see.”
Increasing Retention Without Increasing Study Time [pdf] https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED505647.pdf
Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole
GitHub
GitHub - magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely
get things from one computer to another, safely. Contribute to magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole development by creating an account on GitHub.
Flaw has Microsoft Authenticator overwriting MFA accounts, locking users out https://www.csoonline.com/article/3480918/design-flaw-has-microsoft-authenticator-overwriting-mfa-accounts-locking-users-out.html
CSO Online
Design flaw has Microsoft Authenticator overwriting MFA accounts, locking users out
Microsoft stands out from the authenticator crowd by annihilating accounts when new accounts are introduced via QR code. Despite user complaints for years, no fix has been issued, leaving IT experts wondering, ‘Why would you pick Microsoft?’
Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player https://mpv.io/
How the OCaml type checker works (2022) https://okmij.org/ftp/ML/generalization.html
okmij.org
Efficient and Insightful Generalization
A short guide on OCaml type checker, describing the surprisingly elegant algorithm for generalization, which generalizes to first-class polymorphism, MLF and local types. Polymorphism and regions have much in common.