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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,323 posts.
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Firefox Release 89.0
Say hello to a fresh new Firefox, designed to get you where you want to go even faster. We’ve redesigned and modernized the core experience to be cleaner, more inviting, and easier to use.
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A possible link between childhood trauma and Alzheimer disease
Two recent articles, one about China and the other from Europe, are pointing at a link between childhood trauma and Alzheimer disease. The first
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Raspberry Silicon update: RP2040 on sale now at $1
Raspberry Pi RP2040 chips are now on sale, allowing you to build your own projects and products on Raspberry Silicon
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UUID, serial or identity columns for PostgreSQL auto-generated primary keys?
How to decide what to use for autogenerated primary keys: UUID, serial or identity column? Recommendations are given!
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Noyb aims to end “cookie banner terror” and issues more than 500 GDPR complaints
Today, noyb.eu sent over 500 draft complaints to companies who use unlawful cookie banners - making it the largest wave of complaints since the GDPR came into force.
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The Shortest Possible Game of Monopoly (2010)
OK, since no one is posting, you get to endure another Monopoly post! After our recent attempt to play the shortest actual game of Monopoly on record, we started to wonder about what the shortest T…
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Trials begin on lozenge that rebuilds tooth enamel
A new breath mint that rebuilds your tooth enamel while it whitens your teeth has been created by UW Researchers.
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Phacility is winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained
Existing instances will remain online indefinitely, but customers should expect very limited support after August 31, 2021.
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Yamaha MOTOROiD
the Next Phase of Jin-Ki Kanno: Like a Living Creature
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Why Is JRuby Slow?
In this article, the author explores why JRuby, an alternative Ruby interpreter that runs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), is slower than other R...
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PostgreSQL EXPLAIN Output Explained
UPDATED July 2023: How to use EXPLAIN ANALYZE in PostgreSQL, learn tools to visualize the output. See query execution time and row count.
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Why interruptions are frustrating to developers
What's the real cost of interruptions? I illustrate all the context developers keep in their head and how it starts to decay immediately when interrupted.
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QUIC is now RFC 9000
QUIC version 1 is officially formalized, and QUIC deployments will now move away from using temporary draft versions to the newly minted version 1.
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The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox
The pressure the cloud puts on margins can start to outweigh the benefits you scale and growth slows. Understand how much market cap is being suppressed by the cloud to help inform the decision-making framework on managing infrastructure as companies scale.
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Manifest v3 Update
Manifest v3 support for Firefox extensions is coming in late 2021. See a high-level summary of changes to the platform.
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Egyptian Circumnavigation of Africa ~600 BC
The Greek researcher and storyteller Herodotus of Halicarnassus (fifth century BCE) was the world's first historian. In The Histories , he describes the expansion of the Achaemenid empire under its kings Cyrus the Great , Cambyses and Darius I the Great , culminating in king Xerxes ' expedition in 480 BCE against the…
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V8 Sparkplug – A non-optimizing JavaScript compiler
In V8 v9.1 we’re improving V8 performance by 5–15% with Sparkplug: a new, non-optimizing JavaScript compiler.
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Strong Towns Has Filed a Lawsuit Against the Minnesota Board of Engineering
The Minnesota board that regulates engineering licenses is abusing their power in order to stifle the free speech of Charles Marohn and retaliate against the Strong Towns movement for their advocacy on transportation, infrastructure, and engineering reform. Strong Towns has filed suit in federal cou
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Why and how GitHub is adopting OpenTelemetry
Building on top of OpenTelemetry empowers us to provide integrated and opinionated observability solutions for our application engineers.
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Different browsers see different colors
Most people know some basics of color theory but what many do not realize is how complicated this becomes when we try to record and playback color accurately.
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Benzene detected in many sunscreen products
Learn how Valisure’s work in pharmaceutical quality and transparency was recognized in the U.S. Senate Aging Committee report, highlighting their collaboration with the Department of Defense and commitment to innovation.
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An open letter from Atheme's developers and community
An open letter from Atheme’s developers and community
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One week of Libera Chat
The state of the network after one week of operation.
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The Expanse UI Design
Here’s a look at the various FUI designs from the sci-fi series The Expanse . Special thanks to Brian Benton who suggested this and provided some great links as well! A lot of the images have been collected from this massive image dump from drainsmith and further below we have some insights and
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Gentoo Freenode channels have been hijacked
News and information from Gentoo Linux
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Mild Covid-19 induces lasting antibody protection
People who have had mild illness develop antibody-producing cells that can last lifetime
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How Our Slack App Got to 200K Users with No Marketing Whatsoever
We created a free Slack message scheduler called Message Them Later and didn't market it. Yet, somehow, we have 200k users and counting. What does that tell us?
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