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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,277 posts.
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Research team discovers breakthrough with potential to reverse Alzheimer's
Wayne Chen's lab at UCalgary identifies a way to interrupt and prevent progression of devastating condition
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Mobilizon – A free, federated tool for events and groups
Mobilizon is our free-libre and federated tool to free events and groups from the clutches of Facebook. After two years of work, today we are releasing the first version of this software, along with a whole series of tools so that you can quickly get started. la version française originale de cet article est ici...
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AMD to Acquire Xilinx
A AMD oferece soluções de computação adaptativa e de alto desempenho de liderança para promover IA de data center, PCs com IA, dispositivos de borda inteligentes, jogos e muito mais.
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Spanish police plans to extend use of its lie-detector while efficacy is unclear
Veripol is a software that assesses the veracity of complaints filed with the Spanish national police. It was introduced in 2018, but it's unclear if it works as intended.
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Graphics in Qt 6.0: QRhi, Qt Quick, Qt Quick 3D
The state of Qt 6.0 graphics on Vulkan, OpenGL, Metal, Direct3D 11. Qt Quick API changes. Qt Quick 3D new features in Qt 6.
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Asking Microsoft to resign from the RIAA over YouTube-dl takedown demand
We learned on Friday that GitHub removed youtube-dl's primary collaboration forum and code repository from their site, which had been hosted at https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl. The action was in response to a DMCA Section 512 notice that the RIAA sent demanding removal of youtube-dl, which was released and…
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Restrict Access to your internal websites on AWS with BeyondCorp
Discover how BeyondCorp assists in securely restricting access to internal websites, ensuring organizational data remains protected.
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NYC taxi meter and options pricing
An experiment analyzing the NYC taxi dataset through the eyes of an options trader.
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How journalists use youtube-dl
The popular free software project “youtube-dl” was removed from Github on Friday following a legal notice from the Recording Industry Association of America claiming it violates copyright law. The tool is widely used by journalists for various reporting purposes.
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Fastly hires entire Wasmtime team from Mozilla
We announced the Bytecode Alliance nearly a year ago, and since then it has been… quite a year 😬
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ReactOS (Free and Open Source Windows): Jérôme Gardou hired to work full-time
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
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Improving Postgres Connection Scalability: Snapshots
Improving connection scalability in Postgres 14. From the neat to the gritty: snapshot scalability edition.
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Three open source Sonos projects: efficient embedded development in Rust
Read more about the unique combination of software and hardware that powers the Sonos ecosystem. Welcome to our technology blog.
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Porting Firecracker to a Raspberry Pi 4 (2019)
Since we got our hands on the new Raspberry Pi 4, we started exploring how various virtualization technologies behave on the board. First thing we tried is how to run Nabla on it and how it compares to native KVM. Next thing we wanted to try is firecracker, the notorious micro-VMM that Amazon Lambda & Fargate run…
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Anki as Learning Superpower: Computer Science Edition
Discover how Anki can enhance your memory and productivity in computer science and maths. Learn techniques from G-Research's expert insights.
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Rethinking Attention with Performers
Posted by Krzysztof Choromanski and Lucy Colwell, Research Scientists, Google Research Transformer models have achieved state-of-the-art results ac...
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Ungrammar
rust-analyzer is a new
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A one-line change decreased our build times by 99%
Urvashi Reddy | Software Engineer, Engineering Productivity Team Adam Berry | Tech Lead, Engineering Productivity Team Rui Li | Software…
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A conversation with Shel Kaphan, Amazon’s first employee (2016)
A conversation with Shel Kaphan, Amazon’s first employee. Employee #1 is a series of interviews focused on sharing the often untold stories of early employees at tech companies. Shel Kaphan was the first employee at Amazon. He is currently pursuing personal interests and still living in Seattle. Discussed: Getting…
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Language Design with Leo White
Listen in on Jane Street’s Ron Minsky as he has conversations with engineers working on everything from clock synchronization to reliable multicast, build systems to reconfigurable hardware. Get a peek at how Jane Street approaches problems, and how those ideas relate to tech more broadly.
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Lazard’s Levelized Cost of Energy+ (LCOE+)
Lazard’s Levelized Cost of Energy+ is a widely cited report that analyzes the cost competitiveness of renewables, energy storage, and system considerations.
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Technical Debt: Why it'll ruin your software
We think that Tech Debt is just lousy code written by reckless people. Here's a bigger picture view of what that really means in a Sustainable Software era.
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How has social mobility in the U.S. changed in recent decades?
Historic data suggests that the likelihood of outearning your parents has declined over recent decades - so is the American Dream becoming a nightmare?
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Node.js 15.0
This blog was written by Bethany Griggs, with additional contributions from the Node.js Technical Steering Committee.
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Fighting Rust's Expressive Type System
Herein I share an experienced developer's first foray into a real-world Rust project. It focuses closely on the type system, and the key insights I needed to begin "thinking in Rust". Written for those getting to grips with the language, it will be especially useful if your background isn't functional programming.
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Egypt Blocks Access to Telegram
Technology and Law Community "Masaar” documented the blocking of the Telegram website and application by the Egyptian authorities on 22 October 2020. The authorities blocked Telegram on three of the Internet service networks operating in Egypt. These networks included “We”, “Vodafone” and “Orange”. Masaar learned…