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Still alive
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 11,894 posts.
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Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs
This is a bit of a "holy war" among software developers; one that's been the subject of many debates and in-jokes. I use spaces, but I never thought it was particularly important. But today we're releasing the raw data behind the Stack Overflow 2017 Developer Survey , and some analysis suggests this choice matters…
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Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all users
Updated Aug. 28, 2024. Take back your privacy Firefox is rolling out Total Cookie Protection by default to more Firefox users worldwide, making Firefox the
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Verizon and a BGP Optimizer Knocked Large Parts of the Internet Offline
Today at 10:30UTC, the Internet had a small heart attack. A small company in Northern Pennsylvania became a preferred path of many Internet routes through Verizon (AS701), a major Internet transit provider.
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Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
Hey… quick question, why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
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Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors actively targeting Signal Messenger
Russia state-aligned threat actors target Signal Messenger accounts used by individuals of interest to Russia's intelligence services.
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Don't End the Week with Nothing (2014)
A bit of inspiration (and some hopefully actionable advice) for folks who are still working at day jobs.
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Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security
Describing the story behind how critical security vulnerabilities were found and fixed.
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Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive
Great news for everyone concerned about the Flash end of life planned for end of 2020: The Internet Archive is now emulating Flash animations, games and toys in our software collection. In the early 1990s, web browsers were incredibly powerful compared to what came before - with simple files written in HTML that could…
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One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020
If you aren't familar, Hacktoberfest is an annual event that occurs every October. It is held by Digital Ocean and encourages developers to submit Pull…
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Jepsen: PostgreSQL 12.3
PostgreSQL is a major open-source relational database with a 23-year history and a broad range of features. While Jepsen’s work has traditionally focused on distributed systems, our tooling is readily applicable to traditional, single-node databases. In this report, we present the results of applying Jepsen’s…
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New(ish) command line tools
A list of new(ish) command line tools
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UTC Is Enough for Everyone, Right?
Programming with dates, times, and timezones is hard. But here's some help.
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Shipping Rust code in Firefox
TL;DR: Starting with Firefox 48, Mozilla is shipping its first production Rust code, with more to come! Mozilla ❤ Rust It's hard to believe it's been almost seven years since ...
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Write plain text files
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Addressing Spotify’s Claims
We want more app businesses to thrive — including the ones that compete with some aspect of our business, because they drive us to be better.
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Email: Explained from first principles
Modern email is a patchwork of protocols and extensions. Here is one article to understand them all.
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Stable Diffusion with Core ML on Apple Silicon
Today, we are excited to release optimizations to Core ML for Stable Diffusion in macOS 13.1 and iOS 16.2, along with code to get started…
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With SESTA/FOSTA, lawmakers failed to separate good intentions from bad law
In Passing SESTA/FOSTA, Lawmakers Failed to Separate Their Good Intentions from Bad LawToday was a dark day for the Internet.The U.S. Senate just voted 97-2 to pass the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA, H.R. 1865), a bill that silences online speech by forcing...
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Google Kills Wave
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transformed the web
Open Source Freelancer
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How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go
When we built the first version of IronWorker, about 3 years ago, it was written in Ruby and the API was built on Rails. It didn’t take long for us
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Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?
I generated 1,000+ SVGs across 7 frontier models to test whether AI labs are training on Simon Willison’s pelican-riding-a-bicycle benchmark.
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Learn just a little Awk (2010)
An Awk tutorial by example. Learn practical Awk incantations in just a few minutes.
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How our free plan stays free
Tailscale’s free plan is free because we keep our scaling costs low relative to typical SaaS companies. I know, it sounds too good to be true. Let’s see some details.
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A Matter of Millimeters: The story of Qantas flight 32
How a mistake of less than half a millimeter in a single part nearly brought down the world’s largest passenger aircraft.