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From zero to main(): How to write a bootloader from scratch
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,277 posts.
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When Fonts Fall
A deep-dive into font fallback
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Benchmarking TensorFlow on Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090
We benchmarked the deep learning performance of the latest NVIDIA RTX 3090 GPU.
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The life and death of email read tracking
This week we sunsetted read tracking ability from Missive. Years ago, after receiving many requests to...
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Amazon One – Palm recognition for Amazon Go
We’re always looking for ways to make our customers’ lives better, and one area where we’ve spent time innovating is the customer shopping experience in stores. Today, our physical retail team is excited to introduce a new innovation called Amazon One.
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Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo
Google's search preference menu auction, as we predicted, has resulted in DuckDuckGo being eliminated, making it harder for people to get simple privacy.
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Nix × IPFS – Milestone 1
All the latest information about the IPFS Project in one place: blog posts, release notes, videos, news coverage, and more.
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ScummVM “Interactive Fantasy” 2.2.0 Sees the Light
A new release of ScummVM is ready. This is a thrilling one because we are embracing adventure games as far back as 1976! That’s right, the infamous Colossal Cave Adventure, the very first Interactive Fiction game, is now supported by ScummVM. Besi…
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China's social credit system is both unique and part of a global trend
China's Social Credit System is bad: It's both unique and part of a global trend. This should freak you out.
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Workers Durable Objects Beta: A New Approach to Stateful Serverless
Durable Objects provide a truly serverless approach to storage and state: consistent, low-latency, distributed, yet effortless to maintain and scale. They also enable coordination and real-time collaboration between clients.
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Alar: The making of an open-source dictionary
The story of a massive Kannada dictionary created by V. Krishna single handedly over four decades, and its accidental discovery and open sourcing at an unlikely place, a stock brokerage.
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Investigating TLS Blocking in India
We ran experimental TLS blocking measurements in India
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PyPy 7.3.2 triple release: Python 2.7, 3.6, and 3.7
The PyPy team is proud to release version 7.3.2 of PyPy, which includes three different interpreters: PyPy2.7, which is an interpreter su...
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The fresh smell of ransomed coffee
How a simple coffee maker became a cybersecurity nightmare
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Debian 10.6
[05 Dec 2020] Updated Debian 10: 10.7 released [26 Sep 2020] Updated Debian 10: 10.6 released [30 Aug 2020] DebConf20 online closes [01 Aug 2020] Updated Debian 10: 10.5 released [18 Jul 2020] Updated Debian 9: 9.13 released [09 Jul 2020] Debian 8 Long Term Support reaching end-of-life [16 Jun 2020] Ampere donates…
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On not choosing WordPress for the W3C redesign project
Explaining the background of our choice on CMS platform and the response to a recent WordPress Tavern post
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Ruby 3.0 Preview 1
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 3.0.0-preview1.
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Swift System Is Now Open Source
In June, Apple introduced Swift System, a new library for Apple platforms that provides idiomatic interfaces to system calls and low-level currency types. Today, I’m excited to announce that we’re open-sourcing System and adding Linux support! Our vision is for System to eventually act as the single home for low-level…
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Bringing the Mona Lisa Effect to Life with Tensorflow.js
Urban legend says that Mona Lisa's eyes will follow you as you move around the room. This interactive digital portrait brings the phenomenon to life..
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Using time travel to remotely debug faulty DRAM
The story of debugging a mysterious Julia segfault.
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China blocks Wikimedia Foundation’s accreditation to WIPO
China yesterday blocked the Wikimedia Foundation’s application for observer status at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations (UN) organization that develops international treaties on copyright, IP, trademarks, patents and related issues. As a result of the block, the Foundation’s…
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SaaS Financial Model
How to build a SaaS financial model you'll actually use: operating model, revenue forecast, hiring plan, scenarios, and forecast vs actuals.
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Calibre 5.0
calibre: The one stop solution for all your e-book needs. Comprehensive e-book software.