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- Rethinking Text Resizing on Webmedium.com Rethinking Text Resizing on Web
Airbnb has made significant strides in improving web accessibility for Hosts and guests who require larger text sizes.
- The Myth of Medieval Small Beer (2017)www.ianvisits.co.uk The myth of Medieval Small Beer
There is a story repeated so often that it has become a truth -- that medieval folk drank weak beer to avoid the perils of drinking water -- but it's a myth.
- ICC seeks arrest warrants against Sinwar and Netanyahu for war crimeswww.cnn.com Exclusive interview: ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants against Sinwar and Netanyahu for war crimes over October 7 attack and Gaza | CNN
The International Criminal Court is seeking the arrest warrants on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity over the October 7 attacks on Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza.
- Modernizing the AntennaPod Code Structureantennapod.org Modernizing the AntennaPod Code Structure – AntennaPod
How we spent the last 3 years restructuring the AntennaPod code base.
- The efficacy of duct tape vs. cryotherapy in the treatment of the common wartpubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov The efficacy of duct tape vs cryotherapy in the treatment of verruca vulgaris (the common wart) - PubMed
Duct tape occlusion therapy was significantly more effective than cryotherapy for treatment of the common wart.
- The problem with new URL(), and how URL.parse() fixes thatkilianvalkhof.com The problem with new URL(), and how URL.parse() fixes that | Kilian Valkhof
As someone building a browser I need to parse a lot of URLs. Partially to validate them, but also to normalize them or get specific parts out of the URL. The URL API in browsers lets you do that, but it’s ergonomics aren’t ideal. The problem with new URL() The “new” in front of new […]
- Introducing Copilot+ PCsblogs.microsoft.com Introducing Copilot+ PCs - The Official Microsoft Blog
An on-demand recording of our Microsoft event keynote will be made available at 2pm PT today. An update with the link will be made to this blog post at that time. Today, at a special event on our new Microsoft campus, we introduced the world to a new category of Windows PCs designed for AI,...
- Swift Tooling: Windows Editionspeakinginswift.substack.com Swift Tooling: Windows Edition
Productivity on every platform - a deep dive on the ways we're writing Swift code on Windows, and improving the developer experience along the way.
- British engineering giant Arup revealed as $25M deepfake scam victimwww.cnn.com British engineering giant Arup revealed as $25 million deepfake scam victim | CNN Business
A British multinational design and engineering company behind world-famous buildings such as the Sydney Opera House has confirmed that it was the target of a deepfake scam that led to one of its Hong Kong employees paying out $25 million to fraudsters.
- Show HN: ffmpeg-english "capture from /dev/video0 every 1 second to jpg files"github.com scripts/ffmpeg-english at master · dheera/scripts
personal scripts to make life easier. Contribute to dheera/scripts development by creating an account on GitHub.
- Unprojecting text with ellipses (2016)mzucker.github.io Unprojecting text with ellipses
Using transformed ellipses to estimate perspective transformations of text.
- 3M Execs Convinced a Scientist PFOS Found in Human Blood Were Safewww.propublica.org Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
- Uber Migrates 1T Records from DynamoDB to LedgerStore to Save $6M Annuallywww.infoq.com Uber Migrates 1 Trillion Records from DynamoDB to LedgerStore to Save $6 Million Annually
Uber migrated all its payment transaction data from DynamoDB and blob storage into a new long-term solution, a purpose-built data store named LedgerStore. The company was looking for cost savings and had previously reduced the use of DynamoDB to store hot data (12 weeks old). The move resulted in si...
- Steve Wozniak: When I die these are the moments I want to rememberwww.cnbc.com Steve Wozniak: When I die, these are the moments I want to remember—they don't involve co-founding Apple
Your accomplishments won't make you happy in the end, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said in a recent commencement speech. Here's what he says matters more.
- Russia's glide bombs devastating Ukraine's cities on the cheapwww.bbc.com Ukraine war: Russia's lethal glide bombs hitting Ukraine's cities
Russia is increasingly using budget "glide bombs" to advance its offensive in Ukraine.
- A floppy disk MIDI boombox: The Yamaha MDP-10nicole.express A Floppy Disk MIDI Boombox: The Yamaha MDP-10
Longtime readers of Nicole Express might know that I dabble in playing the organ. But sometimes I want to play with sounds that don’t have the organ’s defini...
- CVE-2024-4367 – Arbitrary JavaScript execution in PDF.jscodeanlabs.com CVE-2024-4367 - Arbitrary JavaScript execution in PDF.js — Codean Labs
A vulnerability in PDF.js found by Codean Labs. PDF.js is a JavaScript-based PDF viewer maintained by Mozilla. This bug allows an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code as soon as a malicious PDF file is opened. This affects all Firefox users (
- C Style: My favorite C programming practices (2014)github.com GitHub - mcinglis/c-style: My favorite C programming practices.
My favorite C programming practices. Contribute to mcinglis/c-style development by creating an account on GitHub.
- What Is Generative Art? (2022)www.amygoodchild.com What is Generative Art? — Amy Goodchild
Randomness, rules and natural systems. Some non-restrictive definitions and an exploration of the form.
- Sorry, wrong numberwww.roads.org.uk Sorry, wrong number
Road numbering is a system with clear rules. What happens when the people responsible for numbering roads don't follow them?
- Hertz Charging a Tesla Renter for Gas Was Not an Isolated Incidentwww.thedrive.com Hertz Charging a Tesla Renter for Gas Was Not an Isolated Incident
Hertz has charged customers who rented EVs hundreds of dollars for gas their cars couldn't use on multiple occasions.
- Operation CHARM: Car repair manuals for everyonecharm.li Free Car Service Manuals from Operation CHARM — No strings attached!
Operation CHARM provides completely free repair/service/workshop manuals for over 50,000 models of cars and trucks manufactured 1982-2013. No sign-up or paywall.
- Anthropic: Reflections on Our Responsible Scaling Policywww.anthropic.com Reflections on our Responsible Scaling Policy
Last summer we published our first Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP), which focuses on addressing catastrophic safety failures and misuse of frontier models. In adopting this policy, our primary goal is to help turn high-level safety concepts into practical guidelines for fast-moving technical organi...
- Microsoft's Emissions Spike 29% as AI Gobbles Up Resourceswww.pcmag.com Microsoft's Emissions Spike 29% as AI Gobbles Up Resources
Amid an explosion in AI, energy use and water consumption hit an all-time high in 2023 as Redmond's data centers kick into high gear to compete.
- The Iberian lynx doubles its population in just three yearsenglish.elpais.com The Iberian lynx doubles its population in just three years and reaches 2,000 individuals
Despite the good data, 344 more breeding females are still needed for the species to reach a favorable status
- Transforming a QLC SSD into an SLC SSDtheoverclockingpage.com Tutorial: Transforming a QLC SSD into an SLC SSD - Dramatically increasing the drive's endurance! - The Overclock Page
In today's article, we're embarking on something unprecedented! We'll guide you step by step through the process of transforming an SSD equipped with QLC NANDs into an SLC SSD, significantly enhancing its durability and overall performance!
- Mortgages are a manufactured product (2022)www.bitsaboutmoney.com Mortgages are a manufactured product
Mortgages are popularly thought of as loans, but to understand the industry, it's better to model them as complex manufactured products.
- Coding My Handwritingwww.amygoodchild.com Coding my Handwriting — Amy Goodchild
Coding my handwriting in Javascript - how I did it and what I’m doing with it.
- Edit PDFs for Free with Firefox PDF Editorwww.mozilla.org Edit PDFs for free with Firefox PDF Editor
View and edit PDF files right in Firefox.
- Llama3 implemented from scratchgithub.com GitHub - naklecha/llama3-from-scratch: llama3 implementation one matrix multiplication at a time
llama3 implementation one matrix multiplication at a time - naklecha/llama3-from-scratch
- Swarming Proxima Centauri: Picospacecraft Swarms over Interstellar Distancesastrobiology.com Swarming Proxima Centauri: Coherent Picospacecraft Swarms Over Interstellar Distances - Astrobiology
Tiny gram-scale interstellar probes pushed by laser light are likely to be the only technology capable of reaching another star this century.
- Show HN: A Golang CP/M emulatorgithub.com GitHub - skx/cpmulator: Golang CP/M emulator for playing zork, lighthouse-of-doom, etc
Golang CP/M emulator for playing zork, lighthouse-of-doom, etc - skx/cpmulator
- Intel undercut a standards body to give us the PCI connectorspectrum.ieee.org The Sneaky Standard
How Intel undercut a standards body to give us the PCI connector