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I forgot last week! Huge props to GitLab for their amazingly transparent reporting of losing and attempting to recover their production database . You haven't lived until you've dropped the wrong database.
Our transformation of the internet into a heiroglyphic medium continues .
From the we-live-in-a-cyberpunk-dystopia department: Casinos bought cheap slot machines and russian hackers figured out their PRNGS . If you're wondering exactly how this is illegal, allow the wonderful related mefi thread to elucidate you .
Cellphone cracker comprimised, cracking components contain crap! Spies snookered, security squandered, savvy saboteur snares secrets! I'd like a little more detail on this better algorithm for group prediction generation but it seems neat.
MIT has an impresive-sounding LLVM optimizer for parallel code .
The 21st century is awesome man, replace those lame propaganda leaflets with targeted SMS .
"No, we don't have any fish. It's the store across the street that doesn't have any meat" (CIA pdf) I usually err on the side of avoiding lolmentalillness but I think this is worth the risk. The entire city of Indianapolis is a gateway to the underworld .
I make fun of MongoDB a lot , but they are (belatedly) taking correctness seriously, summoning the mighty Aphyr and even including Jepsen tests as part of their test suite .
Why are celtic words so hard to pronounce? Because using the latin alphabet to encode gaelic is the orthographic equivalent of installing Windows on a Mac
Building on top of train yards is the next big thing. Wait until someone realizes there's 365 acres of land a stones' throw away just begging to become condos .
Things you don't want to hear on the radio: "All the aircraft on frequency, we've lost all power. We are now ATC zero. We have no power. We have no radar. Maintain VFR" .
Jobs that won't exist: Poker player .
Inside the ISS is a pretty unique enviroment: a nice, predictable, mapped, zero-gravity environment but with humans nearby to hit reset and no vacuum welding. So it's no surprise that NASA is all about robots for automation there .
Mildly interesting actual link but really great HN comments on those "microsoft support" phone scams" .
Lots of new physics news, most of which I only marginally understand: