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Ruby 3.0
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 3.0.0. From 2015 we developed hard toward Ruby 3, whose goal is performance, concurrency, and Typing. Especial...
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 429 posts.
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The Next Step for Generics
An updated generics design draft, and a translation tool for experimentation
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Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers
Ring isn't just a product that allows users to surveil their neighbors. The company also uses it to surveil its customers.An investigation by EFF of the Ring doorbell app for Android found it to be packed with third-party trackers sending out a plethora of customers’ personally identifiable...
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Zoom’s Use of Facebook’s SDK in iOS Client
Learn more about how to use each Zoom product to connect with coworkers, customers, businesses, and more with insights and best practices.
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Writing Safe Shell Scripts (2019)
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Translating Quake 3 into Rust
The Rust-loving team at Immunant has been hard at work on C2Rust, a migration framework that takes the drudgery out of migrating to Rust. Our goal is to make safety improvements to the translated Rust automatically where we can, and help the programmer do the same where we cannot. First, however, we have to build a…
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Migrating Dropbox from Nginx to Envoy
In this blogpost we’ll talk about the old Nginx-based traffic infrastructure, its pain points, and the benefits we gained by migrating to Envoy . We’ll compare Nginx to Envoy across many software engineering and operational dimensions. We’ll also briefly touch on the migration process, its current state, and some of…
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PDF: Still unfit for human consumption, 20 years later
Research spanning 20 years proves PDFs are problematic for online reading. Yet they’re still prevalent and users continue to get lost in them. They’re unpleasant to read and navigate and remain unfit for digital-content display.
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Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1
A few new features to help you feel close to friends and family even when you’re apart.
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Over 400 vulnerabilities on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chip
Over 400 vulnerabilities on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chip threaten mobile phones’ usability worldwide With over 3 billion users globally, smartphones are an %
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Turing-NLG: A 17B-parameter language model
This figure was adapted from a similar image published in DistilBERT. Turing Natural Language Generation (T-NLG) is a 17 billion parameter language model by Microsoft that outperforms the state of the art on many downstream NLP tasks. We present a demo of the model, including its freeform generation, question…
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Cloudflare One
Today we’re announcing Cloudflare One. It provides secure, fast, reliable, cost-effective network services, integrated with leading identity management and endpoint security providers.
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To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language
MIT neuroscientists have found reading computer code does not rely on the regions of the brain involved in language processing. Instead, it activates the “multiple demand network,” which is also recruited for complex cognitive tasks such as solving math problems or crossword puzzles.
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Netflix is now doing per-shot encoding for UHD content
by Aditya Mavlankar, Liwei Guo, Anush Moorthy and Anne Aaron
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How we use HashiCorp Nomad
A walkthrough on how we are improving the reliability of our management services running in each data center by using Nomad for dynamic task scheduling.
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Open access to ACM Digital Library during coronavirus pandemic
For the next 3 months, through 6/30/20, ACM is making all work published by ACM in the ACM Digital Library freely accessible.
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Image GPT
We find that, just as a large transformer model trained on language can generate coherent text, the same exact model trained on pixel sequences can generate coherent image completions and samples. By establishing a correlation between sample quality and image classification accuracy, we show that our best generative…
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Cloudflare Workers now supports COBOL
COBOL is often a source of amusement for programmers because it is seen as old, verbose, clunky, and difficult to maintain. COBOL can now be used to write code for Cloudflare’s serverless platform Workers.
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SQLite 3.33
A complete list of SQLite releases in a single page and a chronology are both also available. A detailed history of every check-in is available at SQLite version control site .
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Cloudflare launches Workers Unbound, next evolution of its serverless platform
Today, we are excited to announce the next phase of this with the launch of our new platform, Workers Unbound, without restrictive CPU limits in a private beta.
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How Shopify Uses WebAssembly Outside of the Browser
At Shopify, we’re keeping the flexibility of untrusted Partner code, but executing it on our own infrastructure with WebAssembly.
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Comparing HTTP/3 vs. HTTP/2 Performance
We announced support for HTTP/3, the successor to HTTP/2, during Cloudflare’s birthday week last year. Our goal is and has always been to help build a better Internet. Even though HTTP/3 is still in draft status, we've seen a lot of interest from our users.
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TimescaleDB 2.0 released, now distributed multi-node
Fully managed PostgreSQL from the creators of TimescaleDB. 99.9% uptime SLA, 10,000+ IOPS, columnar compression up to 95%, and built-in search. Try it free.
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Mailing lists are resistant to censorship
sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.