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Vivaldi 1.2 release
It’s a web browser. But fun. It comes with a bunch of clever features built-in. It’s super flexible and does not track you. Get the Vivaldi browser for desktop, mobile, and your car!
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,107 posts.
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Women Who Code (YC S16) helps female engineers level up in their careers
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
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Async and Await
The autonomous stack for every app and agent.
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Intel acquires Itseez, leading developer of OpenCV
Intel Newsroom delivers the latest news, announcements, and updates. Stay informed on Intel innovations.
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DeepText: Facebook's text understanding engine
Visit the post for more.
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Torus: A distributed storage system by CoreOS
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
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Scalable Live Video Streaming Using NGINX and MPEG-DASH/HLS
Deliver modern applications with NGINX. Explore high-performance load balancing, API gateways, and web server solutions trusted by top global enterprises.
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Alpine Linux 3.4.0 Released
Alpine Linux
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Moving Forward on Basic Income
We have a few updates we want to share on our Basic Income Project [https://ycombinator.wpengine.com/basic-income]: Our Research Director Elizabeth Rhodes is joining Basic Income Project as our Research Director. She recently completed a joint PhD in Social Work and Political Science at the University of Michigan…
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Web Storage: the lesser evil for session tokens
I was recently asked whether it was safe to store session tokens using Web Storage (sessionStorage/localStorage) instead of cookies. Upon googling this I found the top results nearly all assert that w
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How and Why to Log Your Bash History
An easy bit of Bash configuration that will log your bash history to dated log files so you can refer back to them at any point in the future.
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SQLite: The art of keeping it simple
16 years after its first checkin , SQLite is the most widely deployed database engine in the world. such open source project is a good candidate to learn how to make your code easy to understand and to maintain.
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Tor Browser 6.0 is released
The Tor Browser Team is proud to announce the first stable release in the 6.0 series. This...
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A Better Default Colormap for Matplotlib
An overview of the colormaps recommended to replace 'jet' as default.
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Andl, a relational language that is not SQL, is coming to Postgres
Postgres is “the world’s most advanced open source database”. It is a highly capable database server, and is ordinarily accessed using SQL queries. Postgres is also highly customisable, with the ability to add new functions, new data types and even new languages. There are currently several language implementations…
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Our Hybrid lda2vec Algorithm
The goal of lda2vec is to make volumes of text useful to humans (not machines!) while still keeping the model simple to modify. It learns the powerful word r...
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A New Threat Actor Targets UAE Dissidents
This report describes a campaign of targeted spyware attacks carried out by a sophisticated operator, which we call Stealth Falcon. The attacks have been conducted from 2012 until the present, against Emirati journalists, activists, and dissidents.
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Challenging the myth that the rich are specially-talented wealth creators
In this article Andrew Sayer revives some concepts - ‘unearned income’, ‘rentiers’, ‘functionless investors’, and ‘improperty’ - to explain why the very rich are unjust and dysfunctional. We need to challenge the myth that the rich are specially-talented wealth creators, he argues. In light of the news that the…