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Migrating Pinterest profiles to React
Building the platform where people around the world come to search, save and shop
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,107 posts.
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Signs that a startup is focused on stuff that doesn’t matter
Groove is now Helply!
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You can’t fix diversity in tech without fixing the technical interview
Hiring is broken. A brief history of technical interviewing, look at where things standa today, and what can be done.
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Signal and Giphy
The latest Signal release for Android includes support for GIF search and browsing. Signal has long supported sending and receiving GIFs, but this is an experiment that allows users to browse, search, and select popular GIFs from within Signal.
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Tor Browser User Manual
The community team is excited to announce the new Tor Browser User Manual! The manual is...
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Does your mind jump around, stay on task or get stuck?
Analysis of mind-wandering studies offers new perspective on mental disorders
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Async/await support in Firefox
Support for async/await has been added in the Nightly build from the 31st of October (bug #1185106). Great stuff! Time to start removing those JavaScript transpilers from your experimental projects, ...
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Keep Ruby Weird Again [video]
The video depicts known JavaScript agitant Justin Searls, who spoke for approximately 27 minutes at RubyConf 2016 with a message that advocated restoring Ruby to its former prominence in the open source software community.
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HTML 5.1 is a W3C Recommendation
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.
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Last minute tips for YC Interviewees
Essays, investment announcements and news from the Initialized team and the founders we back.
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Instapaper Premium is now free for everyone
Edit: This post was created 2016 shortly after Instapaper was purchased by Pinterest. As part of the acquisition, Pinterest decided to make Instapaper Premium free for everyone. In 2018, Instapaper was spun out into an independent company run by the same people who managed it since 2013. As part of the spinout, we…
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Announcing RStudio v1.0
Today we’re very pleased to announce the availability of RStudio Version 1.0! Version 1.0 is our 10th major release since the initial launch in February 2011 (see the full release history below), and our biggest ever! Highlights include:
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Launching Our Crowdfunding Campaign
Today we kicked off our first crowdfunding campaign with the goal of raising enough funds to cover about one month of our operations - $200,000. That amount covers the operational and engineering staff, the hardware and the software, and general operating expenses needed to securely and reliably issue and manage many…
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Windows file system compression had to be dumbed down
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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The Mirai Botnet Is Proof the Security Industry Is Broken
Appcanary makes sure you never run vulnerable software on your servers. Like our blog? Subscribe to our newsletter or podcast . Browse the archive , or follow us on twitter , github or rss .
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This Summer in Redox: A Complete Rewrite of the Kernel
The Redox official website
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Wordpress on AWS: smooth and pain free
I’m not a fan of WordPress, as it is neither cloud-ready nor serverless. That’s why this blog runs on CloudFront and S3 and i...
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Bandwidth Costs Around the World
CloudFlare protects over 4 million Internet properties using our global network which spans 86 cities across 45 countries. Running this network give us a unique vantage point to track the evolving cost of bandwidth around the world.
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Disclosing vulnerabilities to protect users
Posted by Neel Mehta and Billy Leonard, Threat Analysis Group On Friday, October 21st, we reported 0-day vulnerabilities — previously publi...
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Votes could be counted as fractions instead of as whole numbers
This report summarizes the results of our review of the GEMS election management system, which counts approximately 25 percent of all votes in the United States. The results of this study demonstrate that a fractional vote feature is embedded in each GEMS application which can be used to invisibly, yet radically…
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Service discovery at Stripe
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
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How ReadMe Went from SaaS to On-Premises in Less Than One Week
Discover the tech stack used by ReadMe.io. Explore 6 tools across 2 categories.