Reverse Engineering a Mysterious UDP Stream in My Hotel
Hey everyone, I have been staying at a hotel for a while. It’s one of those modern ones with smart TVs and other connected goodies. I got curious and opened Wireshark, as any tinkerer would do. I was very surprised to see a huge amount of UDP traffic on port 2046. I looked it up […]
Wezterm – A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer
A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust User facing docs and guide at: https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/ Screenshot of wezterm on macOS, running vim Installation https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/installation.html Getting help This is a spare time project, so please bear with me. There are a couple of channels for support: The GitHub Discussions and […]
PayPal launches crypto checkout service
By Anna Irrera 3 Min Read LONDON (Reuters) – PayPal Holdings Inc will announce later on Tuesday that it has started allowing U.S. consumers to use their cryptocurrency holdings to pay at millions of its online merchants globally, a move that could significantly boost use of digital assets in everyday commerce. Slideshow ( 2 images […]
OpenUnit (YC W20) Is Hiring a Ruby on Rails Engineer
Senior Software Engineer Remote Platform engineering is a core group at OpenUnit focused on maintaining and improving our core components, and we are looking for a Senior level engineer to help us do it. This team is focused on our core model architecture, which is critical for the future shaping of OpenUnit and our feature […]
Font size is useless; let’s fix it
What happens when you set “font_size”: 32 in your favorite editor? I would’ve told you anyway, but I’m glad that you asked. Let’t try to guess. I am using Sublime Text 4 on macOS: If we measure letters themselves, number 32 is nowhere to be seen: 32 is not the width or height of a […]
Retrospective: An Axiomatic Basis for Computer Programming
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Show HN: Poulette – A Color Palette GUI
GitHub – grgrdvrt/poulette: Proof of concept for a color mixer interface {{ message }} Proof of concept for a color mixer interface Files Permalink Failed to load latest commit information. Type Name Latest commit message Commit time Mar 26, 2021 Mar 30, 2021 Mar 30, 2021 Mar 19, 2021 Mar 14, 2021 Mar 30, 2021 […]
Girls and Dolls in the Roman Empire
Barbie dolls tend to get a bad rap. Critics rebuke them for promoting harmful body standards and other sexist tropes in the minds of young children. But some scholars note that the dolls also allow for versatile, wide-ranging play, because of their lack of prescriptive narratives. Despite their faults, Barbies can become anything—or anyone—the child […]
Scientists Create Simple Synthetic Cell That Grows and Divides Normally
Credit: Copyright Emily Grace Five years ago, scientists created a single-celled synthetic organism that, with only 473 genes, was the simplest living cell ever known. However, this bacteria-like organism behaved strangely when growing and dividing, producing cells with wildly different shapes and sizes. Now, scientists have identified seven genes that can be added to tame […]
Voxel Space: Comanche’s terrain rendering in less than 20 lines of code (2020)
History Let us go back to the year 1992. The CPUs were 1000 times slower than today and the acceleration via a GPU was unknown or unaffordable. 3D games were calculated exclusively on the CPU and the rendering engine rendered filled polygons with a single color. Game Gunship 2000 published by MicroProse in 1991 It […]