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RenderingNG: An architecture that makes and keeps Chrome fast for the long term
Our continual investments in the performance of Chrome have led to significant improvements in battery life, memory, and the speed of the we...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 31,692 posts.
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Protein complex prediction with AlphaFold-Multimer
Build AI responsibly to benefit humanity
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Nearly 40% of adults from 25-54 are unpartnered [Pew Research]
On key economic outcomes, single adults at prime working age increasingly lag behind those who are married or cohabiting
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Lessons learned from sharding Postgres at Notion
With an effort to make Notion faster and more reliable for years to come — we migrated Notion’s PostgreSQL monolith into a horizontally-partitioned database fleet.
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OPPA: Ohio could become the third US state to enact a new consumer privacy law
We enable the world to secure the web. Burp Suite, the Web Security Academy, and world-leading research from PortSwigger — the AppSec community’s home.
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Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3?
Cloudflare announced their exciting new object storage product, Cloudflare R2. Will they take market share?
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Introducing raspberrypi.com
We're launching a new website dedicated to Raspberry Pi computers, and new social media channels focused on our educational initiatives.
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 was awarded jointly to Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan "for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis"
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Intermittent fasting in mice improves long-term memory retention
Intermittent Fasting is an effective means of improving long term memory retention and generating new adult hippocampal neurons in mice
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PostgreSQL 14 on Kubernetes
Run PostgreSQL 14 on Kubernetes, and see how convenient it is to use distributed features like parallel remote Postgres queries!
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YubiKey Bio Series
The YubiKey Bio Series delivers secure second factor and passwordless logins for desktop-based FIDO-supported services and applications.
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Asahi Linux for M1 Macs: progress report for September 2021
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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More details about the October 4 outage
Now that our platforms are up and running as usual after yesterday’s outage, I thought it would be worth sharing a little more detail on what happened and why — and most importantly, how we’re lear…
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Tab Unloading in Firefox 93
Firefox will monitor available system memory and, should it become that a crash is imminent, Firefox will respond by unloading memory-heavy.
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Timescale Announces New Database Cloud
Timescale Cloud provides a balance between a familiar developer platform and a flexible database for modern applications while retaining the ease.
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Firefox 93
Firefox now supports the new AVIF image format, which is based on the modern and royalty free AV1 video codec. It offers significant bandwidth savings for sites compared to existing image formats. It also supports transparency and other advanced features.
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Under the Hood of Macros in Elixir
In the second part of our metaprogramming series, find out about the inner workings of macros in Elixir.
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PostgreSQL: Kubegres is available as open source
[Kubegres](https://www.kubegres.io) is an open-source Kubernetes operator allowing to deploy a cluster of PostgreSql instances with data replication enabled out-of-the box. …
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Is 40 the New 60?
Here's a funny story: I've been using and teaching Python for over 20 years, and designed its built-in set module, but nobody would hire me as a Python programmer when I was laid off by RStudio in February. I was "too senior" for every developer role I applied for, even when the first paragraph of my cover letter said…
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Lead time for new Intel NIC orders is quoted around 52 weeks
PC Engines apu lead times
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 was awarded "for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems" with one half jointly to Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann "for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming" and the other half…
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A new public beta of GitHub Releases
GitHub Releases has a new look and updated tools to make it easier for open source communities to create and share high-quality releases with auto-generated release notes.
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Running BGP in large-scale data centers
What the research is: A first-of-its-kind study that details the scalable design, software implementation, and operations of Facebook’s data center routing design, based on Border Gateway Protocol …
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Update about the October 4th outage
To all the people and businesses around the world who depend on us, we are sorry for the inconvenience caused by today’s outage across our platforms. We’ve been working as hard as we can to restore…
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Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet
Today at 1651 UTC, we opened an internal incident entitled "Facebook DNS lookup returning SERVFAIL" because we were worried that something was wrong with our DNS resolver 1.1.1.1. But as we were about to post on our public status page we realized something else more serious was going on.
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What is BGP? – BGP routing explained
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the routing protocol for the Internet. Much like the post office processing mail, BGP picks the most effecient routes for delivering Internet traffic.
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Security Best Practices for Fintech Application Development
Learn how to build and manage your card program using Marqeta's guides and API reference documentation.
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Android 12 is live in AOSP
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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Web Scrapers Claim to Sell Personal Data on Facebook Users on a Hacker Forum
Data on over 1.5 billion Facebook users is being sold on a hacking-related forum, enabling cybercriminals advertisers to target users.