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Listen to the whispers: web timing attacks that work

portswigger.net
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My Dream Thermostat

leontrolski.github.io
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First Ever Recorded Use of ICBM in War

funker530.com
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Ask HN: How can I consistently deliver high-quality work with minimal issues?

ycombinator.com
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Pg_karnak: Transactional schema migration across tenant databases

thenile.dev

When we need to describe Nile in a single sentence, we say "PostgreSQL re-engineered for multi-tenant...
When we need to describe Nile in a single sentence, we say "PostgreSQL re-engineered for multi-tenant apps". By multi-tenant apps, we mean applications like Stripe, Figma, Twilio, Notion, Workday, and Gusto - here a large number of customers is served from a shared application stack. In these types of applications, ...

ai-native b2b multi-tenant postgres saas
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Teenage Engineering OP–XY

teenage.engineering

meta keywords
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Handling Cookies Is a Minefield

grayduck.mn
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Launch HN: Fresco (YC F24) – AI Copilot for Construction Superintendents

ycombinator.com

Hi HN! We're Arvind and Akhil, and we're building Fresco (https://fresco-ai.com/). We use AI to quickly...
Hi HN! We're Arvind and Akhil, and we're building Fresco (https://fresco-ai.com/). We use AI to quickly create and manage documentation for construction superintendents. Here’s a demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKIQQKkjv_4.Superintendents are the busiest and most expensive people on construction sites. J...
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Thousands of AI agents later, who even remembers what they do?

theregister.com

Among the optimism and opportunities perceived around AI agents, Gartner has spotted some risks – namely...
Among the optimism and opportunities perceived around AI agents, Gartner has spotted some risks – namely that organizations might create "thousands of bots, but nobody now remembers what those bots do or why they were built." The collision of muddied management thinking and much-hyped autonomous agents will be inter...
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OpenZFS Horror Stories – Klara Systems

klarasystems.com
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OpenZFS Driver for Windows

github.com
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Curve Families

linebender.org

CurveParamsSubdivAffineInflectionsSuperellipse Line0yesyes00.5 Arc1yesno00.785 Parabola2yesyes00.833 Euler spiral2yesno10.785 Rectangular elastica2yesno1~0.8 Elastica3yesno1*0.5..~0.85 Balanced Bézier3nono20.5..0.95 Euler spiral PC3yesno10.785 Conic3yesyes00.5..1 Cubic...
CurveParamsSubdivAffineInflectionsSuperellipse Line0yesyes00.5 Arc1yesno00.785 Parabola2yesyes00.833 Euler spiral2yesno10.785 Rectangular elastica2yesno1~0.8 Elastica3yesno1*0.5..~0.85 Balanced Bézier3nono20.5..0.95 Euler spiral PC3yesno10.785 Conic3yesyes00.5..1 Cubic Bézier4yesyes20.5..0.95 Spiro4yesno3TODO Hyperb...
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ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials

icc-cpi.int
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Cryptographic Calculator

zka.lc
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Show HN: Yami – An Open Source Music Player with Spotdl Integration

github.com
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The AI Reporter That Took My Old Job Just Got Fired

wired.com

James and Rose, the bizarre AI bots who were recently installed as news broadcasters at local...
James and Rose, the bizarre AI bots who were recently installed as news broadcasters at local Hawaii paper The Garden Island, have been terminated.Employee retention is always a bit of a problem at local newspapers, and The Garden Island newspaper on the Hawaiian island of Kauai is no exception. Many reporters—usual...
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As NASA increasingly relies on commercial space, there are some troubling signs

arstechnica.com

But in 2008, NASA brought on a different provider, Orbital Sciences, and the COTS program moved...
But in 2008, NASA brought on a different provider, Orbital Sciences, and the COTS program moved forward. In 2012, SpaceX flew a successful demonstration mission of its Dragon spacecraft. Orbital Sciences followed a year later with its Cygnus spacecraft. With the development phase complete, NASA moved into the second...
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Creating and Defeating Hexhunt

adamzweiger.github.io
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The Rectangular Cows of UK Art (2018)

artuk.org

Spending time among the thousands of paintings on Art UK often throws up questions. What is...
Spending time among the thousands of paintings on Art UK often throws up questions. What is a sun fish? Why is there a painting of the Queen with Robert Burns? What makes this tie hot? For a while, I’ve been wondering about a mystery I shall call ‘the rectangular cows of Art UK’. Some time ago, I came across dozens ...

art art uk uk
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Show HN: Bike route planner that follows almost only official bike trails

trailimap.com
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The Case Against Quantum Computing (2018)

ieee.org

Quantum computing is all the rage. It seems like hardly a day goes by without some...
Quantum computing is all the rage. It seems like hardly a day goes by without some news outlet describing the extraordinary things this technology promises. Most commentators forget, or just gloss over, the fact that people have been working on quantum computing for decades—and without any practical results to show ...

hardware quantum computing qubit software superconductivity
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The meme-ification of the "Demon Core"

doomsdaymachines.net

On May 21, 1946, the Canadian physicist Louis Slotin was demonstrating to several other Los Alamos...
On May 21, 1946, the Canadian physicist Louis Slotin was demonstrating to several other Los Alamos scientists how to do a criticality experiment. Slotin wasn’t really doing an experiment at the time, in the sense of taking careful scientific measurements — he was simply showing how one would do them, because he was ...
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Vercel acquires Grep

vercel.com
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Here's why you should only buy a magnetic keyboard for gaming

tomsguide.com

I test keyboards for a living, as a staff writer for Reviews at Tom's Guide. This...
I test keyboards for a living, as a staff writer for Reviews at Tom's Guide. This means I get through a LOT of gaming keyboards, determining which ones I genuinely would recommend.Lately, I've noticed the tide shifting — the only truly great gaming keyboards are magnetic. Big name manufacturers are all racing to put...
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