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How Google handles JavaScript throughout the indexing process
Over the years, Google's treatment of JavaScript has changed, leaving us with misconceptions of how it's indexed. Here, we debunk the myths.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 31,673 posts.
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This month in Servo: console logging, parallel tables, OpenXR, and more
Servo’s unique parallel layout engine just got even better.
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Using the term 'AI' in product descriptions reduces purchase intentions
Companies may unintentionally hurt their sales by including the words “artificial intelligence” when describing their offerings that use the technology, according to a study led by WSU researchers.
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Call of Duty: Warzone Caldera Data Set for Academic Use
Access Call of Duty: Warzone Caldera OpenUSD Data Set
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Our audit of Homebrew
This is a joint post with the Homebrew maintainers; read their announcement here! Last summer, we performed an audit of Homebrew. Our audit’s scope included Homebrew/brew itself (home of the brew CLI), and three adjacent repositories responsible for various security-relevant aspects of Homebrew’s operation…
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How the electricity markets respond to a nuclear trip
Looking at the data of how ERCOT maintains grid stability when a nuclear plant unexpectedly goes offline.
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Swift Homomorphic Encryption
We’re excited to announce a new open source Swift package for homomorphic encryption in Swift: swift-homomorphic-encryption.
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Making Machines Move
Gather round the fire to hear the tale of how we built migration for stateful apps on a global public cloud without building a SAN.
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Butterflies accumulate static electricity to attract pollen without contact
Butterflies and moths collect so much static electricity whilst in flight, that pollen grains from flowers can be pulled by static electricity across air gaps of several millimetres or centimetres.
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If we want a shift to walking, we need to prioritize dignity
Why does walking feel so intuitive when we’re in a city built before cars, yet as soon as we return home, walking feels like an unpleasant chore that immediately drives us into a car?
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DigiCert Revocation Incident (CNAME Domain Validation)
DigiCert will be revoking certificates that did not have proper Domain Control Verification (DCV). Before issuing a certificate to a customer, DigiCert validates the customer’s control or ownership over the domain name for which they are requesting a certificate using one of several methods approved by the CA/Browser…
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One-man SaaS, 9 Years In
Healthchecks.io launched in July 2015, which means this year we turn 9. Time flies! Previous status updates: In 2018, My One-person SaaS Side Project Celebrates its Third Birthday In 2021, Healthchecks Turns 6, Status Update Money Healthchecks.io currently has 652 paying customers, and the monthly recurring revenue is…
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Amazon's exabyte-scale migration from Apache Spark to Ray on EC2
Large-scale, distributed compute framework migrations are not for the faint of heart. There are backwards-compatibility constraints to maintain, performance expectations to meet, scalability limits to overcome, and the omnipresent risk of introducing breaking changes to production. This all becomes especially…
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Attribution is dying, clicks are dying
Welcome to another edition of 5-Minute Whiteboards. And folks, we've got a doozy of a topic. Yes, I'm being intentionally provocative. But it's because
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Do Penguins Have Knees? (2019)
What is the penguin’s skeleton truly made of? Do penguins actually have knees? Why do penguins walk that way. Find out here!
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New study simulates gravitational waves from failing warp drive
Warp drives are staples of science fiction, and in principle could propel spaceships faster than the speed of light. However, there are many problems with constructing them in practice, such as the requirement for an exotic type of matter with negative energy. Nevertheless, physicists have been exploring the…
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Movable tree CRDTs and Loro's implementation
This article introduces the implementation difficulties and challenges of Movable Tree CRDTs when collaboration, and how Loro implements it and sorts child nodes. The algorithm has high performance and can be used in production.
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Microsoft technical breakdown of CrowdStrike incident
We examine the recent CrowdStrike outage and provide a technical overview of the root cause.
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The US fiscal mess: Some unpleasant fiscal simulations
Based on recent projections, the US federal debt is expected to grow to historic highs over the next decade. This column uses the FRB-US model to simulate fiscal scenarios for the US. Across all fiscal consolidations considered, the debt/GDP ratio and interest bill increase at least until 2026-2027. Growth is not a…
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The New Internet
Tailscale's CEO, Avery Pennarun, explores the future of the internet, discussing the evolution of networking, the issues with today's complex systems, and how Tailscale is simplifying connectivity for developers with a new, more efficient approach. Discover the vision for a New Internet.
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Zulip 9.0: Organized chat for distributed teams
We’re excited to announce the release of Zulip Server 9.0, containing hundreds of new features and bug fixes! Zulip is an open-source team chat application designed for seamless remote and hybrid work. With conversations organized by topic, Zulip is ideal for both live and asynchronous communication. …
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AI crawlers need to be more respectful
We talk a bit about the AI crawler abuse we are seeing at Read the Docs, and warn that this behavior is not sustainable.
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SearchGPT Prototype
We’re testing SearchGPT, a temporary prototype of new search features that give you fast and timely answers with clear and relevant sources.
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Unfashionably secure: why we use isolated VMs
Why we use isolated VMs as a hard security boundary.
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AI solves International Math Olympiad problems at silver medal level
Breakthrough models AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 solve advanced reasoning problems in mathematics
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Apple Maps on the web launches in beta
Apple Maps on the web is available in public beta, allowing users around the world to access Maps directly from their browser.
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X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm
X (fka Twitter) has quietly redesigned its 🔫 Water Pistol emoji to display as a firearm. This diverges from the cross-platform conversion of this emoji from firearm to water pistol from 2016 to 2018.