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The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Space Shuttle STS 79 (Atlantis 17), Lands in 1996, The Three-dollar Coins and Gold Dollar Abolished in 1890, The Concorde Supersonic Speed Record in 1973, and we present you with these top quality stories. From The Polls Are Looking Good for Harris. With the 2016/20 Polling Error, She’s in Trouble as of Now to When Bitcoin Was Eleven Cents, let’s dive right in.

Solving the All-pairs Shortest Paths Problem With the Floyd-Warshall Algorithm in C#

TL;DR Implementation of Floyd-Warshall algorithm in C# with parallelism and vectorisation.

By @olegkarasik [ 28 Min read ]

All of us solve a “shortest path” problem many times a day. Unintentionally of course. We solve it on our way work or when we browse the Internet or when we arrange our things on a desk.

Sounds a bit… too much? Let’s find out.

- Author’s note..

Augmenting the Client With Vue.js

TL;DR Augmenting an SSR app with Vue is pretty straightforward, but you may encounter some issues along the way.

By @nfrankel [ 17 Min read ]

In my previous post, I laid the ground to build upon; now is the time to start "for real".

I explained WebJars and Thymeleaf in the last post. Here's the setup, server- and client-side.

Here is how I integrate both in the POM:

-- Declaring Reactive State..

The Polls Are Looking Good for Harris. With the 2016/20 Polling Error, She’s in Trouble as of Now

TL;DR Ive started playing around with publicly available polling data for the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

By @maxspeicher [ 3 Min read ]

(Disclaimer: I'm not a professional data scientist. Playing around with the data and exploring some things is really my main focus.)

First and foremost, I want to keep it simple for now. As Kahneman explains in his book, Noise: Simple models often get the job done pretty well...

When Bitcoin Was Eleven Cents

TL;DR How many Bitcoins one man could’ve bought for a thousand dollars when the price was eleven cents? How much money he would’ve had today at his disposal?

By @nebojsaneshatodorovic [ 6 Min read ]

Here’s the thing. It feels completely different to read about these stories and actually hear one first-hand in person. I can tell you; it can be very unpleasant and even painful.

So, he was thinking out loud.

What if I invest one thousand dollars in Bitcoin?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwaljThPDh0&embedable=true..

Bitcoin and Fractional Reserve: An Off-Chain Possibility?

TL;DR The Fractional Reserve on Bitcoin

By @javiermateos [ 5 Min read ]

Off-chain community governance raises delicate questions about the invisible forces operating behind supposedly decentralized communities.

https://x.com/bitcoinlfgo/status/1835022156897599764?embedable=true..

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