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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,323 posts.
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OpenBSD: How it all started
OpenBSD remains a crucial yet largely unacknowledged player in the open-source field.
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Drug decriminalisation in Portugal: setting the record straight.
This briefing updates our 2016 report on Portugal's groundbreaking reforms, and marks the 20th anniversary of their introduction.
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Swift Distributed Actors
We’re thrilled to announce a new open-source package for the Swift on Server ecosystem, Swift Distributed Actors, a complete server-oriented cluster library for the upcoming distributed actor language feature!
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Why are our brains shrinking?
As promised, here is the first post in our “The Student of Life” series. This essay, focusing on the fascinating subject of the shrinkage of our brain over the last 70,000 years, was masterfully penned by USF student Savannah Robison during the Fall 2017 semester of BIOL100. It is a wonderful example of student…
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Open-Source Babelfish for Postgres
Babelfish for PostgreSQL is an Apache-2.0 and PostgreSQL open source project that adds a Microsoft SQL Server-compatible end-point to PostgreSQL to enable your PostgreSQL database to understand the SQL Server wire protocol and commonly used SQL Server commands.
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Meta: A Social Technology Company
CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta, a new company brand for Facebook apps and technologies.
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Poor parents receiving universal payments increase spending on kids
When given cash with no strings attached, low- and middle-income parents increased their spending on their children, according to a WSU study of Alaska Permanent Fund payments.
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I was rejected by Codecademy three times, so I built my own
Learn to code with AI-powered tutorials from Codeamigo.
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Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction
Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction (PSSD) is a condition in which sexual function does not return to normal after the use of SSRIs and related antidepressants.
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Blender 3.x roadmap
Ton Roosendaal shares on what's next after Blender 3.0 and beyond.
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Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W
Announcing the successor to the groundbreaking Raspberry Pi Zero: the $15 Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, built around our own RP3A0 System-in-Package
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How Microsoft reduced Windows 11 update size by 40%
Reducing update size is important to you, and to us. Explore the techniques we used in Windows 11.
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Closing email with “thanks” gets the most replies
When you’re drafting an email, ending it is the easiest part. Whether you sign-off with “Warmest Regards,” “Thanks,” or “Keep On Keepin’ On,” it only takes a second, and you probably don’t give it a second thought. Do email closings even matter? And if so, is “best” really best? We looked at closings in over 350,000…
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Go fonts - The Go Programming Language
Announcing the Go font family, by Bigelow & Holmes.
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Paxos automatically determined safe and secure
In an important step toward ensuring the protocols that dictate how our networked services operate are safe, secure and running as expected, University of Michigan researchers have automated a technique called formal verification. Their system proves, without any human effort, that one of the mos
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Kicad 6: new feature review for open source EDA tool
In this article, I document many of the most important changes that the KiCad developers have introduced to KiCad 6, including numerous "under the hood" improvements, and new productivity features in the front end.
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My 10 Year Side Project Story
Dateful Time Zone Converter converts times instantly as you type. Convert between major world cities, countries and timezones in both directions.
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Microsoft has detected nation-state activity associated with NOBELIUM
The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has detected nation-state activity associated with the threat actor tracked as NOBELIUM, attempting to gain access to downstream customers of multiple cloud service providers (CSP), managed service providers (MSP), and other IT services organizations.
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Building a recommendation engine inside Postgres with Python and Pandas (2020)
Learn how you can leverage Python and Pandas from directly inside PostgreSQL to build your own recommendation engine.
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Get AWS costs posted directly to Slack
Vantage users can now add a Slack webhook to their Vantage account and receive daily, weekly or monthly reports of their cloud costs in their team's Slack channels.
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We need new data books, so we published one
A site around enabling companies and knowledge workers to be informed and enabled with the data they need for their work.
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Postgres audit tables saved us from taking down production
Learn how audit tables helped us avoid a serious incident, and how you can create audit tables in your own Postgres databases.
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Next.js 12
Next.js 12 introduces a brand-new Rust compiler, Middleware (beta), React 18 Support, Native ESM Support, URL Imports, React Server Components (alpha), and more!
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How we built a serverless SQL database
CockroachDB serverless is the first truly scalable serverless SQL database. Learn how it works and how a serverless sql database can relieve the operational burden of developers.
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Photoshop’s journey to the web
Over the last three years, Chrome has been working to empower web applications that want to push the boundaries of what's possible in the browser. One such web application has been Photoshop. The idea of running software as complex as Photoshop directly in the browser would have been hard to imagine just a few…