Published on May 17, 2024 Google is one of the biggest obstacles to privacy. The Big Tech giant may offer quick access to information online, but it also controls vast amounts of your personal or bus

This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know

My favorite way of building web apps is to use Laravel, a PHP framework. I learned Laravel in the summer of 2020, but since then I’ve had phases of being on and off of it many times. I keep getting t

German cockroaches thrive in buildings all over the world. They’re one of the most common cockroach species, causing trouble for people both here and overseas. But in nature, they’re nowhere to be fou

There have been quite a few articles in the past year or so about the downsides of using Rust and introducing the async keyword into your code base: It generally boils down to two things: async is i

Microsoft is going all in on AI, today introducing a series of Copilot+ PCs that have AI-focused hardware. The new Surface Pro is one of the first Copilot+ PCs, equipped with Qualcomm's Arm-based Snap

Today, I'm excited to announce the pre-launch page of the Modos Paper Monitor on Crowd Supply. The Modos Paper Monitor is an open-hardware 13.3-inch, 1600 x 1200 monochrome or color e-ink monitor with

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Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast (but is slow in Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, ...) Russ Cox rsc@swtch.com January 2007 Introduction This is a tale of two approaches to regula

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In a new, self-published autobiography , Williams also says he doesn’t want you to remember the company the way you do. Williams founded Sierra as a telecommunications consultancy in 1979, when he was

We can now add testicles to the list of places where microplastics have managed to spread – alongside human placentas, ancient rocks, clogged arteries, blue whales, baby poop, the wilderness of Antarc

Last week, an alarming complaint popped up from iPhone owners on Reddit and elsewhere: Old photos, long since deleted, had resurfaced in their Photos app. Vacations, nudes, concerts, all unexpectedly

This recent post by Jeremy Selva shows a nice workflow for working with problematic formatted spreadsheets in R. I’ve worked on this topic before, so I when I saw the post I had to meddle. I suggeste

A retro computing enthusiast has managed to get Windows XP running on an Intel 486 PC system. As Vaseline clouds the lens of history, you might be forgiven for thinking there was some crossover betwee

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This article was produced in collaboration with Court Watch , an independent outlet that unearths overlooked court records. The FBI arrested a man on criminal charges after he allegedly used AI to ge

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During the darkest depths of COVID, my husband and I had the same conversation over and over. I predicted the iron grip of Activities Culture would loosen after lockdown, and parents would become more

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Racket v8.13 posted by Stephen De Gabrielle We are pleased to announce Racket v8.13 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org/. As of this release: The racket/treelist and racket/muta

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News Battery prices have continued to plummet, frankly faster than even battery optimists such as myself dreamed of.

I'm a game development hobbyist and I'd love to find a community similar to HN, where a mix of technology and industry-related news is shared and discussed. Does something like this exist? Any other c

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We are excited to launch pg_timeseries : a PostgreSQL extension focused on creating a cohesive user experience around the creation, maintenance, and use of time-series tables. You can now use pg_times

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