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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,293 posts.
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Firefox Multi-Account Containers
Our new Multi-Account Containers extension for Firefox means you can finally wrangle multiple email/social accounts. Maybe you’ve got two Gmail or Instag
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Long-range communication with devices that consume almost no power
UW researchers have demonstrated for the first time that devices that run on almost zero power can transmit data across distances of up to 2.8 kilometers — brea
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Leave your OS at home: the rise of library operating systems
The efficiency of Operating Systems (OSes) has always been in the spotlight of systems researchers, ever since the seminal Dijkstra’s THE multiprogramming system in early 60s. But the reason …
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InfluxDB now supports Prometheus remote reads and writes natively
We were inspired after Paul Dix, Co-Founder and CTO of InfluxData spoke at PromCon and received interest in more integration between Prometheus and InfluxDB. We are excited to introduce InfluxDB Prometheus Interoperability - InfluxDB 1.4, which now sup...
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Managed SSL for Google App Engine
We’re excited to announce the beta release of managed SSL certificates at no charge for applications built on Google App Engine . This service automatically encrypts server-to-client communication — an essential part of safeguarding sensitive information over the web. Manually managing SSL certificates to ensure a…
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Why Is Python Growing So Quickly?
We recently showed that, based on Stack Overflow question visits, Python has a claim to being the fastest-growing major programming language, and that it has become the most visited tag on Stack Overflow within high-income countries .
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Building the DOM faster: speculative parsing, async, defer and preload
In 2017, the toolbox for making sure your web page loads fast includes everything from minification and asset optimization to caching, CDNs, code splitting and tree shaking. Understanding what goes ...
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How to Live Without Google
Minimize Google's invasive tracking with these alternatives for search, email, chat, and more.
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What is the current poverty rate in the United States?
Current estimates on poverty in the U.S.
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Verified cryptography for Firefox 57
Traditionally, software is produced in this way: write some code, maybe do some code review, run unit-tests, and then hope it is correct. Hard experience shows that it is very ...
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Why category theory matters in programming
Divide and conquer has been a core strategy in software engineering. We decompose our systems into smaller modules with focused, simple…
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EFF, ACLU Sue Over Warrantless Phone, Laptop Searches at U.S. Border
Boston, Massachusetts—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today on behalf of 11 travelers whose smartphones and laptops were searched without warrants at the U.S. border. The plaintiffs in the case are...
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ACLU and EFF Sue Over Warrantless Phone and Laptop Searches at U.S. Border
Lawsuit on Behalf of 11 Travelers Challenges Searches of Electronic Devices as Unconstitutional
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Trello Desktop for Mac and Windows: Get More Done Without Distractions
The official Trello for Desktop App is here! The app is free for all users and is available on Mac and Windows. New features include custom shortcuts and more!
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How JavaScript works: memory management and common memory leaks
PlaybookUX is an all-in-one software that allows you to recruit, conduct and analyze both qualitative and quantitative research, enhanced by AI.
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Sublime Text 3.0
Compared to the last beta, 3.0 brings a refreshed UI theme, new color schemes, and a new icon. Some of the other highlights are big syntax highlighting improvements, touch input support on Windows, Touch Bar support on macOS, and apt/yum/pacman repositories for Linux.
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Experimenting with WebAssembly and Computer Vision
This past summer, four students at a coding bootcamp in Los Angeles began experimenting with WebAssembly. The result, after six weeks of exploration, was WebSight: a real-time face detection demo ...
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Blender 2.79 released
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
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Connecting a Git Repository to Amazon S3 and AWS Services
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Connect Your Git Repository to Amazon S3 and AWS Services Using Webhooks and New Quick Start
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