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A billion medical images are exposed online, as doctors ignore warnings
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A billion medical images are exposed online, as doctors ignore warnings
Despite warnings from security researchers, the number of exposed images has risen.
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John Carmack and Amazon's $30 1TB thumb drives
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John Carmack
The $30 thumb drives were a fraud. They show up as 1TB, but lsusb reports it as a 4GB USB 2 device. I should have bought a $45 1TB hard drive. Amusingly, the quick test program I wrote was reporting all-good, because each 1GB file written was still in cache…
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A Man Who’s Spending $1B to Own Every Pop Song
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The Man Who’s Spending $1 Billion to Own Every Pop Song
Music mogul Merck Mercuriadis raised hundreds of millions of dollars to buy the rights to hits by Taylor Swift and Bruno Mars. Is he…
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Choosing Monday for a surgery increases your chance of success 2 times
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The BMJ
Day of week of procedure and 30 day mortality for elective surgery: retrospective analysis of hospital episode statistics
Objectives To assess the association between mortality and the day of elective surgical procedure.
Design Retrospective analysis of national hospital administrative data.
Setting All acute and specialist English hospitals carrying out elective surgery over…
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Unprecedented Teamwork Repairs Collapsed Freeway in Record Time (2007)
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Tradeline, Inc.
Unprecedented Teamwork Repairs Collapsed Freeway in Record Time
The images were horrifying. A gasoline tanker truck exploding into a fireball. A freeway connector ramp collapsing into a cloud of flames and hot cinders. More than 160 feet of roadway completely missing from the upper deck. Twisted, fire-blackened girders…
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How to make roguelike games in Rust
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Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository (2016)
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Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
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Scientists Use Recycled Sewage Water to Grow 500-Acre Forest in the Desert
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Good News Network
Scientists Use Recycled Sewage Water to Grow 500-Acre Forest in the Middle of Egyptian Desert
Researchers have been rerouting human wastewater from a city to grow trees in Egypt—and it could lead to more than 36 forest sanctuaries in the desert.
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Amazon takes a swipe at PayPal’s $4B acquisition
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Ars Technica
Amazon takes a swipe at PayPal’s $4 billion acquisition
Holiday shoppers warned that Honey, a popular browser extension, was a “security risk.”
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Zeta: Functional Neural Networks in Ocaml
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liaopeiyuan/zeta
functional neural networks in ocaml. Contribute to liaopeiyuan/zeta development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Gray Matter Volume
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Pijul: a distributed version control system (written in Rust)
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Blake3 is 10 times faster than SHA-2
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BLAKE3
Trying out the BLAKE3 cryptographic hash function (HN discussion).
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A teenager discovered a new planet on the third day of his NASA internship
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SFGate
A teenager discovered a new planet on the third day of his NASA internship
Most people sit through countless orientations on the first few days of their job, but one teen discovered a planet - on his third day.
Wolf Cukier, 17, of Scarsdale, New York, had wrapped up his junior year of high school when he headed off to intern in…
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Lyft’s algorithm is trying to block people with names like ‘Dick’ and ‘Cummings’
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The Verge
Lyft’s algorithm is trying to block people with names like ‘Dick,’ ‘Finger,’ and ‘Cummings’
Naturally, this is creating some consternation among customers
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Paul Graham's Participatory Narcissism (2008)
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Coding Horror
Paul Graham's Participatory Narcissism
I have tremendous respect for Paul Graham. His essays – repackaged in the book Hackers and Painters – are among the best writing I've found on software engineering. Not all of them are so great, of course, but the majority are well worth your time. That's…
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HTML attributes to improve your users' two factor authentication experience
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Twilio Blog
HTML attributes to improve your users' two factor authentication experience
Learn how to use the HTML autocomplete, inputmode and pattern attributes to improve the user experience of logging in.
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Paris syndrome
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Petmate – C64 Petscii Editor
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Petmate - C64 PETSCII editor
Petmate
A cross-platform PETSCII image editor.
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Paging Dr. Google: How the Tech Giant Is Laying Claim to Health Data
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WSJ
Inside Google’s Quest for Millions of Medical Records
The tech giant has been pushing into health care, striking deals that grant it access to troves of patient data. The challenge: convincing the public and potential partners that it can be trusted with our most personal information.
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