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Why are hyperlinks blue?
The internet has ingrained itself into every aspect of our lives, but there’s one aspect of the digital world that I bet you take for granted. Did you ev
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 31,693 posts.
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Valneva and Pfizer announce Phase 2 study for Lyme disease vaccine candidate
Saint-Herblain (France) and New York, NY, March 8, 2021 – Valneva SE (“Valneva”), a specialty vaccine company focused on prevention of diseases with major unmet needs, and Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) today announced initiation of study VLA15-221. The VLA15-221 study builds on previous positive Phase 2 studies…
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The Story of Playdate
I recently posted the sixth episode of the Panic Podcast — a wide-ranging look into the creation of Playdate , our upcoming hand held video game system, based on over nine hours of conversation. It’s a really special listen. But I’m told not everybody listens to podcasts (outrageous), so I’ve made it a (long) blog…
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Happy birthday – 30 years of Linux
Won’t be big Thirty years ago today, Linus Torvalds announced his free operating system to the world. As with many of the world’s greatest, Linux had humble beginnings as a very small pet project. The GNU was working on an ambitious free, public domain operating system but the project had been delayed, and enthusiasts…
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Haiku has hired an existing contributor to work on Haiku full-time
Haiku, Inc. is proud to announce that we have hired existing contributor waddlesplash to work on general Haiku improvement full-time. The contract was signed on Monday, August 23, 2021 and waddlesplash plans to start work tomorrow. In the past Haiku, …
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Kobol Team Is Pulling the Plug from “Helios64 Open Source NAS”
Kobol Blog. The Open Source NAS
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Turing Pi V2 is here
It’s been a long time since we announced the Turing Pi V2, but finally, we are ready to reveal all the details of the new cluster board. But first, we want to thank you all for your patience and for every feedback you gave us along the way. We appreciate the community’s input and support. […]
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An Introduction to JQ
In this article, I'm going to go over the basics building blocks of jq in enough depth that you will be able to understand how jq works.
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QEMU Version 6.1.0 Released
We’d like to announce the availability of the QEMU 6.1.0 release. This release contains 3000+ commits from 221 authors.
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API Tokens: A Tedious Survey
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Googlespeak – How Google limits thought about antitrust
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossibl
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How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017)
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
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The NPM registry is deprecating TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1
Beginning October 4, 2021, all connections to npm websites and the npm registry, including for package installation, must use TLS 1.2 or higher.
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Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African warehouse
The official communications channel of Samsung Electronics, which provides the latest stories regarding its products, people and businesses.
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Bahraini Government Hacks Activists with NSO Group Zero-Click iPhone Exploits
We identified nine Bahraini activists whose iPhones were successfully hacked with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware between June 2020 and February 2021. The hacked activists included three members of Waad (a secular Bahraini political society), three members of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, two exiled Bahraini…
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Adobe: The Psychology of User Offboarding
Discover the user offboarding tactics used by Adobe and how to design a great subscription cancellation flows without relying on unethical dark patterns.
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Ten Years of Bootstrap
Ten years ago today, we shipped the first release of Bootstrap. Releasing it on GitHub was my first real plunge into open source—what an introduction! Here we…
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Deno on MDN
Web compatibility data for Deno is now available on MDN.
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Platforms want to be utilities, self-govern like empires
Whether it’s “bringing the world closer together” (Facebook), “organizing the world’s information” (Google), to be a market “where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online” (Amazon) or “to make personal computing accessible to each and every individual” (Apple), the founding missions of…
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Lambdas as values in Excel
Excel has new LAMBDA functions
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Bigger vehicles are directly resulting in more deaths of people walking
Smart growth is an approach to community design that connects housing, transportation, and land use to create healthy, prosperous, and resilient neighborhoods.
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How to deliver constructive feedback in difficult situations (2019)
“We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel.”―Marshall Rosenberg, As a founder, my biggest regrets revolve around not having difficu…
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Gitfs: Version Controlled File System
gitfs went on a trip around the world, and we were there to document it: fro Italy to Sweden, from the UK to Spain, gitfs has been center stage.
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Project Jupyter Celebrates 20 Years, Fernando Pérez Reflects on How It Started
UC Berkeley Division of Computing, Data Science and Society2021118 points34 commentsDatabases & Data details
Twenty years ago, UC Berkeley Associate Statistics Professor Fernando Pérez started one of the foundational tools for analyzing large amounts of data in a transparent and collaborative way. We spoke with Pérez about why he started this project, what challenges he’s faced and what to expect from him and Project Jupyter…
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EFF Joins Global Coalition Asking Apple CEO Tim Cook to Stop Phone-Scanning
EFF has joined the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) and more than 90 other organizations to send a letter urging Apple CEO Tim Cook to stop the company’s plans to weaken privacy and security on Apple’s iPhones and other products. Have you signed the petition?
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Strict Tables – Column type constraints in SQLite - Draft
SQLite strives to be flexible regarding the datatype of the content that it stores. For example, if a table column has a type of "INTEGER", then SQLite tries to convert anything inserted into that column into an integer. So an attempt to insert the string '123' results in an integer 123 being inserted. But if the…
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