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Taking Children Seriously
Read Elliot Temple's essay about Taking Children Seriously.
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 822 posts.
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Docker Enterprise Edition
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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Designing a Tree Diff Algorithm Using Dynamic Programming and A*
During my internship at Jane Street 1 , one of my projects was a config editing tool that at first sounded straightforward but culminated in me designing a custom tree diffing algorithm using dynamic programming, relentlessly optimizing it and then transforming it into an A* accelerated path finding algorithm. This…
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IPv6 Support for AWS Extended to 15 Regions
We’ve been working to add IPv6 support to many different parts of AWS over the last couple of years, starting with Elastic Load Balancing, AWS IoT Core, AWS Direct Connect, Amazon Route 53, Amazon CloudFront, AWS WAF, and S3 Transfer Acceleration, all building up to last month’s announcement of IPv6 support for EC2…
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We will no longer use the phrase “zero knowledge” to describe our software
Space Cybersecurity has become a prominent topic in the news, particularly when it comes to protecting space-related assets and technologies.
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Literate SQL
Complex queries are hard to read. Literate SQL is about writing queries that are as easy to read as a good novel.
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Scaling Postgres with Read Replicas and Using WAL to Counter Stale Reads
Scaling out operation with read replicas and avoiding the downside of stale reads by observing replication progress.
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Tor's Fall Harvest: The Next Generation of Onion Services
We are hyped to present the next generation of onion services! We've been working on this project non-stop for the past 4 years and we officially launched it two weeks ago by publishing our first alpha releases. All in all, the new system is a well needed improvement that fixes many shortcomings of the old design, and…
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Introducing WAL-G: Faster Disaster Recovery for Postgres
A key part of running a reliable database as a service is ensuring you have a good plan for disaster recovery. This post introduces WAL-G, the successor to WAL-E for Postgres, a complete rewrite of WAL-E that provides the same functionality plus 4x faster restores on recovery.
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Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. (2007)
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
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Can You Afford It? Real-World Web Performance Budgets
Performance budgets are an essential but under-appreciated part of product success and team health. Most partners we work with are not aware of the real-world operating environment and make inappropriate technology choices as a result. We set a time budget of less than 5 seconds first-load Time-to-Interactive and less…
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Why many developers still prefer Objective-C to Swift
Lack of ABI stability, slow compile times, poor Xcode support, and more hold Swift back
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Key differences between Python 2.7.x and Python 3.x (2014)
Many beginning Python users are wondering with which version of Python they should start. My answer to this question is usually something along the lines…
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The blockchain paradox: Why DLTs may do little to transform the economy
Vili Lehdonvirta is an expert on the politics and economics of digital platforms. His current research focuses on the geopolitics and geoeconomics of digital infrastructures.
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Moby: An open-source project to advance containerization
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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Cartography Comparison: Google Maps and Apple Maps
Google Maps and Apple Maps . At first glance, the columns below look very similar...
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Modernizing the DOM Tree in Microsoft Edge
The DOM is the foundation of the web platform programming model, and its design and performance impacts the rest of the browser pipeline. However, its history and evolution is far from a simple story. Over the past three years, we’ve embarked on an in-flight refactoring of the DOM in Microsoft Edge, with our eye on
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WebAssembly: A New Hope
What is WebAssembly, and what does it mean for the web?
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Rapid DHCP: Or, how do Macs get on the network so fast? (2011)
One of life's minor annoyances is having to wait on my devices to connect to the network after I wake them from sleep. All too often, I'll open the lid on my …
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Dutch Data Protection Authority: Microsoft breaches law with Windows 10
Met deze test controleren we of u een mens bent. Hiermee voorkomen we ongeoorloofd gebruik van deze dienst.
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Naval Ravikant on Reading, Happiness, Decision Making, Habits [audio]
In his most in-depth interview, Naval Ravikant discusses reading, happiness, decision making, habits, the meaning of life, and Mental Models.
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New Ubuntu-based Precision line-up
Update: Precision 7520 and 7720 available as of March 28; Dell Precision 5720, a 27” All-in-One available as of April 18. Today I am excited to announce the next generation of our Ubuntu-based Pre…
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Fixing the MacBook Pro
Despite my love for the previous Retina MacBook Pro , I won’t be able to use it forever. The best laptop to ever exist should be in the future, not the past.