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Databases in 2022: A Year in Review
Andy Pavlo - Carnegie Mellon University,
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 31,678 posts.
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Unearthing a long-ignored African writing system
When BU’s Fallou Ngom found a note written by his late father, in a language that looked like Arabic but sounded like Wolof, it opened the door to a lifetime of discovery in African language and history.
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The year of C++ successor languages
2022 has seen many languages created to rival C++. Lucian Radu Teodorescu reports on the current state of the art.
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Welcoming 1927 to the Public Domain
This year we are welcoming works from 1927 into the public domain in the United States, including books, periodicals, sheet music, and movies. Big events of 1927 include the first transatlantic phone call from New York to London, the formation of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the first successful…
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SQLite 2022 Recap
There have been many improvements to SQLite during 2022. Listed below or just a few of the bigger changes. See the change logs or the trunk timeline for a more complete list of enhancements and improvements.
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Get Running with Couch to 5K
NHS Couch to 5K will help you get off the couch and gradually work you up to running 5km in just 9 weeks.
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Compromised PyTorch-nightly dependency chain between December 25th – December 30
If you installed PyTorch-nightly on Linux via pip between December 25, 2022 and December 30, 2022, please uninstall it and torchtriton immediately, and use the latest nightly binaries (newer than...
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Worst interview questions for software developers
Forget these interview questions 🙅 and never ask them your potential employees in software development (or elsewhere).
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The State of HTTP in 2022
So what happened at all of those working group meetings, specification documents, and side events in 2022? What are implementers and deployers of the web’s protocol doing? And what’s coming next?
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U.S. universities, rich in data, struggle to capture its value, study finds
A UCLA–MIT Press paper highlights a lack of data infrastructure and data strategy in U.S. higher education.
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React Native is not the future
When we finished our transition from two to one codebases, we asked ourselves why we hadn't done it sooner.
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2022: A Retrospective
The year 2022 was very special for us. We reached a lot of milestones within Godot and also in the community. This blog post will offer a small retrospective of the year.
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Distributor cancelled an order and we need to move 30k bags of coffee [updated]
UPDATE, 10:56PM CT: THE POWER OF THE INTERNET SAVED THE DAY. All of the bags of caffeinated coffees sold out. That’s approximately 24,000 bags of coffee. You all are amazing! We are overwhelmed with gratitude and will update tomorrow. Hopefully we can find these lonely bags of decaf a good home, too. We’ve had a…
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Tamagui 1.0 – Cross-platform React apps in less time, with better performance
Ship cross-platform React apps in ½ the time with 2x performance.
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Freenet build 1495: new user experience and performance
Hyphanet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant communication and publishing.
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Unintended consequences of blocking IP addresses
A discussion about IP blocking: why we see it, what it is, what it does, who it affects, and why it’s such a problematic way to address content online.
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Discovering which parts of the brain are engaged when coding
Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) found that the Multiple Demand and Language brain systems encode specific code properties and uniquely align with machine-learned representations of code.
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Time to redefine normal body temperature? (2020)
Is 98.6˚ F still the norm for body temperature? Data collected over almost 160 years show that the normal body temperature has been declining and is now roughly one degree lower....
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Using eBPF and predefined inspections to minimize “observability tax”
Learn how Coroot uses eBPF and predefined inspections to achieve fast, code-free monitoring with minimal observability overhead.
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Accelerating zk-SNARKs - MSM and NTT algorithms on FPGAs with Hardcaml
In 2022 a consortium of companies ran an international competition, called the ZPrize, to advance the state of the art in “zero-knowledge” cryptography. We d...
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CCC captures U.S. military biometrics database
The U.S. military used biometric devices en masse to capture people in Afghanistan. Some devices were left behind during the hasty withdrawal of NATO troops. CCC researchers found large amounts of...
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Freedom to Roam in Scotland (2019)
Bikepacking Scotland founder and Apidura Ambassador Markus Stitz guides us through Scotland's 'Freedom to Roam' Act
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6M Acres of Public Land in the US West Are Corner-Locked
Read the onX report on corner locked land to learn how much land is involved, the concerns of affected property owners, and what can be done to solve this issue.
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How France Changed the Tides of the American Revolution (2018)
From French arms to French fleets, how France changed the tides of the American Revolution