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Backward Compatibility, Go 1.21, and Go 2
Go 1.21 expands Go's commitment to backward compatibility, so that every new Go toolchain is the best possible implementation of older toolchain semantics as well.
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 4,918 posts.
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Intel Processor Instability Causing Oodle Decompression Failures
RAD Game Tools' web page. RAD makes Bink Video, the Telemetry Performance Visualization System, and Oodle Data Compression - all popular video game middleware.
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Help Us Keep the Archive Free, Accessible, and Private
The history of libraries is one of loss. The Library of Alexandria is best known for its disappearance. Libraries like ours are susceptible to different fault lines: Earthquakes, Legal regimes, Institutional failure. So this year, we have set a new goal: to create a copy of Internet Archive’s digital collections in…
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Proof-of-Work Defense for Onion Services
Today, we are officially introducing a proof-of-work (PoW) defense for onion services designed to prioritize verified network traffic as a deterrent against denial of service (DoS) attacks with the release of Tor 0.4.8.
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AWS Application Load Balancer
We launched Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) for AWS in the spring of 2009 (see New Features for Amazon EC2: Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, and Amazon CloudWatch to see just how far AWS has come since then). Elastic Load Balancing has become a key architectural component for many AWS-powered applications. In…
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Introducing the Google Chrome OS
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Releasing weights for FLUX.1 Krea
Krea announces the open release of FLUX.1 Krea, including model weights, training details, and resources to run and fine-tune the model.
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Mozilla and Samsung Collaborate on Next Generation Web Browser Engine
Mozilla’s mission is about advancing the Web as a platform for all. At Mozilla Research, we’re supporting this mission by experimenting with what’s n
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Friendlier SQL with DuckDB
DuckDB offers several extensions to the SQL syntax. For a full list of these features, see the Friendly SQL documentation page.
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How We Ported Linux to the M1
Virtual iOS, Android, and Arm devices to speed up security testing, research, and DevSecOps for security teams, mobile pentesters, and software developers.
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Stack Graphs
Precise code navigation is powered by stack graphs, a new open source framework that lets you define the name binding rules for a programming language.
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Video generation models as world simulators
We explore large-scale training of generative models on video data. Specifically, we train text-conditional diffusion models jointly on videos and images of variable durations, resolutions and aspect ratios. We leverage a transformer architecture that operates on spacetime patches of video and image latent codes. Our…
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Dude, where’s my stuff
The global supply chain mess will require increased vaccination and acquired immunity, semiconductor capacity expansion and the end of extraordinary housing/labor supports to resolve. A close look at some very anomalous charts on shipping, semiconductors, inventories, labor shortages, foreclosures and mortality.
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DuckDuckGo email protection beta now open
DuckDuckGo Email Protection is a free email forwarding service that removes multiple kinds of trackers and lets you create unique private email addresses.
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Go's New Brand
Go’s new look and logo (don't worry, the mascot isn’t changing!).
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Ways to make a web component
Compare coding style, bundle size and performance of 61 different ways to make a Web Component.
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Why we are not leaving the cloud
What we learned from our community vetting our proposal to leave the cloud.
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Our Android app is frozen in carbonite
Google altered the deal
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Microsoft’s new small print – how your personal data is abused
Microsoft has renewed its Privacy Policy and Service Agreement. The new services agreement goes into effect on 1 August 2015, only a couple of days after the launch of the Windows 10 operating system on 29 July. The new “privacy dashboard” is presented to give the users a possibility to control their data related to…
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Cloudflare outage caused by bad software deploy
Starting at 1342 UTC today we experienced a global outage across our network that resulted in visitors to Cloudflare-proxied domains being shown 502 errors (“Bad Gateway”). The cause of this outage was deployment of a single misconfigured rule within the Cloudflare Web Application Firewall (WAF)
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AI and Compute
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
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Why We Disagree with The New York Times
In the early days of mobile, we built a set of APIs that enabled other companies to recreate the Facebook experience. This is very different from the public APIs used by third-party developers.
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What concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit? Kayfabe (2011)
The sophisticated "scientific concept" with the greatest potential to enhance human understanding may be argued to come not from the halls of academe, but rather from the unlikely research environment of professional wrestling.
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Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source code
Winamp builds tools that empower artists to manage their music and revenue, while delivering a player that offers a seamless listening experience. Discover our products!
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Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation
Until recently, across a half-century perhaps fewer than a dozen people had ever had the opportunity to read Dennis Ritchie’s dissertation—the intellectual and biographical fork-in-the-road separating an academic career in computer science from the one at Bell Labs leading to C and Unix. Why?
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Startups Can’t Manufacture Like Apple Does (2014)
Startups can’t do things the same way big companies do. And that’s a good thing; here’s why. Startups and big companies differ in a lot of ways. When it comes to hardware, the gulf between the two is massive. Early-stage startups are painfully under-financed. This lack of capital makes manu