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Who Needs GPS? The Story of Etak's Amazing 1985 Car Navigation System
Thirty years ago, a company called Etak released the first commercially available computerized navigation system for automobiles. Spearheaded by an engineer named Stan Honey and bankrolled by Nolan...
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I am an Uber survivor
When I read Susan Fowler’s story, my blood boiled. I am not able to sleep. My friends kept sending me updates on the story and insisting on letting my own experience be made public. I am sure there are...
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OpenXR – Cross-Platform, Portable, Virtual Reality
The OpenXR™ working group – previously known as the Khronos VR Initiative - is creating an open and royalty-free standard for VR and AR applications and devices.The ProblemWithout a cross-platform...
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Data on the uselessness of LinkedIn endorsements
If you’re an engineer who’s been endorsed on LinkedIn for any number of languages/frameworks/skills, you’ve probably noticed that something isn’t quite right. Maybe they’re frameworks you’ve never...
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CloudPets teddy bears leaked and ransomed, exposing kids' voice messages
Only a couple of weeks ago, there were a lot of news headlines about how Germany had banned an internet-connected doll called "Cayla" over fears hackers could target children. One of their primary...
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Mozilla Acquires Pocket
We are excited to announce that the Mozilla Corporation has completed the acquisition of Read It Later, Inc. the developers of Pocket.Mozilla is growing, experimenting more, and doubling down on our...
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SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond the Moon Next Year
We are excited to announce that SpaceX has been approached to fly two private citizens on a trip around the moon late next year. They have already paid a significant deposit to do a moon mission. Like...
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Solar Now Provides Twice as Many Jobs as the Coal Industry
As solar power keeps getting cheaper—and more and more of it is built as a result—the industry is also an increasingly important source of new jobs, adding workers at a rate nearly 17 times faster than...
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Introducing Handle – Boston Dynamics [video]
Offentliggjort den 27. feb. 2017Handle is a research robot that stands 6.5 ft tall, travels at 9 mph and jumps 4 feet vertically. It uses electric power to operate both electric and hydraulic...
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Let's compile like it's 1992
August 10th, 2014 I have been tinkering with the vanilla source code of Wolfenstein 3D from 1992. Even though it is more than 20 years old and has rotten for modern systems, you can still compile it if...
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A crater formed in Siberia's permafrost is growing at an alarming rate
Near the Yana river basin, in a vast area of permafrost, there is a dramatic tadpole-shaped hole in the ground: the Batagaika crater.The crater is also known as a "megaslump" and it is the largest of...
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Google reverts TLS 1.3 support for Chrome because of MITM-Proxies
Chrome Version: 56 OS: Chrome and Windows What steps will reproduce the problem? (1) BlueCoat 6.5 proxy. (2) Chrome OS 56 or Chrome browser 56 (3) Attempt to connect to a Google service (youtube,...
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Show HN: Online Haskell REPL
We heard your requests for Haskell and today we're excited to finally announce Haskell as yet another language we support. We've decided to put our focus on adding more functional languages, starting...
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Fix TLS – Let’s Get Rid of Certificates
TLS secures the connection between your browser and the websites you visit (and a lot of other Internet connections that do not involve either a browser or a web server). TLS should provide...
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Miller 5.0.0: Autodetected line-endings, in-place mode, user-defined functions
This major release significantly expands the expressiveness of the DSL for mlr put and mlr filter. (The upcoming 5.1.0 release will add the ability to aggregate across all columns for non-DSL verbs...
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Google Acquires Twitter’s Fabric Kit
Google has agreed to acquire the Twitter’s mobile app development platform Fabric to an undisclosed amount. Once the agreement is signed Google’s Firebase (Product Developers) will merge with Twitter’s...
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Uber Executive, Linked to an Old Harassment Claim, Resigns
The former Uber engineer Susan Fowler and other current and former employees have claimed that the company’s human resources officials repeatedly ignored harassment claims about employees who were “top...
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Store.js v2.0 (Cross-browser storage for all use cases)
README.mdVersion 2.0Basic UsageSupported BrowsersPluginsBuildsStoragesVersion 2.0Store.js has been around since 2010 (first commit! HN discussion!), and is live on tens of thousands of websites - like...
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Design a Perfect Search Box
Search box is a combination of input field and submit button. One may think that the search box doesn’t need a design; after all, it’s just two simple elements. However, on content-heavy websites, the...
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Deep Learning: Not Just for Silicon Valley
27 Feb 2017 Rachel ThomasRecent American news events range from horrifying to dystopian, but reading the applications of our fast.ai international fellows brought me joy and optimism. I was blown away...
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