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A few weeks ago, I hoped 3geonames could become a standard. But it has some painful limitations: The system picks very unusual names. For example STOCARDA-KRRABA-SIPLA is in Germany, but doesn't …

Very cool approach which relies on the sponge construction of Keccak/SHA-3 fame. The presentation at Blackhat 2017 explains well the core ideas as well as the context: https://www.yout…

That news hit HN top stories a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17732912

The similarities with webhint are striking. For example they have mostly the same categories : * Performance (exactly same as webhint) * PWA (exactly same name as webhint) * Accessibility (exactly sam…

People tried to scam people involved in TRON via Reddit : https://cryptovest.com/news/tron-genesis-hard-fork-an-elabor... …

The previous posts of this serie have been discussed on HN: * Doing Windows, Part 1: MS-DOS and Its Discontents ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17403351 ) * Doing Windows, Part 2…

Interestingly, it looks like Intel is making MIPS SoCs too according to patches sent for the Linux kernel : https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-clk/msg27348.html .…

And the announcement from the Git project is at https://marc.info/?l=git&m=152761328506724&w=2 . See also CVE-2018-11233 and 11235.…

Turbolinks is a feature in Rails. See for example https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks

Someone said the same thing in the comments. In a reply, the author does not know why the MD5 fails but confirms that the post is correct: I wondered if anyone would check :-). I'm not sur…

In the video, Andrew creates music live on his laptop by writing a few lines of Scheme. Besides the musical aspects, the video also provides an example of changing snippets code on the fly. The snippe…

Unfortunately, they only make the frame harder to steal. Wheels will be stolen and they are more expensive to replace. To protect a bike from theft, one shold lock the wheels and the frame to some fix…

As said by Hamano, if you want encryption, use an encrypted file system. Besides cryptfs, Encfs uses FUSE and works well too ( http://www.arg0.net/encfs ).…

It gets more interesting when adding google code which started before github: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=sourceforge%2C%20gith... Looks like google "stole" mindshare from sourceforge.…

For example, an advanced garbage collector can group the remaining allocations together, reducing the fragmentation and potentially increasing cache hits.

When adding locking without evaluating all locking paths, how can you be sure none of those paths cause a deadlock ?

According to the text in the votewatch report you linked, the European Peope party voted against the proposition from the left in order to get their version to pass : "However, to win on this issue, …

In the article the author claims the price reductions came from technology improvements. But some say they are caused by the entry of the Chinese on the market with heavy subsidies and dumping practic…

Google is not the first one who funded IV and gets sued. Xilinx had the same experience. http://gametimeip.com/2011/09/07/xilinx-lawsuit-reveals-more... …

Reading the thread, it's surprising how much work is still needed to merge the D frontend (GDC) into the GCC project: * Assign copyright to the FSF which requires contacting all authors including thos…

A big lesson from this post (at least for me) is how much user interface affects security. He references an older paper "Why Johnny Can't Encrypt" ( http://www.gaudior.net/alma/johnny.pdf ) where the …

That depends on the CPU used. Modern CPU have more arithmetic units than logical units and can perform more divisions than bit shifts. There was a good video presentation of that, but I can't find th…

Doing an X-ray every year even when it is not needed, does cost more and does not improve your health. Actually, your body gets more doses of radiations increasing the risks. Thus one can say that at …

Yes, they are back in the index: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388635,00.asp And in a simple test, it looks to work too: http://www.google.com/search?q=copiepress+lalibre+critique The s…

Games which do more than entertain are exceptionnal which makes your idea exceptionnal too. As CF is a genetic disease, how does a game help ?

"Mr. Tetuan said there are currently 32 Mark 1 boiling water reactors operating safely around the globe. “There has never been a breach of a Mark 1 containment system,” he said." As the containment sy…

Can users of the Visa concierge service here on HN confirm or is this a good advertisement for extra Visa services ?

With Firefox (Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100402 Namoroka/3.6.3), I also got this warning. Detecting the browser instead of the features is often bad …