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A deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own son

theguardian.com

Rudi Herrmann took a deep breath and asked his son Peter to sit down. “I have...
Rudi Herrmann took a deep breath and asked his son Peter to sit down. “I have a story to tell you,” he said. Rudi had been preparing for this conversation for several years, running over the words in his mind. He was about to tell his 16-year-old son that everything Peter thought he knew about their family was a lie...

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Procedural Textures with Hash Functions

douglasorr.github.io

and Hash Playground I'm the sort of person who gets very excited when simple rules create...
and Hash Playground I'm the sort of person who gets very excited when simple rules create complex behaviour. The other day, I needed a simple hash function that maps $(x, y)$ coordinates to a colour, and found a straightforward equation that ended up being astoundingly rich. Hence this post; to talk about and play w...

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Why Is Good Friday Called Good Friday?

historyextra.com

Good Friday is an annual commemoration on the Friday before Easter Sunday to mark the day...
Good Friday is an annual commemoration on the Friday before Easter Sunday to mark the day when Jesus Christ was crucified.Having been arrested and sentenced to death by Pontius Pilate, the governor of the Roman province of Judaea, Christ was flogged, had a crown of thorns placed on his head – to ridicule his title a...
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Kagi Assistant is now available to all users

kagi.com
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Virginia state flag banned in Texas district over exposed breast

axios.com
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1,700 Year Old Egg Never Broke

atlasobscura.com

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A 1980s toy robot arm inspired modern robotics

technologyreview.com
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Once banned, Poland's stately 18th century dance garners UNESCO honors (2024)

apnews.com

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and RAFAL NIEDZIELSKI Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] WARSAW, Poland (AP)...
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and RAFAL NIEDZIELSKI Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Once banned by rulers dispatched from Moscow, Poland’s stately polonaise dance that nurtured the country’s spirit even through the dark years of its partition is now honored by UNESCO...

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Soldiers in combat can kill without moral injury

bps.org.uk

Killing another person is not necessarily harmful to a soldier's mental health — in fact, the...
Killing another person is not necessarily harmful to a soldier's mental health — in fact, the impacts on wellbeing depend more on the context than on the act itself. At least, this is the conclusion of a large-scale study of Norwegian soldiers, led by Andreas Espetvedt Nordstrand of Institute of Military Psychiatry,...
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Trying (and failing) to hack the Wall of Sheep (2022)

honeypot.net
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Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Wins Battle Against America's Taxpayers

prospect.org

For nearly three decades, a cold war has raged through the halls of Congress and in...
For nearly three decades, a cold war has raged through the halls of Congress and in high-end shellfish restaurants perched precariously on Washington, D.C.’s southern coast. The battle lines have shifted between successive administrations, sometimes tilting toward proletariat victory, and sometimes cutting fast towa...

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Is it possible to write plain C iOS app in 2025?

ycombinator.com
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The Size of Packets

potaroo.net

The ISP Column A column on things Internet Other Formats: The Size of Packets October 2024...
The ISP Column A column on things Internet Other Formats: The Size of Packets October 2024 We've now been running packet-switched networks for many decades, and these days it's packets and not virtual circuits lie behind most of the world's digital communications service. But some very fundamental questions remain u...
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DHL suspends B2C shipments over 800 USD until further notice

dhl.com
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Resist, eggheads! Universities are not as weak as they have chosen to be

arstechnica.com

The wholesale American cannibalism of one of its own crucial appendages—the world-famous university system—has begun in...
The wholesale American cannibalism of one of its own crucial appendages—the world-famous university system—has begun in earnest. The campaign is predictably Trumpian, built on a flagrantly pretextual basis and executed with the sort of vicious but chaotic idiocy that has always been a hallmark of the authoritarian m...
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'Enough Is Enuf' Review: A Dream of Simpler Spelling

wsj.com
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What do I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code?

luden.io

Hi there! This is Oleg from Luden.io. We decided to have a deep and meaningful conversation...
Hi there! This is Oleg from Luden.io. We decided to have a deep and meaningful conversation about Lua programming language with Ivan Trusov, lead programmer of the video game Craftomation 101. It contains ~60,000 lines of Lua code and is made with Defold game engine.I asked Ivan to talk about the real issues and sho...
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A new ChatGPT version just dropped and GeoGuesser is now a solved problem

flausch.social
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HaxeUI

haxeui.org
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Decomposing Transactional Systems

transactional.blog

With thanks to Stu Hood, Giorgos Xanthakis, Phil Eaton, and Devan Benz for early reads and...
With thanks to Stu Hood, Giorgos Xanthakis, Phil Eaton, and Devan Benz for early reads and feedback. Every transactional system does four things: It executes transactions. It orders transactions. It validates transactions. It persists transactions. Executing a transaction means evaluating the body of the transaction...
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Show HN: Stadium Crowd Scale Visualise Large Groups of People

davkap92.github.io
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I Analyzed Chord Progressions in 680k Songs

cantgetmuchhigher.com

Welcome back to Can’t Get Much Higher, where music and data meet. Before we get into...
Welcome back to Can’t Get Much Higher, where music and data meet. Before we get into this week’s topic, here are some recent pieces that people have enjoyed:Now, onto a big dataset about chords.By Chris Dalla RivaChordonomicon. I couldn’t get the word out of my head. Every syllable was just as beautiful as the last....
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Memory Size Matters to PostgreSQL

pgdba.org

Nowadays it’s not uncommon to deal with machines with hundreds of GB of RAM. Abundant memory...
Nowadays it’s not uncommon to deal with machines with hundreds of GB of RAM. Abundant memory can give PostgreSQL a massive performance boost. However things work slightly different than you may expect. Let’s find out! The shared buffer is a segment allocated by PostgreSQL in the server’s memory for managing the flow...
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CN Tower, Behind the Scenes (2014)

roadwolf.ca
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