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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,293 posts.
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Gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger observed by LIGO and Virgo
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo collaboration report the first joint detection of gravitational waves with both the LIGO and Virgo detectors. This is the fourth announced detection of a binary black hole system and the first significant gravitational-wave signal recorded by the Virgo detector, and…
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Real-Time Recognition of Handwritten Chinese Characters
Handwriting recognition is more important than ever given the prevalence of mobile phones, tablets, and wearable gear like smartwatches. The…
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Interview with Mr. Money Mustache
Pete Adeney, more commonly known as Mr. Money Mustache [https://twitter.com/mrmoneymustache], retired at 30 after working as a software engineer for about ten years. He blogs at MrMoneyMustache.com [http://MrMoneyMustache.com] about how he saved money, where he invested it, and how he achieved “financial freedom…
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Blockchain Basics
The SitePen blog gives educational tips for solving big business problems and achieving technical objectives.
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Cloudflare Stream – Combines video encoding, global delivery, and player
Cloudflare turns seven years old today. We launched on September 27, 2010. It was only a few days after our launch that we got our first request to support video streaming. Yet, until today, we'd avoided it.
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Open-Sourcing Vespa, Yahoo’s Data Processing and Serving Engine
Yahoo, the trusted guide for millions globally with iconic products for 30+ years—offers advertisers omnichannel solutions and powerful data to deliver results.
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American Red Cross Asks for Ham Radio Operators for Puerto Rico Relief Effort
The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the national association for amateur radio, connecting hams around the U.S. with news, information and resources.
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A bizarre “403 Forbidden” bug-hunting adventure
I've been trying to figure out a strange bug in Exist for iOS over the past couple of months, and finally managed to fix it yesterday. Without Josh 's help I would still be scratching my head over this bizarre issue.
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The Difficulty Of Private Contact Discovery
Building a social network is not easy. Social networks have value proportional to their size, so participants aren’t motivated to join new social networks which aren’t already large. It’s a paradox where if people haven’t already joined, people aren’t motivated to join. The trouble is that whi...
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Extending per-second billing in Google Cloud
We are pleased to announce that we’re extending per-second billing, with a one minute minimum, to Compute Engine, Container Engine, Cloud Dataproc, and App Engine flexible environment VMs. These changes are effective today and are applicable to all VMs, including Preemptible VMs and VMs running our premium operating…
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AWS Pinpoint Launches Two-Way Text Messaging
Last week Amazon Pinpoint launched AWS Global SMS two-way text messaging and we didn’t get an opportunity to cover the launch. AWS Pinpoint users can now programmaticaly respond to their end-users’ text messages. Users can provision both short codes and long codes (10-digit phone numbers) which send inbound messages…
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Build a web service with F# and .NET Core 2.0
Earlier this year, I wrote about an update to the roadmap for F# and .NET Core. I had mentioned that there were a number of things you could build with F# and .NET Core today, such as web services. In this post, I’ll walk through building a web service with F# and .NET Core 2.0 […]
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Technology preview: Private contact discovery for Signal
At Signal, we’ve been thinking about the difficulty of private contact discovery for a long time. We’ve been working on strategies to improve our current design, and today we’ve published a new private contact discovery service. Using this service, Signal clients will be able to efficiently and s...
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React 16: A look inside an API-compatible rewrite of our front end UI library
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The fastest Firefox ever with Photon UI and better tooling
Firefox Quantum is now available in Developer Edition, and this Firefox is fast. Today’s release is a major milestone towards our next-generation browser, and includes Quantum CSS, Firefox's new CSS ...
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Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition
Engines are important, both in cars and in browsers. That’s why we’re so revved up this morning – we’re releasing the Beta of a whole new Firefox,
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Godot 3's renderer design
Godot uses a considerably different approach to rendering (and rendering abstraction) than other, popular, game engines. The motivation behind it was not to achieve the maximum performance in extreme use cases, but accomodate better to most user's needs.
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Why SQL is beating NoSQL, and what this means for the future of data
After being left for dead, SQL is making a comeback and the NoSQL vs. SQL debate is stronger than ever. Why? And how will it impact the data community?
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Announcing tools for the AI-driven digital transformation
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as one of the most disruptive forces behind the digital transformation of business. Today, at Microsoft Ignite 2017, as we engage in conversations about digital transformation with over 25,000 customers and partners, I am pleased to share some of our latest and most exciting…
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Intel Introduces Neuromorphic Test Chip
Intel Newsroom delivers the latest news, announcements, and updates. Stay informed on Intel innovations.
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Bjarne Stroustrup Awarded 2017 Faraday Medal
For significant contributions to the history of computing, in particular pioneering the C++ programming language, Bjarne Stroustrup has been named … <a href="https://www.cs.columbia.edu/2017/bjarne-stroustrup-awarded-2017-faraday-medal/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Bjarne…
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Request for Education Startups
At YC, we’re deeply interested in education because of its power to transform lives and societies and to maximize human potential. On a micro level, we believe technology can help reverse the trend in K-12 of spending more and more money to achieve the same learning outcomes. We believe tech can also create…