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• Implementing 2FA in JavaScript [Gist]

  I'm building a portfolio, out of nowhere I wanted to know how 2FA works and I figured a simple way: implementing 2FA with JavaScript and testing it with authenticator apps! It's all about beefing up online security, one line of code at a time. Check out my Medium article https://medium.com/@nechiii28/javascript-2-factor-authentication-but-one-timepass-word-number-18a6ed433908 for a quick dive into how it's done. - Source: Hacker News / about 19 hours ago

• 3Blue1Brown: Visualizing Attention, a Transformer's Heart

  IIRC, GPT-4 would actually be a bit _smaller_ to visualize than GPT3. Details are not public, but from the leaks GPT-4 (at least, some by-now old version of it) was a mixture of expert, with every model having around 110B parameters [1]. So, while the total number of parameters is bigger than GPT-3 (1800B vs. 175B), it is "just" 16 copies of a smaller (110B) parameters model. So if you wanted to visualize it in... - Source: Hacker News / 4 days ago

• Spectral Ray Tracing

  If you want to play with ray tracing implementation, it's surprisingly easy to write one by yourself. There's a (great free book)[https://raytracing.github.io/books/RayTracingInOneWeekend.html] or, if you know a bit of Unity (a very nice GPU-based tutorial)[https://medium.com/@jcowles/gpu-ray-tracing-in-one-weekend-3e7d874b3b0f]. The Unity version is easier to tinker with, because you have scene preview and other... - Source: Hacker News / 4 days ago

• Does anyone feel like the quirky culture MIT is famous for doesn't exist?

  (https://medium.com/@incognito.jones/mit-needs-the-weirdos-whats-really-going-on-in-senior-house-47216d25033d#.vpyrszerz). - Source: Hacker News / 5 days ago

• Things you should do in your dev journey 🖥️👩‍💻

  Document Your Progress: Keep a journal or blog to document your learning journey and share your experiences with others. Platforms like Medium and Dev.to offer spaces for developers to publish articles and tutorials based on their experiences and insights. - Source: dev.to / 5 days ago

• the US rich are getting second passports, citing risk of instability

  Lol if you don't think corpo Dems aren't in bed with capitalism then I have a bridge to sell you. Read Manufacturing Consent if you want an answer to your Overton window question and its longterm implications of inevitably ratcheting us rightward while being tricked into believing otherwise. > If your complaint is actually just that people misunderstand you, this is the only thing you can actually change in this... - Source: Hacker News / 7 days ago

• the US rich are getting second passports, citing risk of instability

  Everything posted has external references. Do you think COVID is a hoax or something? People continue to be disabled from it and die early. If you don't like the COVID example of catastrophic failure, then maybe the unaddressed climate catastrophy will make the point clearer: https://medium.com/@samyoureyes/the-busy-workers-handbook-to-the-apocalypse-7790666afde7 But of course none of this will break through to... - Source: Hacker News / 7 days ago

• If Inheritance is so bad, why does everyone use it?

  Agree 100%. It starts from the earliest programming course where we just teach it all wrong; way to abstract (no pun intended). One point to add to yours: well executed OOP allows for "structural" flow of control where the object hierarchy, inheritance, events, and overrides allow for the "structure" of the hierarchy to control the flow of logic. I wrote a brief essay on this with concrete examples and use cases:... - Source: Hacker News / 8 days ago

• Going in circles without a real-time clock

  I ran into this before! https://medium.com/@cyounkins/encrypted-dns-ntp-deadlock-9e378940b79f. - Source: Hacker News / 8 days ago

• Redefining Modern Product Management

  One thing that hasn't changed over the past 2 decades is the structure or definition of product management. It sometimes is borderline crazy to see the world following a defunct model of product management which no longer applies in the current context when AI is changing the way businesses work. Keeping that in mind I thought through the problem and came up with an entirely different model for product management... - Source: Hacker News / 7 days ago

• Modern Standard Arabic – The Missing Glossary

  Https://medium.com/@kerningcultures/the-invention-of-the-arabic-typewriter-a6d26e0554a. - Source: Hacker News / 11 days ago

• Currying

  Currying is only a part of the functional programming stack. It can make your life easier when you combine it with other functional programming techniques like tacit programming. e.g. You have a function with a very long arguments list and dont want to write the arguments over and over again, but still dont want to define an additional function. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_programming... - Source: Hacker News / 12 days ago

• Fortran on WebAssembly

  I remember when I was working on https://medium.com/@tomasreimers/compiling-tensorflow-for-the-browser-f3387b8e1e1c I thanked my lucky stars that TF used Eigen and not one of the popular math libraries (BLAS, Lapack) written in fortran b/c that would have been A LOT more work... - Source: Hacker News / 13 days ago

• German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice

  I am exclusively Google office user, but... Out of the top of my head: * Google docs are uglier than Microsoft word documents. This matters when I prepare an offer that I want to send to a client, and it should look good. * Google slides are hideous, and the only reason I get away with using them is because programmers (including me) have no taste[1] * Related to the looks, I sometimes buy paid document templates... - Source: Hacker News / 14 days ago

• CityGaussian: Real-Time High-Quality Large-Scale Scene Rendering with Gaussians

  You are in luck, the author has been sharing https://medium.com/@heyulei/capture-images-for-gaussian-splatting-81d081bbc826. - Source: Hacker News / 16 days ago

• AI and Expert Hands Meet to Deliver Real-World Solutions

  2. Fill in your profile details, especially if you're a professional looking to offer your services. We're rolling out features that allow users to connect with experts for personalized assistance. This approach enhances solution accuracy and offers professionals a new way to reach clients. Kognitium is about creating a space where technology and human expertise enrich each other, offering comprehensive solutions... - Source: Hacker News / 16 days ago

• Show HN: I just made my profitable online form builder open-sourced

  Thanks! I initially started out with just jQuery but eventually realized I needed to support more complex interactions and adopted Turbo & Stimulus [1]. Still sticking with server-side rendering though, always loved that approach to building webapps and tools like HTMX & Turbo make it much easier to integrate with complex UX interactions. [1]... - Source: Hacker News / 17 days ago

• You won't find a technical co-founder

  Too many nontechnical folks I talk to act like they’re blocked because they don't have a technical cofounder to build their amazing app idea. But there’s so much they can do to build a business with no code with today’s tools! Technical folks will be impressed by how far you’ve gotten without having any actual custom software. I tried to capture this here:... - Source: Hacker News / 17 days ago

• Proteins let cells remember how well their last division went

  For me this is an example of informative back pressure. The protiens make sure the cells pay attention to what just happened to allow for changes that could improve things in the future. If you like the sound of big V8's what's appealing is the backpressure signaling that the engine is healthy and capable. There was this article on backpressure on here and it's been siting with me. I've been applying it to other... - Source: Hacker News / 20 days ago

• Police Are Tagging Fleeing Cars with GPS Darts to Avoid Dangerous Pursuits

  Https://medium.com/@doctoreww/day-2-your-car-is-trackable-by-law-1d5f74388850. - Source: Hacker News / 21 days ago

• Show HN: Onelook – Create applications by describing them in human language

  Blog post: https://medium.com/@onelook/introducing-onelook-a-radical-new-way-to-create-internal-applications-01e04c28b2f6 Onelook allows users to create fully-functional applications by describing them in human language. And by fully-functional we really mean backend included. Think of it as Retool for non-technical people or Copilot to build apps. Existing tools are for technical teams and even Retool, which is a... - Source: Hacker News / 24 days ago