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Glucosamine Supplementation Reduces All-Cause Mortality: Study
A recent analysis published in the journal BMJ showed that glucosamine supplementation conveys around a 15% reduction of all-cause mortality.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,277 posts.
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Eliminating cold starts with Cloudflare Workers
A “cold start” is the time it takes to load and execute a new copy of a serverless function for the first time. It’s a problem that’s both complicated to solve and costly to fix.
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Google removes all Danish music from YouTube
About Koda's task and where Koda works
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Ten modern layouts in one line of CSS
This post highlights a few powerful lines of CSS that do some serious heavy lifting and help you build robust modern layouts.
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Apple reports Q3 results
Apple reported its third quarter financial results for the fiscal year after the market close on Thursday, July 30, 2020.
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Sandboxing and workload isolation
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Migrating Dropbox from Nginx to Envoy
In this blogpost we’ll talk about the old Nginx-based traffic infrastructure, its pain points, and the benefits we gained by migrating to Envoy . We’ll compare Nginx to Envoy across many software engineering and operational dimensions. We’ll also briefly touch on the migration process, its current state, and some of…
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How to Hire Great Engineers
Opinionated and highly efficient way to hire great software engineers
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One Byte to rule them all
Posted by Brandon Azad, Project ZeroOne Byte to rule them all, One Byte to type them,One Byte to ...
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What Is the PCI of Bank Payments?
Credit card users today can transact online with peace of mind because card-accepting merchants are subject to Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).
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Internet Archive responds to publishers’ lawsuit
Yesterday, the Internet Archive filed our response to the lawsuit brought by four commercial publishers to end the practice of Controlled Digital Lending (CDL), the digital equivalent of traditional library lending. CDL is a respectful and secure way to bring the breadth of our library collections to digital learners…
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Anti-climate action statements get more visibility in news coverage, study finds
Analysis by assistant professor of environment and society and sociology at Brown found that press releases expressing opposition to climate action were twice as likely to receive news coverage as those supporting action.
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Mitigating Spectre and Other Security Threats: The Cloudflare Workers Security Model
Cloudflare is a security company, and the heart of Workers is, in my view, a security project. Running code written by third parties is always a scary proposition, and the primary concern of the Workers team is to make that safe.
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RBS, Ruby’s new type signature language
Introducing RBS, Ruby’s new type signature language
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Speculation in JavaScriptCore
This post is all about speculative compilation, or just speculation for short, in the context of the JavaScriptCore virtual machine.
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The harmful impact of Audible-exclusive audiobooks
Amazon's creeping monopoly on the audiobook industry through Audible pushes bookshops and libraries out of audiobook distribution.
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Microsoft Joins the Blender Development Fund
Microsoft is joining the Blender Foundation's Development Fund as a Corporate Gold member!
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Brown M&Ms, or Why No One Reads the Manual
One of our favorite anecdotes that illustrates just how hard it is to get people to read the docs comes from an unexpected source: Van Halen. The...
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ScaNN: Efficient Vector Similarity Search
Posted by Philip Sun, Software Engineer, Google Research Suppose one wants to search through a large dataset of literary works using queries that r...
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Statement by Jeff Bezos to the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
Testimony before the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law
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Librem 5 Phone Dogwood Thermals and Battery Life
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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Stack Overflow gets series E funding for $85M
This is my third in a series of quarterly CEO blog posts. I'm excited to share some very positive updates.
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Firefox 79
Firefox 79 offers a new Promise method, more secure target=_blank links, logical assignment operators, tooling improvements for better JavaScript debugging, and many other updates of interest to web developers. In ...
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Clutch, the Open-Source Platform for Infrastructure Tooling
By Daniel Hochman and Derek Schaller
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Cloudflare Workers Announces Broad Language Support
Today, we’re excited to announce support for Python, Scala, Kotlin, Reason and Dart. You can build applications on Cloudflare Workers using your favorite language starting today.
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