MetaFilter posts tagged with code and brokenlink

Su — Tue, 05 Feb 2002 14:42:52 -0800

Interesting The guy who wrote Your CSS Bores Me(previously linked and discussed here) has decided to accept his own challenge. For the month of February, he will be applying a different stylesheet to the index page of his site, with no manipulation of the HTML document itself. This is one to watch, if you're also a code geek.

icathing — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 08:57:57 -0800

Clippings is the GPL-ed code behind IHT's news-clip feature, which has been discussed on MetaFilter before. This is very cool code and I think any site with many front page links could benefit from it. Serendipitously found at smokinggun, which is not the smoking gun.

paladin — Thu, 05 Apr 2001 18:30:32 -0800

Article on New Scientist about "software that turns everyday language into computer code".

mikewas — Tue, 20 Feb 2001 09:17:38 -0800

The Key Vanishes: Scientist Outlines Unbreakable Code [NEW YORK TIMES - free reg required]
In essence, the researcher, Dr. Michael Rabin and his Ph.D. student Yan Zong Bing, have discovered a way to make a code based on a key that vanishes even as it is used. While they are not the first to have thought of such an idea, Dr. Rabin says that never before has anyone been able to make it both workable and to prove mathematically that the code cannot be broken.

Once this gets out, the debate on exporting strong crypto would seem to be essentially over.

baylink — Sun, 11 Jun 2000 14:07:09 -0800

So, how big did you say that app needed to be? Radsoft Labs knocks a Windows DNS client down from 3.5MB to 7*KB*. [Via RISKS Digest.]