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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,293 posts.
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Flexbox and Grids: your layout’s best friends
We decided to debunk the myths around Flexbox & Grids in order to show you the power of these two technologies working together.
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Robot-assisted surgery associated with longer operating times, higher cost
A Stanford study of nearly 24,000 patients with kidney cancer concluded that robot-assisted laparoscopic surgeries are associated with increases in operating times and cost compared with conventional laparoscopic surgeries.
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What it means to be a Postgres extension
Because Citus is an extension to PostgreSQL and not a fork, the effort required to remain compatible with the latest versions of the open source PostgreSQL database has been dramatically reduced. After a new PostgreSQL version is released, Citus packages are often updated and in sync within days.
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The U.S Government Is Keeping a U.S Citizen Secretly Locked Up Without Charges
For nearly two months, the U.S. military has been detaining an American citizen at a secret jail in Iraq, denying him access to a lawyer and even refusing to release his name. The Trump administration is calling the citizen an “enemy combatant,” claiming he was fighting for ISIS in Syria, but it has not presented any…
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Funding Open Source: How Webpack Reached $400k+/year
Webpack’s Sean Larkin on growing the project’s budget with crowdfunding, sponsorships, grants, partnerships… and pure love.
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Internet Association Endorses Internet Censorship Bill
A trade group representing giants of Internet business from Facebook to Microsoft has just endorsed a “compromise” version of the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA), a bill that would be disastrous for free speech and online communities. Just a few hours after Senator Thune’s amended version...
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The Making of SciPy 1.0
SciPy—a NumFOCUS Affiliated Project —recently crossed a major milestone for any open source project: version 1.0! NumFOCUS extends our hearty congratulations to all of the SciPy contributors and community members who helped get the project to this point.
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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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Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
Apple reported its fourth quarter financial results for the fiscal year after the market close on Thursday, November 2, 2017.
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MySQL vs. MariaDB: Reality Check
Choosing between MariaDB and MySQL? In this blog, we provide an overview of the key differences between MariaDB vs. MySQL and explore their unique use cases.
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How Adversarial Attacks Work
Emil Mikhailov is the founder of XIX.ai [http://XIX.ai] (YC W17). Roman Trusov is a researcher at XIX.ai. Recent studies by Google Brain have shown that any machine learning classifier can be tricked to give incorrect predictions, and with a little bit of skill, you can get them to give pretty much any result you…
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The freakishly strong base
The earth used to be covered in ice.
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Yubico announces tiny, cheap YubiHSM 2
Learn more about what's happening within the tech and cybersecurity industry and the developments in our business and security keys within our Yubico Blog.
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Trusting transferred root certificates
Mozilla’s Root Store Program has taken the position that trust is not automatically transferable between organizations. This is specifically stated in section 8 of our Root Store Policy v2.5, which ...
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Blockchains Considered Harmful: Is Brute-Force Processing Replacing Good Design?
Emerging cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum have reached market capitalizations in the billions of U.S. dollars and transactions volumes in the hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars per …
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HAProxy 1.8
The monumental stable release of HAProxy 1.8 is here! The HAProxy 1.8 release candidate 1 (RC1) has been published by the R&D team here at HAProxy Technologies.
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We're switching to a DCO for source code contributions
We want to make it even easier for everyone to contribute, by doing away with our Contributor License Agreement in favor of the Developer's Certificate of Origin.