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Automerge 2.0
Automerge 2.0 is here and ready for production.
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 363 posts.
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Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff
Earlier today, GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij sent the following note to GitLab team members.
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Thunderbird 115
Supernova features a single dynamic toolbar, presenting frequently used and contextual options based on the tab or Space that is currently active. Take full control by customizing the toolbar and window layout to perfectly fit your workflow.
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Mullvad on Tailscale: Privately browse the web
Learn how Tailscale's partnership with Mullvad enables secure, private browsing with Mullvad’s VPN servers as exit nodes. Protect your internet traffic, maintain privacy, and enjoy fast, encrypted browsing worldwide. Discover how to configure Mullvad with Tailscale for ultimate security.
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Electric vehicle battery prices are falling faster than expected
We harness every resource, insight, relationship, and competitive advantage to drive superior results for our clients.
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Rewriting the Ruby parser
At Shopify, we have spent the last year writing a new Ruby parser, which we’ve called YARP (Yet Another Ruby Parser). As of the date of this post, YARP can parse a semantically equivalent syntax tree to Ruby 3.3 on every Ruby file in Shopify’s main codebase, GitHub’s main codebase, CRuby, and the 100 most popular gems…
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Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market
Use Dagster, dbt, and BigQuery to analyze suspicious GitHub star activity and protect open-source credibility.
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Update on Samsung SSD Reliability
We have been very public about how reliable Samsung SSDs have been in the past, so we wanted to explain why we are now moving part of our line to Sabrent.
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SciPy builds for Python 3.12 on Windows are a minor miracle
Moving SciPy to Meson meant finding a different Fortran compiler on Windows, which was particularly tricky to pull off for conda-forge. This blog tells the story about how things looked pretty grim for the Python 3.12 release, and how things ended up working out just in the nick of time.
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OpenAI and Microsoft extend partnership
We’re happy to announce that OpenAI and Microsoft are extending our partnership.
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Mozilla.ai: Investing in Trustworthy AI
We’re committing $30M to build Mozilla.ai: A startup — and a community — building a trustworthy, independent, and open-source AI ecosystem. We’re o
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Zero downtime Postgres upgrades
How we upgraded from Postgres 11.9 to 15.3 with zero downtime
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Duolingo Max, a learning experience powered by GPT-4
Duolingo’s newest subscription, Duolingo Max, offers a powerful AI-backed learning experience.
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Phoenix 1.7.0
Phoenix 1.7.0 is here! This releases includes major new features, component-based generators, updated conventions, LiveView Streams, and more!
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Microsoft to lay off 10k workers
We're living through times of significant change.
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FreeBSD on Firecracker
A large amount of fantastic open source software originates from “scratching an itch”. Such was the case with Firecracker . In 2014, Amazon launched AWS Lambda as a “serverless” compute platform: Users can provide a function — say, ten lines of Python code — and Lambda provides all of the infrastructure between an…
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Mozilla solves the Manifest V3 puzzle to save ad blockers
Google Chrome's new platform for extensions, Manifest V3, threatens to limit the functionality of ad blockers. Firefox has found a way around this problem. Read how.
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Android and RISC-V: What you need to know to be ready
You can build, test, and run the Android support for RISC-V on your own machine.
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Officially Qualified – Ferrocene
It’s official: Ferrocene is ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 qualified! You can even find the certificate in TÜV SÜDs certificate database. This means we achieved qualification for the open source Ferrocene toolchain. Ferrocene 23.06.0, based on Rust 1...
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Changes to Tailscale Pricing and Plans
Today we’re announcing the third generation of Tailscale plans and pricing. Most noticeably: The Free plan is expanding from one to three users. Monthly paid plans now include three free users, and bill you only for additional users who actively exchange data over Tailscale (“usage-based billing”) rather than for a…
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Was there a tech-hiring bubble? Job postings data suggest so
We recently discussed Information industry jobs data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: That post showed that layoffs in Information were elevated relative to layoffs for non-farm employment overall...
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RustRover – A standalone Rust IDE
“When will there be a Rust IDE?” Update: RustRover is now generally available, with free non-commercial use and commercial licensing options. Learn more about the RustRover release. We get this
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The Red Hat model only worked for Red Hat
OCV starts companies around the most promising open source projects.