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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,089 posts.
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TimescaleDB vs. InfluxDB: built differently for time-series data
Get an in-depth look at how two leading time-series databases stack up. We compare data models, query language, reliability, performance, and more.
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The easiest way to keep your web apps accessible: Just use text
The easiest way to keep your web apps accessible: Just use text The web is no longer just a collection of […]
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Exploring Error Handling Patterns in Go
One such topic that has challenged my own conceptions is how errors are handled in Go. To recap:
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Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
Folks who do systems analysis have a great belief in “leverage points.” These are places within a complex system (a corporation, an economy, a living body, a city, an ecosystem) where a small shift in one thing can produce big changes in everything.
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SQLite Release 3.25.0 adds support for window functions
A complete list of SQLite releases in a single page and a chronology are both also available. A detailed history of every check-in is available at SQLite version control site .
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YC China and Qi Lu
Edit: Read this update [https://blog.ycombinator.com/an-update-on-yc-china/] on YC China. I am delighted to announce that Qi Lu [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSydk0XzxEE] is joining YC to launch and run YC China. I have been trying to recruit Qi for many years—he is one of the most impressive technologists I know…
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Duke Team Finds Missing Immune Cells That Could Fight Lethal Brain Tumors
DURHAM, N.C. -- Glioblastoma brain tumors can have an unusual effect on the body’s immune system, often causing a dramatic drop in the number of circulating T-cells that help drive the body’s defenses. Where the T-cells go has been unclear, even as immunotherapies are increasingly employed to stimulate the body’s…
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Understanding L1 Terminal Fault aka Foreshadow: What You Need to Know
L1 Terminal Fault/Foreshadow explained in ~three minutesFor a more detailed technical view of L1 Terminal Fault, please see this deeper dive with Jon Masters.How we got here: a brief history of modern microprocessor cachesModern computer microprocessors are complex machines, filled with many optimizations designed to…
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The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville (1984)
Columbia Business School. For over 100 years, we’ve helped develop leaders who create value for business and society at large.
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MIT mathematicians solve age-old spaghetti mystery
Researchers have long have puzzled over why it’s so hard to break a piece of dry spaghetti into only two pieces. A new MIT study follows up on the musings of physicist Richard Feynman, showing how and why it can be done.
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LaTeX TikZ for Cryptographers
LaTeX Code for Cryptographic Images.
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Faxploit: Sending Fax Back to the Dark Ages
Research By: Eyal Itkin, Yannay Livneh and Yaniv Balmas Fax, the brilliant technology that lifted mankind out the dark ages of mail delivery when only the postal service and carrier pigeons were used to deliver a physical message from a sender to a receiver. Technology wise, however, that was a long time ago. Today […]
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Crystal 0.26.0 released
Crystal 0.26.0 has been released!
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Shrinking Machine Learning Models for Offline Use
Get the latest news and features about smart home, Alexa Built-in, and Alexa Gadgets.
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Climate change
WHO fact sheet on climate change and health: provides key facts, patterns of infection, measuring health effects and WHO response.
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Myth Debugging: Is the Wii More Demanding to Emulate Than the GameCube?
On the Dolphin Forums, one of the more common questions that come up is "How come I can emulate this Wii game just fine but this GameCube game is slow?" While those more knowledgeable about the intricacies of emulation may roll their eyes, it does warrant some explanation. Usually when...
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Google Public DNS turns 8.8.8.8 years old
Posted by Alexander Dupuy, Software Engineer Once upon a time, we launched Google Public DNS , which you might know by its iconic IP addre...
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Worst Computer Bugs in History: Therac-25 (2017)
The Worst Computer Bugs in History is a mini series to commemorate the discovery of the first computer bug seventy years ago. Although these stories are more extreme than most software bugs engineers will encounter during their careers, they are worth studying for the insights they can offer into software development…
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VuePress: a static site generator that excels at working with documentation
TinaCMS is the successor to Forestry.io, now maintained by SSW. Migrate your Forestry site to Tina with our step-by-step guide and enjoy enhanced visual editing features.
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Practical Web Cache Poisoning
In this paper I'll show you how to compromise websites by using esoteric web features to turn their caches into exploit delivery systems
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Portability benchmark of Dota2 on MacOS
gfx-rs is a project bringing efficient cross-platform graphics to rust. This blog supposedly hosts the major milestones, concepts, and recaps of the project.
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What the interns have wrought, 2018 edition
Yet again, intern season is coming to a close, and so it’s time to look back at what the interns have achieved in their short time with us. I’m always impres...