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How to Delete Gmail Attachments Without Deleting the Emails
Gmail can't delete an attachment without deleting the email. Learn how to remove or downsize Gmail attachments in bulk, keep your emails, and free up storage.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,332 posts.
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Will Bun JavaScript Take Node's Crown
Bun is the newest and fastest all-in-one JavaScript framework. Will it take over Node? Is it better than Deno? Let's do some testing.
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Quaternions: A Practical Guide
AnyLeaf Articles: Quaternions: A practical guide
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It’s raining PFAS: rainwater is unsafe to drink even in Antarctica and Tibet
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are man-made hazardous chemicals that are spread globally in the atmosphere and as a result they can be found in the rainwater and snow in even the most remote locations on Earth. During the last 20 years, guideline values for PFAS in drinking water, surface waters and soils…
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Improving Postgres text search speed
CharityAPI.org improved our Postgres response time so that searches initiated via our API were 760% faster without adding an additional tool like Elastic Search. This is how we did it.
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Kubernetes StatefulSets are Broken
Kubernetes was not originally intended for stateful applications. Kubernetes StatefulSets are Kubernetes' answer to storage-centric workloads.
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PyPI package 'secretslib' drops fileless Linux malware to mine Monero
Sonatype identified a 'secretslib' PyPI package that covertly installs cryptominers on Linux systems.
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A new method boosts wind farms’ energy output, without new equipment
MIT engineers have developed a method to increase wind farms’ energy output. Whereas individual turbines are typically controlled separately, the new approach models the wind flow of the entire collection of turbines and optimizes the control of individual units.
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Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash
On Wednesday 10 August, the FIOD arrested a 29-year-old man in Amsterdam. He is suspected of involvement in concealing criminal financial flows and facilitating money laundering through the mixing of cryptocurrencies through the decentralised Ethereum mixing service Tornado Cash. Multiple arrests are not ruled out…
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IRS audits poorest families at five times the rate for everyone else
Beck will use the $25,000 grant to examine the Justice Department’s shutdown of civil rights investigations into local law enforcement and carceral facilities during the second Trump Administration, building the first comprehensive public accounting of the Civil Rights Division’s retreat.
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Algorithms you should know before you take system design interviews
I put together a list and explained why they are important.
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PGPP (Pretty Good Phone Privacy) Beta Launch
We are excited to announce that PGPP (Pretty Good Phone Privacy) is now in Beta.
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Will low and no code tools ever truly disrupt tech development?
Will the programmers of tomorrow be shipping products written without touching too much code?
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The four pillars of data observability: metrics, metadata, lineage, and logs
How much data is enough for observability? Learn the key pillars that describe your data and underpin data observability practices in 2024.
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Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format
We're sorry, but this special is no longer available. Please visit our Specials section for a current list of active specials.
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Stable Diffusion launch announcement
The model itself builds upon the work of the team at CompVis and Runway in their widely used latent diffusion model combined with insights from the conditional diffusion models by our lead generative AI developer Katherine Crowson, Dall-E 2 by Open AI, Imagen by Google Brain and many others. We are
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How SQLite Helps You Do ACID
Let's take a peek at how the rollback journal works.
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The mechanics of a sophisticated phishing scam and how we stopped it
Yesterday, August 8, 2022, Twilio shared that they’d been compromised by a targeted phishing attack. Around the same time as Twilio was attacked, we saw an attack with very similar characteristics also targeting Cloudflare’s employees
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Fishing gear accounts for an alarming amount of plastic in oceans (2021)
Explore past press releases and news by The Nature Conservancy in the United States and around the globe.
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Astro 1.0 – a web framework for building fast, content-focused websites
Astro 1.0 is out now! Astro is a web framework for building fast, content-focused websites. Performance powered by Astro next-gen island architecture. Learn more about Astro 1.0 release, our new website, and what people are saying about Astro.
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Our brain is a prediction machine that is always active
This is in line with a recent theory on how our brain works: it is a prediction machine, which continuously compares sensory information that we pick up (such as images, sounds and language) with internal predictions. "This theoretical idea is extremely popular in neuroscience, but the existing evidence for it is…
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The case against a C alternative
Like several others I am writing an alternative to the C language (if you read this blog before th…