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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,170 posts.
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New AWS UDP Load Balancing for Network Load Balancer
The Network Load Balancer is designed to handle tens of millions of requests per second while maintaining high throughput at ultra low latency, with no effort on your part (read my post, New Network Load Balancer – Effortless Scaling to Millions of Requests per Second to learn more). In response to customer requests…
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Raspberry Pi on Raspberry Pi
Question: Is the Raspberry Pi 4 any good? Answer: It’s good enough to run its own launch website with tens of millions of visitors.
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Elixir 1.9
Elixir v1.9 is out with releases support, improved configuration and more.
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Regulatory Capture at ICANN
This investigates the connections between organizations and people involved with policy making at ICANN focused around the effort to remove price caps from the .ORG domain registry
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Tech journalists troubled by Assange computer intrusion charge
The Trump administration's decision to charge Julian Assange with 17 counts of violating the Espionage Act has generated significant controversy. One legal expert described it as "crossing a "constitutional Rubicon." CPJ warned that the indictment could be the opening salvo in a broader attack on First Amendment…
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AMP for email is bad
The US antitrust complaint against Google shows that the claim 'to improve speed with AMP' was false from the start. It is simply a measure to increase ad revenue.
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Two years of postmarketOS
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
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Making Containers More Isolated: An Overview of Sandboxed Container Technologies
Currently available container-based infrastructure has limitations because containers are not truly sandboxed and share the host OS kernel. The root of the problem is the weak separation between containers when the host OS creates a virtualized userland for each container. This blog covers four unique projects from…
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Data-as-a-Service: Running DaaS Companies
A complete guide to building and running a Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) company. Learn DaaS economics, market dynamics, data acquisition models, transformation, delivery, and how to achieve market dominance.
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Timeline of Slack’s Tech Stack Evolution
Discover and share the technology stacks used by top companies. Compare tools, read reviews, and make informed decisions about your tech stack.
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A New Bytecode Format for JavaScriptCore
In revision r237547 we introduced a new bytecode format for JavaScriptCore (JSC).
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Hedge funds use satellite images to beat Wall Street
Berkeley Haas research finds there may be a dark side to the rise of “alternative data” in capital markets While Assoc. Prof. Panos Patatoukas was discussing Walmart in his Financial Information Analysis course last year, a student brought up the story of how company founder Sam Walton used to count cars in store…
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Gmail confidential mode is not secure or private
Privacy experts say Gmail confidential mode is neither secure nor private because it does not use end-to-end encryption.
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Information is like snacks, money, and drugs to the brain
Can’t stop checking your phone, even when you’re not expecting any important messages? Blame your brain. A new study by researchers at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business has found that information acts on the brain’s dopamine-producing reward system in the same way as money or food. “To the brain, information is…
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Open-sourcing Sorbet: a fast, powerful type checker for Ruby
We're excited to announce that Sorbet is now [open source] and you can try it today. Sorbet is a fast, powerful type checker designed for Ruby. It scales to codebases with millions of lines of code and can be adopted incrementally.
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Getting 2FA Right in 2019
Since March, Trail of Bits has been working with the Python Software Foundation to add two-factor authentication (2FA) to Warehouse, the codebase that powers PyPI. As of today, PyPI members can enable time-based OTP (TOTP) and WebAuthn (currently in beta). If you have an account on PyPI, go enable your preferred 2FA…
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Why Monzo's bank transfers weren't working on the 30th of May
A technical problem at the company we use to connect to Faster Payments caused issues with bank transfers. To fix it, we’re bringing everything in-house instead.
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Kubernetes 1.15: Extensibility and Continuous Improvement
We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.15, our second release of 2019! Kubernetes 1.15 consists of 25 enhancements: 2 moving to stable, 13 in beta, and 10 in alpha. The main themes of this release are: Continuous Improvement Project sustainability is not just about features. Many SIGs have been working…
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Cloudflare's Ethereum Gateway
Today, we are excited to announce Cloudflare's Ethereum Gateway, where you can interact with the Ethereum network without installing any software on your computer.