How hieroglyphs became the sacred script of the ancient Egyptians

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.
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frol/completely-unscientific-benchmarks: Naive performance comparison of a few programming languages (JavaScript, Kotlin, Rust, Swift, Nim, Python, Go, Haskell, D, C++, Java, C#)

For this benchmark we implemented Treap in a few classic (C++, Java, Python) and hyped (JavaScript, Kotlin, Swift, Rust) programming languages and tested their performance on Linux, Mac OS, and ...
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25 unexplained space phenomena scientists can't ignore

The cosmos is a tapestry woven with wonder, but what if that tapestry has loose threads, even holes, that challenge ...
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A simple way to serialize JavaScript objects into ArrayBuffers for high compression on the wire.

Superbuffer makes it easy to serialize and deserialize data from ArrayBuffers matching the interfaces you define. Its Schema-Model API was inspired by typed-array-buffer-schema. Superbuffer was ...
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Critical bug in popular vm2 Node.js sandboxing library puts projects at risk

Sandbox escape vulnerability in vm2, used by nearly 900 NPM packages, allows attackers to bypass security protections and ...