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UK citizens may soon need licenses to photograph some stuff they already own
Changes to UK copyright law will soon mean that you may need to take out a licence to photograph classic designer objects even if you own them. That's the result of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform...
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Dissecting a Chinese Knockoff Guitar Pedal
Dissecting A Budget Tube Screamer CloneMy recent interest in the circuitry of the TS808 Tube Screamer finally blossomed into an urge to get my hands on some hardware to mess around with. I got a nasty...
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Show HN: FuckFuckAdblock
README.mdA simple userscript that acts like FuckAdBlock.js but always says that no adblock was detected. Just install it and try it out at http://sitexw.fr/fuckadblock/. FuckFuckAdBlock works on the...
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John Romero Shares PC “Super Mario Bros. 3” Demo Video
John Romero shares PC Super Mario Bros. 3 demo vidTo celebrate the 25th anniversary of Commander Keen's release, John Romero has posted a video showing gameplay of a PC demo of Super Mario Bros. 3...
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Kinto – open-source alternative to Firebase and Parse
Docs»OverviewEdit on GitHubKinto is a lightweight JSON storage service with synchronisation and sharing abilities. It is meant to be easy to use and easy to self-host.Kinto is used at Mozilla and...
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Western Digital and OwnCloud Team Up to Bring OwnCloud to Home Users
Putting the kit togetherWe want to provide people with a safe home for their data and self hosting is key. When WDLABS, a division of Western Digital focused on accelerating new solutions, approached...
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Why Very Low Interest Rates May Stick Around
Continue reading the main story%151050U.S.Britain18201830184018501860187018801890190019101920193019401950196019701980199020002015Long-term interest ratesU.S. Civil WarW.W.IW.W.IIGlobal financial...
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Plan to throw one away
Plan to throw one away◀ Exact cover II✴ garethrees.orgGareth Rees, 2015-12-14How I had to write a JavaScript engine in two weeks.This is a software development story from early in my career. The...
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Move Fast and Fix Things
Anyone who has worked on a large enough codebase knows that technical debt is an inescapable reality: The more rapidly an application grows in size and complexity, the more technical debt is accrued....
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How Product Hunt really works
It starts with a mysteryEarlier this year, having devoted countless hours to creating my latest app, I took a step that has become a universal milestone in the tech world: I submitted it to Product...
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How to Make Python Run as Fast as Julia
Should we ditch Python and other languages in favor of Julia for technical computing? That's certainly a thought that comes to mind when one looks at the benchmarks on http ://j ulia lang .org /....
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I included emoji in my password and now I can't log in to my Account on Yosemite
Since you have Filevault - that makes your situation precarious and a bit delicate.Some good news, Apple has disabled emoji entry in the password pane for 10.11 El Capitan - I can't paste or get emoji...
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Slack Platform Launch
We live in an exciting time for work. Instead of three or four big vendors providing end-to-end software suites, we have a variety of top notch products at our fingertips ready to make us more powerful...
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ReactOS, a 17-year quest for an open-source Windows, has a new release candidate
The dream of an open source replacement for Windows is still alive after 17 years of development. ReactOS, an operating built from scratch to be binary-compatible with Windows programs and drivers, is...
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Fed Ends Zero-Rate Era
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time in almost a decade in a widely telegraphed move while signaling that the pace of subsequent increases will be “gradual” and in line with...
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Congress has added CISA to the federal budget bill
After more than a year of stalemate, Congress has used an unconventional procedural measure to bring a controversial cybersurveillance bill to the floor. Late last night, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan...
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Netflix socks detect when you've dozed off and pause your TV show
Here’s what we used to make our Netflix socks. Feel free to experiment and make substitutions based on your own particular sock ambitions.Knit socksArduino microcontrollerIR LEDsLED indicator...
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SymbOS: preemptive multitasking OS that can play mp3s, video on 8-bit Z80 PCs
*NEW* - SymShell 2.0 beta released! - *NEW*..SY.mbiosis M.ultitasking B.ased O.perating S.ystem..* REAL MULTITASKING * 1024KB DYNAMIC MEMORY ** 2TeraByte FILESYSTEM * 100% WINDOWS GUI *for your Amstrad...
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What You Believe Affects What You Achieve
Even as my glasses have gotten smaller and hopefully cooler over the years, I am still a proud member of Nerd Nation. As such, I read a lot of books—usually more than 50 a year. Many of the books I...
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Wifibroadcast – Analog-like transmission of live video data
Wifibroadcast is a project aimed at the live transmission of HD video (and other) data using wifi radios. One prominent use case is to transmit camera images for a first person view (FPV) of remote...
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