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Safari now supports File System Access API with private origin
WebKit supports new API that makes it possible for web apps to create, open, read, and write files directly, or create directories and enumerate their contents.
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 758 posts.
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Misidentifying talent
Out of context, you might think they were scouting actors or models, but these are baseball players ("A" is Lloyd Moseby, "B" is Jim Abbott, and "C" is Derek Jeter), ones that were quite good (Lloyd Moseby was arguably only a very good player for perhaps four years, but that makes him extraordinary compared to most…
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Lyra V2 – a better, faster, and more versatile speech codec
We are now releasing Lyra V2, with a new architecture with a wider platform support, provides scalable bitrate capabilities, has better performance.
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Most books don't sell only a dozen copies
A little post on why publishing statistics are so confusing
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Ghost in the ethernet optic
A few months ago I stumbled on a tweet pointing out a kind of SFP optic that claimed to be smart, made by a Russian company Plumspace . After going through their Smart SFP product listings I was on-board and decided I needed to have some of them.
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Welcoming Rocket.Chat to Matrix
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Oxide at Home: Propolis Says Hello
So Oxide is making some cool stuff huh? Big metal boxes with lots of computer in them. Servers as they should be! Too bad I can’t afford to buy one for myself… but wait, they’re open-sourcing the software they’re writing to do it. Mom said we can have Oxide at Home!
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Why static languages suffer from complexity
People in the programming language design community strive to make their languages more expressive, with a strong type system, mainly to increase ergonomics by avoiding code duplication in final software; however, the more expressive their languages become, the more abruptly duplication penetrates the language itself.
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Ezno: a new TypeScript compiler
Introducing Ezno and the current state of the project.
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Filling in some gaps in the story of Space Cadet Pinball on 64-bit Windows
The story as I experienced it.
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How PlanetScale Boost serves SQL queries faster
PlanetScale offers the world’s fastest and most scalable cloud hosting for Vitess, Neki, and Postgres.
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How much does Rust's bounds checking cost?
Rust prevents out-of-bounds memory accesses and buffer overruns via runtime bounds checks - what’s the cost of those bounds checks for a real-world, production application?
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How Not to Support Desktop GNU+Linux, Zoom Edition
<small>Pssst! Formatting messed up? Add ".md" to the url ✨ If you're stuck using Zoom, jump on [one](https://community.zoom.com/t5/Meet...
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Asahi Linux: July 2022 Release and Progress Report
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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The rise and fall of peer review
Why the greatest scientific experiment in history failed, and why that's a great thing
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The swimming of a dead fish (2018)
When I was a child, my father would take me trout fishing, and I spent hours marveling from the riverbank at the trouts’ ability to, seemingly effortlessly, h
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Covid and the Heart: It Spares No One – Johns Hopkins
New evidence suggests anyone infected with COVID is at higher risk for heart issues—a risk that persists even in relatively healthy people long after the illness has passed.
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Ferrocene: Rust toolchain to safety-critical environments
It’s here! A couple of months ago, we announced that as part of our efforts with Ferrocene, we were creating the Ferrocene Language Specification – and now our first draft is online. The Ferrocene Language Specification (FLS) is an effort of Ferrocene
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Sorbet: Stripe's Type Checker for Ruby
Stripe uses Sorbet to type check our 15 million lines of Ruby code, making engineers more productive. Here's why we love Sorbet.
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Adversarial Collaboration
[EDITOR'S NOTE: In marking this year's 25th anniversary of Edge , we are presenting original lectures from eminent scientists and other thinkers in the empirical world who are changing the way we think about science and our place in the world.]
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Shopify invests in research for Ruby at scale
Shopify is investing on Ruby on Rails at scale by funding high-profile academics to focus their work towards Ruby and the needs of the Ruby community.
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A Closer Look at the Lapsus$ Data Extortion Group
Microsoft and identity management platform Okta both this week disclosed breaches involving LAPSUS$ , a relatively new cybercrime group that specializes in stealing data from big companies and threatening to publish it unless a ransom demand is paid. Here’s a closer look at LAPSUS$, and some of the low-tech but…
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Latin as she is spoke: How classicists tricked themselves (2019)
How Classicists tricked themselves into not learning Latin well.
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Zig-style generics are not well-suited for most languages
A discussion of some of the downsides of Zig
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Fuzzing rust-minidump for Embarrassment and Crashes – Part 2
For the last year, we've been working on the development of rust-minidump. The final part in this series takes you through fuzzing rust-minidump.
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Fetish tabooness vs. popularity
~250 fetishes, graphed for your pleasure