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Best practices for optimizing Lambda functions
Learn how to get the most out of your serverless functions
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 31,692 posts.
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Privacy Friendly Apps – improved privacy protection on the smartphone
We use our smartphone for private conversations, store our contacts and organise our meetings with it. The access to all this sensitive data is handled with the so-called permissions. It means, for example, that each app that requires the smartphone camera needs to get the corresponding permission first. Many of the…
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Zaplib post-mortem
Welp, this is a weird blog post! Very unexpectedly, we quickly invalidated some of the core hypothesis that make Zaplib work as a startup.
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Post-incident review on the Atlassian April 2022 outage
This PIR is available in the following languages:日本語 Letter from our co-founders & co-CEOs We want to acknowledge the outage that disrupted service for customers earlier this month. We understand that our products are mission critical to your business, and we don’t take that responsibility lightly. The buck stops with…
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PipeWire: Bluetooth Support Status Update
Over the last two years, Bluetooth® audio support has steadily grown in PipeWire. Here's a look at where things stand.
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Jepsen: Redpanda 21.10.1
Redpanda is a Kafka -compatible distributed streaming system based around append-only logs. Compared to Kafka, Redpanda aims to offer users lower latencies and reduced operational complexity. It uses the Raft consensus algorithm internally, rather than depending on a separate installation of Zookeeper . Redpanda…
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Git.io deprecation: Active links to be maintained in a read-only state
2022-04-27 Update: While the git.io url redirection service is read-only and use of the service is limited, we have received feedback from developers and academic researchers who have published git.io…
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From seawater to drinking water, with the push of a button
MIT researchers created a portable desalination unit that can remove particles and salts simultaneously to generate drinking water. The user-friendly unit, which weighs less than 10 kilograms and does not require filters, can be powered by a small, portable solar panel.
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Airbnb’s design to live and work anywhere
Co-Founder and CEO Brian Chesky shared our design for living and working anywhere with employees around the globe.
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Redox OS 0.7.0
The Redox official website
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Gnome patent troll stripped of patent rights
A recent decision at the US patent office may well give patent trolls cause to steer clear of open source projects – even more than the fierce resistance the community impressively funded and mount…
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Tackling multiple tasks with a single visual language model
We introduce Flamingo, a single visual language model (VLM) that sets a new state of the art in few-shot learning on a wide range of open-ended multimodal tasks.
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E Ink Gallery 3
E Ink Holdings Inc. (8069.TWO), based on technology from MIT’s Media Lab, is an ideal display medium for applications spanning eReaders and eNotes, retail, home, hospital, transportation and more, enabling customers to put displays in locations previously impossible. E Ink’s electrophoretic display products make it…
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Create a positive feedback loop to become motivated
Do you struggle with enjoying your work? Do you struggle with going to the gym regularly?
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Making Faster B-Trees with Go Generics
Go generics are a new way to improve performance in golang. Let’s see what effect generics had on Google’s B-tree implementation.
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Running Containers on AWS Lambda
Learn how to run containers on AWS Lambda and leverage the scalability and cost-saving benefits of serverless computing. This article explores the ...
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So Long Surrogates: How We Moved to UTF-8 in Haskell
We illustrate how we implemented UTF-8 support in alfred-margaret and give some insights into how we optimized our Haskell code for performance.
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Gitlab New Logo: DevOps Is at the Center of Gitlab
GitLab allows companies to do away with the many point solutions that have been digitally duct taped together and instead bring all DevOps functionalities together in ONE place
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Apple’s Self Service Repair now available
Genuine Apple parts and tools can now be purchased by US customers.
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MIT researchers develop a paper thin loudspeaker
MIT researchers created an ultrathin loudspeaker that can turn any rigid surface into a high-quality, active audio source. The fabrication process can enable the thin-film devices to be produced at scale.
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Introduction to Haskell Typeclasses
In this article, we introduce you to typeclasses in Haskell: what they are, how they can be used, and how to define your own instances of typeclasses.
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Khan Academy launches Khan World School online high school
Discover Khan World School @ ASU Prep, a fully online school for grades 6-12 with mastery-based learning, global collaboration and college credit options.
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Twitter buyout puts Mastodon into spotlight
The news of Elon Musk buying Twitter has put Mastodon into the public spotlight as an alternative social network, rapidly exploding our growth with over 30,000 new users in just a single day. This is because at Mastodon, we present a vision of social media that cannot be bought and owned by any billionaire, and strive…
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Slack’s Incident on 2-22-22
By Laura Nolan, with contributions from Glen D. Sanford, Jamie Scheinblum, and Chris Sullivan. Assessing conditions Slack experienced a major incident on February 22 this year, during which time many users were unable to connect to Slack, including the author — which certainly made my role as Incident Commander more…
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Type-Based Optimizations in the JIT
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language