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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,089 posts.
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A friendly guide to colours in data visualisation
A collection of tools that help you deal with color gradients & color palettes, to design better data visualizations.
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Atom 1.29
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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Introducing the Dweb
This is the first post in a series about the distributed/decentralized web, introducing projects that cover social communication, online identity, file sharing, new economic models, as well as high-level application ...
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Apple Reports Third Quarter Results
Apple reported its third quarter financial results for the fiscal year after the market close on Tuesday, July 31, 2018.
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Better slow than sorry – VirtualBox 3D acceleration considered harmful
The 3 - d acceleration feature of VirtualBox has had a bit of a rough time this year . One could argue that technically this component might not be considered attack surface in VirtualBox, due to the big warning put out in the documentation recommending against its use (emphasis mine):
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Removing Bad Actors on Facebook
We removed 32 Pages and accounts from Facebook and Instagram because they were involved in coordinated inauthentic behavior.
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How we scaled Nginx
10 million websites, apps and APIs use Cloudflare to give their users a speed boost. At peak we serve more than 10 million requests a second across our 151 data centers. Over the years we’ve made many modifications to our version of NGINX to handle our growth. This is blog post is about one of them.
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Krita in the Windows Store: an update
Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
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Why the New V8 Is So Damn Fast
The entire V8 compiler pipeline was overhauled and shipped with Node.js version 8. This post investigates what speed improvements we can expect as a result.
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Evolving the Firefox Brand
Say “Firefox” and most people think of a web browser on their laptop or phone, period. TL;DR, there’s more to the story now, and our branding needs to evolve. With ...
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BitTorrent Is Now Part of TRON
We are excited to announce that TRON has officially closed its acquisition of BitTorrent. BitTorrent has more than 100 million active users worldwide, and has one of the top-rated apps on Google Play and other products, including BitTorrent Play (iOS), uTorrent Web, and desktop clients for PC and Mac. BitTorrent will…
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Announcing TypeScript 3.0
TypeScript 3.0 is here! Today marks a new milestone in the TypeScript journey, serving JavaScript users everywhere.If you're unfamiliar with TypeScript,
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Learning Dexterity
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
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Security Begins at the Home Router
In recent days, the VPNFilter malware has attracted attention, much of it in the wake of a May 25 public service announcement from the FBI, as well as a number of announcements from vendors and security companies....
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Goodreads offloads DynamoDB tables to S3 and queries them with Athena
In this post, we show you how to export data from a DynamoDB table, convert it into a more efficient format with AWS Glue, and query the data with Athena. This approach gives you a way to pull insights from your data stored in DynamoDB.
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How F5Bot Slurps All of Reddit
Lewis Van Winkle, he creator of F5Bot—a free service that emails you when selected keywords are mention on Reddit, Hacker News, or Lobsters—explains in detail how it works, and how it's able to scrape million of Reddit comments per day.
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Java's Magic Sauce
Read Java blog posts to learn how to save on license fees, get better performance, use more secure Java, and optimize cloud costs.
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Transparent SLIs: See Google Cloud the way your application experiences it
By Jay Judkowitz, Sr. Product Manager Like all good IT organizations, you religiously measure the performance and availability of your ser...
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Thoughts On Machine Learning Accuracy
This blog shares some brief thoughts on machine learning accuracy and bias. Let’s start with some comments about a recent ACLU blog in which they ran a facial recognition trial. Using Rekognition, the ACLU built a face database using 25,000 publicly available arrest photos and then performed facial similarity searches…
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Hone your tone of voice: A linguistic perspective on how to talk to customers
Unbabel Resources: Discover all our translation-related content in one place. Explore articles, guides and tools to enhance your translation strategy.
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How to implement a basic ActivityPub server
Today we’ll be looking at how to connect the protocols powering Mastodon in the simplest way possible to enter the federated network. We will use static files, standard command-line tools, and some simple Ruby scripting, although the functionality should be easily adaptable to other programming languages. First…
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The Road to QUIC
QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections) is a new encrypted-by-default Internet transport protocol, that provides a number of improvements designed to accelerate HTTP traffic as well as make it more secure, with the intended goal of eventually replacing TCP and TLS on the web.