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News from Scroll 5

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For the past several months, our team and community have been working hard on ink detection...
For the past several months, our team and community have been working hard on ink detection and segmentation of P.Herc. 172 from the Bodleian Libraries at Oxford (our Scroll 5). We’re excited to share some incredible progress!The first revelation from P.Herc. 172 was the appearance of visible ink. Unlike most Hercul...
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The familiar loneliness of the Kinetoscope

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Lately I’ve been reading a wonderful book called The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s by...
Lately I’ve been reading a wonderful book called The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s by the historian H.W. Brands. One takeaway: the people noting the similarities between the 2020s and the 1890s are right. From protectionism to polarization to fears of mass automation, the parallels are sometimes uncanny. Jus...
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A hexagonal-tiled cartogram for U.S. counties

jordanroga.com

Mapping data isn’t just about geography - it’s about telling stories hidden in numbers. Recently, I...
Mapping data isn’t just about geography - it’s about telling stories hidden in numbers. Recently, I created a cartogram that tiles all U.S. counties into a uniform grid of hexagons. This approach transforms our traditional view of the nation, offering fresh insights into population, density, and other socio-economic...
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Minimum Effective Dose

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Of Course It's a Coup

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Imagine if it had gone like this. Ten Tesla cybertrucks, painted in camouflage colors with a...
Imagine if it had gone like this. Ten Tesla cybertrucks, painted in camouflage colors with a giant X on each roof, drive noisily through Washington DC. Tires screech. Out jump a couple of dozen young men, dressed in red and black Devil’s Champion armored costumes. After giving Nazi salutes, they grab guns and run to...
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Mt32-pi Developer calls it a day

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Regularly eating eggs supports a lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease

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You Can't Post Your Way Out of Fascism

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OCR Crypto Stealers in Google Play and App Store

securelist.com

In March 2023, researchers at ESET discovered malware implants embedded into various messaging app mods. Some...
In March 2023, researchers at ESET discovered malware implants embedded into various messaging app mods. Some of these scanned users’ image galleries in search of crypto wallet access recovery phrases. The search employed an OCR model which selected images on the victim’s device to exfiltrate and send to the C2 serv...

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Okta Bcrypt incident lessons for designing better APIs

n0rdy.foo

Hello there! If you follow tech news, you might have heard about the Okta security incident...
Hello there! If you follow tech news, you might have heard about the Okta security incident that was reported on 1st of November. The TLDR of the incident was this: The Bcrypt algorithm was used to generate the cache key where we hash a combined string of userId + username + password. Under a specific set of conditi...
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UnitedHealth Hires Defamation Firm over Social Media Posts

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Clare Locke, which represented Dominion, works for insurerUnitedHealth says Texas plastic surgegon’s posts were falseUnitedHealth Group...
Clare Locke, which represented Dominion, works for insurerUnitedHealth says Texas plastic surgegon’s posts were falseUnitedHealth Group Inc. has hired a prominent defamation law firm to counter what it sees as inaccurate and irresponsible social media posts about the company’s practices.Clare Locke, an Alexandria, V...
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Conway's Law (2022)

martinfowler.com

20 October 2022 Pretty much all the practitioners I favor in Software Architecture are deeply suspicious...
20 October 2022 Pretty much all the practitioners I favor in Software Architecture are deeply suspicious of any kind of general law in the field. Good software architecture is very context-specific, analyzing trade-offs that resolve differently across a wide range of environments. But if there is one thing they all ...
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Google Kills Diversity Hiring Targets

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DARPA solicitation for the Active Social Engineering Defense program (2017)

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The Sudoku Affair

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Cloudflare Is Blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers

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Robocallers posing as FCC staff blocked after robocalling real FCC staff

arstechnica.com

Robocallers posing as employees of the Federal Communications Commission made the mistake of trying to scam...
Robocallers posing as employees of the Federal Communications Commission made the mistake of trying to scam real employees of the FCC, the FCC announced yesterday. "On the night of February 6, 2024, and continuing into the morning of February 7, 2024, over a dozen FCC staff and some of their family members reported ...
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DOGE employees ordered to stop using Slack

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20k federal workers take "buyout" so far, official says

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Show HN: How good is your color vision? Find out in my new game

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25YO Writing Backdoors in Treasury's $6T Payment System. What Could Go Wrong?

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(Mis)Uses of Technology Just months after we learned Chinese hackers had compromised US telecom systems through...
(Mis)Uses of Technology Just months after we learned Chinese hackers had compromised US telecom systems through government-mandated backdoors, an inexperienced developer from Musk’s DOGE unit is pushing untested code directly into the Treasury’s payment infrastructure — a system that handles over $6 trillion in fede...
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Ask HN: Are you expecting your accounts to be drained?

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Andrej Karpathy: Deep Dive into LLMs Like ChatGPT [video]

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21st Century C++

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It is now 45+ years since C++ was first conceived. As planned, it evolved to meet...
It is now 45+ years since C++ was first conceived. As planned, it evolved to meet challenges, but many developers use C++ as if it was still the previous millennium. This is suboptimal from the perspective of ease of expressing ideas, performance, reliability, and maintainability. Here, I present the key concepts on...
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