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Using a date-modified header to detect unique visitors without using cookies
posted on Wed Nov 30 16:04:48 UTC 2022 by mulhoon | view on HN
The article discusses a method of distinguishing unique visits without using cookies which relies on a date set to the beginning of each day.
Convert SimCity 2000 cities into Minecraft worlds
posted on Wed Nov 30 11:57:54 UTC 2022 by notpushkin | view on HN
The article describes a program that converts SimCity 2000 cities into Minecraft (Java Edition) worlds.
posted on Wed Nov 30 16:37:09 UTC 2022 by Pils | view on HN
Kraken is reducing its global workforce by approximately 1,100 people, or 30 percent, in order to adapt to current market conditions.
Why I am learning category theory
posted on Wed Nov 30 16:13:43 UTC 2022 by larve | view on HN
Category theory is an abstract branch of mathematics that has strange influence over programmers.
Introducing Gitlab Dedicated, our new single-tenant SaaS offering
posted on Wed Nov 30 14:10:04 UTC 2022 by mikece | view on HN
The article discusses the limited availability of GitLab Dedicated, a new way to use the enterprise DevSecOps platform as a single-tenant SaaS offering.
Maersk/IBM to discontinue TradeLens, a blockchain-enabled global trade platform
posted on Wed Nov 30 14:43:39 UTC 2022 by kgwgk | view on HN
Lunatic is an Erlang-inspired runtime for WebAssembly
posted on Wed Nov 30 12:33:02 UTC 2022 by sts153 | view on HN
Lunatic is a runtime for WebAssembly that is inspired by Erlang and is designed for massive concurrency.
Building arbitrary Life patterns in 15 gliders
posted on Wed Nov 30 07:04:31 UTC 2022 by mikro2nd | view on HN
The community of Conway's Game of Life celebrated an achievement on November 9th, 2022: the "Reverse Caber Tosser" design finally had all of the pieces it needed to achieve its stated goal of being able to select any pattern that can be built in Life and, with a small number of gliders (now 15) in an otherwise empty Game of Life universe, build that pattern.
Launch HN: Patterns (YC S21) – A much faster way to build and deploy data apps
posted on Wed Nov 30 14:37:36 UTC 2022 by kvh | view on HN
At SpaceX, work was taken away from me in case I “might retire or die.”
posted on Wed Nov 30 15:54:24 UTC 2022 by dboreham | view on HN
The article is about a man's experience working for SpaceX as an older white male and how he saw his work roles gradually transferred to younger engineers who fit the company’s “frat bro” mold, despite his good performance reviews.
How an early oil industry study became key in climate lawsuits
posted on Wed Nov 30 15:06:29 UTC 2022 by chmaynard | view on HN
Approximately two dozen states and localities are suing the American Petroleum Institute and major oil companies for damages caused by climate-driven disasters and for deceiving the public about the dangers of climate change.
posted on Wed Nov 30 14:04:11 UTC 2022 by AnhTho_FR | view on HN
Lago is an open-source billing API that allows for customization to fit a variety of pricing models and business workflows.
Show HN: Trading cards made with e-ink displays
posted on Wed Nov 30 00:24:09 UTC 2022 by jonahss | view on HN
The author designed a new type of card and used an AI image synthesizer to create images for the cards. They have not designed a game for them yet but are open to suggestions.
Bringing Codecov into the Sentry Family: Where Code Coverage Meets Am
posted on Wed Nov 30 15:07:23 UTC 2022 by the_mitsuhiko | view on HN
Codecov is joining the Sentry family.
RTS devlog #7: Optimizing performance for 1000 units
posted on Wed Nov 30 13:38:57 UTC 2022 by AshleysBrain | view on HN
The article discusses how to optimize range checks in order to reduce the amount of CPU time spent on the server.
Why your REPL experience sucks
posted on Wed Nov 30 13:12:33 UTC 2022 by tosh | view on HN
The article explains how Clojure's evaluation model works and how it relates to updating an HTTP server.
posted on Wed Nov 30 14:54:07 UTC 2022 by the_mitsuhiko | view on HN
The article covers the AssemblyScript's objection to the WebAssembly Standardization (WASI) subgroup, their discriminatory practices, and how it competes with other established or currently devised Web standards.
I've fuzzed parts of the GitHub API. Here are my findings (2020)
posted on Wed Nov 30 13:24:28 UTC 2022 by ludovicianul | view on HN
The article discusses how to use CATS to test the GitHub API and improve it.
For Many Widows, the Hardest Part Is Mealtime (2019)
posted on Tue Nov 29 15:47:00 UTC 2022 by wallflower | view on HN
Heather Nickrand, the lead author of a study on grief, found that many people do not consider how cooking and mealtimes are affected by grief and founded Culinary Grief Therapy to help widows learn how to cook, eat, and shop for one.
Persistent and pervasive impact of being bullied in childhood and adolescence
posted on Wed Nov 30 14:30:56 UTC 2022 by PaulHoule | view on HN
Being the victim of bullying is a contributing risk factor to the development of mental health problems.
Program-repair: Community for discovery, access and systematization of data
posted on Wed Nov 30 16:16:05 UTC 2022 by thunderbong | view on HN
The article discusses various automated program repair frameworks and how they can be used to synthesize the most probable program under a specification.
posted on Wed Nov 30 07:17:19 UTC 2022 by sohkamyung | view on HN
This is an ongoing project that began as a search for a cool Raspberry Pi case. I couldn’t find something cool, so I decided to build my own. The first completed case was the BeBox, and expanded to the X68000 (as a plastic model kit I found in Japan), the SGI Indy, and the eMachines Never Obsolete (as a thorough exploration in the limits of waterslide decals). STL files and related info can be found in
The Fake Snow Leopard: Photomontage Spread Around the World
posted on Tue Nov 29 14:58:04 UTC 2022 by onychomys | view on HN
The article is about how a woman's photos of snow leopards are fake.
Using rats to clear land mines in Cambodia
posted on Wed Nov 30 03:50:17 UTC 2022 by danso | view on HN
The article discusses how rats have been more successful than dogs in demilitarizing land mine detection organizations, and attributes this success to the rat's attributes and the stories we tell about them compared with those of dogs.
posted on Wed Nov 30 13:48:50 UTC 2022 by Tomte | view on HN
Jeff Geerling says that it is perfectly fine to say "No."
posted on Tue Nov 29 20:56:48 UTC 2022 by PaulHoule | view on HN
Tell HN: If you have trouble focusing on projects/meetings, see a psychatrist
posted on Wed Nov 30 14:53:38 UTC 2022 by thegginthesky | view on HN
Blue Peter discovers the Internet (1995) [video]
posted on Tue Nov 29 09:28:49 UTC 2022 by outputchannel | view on HN
posted on Wed Nov 30 07:10:45 UTC 2022 by wormold | view on HN
Releasing v1 of GPT-JT, fork of GPT-6B fine-tuned on 3.53B tokens
posted on Wed Nov 30 02:21:40 UTC 2022 by b_mc2 | view on HN
The article discusses the power of openness in building the GPT-JT model.