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Miscellaneous // 1395 ❤️‍🔥

Archival Storage 52 ❤️
Extracting content from an LCP "protected" ePub 106 ❤️
Raspberry Pi RP2350 Now Available for Purchase, Stacked Memory Variant Coming 135 ❤️
Copyright and the Demo Scene 36 ❤️
Compression of Spectral Images Using Spectral JPEG XL 66 ❤️
Image Processing in C – Dwayne Phillips [pdf] 117 ❤️
Converting C to ASM to specs and then to a working Z/80 Speccy tape 68 ❤️
The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available 815 ❤️

Data Analysis and Algorithms // 319 ❤️‍🔥

Deep Learning Is Not So Mysterious or Different 160 ❤️
Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents New Kind of Hash Table 159 ❤️

Security and Privacy // 1034 ❤️‍🔥

Launching RDAP; sunsetting WHOIS 798 ❤️
Conducting forensics of mobile devices to find signs of a potential compromise 130 ❤️
Akira ransomware can be cracked with sixteen RTX 4090 GPUs in around ten hours 106 ❤️

Tech Tools and Software Development // 2191 ❤️‍🔥

Show HN: Localscope–Limit scope of Python functions for reproducible execution 31 ❤️
Show HN: Psychedelic animation generator; (p)art of your next trip 29 ❤️
Show HN: EnkiTask: Lightweight Project Management for Freelancers 58 ❤️
Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline 1755 ❤️
Zlib-rs is faster than C 318 ❤️

Historical Events and Perspectives // 338 ❤️‍🔥

Ogres Are Cool 74 ❤️
When the Dotcom Bubble Burst 264 ❤️

Internet and Networking // 710 ❤️‍🔥

Chaos in the Cloudflare Lisbon Office 194 ❤️
Going down the rabbit hole of Git's new bundle-URI 268 ❤️
HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere 248 ❤️

Innovations in Science and Technology // 247 ❤️‍🔥

The exceptional Jordan algebra (2020) 93 ❤️
Genomic study: our capacity for language emerged at least 135k years ago 85 ❤️
Artificial photosynthesis directed toward organic synthesis 69 ❤️

Programming and Development // 300 ❤️‍🔥

Piramidal (YC W24) is hiring a ML Engineer to decode brainwaves 1 ❤️
Recommendations for designing magic numbers of binary file formats 146 ❤️
Coq-of-rust: Formal verification tool for Rust 68 ❤️
Underware 2.0 – Open Source Infinite Cable Management 85 ❤️

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Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline 783 ❤️

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