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New Features in Vue 3
The Vue.js Core team is bringing some exciting new features in Vue 3. Composition API, Fragments, Portals, and Suspense, to name a few.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,170 posts.
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Xfinity Is Man-in-the-Middle Attacking My Internet
Xfinity injected 581 lines of JavaScript into unencrypted traffic as a data-cap warning, creating MITM risks, accessibility failures, and slower loads.
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Internet
More than half of the world is online, but the Internet is still young.
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Why open hardware needs open software
As KiCad’s lead developer, Wayne, and his team have a big vision – to build a best-in-breed PCB design tool. It’s an ambitious goal for an open-source project whose commercial counterparts have seen millions in investment. But KiCad is well on that path. An ever-increasing number of designers now use the PCB design…
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Biology Is Eating the World
We are at the beginning of a new era, where biology has shifted from an empirical science to an engineering discipline. After a millennia of using man-made approaches for controlling or manipulating biology, we have finally begun using nature’s own machinery—through biological engineering—to design, scale, and…
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Evaluating Bazel for building Firefox
After the Whistler All-Hands this past summer, I started seriously looking at whether Firefox should switch to using Bazel for its build system.
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Offline-Pedia converts old televisions into Wikipedia readers (2018)
There are villages in the Ecuadorian Andes that are so small you cannot find them on a map. Cajas Juridica is one such place, located just 13km north of the equator. But two engineering students, Joshua Salazar and Jorge Vega, and the staff of Yachay Tech University have figured out a way to give discarded….
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How Figma's Multiplayer Technology Works
A peek into the homegrown solution we built as the first design tool with live collaborative editing.
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Sourcehut Q3 2019 Financial Report
sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.
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High-Performance GPU Computing in the Julia Programming Language (2017)
Julia is a high-level programming language for mathematical computing that is as easy to use as Python, but as fast as C. The language has been created with performance in mind…
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Deepstream 5.0: Resurrected using MIT license
A realtime server for the modern web
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Isolation, anxiety, and depression in the remote workplace
Productivity inspiration and tactical advice that's actually useful.
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7M Adobe Creative Cloud Accounts Exposed to the Public
A data exposure of 7 million Adobe Creative Cloud account records could put users at risk of targeted phishing.
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Tor Browser 9.0
We want everyone in the world to be able to enjoy the privacy and freedom online Tor provides, and that's why over the past couple years, we've been working hard to boost our UX and localization efforts, with the biggest gains first visible in Tor Browser 8.0. In Tor Browser 9.0, we continue to build upon those…
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Patents are about sharing information – don't shroud them in secrecy
Patents give their owners the power to stop people (and companies) from doing whatever the patent claims as an “invention” for twenty years. But that power doesn’t come for free: it’s a trade. In exchange for the right to sue others to stop using the invention, patent applicants have to disclose...
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Commas in big numbers everywhere: An OpenType adventure
My job involves a lot of staring at large numbers, mostly latencies in nanoseconds, and picking out magnitudes like microseconds. I noticed myself constantly...
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Don Valentine has died
We help the daring build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond.
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Using Deep Learning to Predict the Olfactory Properties of Molecules
Posted by Alexander B Wiltschko, Senior Research Scientist, Google Research Smell is a sense shared by an incredible range of living organisms, a...
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Beating C with Futhark Running on GPU
A high-performance and high-level purely functional data-parallel array programming language that can execute on the GPU and CPU.
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Applying BERT models to Search
How new advances in the science of language understanding will help you find more useful information in Search.
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Blurring the Line Between User and Programmer
“The world’s been divided into people who can make software, and the people who use software all day, and basically we think that that paradigm is not a good one. It feels kind of broken,” says Lane Shackleton, Head of Product at Coda, where they are building a new kind of document that blurs the line between users…