| 271. | Insects on the Space Menu | (esa.int) |
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Long before humans reached orbit, insects had already shown they could handle the hurdles of spaceflight. Light, highly adaptable and nutritionally rich, these resilient animals present an attractive option for European researchers studying reliable food sources for long-duration missions. | |
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| 272. | Z3 API in Python: From Sudoku to N-Queens in Under 20 Lines | (ericpony.github.io) |
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| 273. | Goldman Sachs asks in biotech Report: Is curing patients a sustainable business? | (cnbc.com) |
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Goldman Sachs warns sales from the most successful disease treatments are difficult to maintain. | |
| 20 points by randycupertino 3 days ago | 1 comments |
| 274. | Cities Panic over Having to Release Mass Surveillance Recordings | (nakedcapitalism.com) |
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Time to cheer a legal win against the surveillance state, here the use of massive spycams by a vendor called Flock. | |
| 22 points by pavel_lishin 2 days ago | 0 comments |
| 275. | Towards Interplanetary QUIC Traffic | (ochagavia.nl) |
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Have you ever asked yourself which protocols get used when downloading pictures from the Perseverance Mars rover to Earth? I hadn’t thought about that either, until I came across an intriguing message on the internet, back in April 2024: I’m looking for someone knowledgeable of quic/quinn to help us out for our deep space IP project. Would be of part-time consulting. Please dm me if interested. The message itself is quite short and somewhat jargon-y, so it took me a few readings to fully realize what the project was about: | |
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| 276. | Weighting an Average to Minimize Variance | (johndcook.com) |
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How would you allocate money to a set of independent assets with to minimize volatility if some assets are more volatile than others? | |
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| 277. | How Your Brain Creates 'Aha' Moments and Why They Stick | (quantamagazine.org) |
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A sudden flash of insight is a product of your brain. Neuroscientists track the neural activity underlying an “aha” and how it might boost memory. | |
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| 278. | A 1961 Relay Computer Running in the Browser | (minivac.greg.technology) |
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| 279. | GLP-1 Drugs Linked to Dramatically Lower Death Rates in Colon Cancer Patients | (today.ucsd.edu) |
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In an analysis of more than 6,800 colon cancer patients across all University of California Health sites, researchers found that those taking glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) medications were less than half as likely to die within five years compared to those who weren’t on the drugs (15.5% vs. 37.1% | |
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| 280. | Linear Algebra Explains Why Some Words Are Effectively Untranslatable | (aethermug.com) |
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A modest mathematical framing of language | |
| 5 points by mrcgnc 5 days ago | 0 comments |
| 281. | The Internet Is Cool. Thank You, TCP | (cefboud.com) |
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An exploration of TCP, the workhorse of the internet. This deep dive includes detailed examples and a step-by-step walkthrough. | |
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| 282. | The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia | (cnn.com) |
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The American penny passed away today after a prolonged illness. It was 238 years old. | |
| 9 points by andrewl 7 days ago | 1 comments |
| 283. | When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts | (oldvcr.blogspot.com) |
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| 284. | Decoding Leibniz Notation (2024) | (spakhm.com) |
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| 285. | Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year | (9to5mac.com) |
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The Financial Times reports that Apple has stepped up its preparations for the handover of the CEO role from Tim Cook. Here are the details. | |
| 6 points by achow 4 days ago | 0 comments |
| 286. | Show HN: Octopii, a framework for building distributed applications in Rust | () |
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| 287. | Checkout.com hacked, refuses ransom payment, donates to security labs | (checkout.com) |
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Our statement detailing an incident concerning a legacy system. We outline our commitment to transparency, accountability, and planned investment in cyber security research. | |
| 14 points by StrangeSound 6 days ago | 1 comments |
| 288. | Call Me Maybe: Eavesdropping encrypted LTE calls with ReVoLTE (2020) | (montsecure.com) |
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Montsecure’s mission is to enable everyone to build and use secure mobile networks. Therefore we training, consulting and tools. Tools like SEAL allow you to test and secure your mobile network. network. We use AI and machine learning to provide you with the best possible security. | |
| 3 points by vxvrs 3 days ago | 3 comments |
| 289. | Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler | (research.swtch.com) |
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| 290. | Israeli-founded app preloaded on Samsung phones is attracting controversy | (sammobile.com) |
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- SamMobile | |
| 5 points by croes 2 days ago | 1 comments |
| 291. | PgFirstAid: PostgreSQL function for improving stability and performance | (github.com) |
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Easy to deploy, open source, postgresql function that provides a prioritized list of actions to take to improve stability and performance. - GitHub - randoneering/pgFirstAid: Easy to deploy, open source, postgresql function that provides a prioritized list of actions to take to improve stability and performance. | |
| 6 points by yakshaving_jgt 3 days ago | 1 comments |
| 292. | PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners | (forum.syncthing.net) |
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Hi! https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android is giving a 404, and catfriend1’s public profile is hidden and not accepting messages. Does anyone know what the reason is for it no longer being on github? | |
| 7 points by raybb 1 day ago | 0 comments |
| 293. | AI slop security engineering: Okta's NextJS-0auth troubles | (joshua.hu) |
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In October, I reported two security issues to Okta’s auth0/nextjs-auth0 project, here and here. The latter bug, an oauth parameter injection, allows for a range of types of abuse, like scoping tokens for unintended services, setting redirect_uri and scope to arbitrary values to leak tokens, and so on. | |
| 4 points by ramimac 1 day ago | 0 comments |
| 294. | Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729 | (borretti.me) |
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A short review and troubleshooting guide. | |
| 5 points by ibobev 4 days ago | 1 comments |
| 295. | Chris Simpkins (designer of the Roboto font) has passed away | (typedrawers.com) |
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I'm sadly posting here to share the news that Chris Simpkins, who had a successful career as an organ transplant surgeon before establishing himself as a font engineer, initially through his Hack programmer's font (a fork of DejaVu Sans Mono) and lately as a program manager peer of mine inside the Google Fonts team, has passed away unexpectedly at 51. | |
| 5 points by maxloh 1 day ago | 1 comments |
| 296. | The Unraveling of the Justice Department: 60 attorneys describe a year of chaos | (nytimes.com) |
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Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency. | |
| 9 points by tastyface 1 day ago | 2 comments |
| 297. | 'No One Lives Forever' Turns 25 and You Still Can't Buy It Legitimately | (techdirt.com) |
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One of my favorite things in all of professional sports is the unofficial holiday referred to as "Bobby Bonilla Day." The short version of it is that Bonilla played for the New York Mets decades ago and eventually bought out his contract in 2000 when they decided they were done with him. Rather than pay… | |
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| 298. | Living my best Sun Microsystems ecosystem life in 2025 | (osnews.com) |
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| 299. | Nevada Governor's office covered up Boring Co safety violations | (fortune.com) |
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A Fortune investigation reveals that Boring Company was able to skirt aggressive penalties after protesting to some of Nevada’s most powerful politicians. | |
| 3 points by Chinjut 4 days ago | 0 comments |
| 300. | Magit manuals are available online again | (github.com) |
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I'm just getting started with Magit, and it works in my Emacs, but I wanted to go over some tutorials from the webpage. magit.vc does not work currently. | |
| 8 points by vetronauta 5 days ago | 0 comments |