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Urgent: Sign the petition now
Nearly 40,000 of all depositors at Silicon Valley Bank were small businesses. If swift action isn’t taken, over 100,000 people could soon lose their jobs.
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The case for JPEG XL
The recent decision by Chrome developers to no longer support JPEG XL has sent a ripple through the developer community and is a bit premature given the relative newness of the image format.
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Lucet: Native WebAssembly Compiler and Runtime
Today, we're thrilled to announce the open sourcing of Lucet, our native WebAssembly compiler and runtime. WebAssembly is a technology created to enable web browsers to safely execute programs at near-native speeds, and it's been shipping in the four major browsers since early 2017.
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How We Knew It Was Time to Leave the Cloud
How we're solving storage and performance issues as we scale.
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Show HN: Let's Chat, a self-hosted chat app for small teams
Self-hosted chat for small teams.
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Dark’s new backend will be in F#
Welcome HN! Dark is a programming language, structured editor, and infrastructure—all in one—whose goal is to make it 100x easier to build backend services. Check out the website, our What is Dark post, and How Dark deploys in 50ms for more. Thanks for checking us out! Part of
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Logica, a novel open-source logic programming language
We present Logica, a novel open source Logic Programming language.
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AdNauseam Banned from the Google Web Store
For 3 years AdNauseam has been used by tens of thousands of Chrome, Firefox and Opera users, who oppose the unethical surveillance advertising model. Now Google banned it from its Web Store on very dubious charges. Furthermore Google locked AdNauseam users out of their ad data. Today it's your privacy tool, tomorrow…
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Opening up ‘Zero-Knowledge Proof’ technology
Today, we open sourced our Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) libraries, fulfilling a promise and building on our partnership with Sparkasse to support EU age assurance.
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Codeq
The free database designed for immutable values and a time-aware information model.
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Emergent Tool Use from Multi-Agent Interaction
We’ve observed agents discovering progressively more complex tool use while playing a simple game of hide-and-seek. Through training in our new simulated hide-and-seek environment, agents build a series of six distinct strategies and counterstrategies, some of which we did not know our environment supported. The…
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Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11M Concurrent Users (2019)
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
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Government Says Secret Court Opinion on Law Underlying PRISM Must Stay Secret
In a rare public filing in the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), the Justice Department today urged continued secrecy for a 2011 FISC opinion that found the National Security Agency's surveillance under the FISA Amendments Act to be unconstitutional. Significantly, the...
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Supporting the use of Rust in the Chromium project
Posted by Dana Jansens (she/her), Chrome Security Team We are pleased to announce that moving forward, the Chromium project is going to s...
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Cloudflare Workers: Run JavaScript Service Workers at the Edge
You see this everywhere, but as a lifelong gamer, my personal favorite example is probably graphics cards. In the '90s, graphics hardware generally provided a fixed set of functionality.
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Do not let your CDN betray you: Use Subresource Integrity
Mozilla Firefox Developer Edition 43 and other modern browsers help websites to control third-party JavaScript loads and prevent unexpected or malicious modifications. Using a new specification called Subresource Integrity, a ...
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Eliminating Toil
Learn what toil is in SRE, how it affects operational work, and why minimizing it is crucial for efficiency and morale.
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Diet that mimics fasting appears to slow aging
Want to lose abdominal fat, get smarter and live longer? New research led by USC’s Valter Longo shows that periodically adopting a diet that mimics the effects of fasting may yield a wide range of health benefits.
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Licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana
Upcoming licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana
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2017 State of Global Tech Salaries
Learn about LHH, with our global network of colleagues who bring local knowledge and experience to support millions of people across the full talent lifecycle.
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Composable multi-threaded parallelism in Julia
Software performance depends more and more on exploiting multiple processor cores....
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YC Portfolio Stats
We get asked a lot for statistics on the YC portfolio. Even though some of these aren’t that helpful [1], here is the latest update on the numbers we get asked about the most. As always, all the credit goes to the founders. Total market cap of all YC companies: >$30 billion Total money raised by all YC companies: >$3…
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I have come to bury the BIOS, not to open it [video]
Historically, proprietary systems created the need for binary machine interfaces. This extended to the deepest layers of the system, where the PC BIOS was…
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Google Labs Winding Down
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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What is Realtalk’s relationship to AI? (2024)
An independent nonprofit research lab, whose mission is to enable universal literacy in a humane dynamic medium. This involves inventing a humane form of computing, and developing educational and community-based institutions in which a culture can grow. [more]
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The Pinecone Overlay Network
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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The rise of batteries in six charts
The unstoppable rise of batteries is leading to a domino effect that puts half of global fossil fuel demand at risk.