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Cancer Patients Cured with Polio Virus in Duke University Trial, CBS Reports

Peter Norvig: How Computers Learn [video]

Chromium team reverses course, will adopt IE’s merged mouse, touch APIs

Google's Hybrid Approach to Research [pdf]

x86 is a high-level language

Indian Fakers Teach Wiki PR

New SSA Back End for the Go Compiler (Proposal)

House Introduces Bill to Repeal the Patriot Act

Coursera: From nand to tetris

A MIDI Player on Eight Floppy Drives

A Rabbi, Three Sums, and Three Problems [pdf]

Cisco Helps Customers Avoid NSA Interception:Ships Equipment to Vacant Address

Fast Bounded-Concurrency Hash Tables

Atomic Weapons: The C++ Memory Model and Modern Hardware

Volatile: Almost Useless for Multi-Threaded Programming (2007)

If State Is Hell, SOA Is Satan

Path MTU discovery in practice

If I run into catastrophic perf problems, I may try rewriting in Go

The myopia boom

HOW ELLEN PAO’S CASE STACKS UP AGAINST KLEINER