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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 31,692 posts.
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Britain's largest 'Sea Dragon' discovered in UK's smallest county
Every day is different when you work on a nature reserve, but nothing could have prepared our reserves team at Rutland Water Nature Reserve for the day when they made the palaeontological discovery of a lifetime.
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Open source maintainer pulls the plug on NPM packages colors and faker
Snyk issued a Denial of Service security vulnerability for colors@1.4.1, following this vulnerable code. We highly recommend you revert to colors@1.4.0, and pin your dependencies’ versions to avoid blind upgrades of the offending version. We also recommend you migrate to a different package.
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CalyxOS now supports Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
Android 12, Pixel 6
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Astronomers Witness a Dying Star Reach Its Explosive End
Haleakalā and Maunakea, Hawai ʻ i – For the very first time, astronomers have imaged in real time the dramatic end to a red supergiant’s life, watching the massive star’s rapid self-destruction and final death throes before it collapsed into a Type II supernova.
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SSH Agent Restriction (new in OpenSSH 8.9)
OpenSSH agent restriction
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Tips for a Healthier Postgres Database
Craig's year end wrap-up of 5 things you can do for a healthier Postgres database next year.
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Proposed bill in New Hampshire would enshrine free software into law
Libreboot – New Hampshire (USA) may soon enshrine Software Freedom into law. YOUR HELP IS NEEDED!
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Bevy game engine 0.6
Thanks to 170 contributors, 623 pull requests, and our generous sponsors, I'm happy to announce the Bevy 0.6 release on crates.io! For those who don't…
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How to make quitting your addiction easier
There is one thing most people miss when they try to overcome their addiction. And they make it much more difficult for themselves.
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UUIDs are popular, but bad for performance (2019)
MySQL UUIDs are still very popular despite a majority of posts warning against their usage. Learn what UUIDs are and why they are very bad for MySQL performance.
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School closures led to more sleep and better quality of life for adolescents
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Give me /events, not webhooks
Learn about the challenges of webhooks for service-to-service notifications. And why an `/events` endpoint is often preferable.
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A routine gem update ended up creating $73k worth of subscriptions
On November 5, 2021 (a Friday of course), we've deployed innocent-looking gem updates. Minor versions of Ruby on Rails, Ruby Sentry client, Ruby Slack client, http libraries, Puma, Devise, OmniAuth Ruby client, Mongoid, and a few test gems. However, something went very wrong. We saw odd Stripe errors
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Nvidia tool generates full 3D models from a single still image
Bringing together the world’s brightest minds and the latest accelerated computing technology leads to powerful breakthroughs that help tackle some of the biggest research problems....
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Sugar not so nice for your child’s brain development
New research shows how high consumption of sugar affects learning, memory.
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California Considers Doubling Its Taxes
Practically doubling state taxes—even if the burden is partially offset through state-provided health coverage—could send taxpayers racing for the exits.
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Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies into effective propaganda
Propaganda is most impactful when people don't think it's propaganda, and most decisive when it's censorship you never knew happened. When we imagine that the U.S. military only occasionally and slightly influences U.S. movies, we are extremely badly deceived.
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Filling in some gaps in the story of Space Cadet Pinball on 64-bit Windows
The story as I experienced it.
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Open-sourcing the Sorbet VS Code Extension
We’re excited to announce that Stripe’s VS Code extension for Sorbet is now [open source](https://github.com/sorbet/sorbet/tree/master/vscode_extension). We’ve designed Sorbet to be used in editors from Day 1—For the past two years, Sorbet has exposed a flag (`--lsp`) that starts Sorbet in [Language Server…
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Elixir and Machine Learning: Nx v0.1 released
A huge milestone towards Elixir and Machine Learning has been reached with the release of Nx v0.1
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OpenBSD Webzine Issue #6
Webzine created by volunteers who are passionate about the OpenBSD project development.
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Google fined €150M, Facebook €60M for for non-compliance with French legislation
This page is no longer available. Order to comply or sanctions issued by the CNIL may be made public. In this case, a time limit shall be specified in the decision. Once this time period has expired, the organisations that have been given formal notice or sanctioned are no longer identified in the public decision. For…
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We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400
How the heck do we run a massively popular website and asset resource while being funded primarily by donations?
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