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Denmark Data Breach Exposes 8.8M People's Personal Data

Det Centrale Personregister (CPR) har konstateret en alvorlig sikkerhedshændelse. Ved at misbruge en dansk virksomheds lovlige adgang til at søge...

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Differences Between `Foldl` and `Foldr`

`foldl` and `foldr` can be confusing, so let's work out what's up

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Beating the Compiler

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Type Safe Generic Data Structures in C

See my follow-up article: “A Fast, Growable Array With Stable Pointers in C” I write type safe generic data structures in C using a technique that I haven’t seen elsewhere1. It uses unions to associate type information with a generic data structure, but we’ll get to that. My approach works for any type of data structure: maps, arrays, binary trees… but for this article I illustrate the ideas by implementing a basic linked list.

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Web Search API

Search the web from your AI agents and applications through AI Gateway with Ceramic.ai, Exa, and Linkup.

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Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1

Floréal Technologies: Open software, French touch, International reach.

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Huawei and Qualcomm announce broad patent license agreement

Huawei and Qualcomm today announced a multi-year, broad patent license agreement that includes cross licenses to the companies’ patent portfolios across a range of technology fields

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Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped

GrapheneOS discussion forum

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Martian chaos terrain

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Mystery Function

A daily puzzle. Figure out the hidden function in seven rows.

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We ported the original Doom to SQL

CedarDB is a database system that delivers unmatched performance for transactions and analytics, from small writes to handling billions of rows. Built on cutting-edge research to power today’s tools and tomorrow’s challenges.

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Picard 3.0

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The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease exists

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The future of independence is interdependence

Every one of us depends on others; the only difference is how visible that dependence is.

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2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Deisseroth, Hegemann, Nagel

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026 was awarded jointly to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”

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Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge

According to the arrest report, Carli Michelle Heller, of Bonita Springs, Florida, wrote on September 26 that she would attack the Sheriff's office. She later said that...

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US closely monitoring case of lab worker who possibly died of plague in Siberia

Quarantine measures in place in several hospitals in eastern Russia amid uncertainty over death of Darya Shipilova

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In the wake of Tippett Studios’ closure, a digital archive appears online

The stop motion work of Phil Tippett and the now closed Tippett Studios is being preserved in a free-to-browse online archive.,The stop motion work of Phil Tippett and the now closed Tippett Studios is being preserved in a free-to-browse online archive. August brought with it the sad news that Tippett Studios, the Berkeley-based animation and effects house founded by Phil Tippett, was closing down. The company had been in financial trouble for a while, and ... Tippett Studios | In the wake of its closure, a digital archive of animated materials appears online

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Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation

Munich-based RobCo has surpassed a $1 billion valuation through an employee secondary share sale, doubling its valuation in just nine months

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Mold Linker Version 3.0.0 Release – Rewritten in Rust

mold 🦠: A Modern Linker in Rust 🦀. Contribute to rui314/mold development by creating an account on GitHub.

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On this day

Windows 11 is released to the general public.

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Top Stories from Hacker News

Denmark Data Breach Exposes 8.8M People's Personal Data

Differences Between `Foldl` and `Foldr`

Beating the Compiler

Type Safe Generic Data Structures in C

Web Search API

Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1

Huawei and Qualcomm announce broad patent license agreement

Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped

Martian chaos terrain

Mystery Function

We ported the original Doom to SQL

Picard 3.0

The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease exists

The future of independence is interdependence

2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Deisseroth, Hegemann, Nagel

Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge

US closely monitoring case of lab worker who possibly died of plague in Siberia

In the wake of Tippett Studios’ closure, a digital archive appears online

Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation

Mold Linker Version 3.0.0 Release – Rewritten in Rust

On this day

Windows 11 is released to the general public.

In the Mekong River massacre, two Chinese cargo boats are hijacked and 13 crew members murdered.

Mass demonstrations in Serbia force the resignation of Slobodan Milošević.

The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in West London kills 31 people.

Swiss police find the bodies of 48 members of the Order of the Solar Temple, who had died in a cult mass murder-suicide.

An Indonesian Air Force C-130 crash kills 135 people.

After 150 years The Herald newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.

A Chilean opposition coalition defeats Augusto Pinochet in his re-election attempt.

Seven Israeli vacationers, including four children, are killed in a mass shooting at Ras Burqa in the Sinai Peninsula by an Egyptian soldier.

Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space.

Tylenol products are recalled after bottles in Chicago laced with cyanide cause seven deaths.

Brother Eddie Villanueva and 15 others from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines begin the Jesus Is Lord Church.

Bombs planted by the PIRA in pubs in Guildford kill four British soldiers and one civilian.

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded in the United States.[citation needed]

The British Trade Commissioner, James Cross, is kidnapped by members of the Front de libération du Québec, triggering the October Crisis in Canada.

A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Derry is violently suppressed by police.

A reactor at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station near Detroit suffers a partial meltdown.

The United States suspends the Commercial Import Program in response to repression of the Buddhist majority by the regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem.

The first of the James Bond film series, based on the novels by Ian Fleming, Dr. No, is released in Britain.

The first Beatles single "Love Me Do" is released in Britain.

President Truman makes the first televised Oval Office address.

A six-month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of the Warner Brothers studio.

The Provisional Government of the French Republic enfranchises women.

World War II: Pacific Theater: Ninety-eight American POWs are executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island.

Holocaust: In Nazi Germany, Jews' passports are invalidated.

The Jarrow March sets off for London.

Clyde Edward Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, Jr. make the first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean in the plane Miss Veedol.

British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage killing 48 people.

The World Series is broadcast on radio for the first time.

World War I: An aircraft successfully destroys another aircraft with gunfire for the first time.

The Kowloon–Canton Railway commences service.

In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared.

The Wright brothers pilot the Wright Flyer III in a new world record flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes.

Peace congress in Paris condemns British policy in South Africa and asserts Boer Republic's right to self-determination.

The Nez Perce War in the northwestern United States comes to an end.

The Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region in Canada.

The Eastman tunnel, in Minnesota, United States, collapses during construction, causing a landslide that nearly destroys St. Anthony Falls.

War of 1812: The Army of the Northwest defeats a British and Native Canadian force threatening Detroit.

French Revolution: The Women's March on Versailles effectively terminates royal authority.

Jan Sobieski, Grand Hetman of the Polish Crown, begins his successful military campaign against the Tartars following their rebellion and an invasion by the Ottoman Empire.

Assassins attempt to kill Venetian statesman and scientist Paolo Sarpi.

King Louis XI of France is forced to sign the treaty of Conflans.

Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria expels Jews from his jurisdiction.

With the signing of the Treaty of Zamora, King Alfonso VII of León and Castile recognises Portugal as a Kingdom.

The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to depose patriarch Photios I.

King Louis the Pious is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by the Pope.

Heraclius arrives at Constantinople, kills Byzantine Emperor Phocas, and becomes emperor.

On this day

Windows 11 is released to the general public.

In the Mekong River massacre, two Chinese cargo boats are hijacked and 13 crew members murdered.

Mass demonstrations in Serbia force the resignation of Slobodan Milošević.

The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in West London kills 31 people.

Swiss police find the bodies of 48 members of the Order of the Solar Temple, who had died in a cult mass murder-suicide.

An Indonesian Air Force C-130 crash kills 135 people.

After 150 years The Herald newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.

A Chilean opposition coalition defeats Augusto Pinochet in his re-election attempt.

Seven Israeli vacationers, including four children, are killed in a mass shooting at Ras Burqa in the Sinai Peninsula by an Egyptian soldier.

Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space.