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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,531 posts.
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A Survival Guide for the Small Mail Server
Nowadays many companies and organizations (non-profits, units of governmental and educational institutions, etc) believe that running their own mail servers has become an impossible task, due both to the large amount of inbound spam and to the continuous attempts by spammers to send outbound spam through their mail…
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New JavaScript techniques for rapid page loads
Posted by Marja Hölttä and Daniel Vogelheim, Resident Loader Coders Speed has always been one of Chrome's primary missions, ever since it...
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The Impact of “Blind” Auditions on Female Musicians (1997)
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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Send Money to Friends in Messenger
We're giving people a more convenient and secure way to send or receive money between friends.
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YC Stats Winter 2015
Here is what YC looks like in Winter 2015 Number of startups in the W15 batch: 114 Number of companies funded by YC overall: 842 Total market cap of all YC companies: Over $30B Total money raised by YC companies: Over $3B Number of YC companies worth more than $1B: 4 Number of YC companies worth more than $100…
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Stanford study shows success of different programming styles in CS class
The Graduate School of Education and the Computer Science Department engaged in a joint research project to advance new approaches to teaching.
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Pruning and Polishing: Keeping OpenBSD Modern
Owing to its historic roots as a derivative of the original Berkeley Systems Distribution (BSD), OpenBSD includes a great deal of old code. Many files bear copyright notices from the year 1980, and in some cases, even older. Although not explicitly stated as a project goal, keeping OpenBSD modern is an important part…
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Microsoft's new foldable keyboard
The latest news and stories about how technology is helping people around the world solve problems, innovate and do more each day.
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Searching 20 GB/sec: Systems Engineering Before Algorithms (2014)
SentinelOne unifies AI-powered endpoint, cloud, identity, and data protection—enhanced by our Security Data Lake for seamless and efficient cybersecurity.
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Announcing Spark 1.3
Apache Spark 1.3 introduces the DataFrame API, enhancing data processing with new features across streaming, ML, and SQL.
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Study: Teen Cannabis Users Have Poor Long-Term Memory in Adulthood
A new study shows that teenagers who had previously been heavy users of marijuana performed worse on long-term memory tests than those who never used cannabis, and they had abnormally shaped hippocampuses.
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Lucene: The Good Parts
Before MongoDB, before Cassandra, before “NoSQL”, there was Lucene. Did you know that Doug Cutting wrote the first versions of …
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Fake Amazon Tech Book Reviews Are Hurting My Book
Update : I really can't say as much as I would like (there's stuff I can't share), but my publisher had a face-to-face with an Amazon rep and internal action was taken. Amazon's investigation is apparently over. The internal position seems to be "we're making money, there are words on pages, so there's no problem…
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Hundreds of Thousands of Google Apps Domains’ Private WHOIS Leaked
This post was authored by Nick Biasini, Alex Chiu, Jaeson Schultz, and Craig Williams. Special thanks to William McVey for his contributions to this post.
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Paul Kalanithi, writer and neurosurgeon, dies at 37
Paul Kalanithi wrote essays for The New York Times and Stanford Medicine reflecting on being a physician and a patient, the human experience of facing death, and the joy he found despite terminal illness.
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