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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,293 posts.
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Goodbye PNaCl, Hello WebAssembly
Historically, running native code on the web required a browser plugin. In 2013, we introduced the PNaCl sandbox to provide a means of bui...
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The first genome data from ancient Egyptian mummies
Study finds that ancient Egyptians were most closely related to ancient populations from the Near East.
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Node v8.0.0 Released
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
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Trickle-down workaholism in startups
“And then I said anyone not willing to break their backs working for me was a tourist!”If you want to understand why so many startups become infected with unhealthy work habits, or outright workaho…
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Mac external displays for designers and developers
If you’re considering an external display for your Mac, there’s a few important decisions to make. Apple doesn’t sell external displays any more, so you can’t just default to their wisdom. That’s an issue, because not all displays are well suited for Macs.
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The world’s biggest problems and why they’re not what first comes to mind
We started with global health, then pandemics. Now we focus on AI risk. How our views changed and what problems we'd recommend you work on today.
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The state of JavaScript modules
Recently, there was a lot of fuss on Twitter regarding the current state of ES modules, especially in Node.js, which decided to introduce…
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Introduction to ARM Assembly Basics
Welcome to this tutorial series on ARM assembly basics. This is the preparation for the followup tutorial series on ARM exploit development . Before we can dive into creating ARM shellcode and build ROP chains, we need to cover some ARM Assembly basics first.
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ReactOS 0.4.5 Released
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
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View Counting at Reddit
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
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Aadhaar isn’t progress – it’s dystopian and dangerous
Mitchell Baker and Ankit Gadgil: India should pause further roll out of Aadhaar until a law protecting individual security is passed.
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What's the difference between the com and exe extensions? (2008)
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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AlphaGo's next move
With just three stones on the board, it was clear that this was going to be no ordinary game of Go.
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Npm v5.0.0 released
npm Blog (Archive); updates from the npm team are now published on the GitHub Blog and the GitHub Changelog
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It's Never Too Early to Fire
I have never fired anyone too early. How many founders have been in the position of hiring a senior executive — having gone through all the interviews, reference checks, board approvals, and negotiations — only to have doubts creep in all too soon after they start? Your hire doesn’t seem to be delivering on the...
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Twilio Functions – Public Beta
Write and run Twilio code without dealing with servers. 10k free invocations every month—$0.0001/invocation after. Now available to everyone in public
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Is Clojure dying, and what has Ruby got to do with it?
The past week or so a lot of discussion and introspection has been happening in the Clojure community. Eric Normand responded to my one year Lambda Island post with some...
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OpenAI Baselines
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
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Qt Creator 4.3.0 released
Explore the Qt Blog for the latest insights on e.g. Qt Creator, your go-to source for cross-platform development tips and updates.
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Dash for iOS: Back on the App Store
Great news! Dash for iOS is back on the App Store and completely free. Download the mobile documentation browser again.
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The largest Git repo
It’s been 3 months since I first wrote about our efforts to scale Git to extremely large projects and teams with an effort we called “Git Virtual File System”. As a reminder, GVFS, together with a set of enhancements to Git, enables Git to scale to VERY large repos by virtualizing both the .git folder […]