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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,323 posts.
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A VR Frame’s Life
This blog post will take you through a VR frame’s lifecycle, explaining the end-to-end process from frame generation to final display.
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Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds
In our recent 2020 in numbers blog post we predicted that we would reach 500k sound uploads at some point in 2021 and… it has just happened! At some point during the past weekend, the number of sounds which are available for download in Freesound has surpassed half a million. Note that by sounds which are available…
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Metaprogramming in Elixir
In this article, we cover metaprogramming and macros in Elixir. Discover how you can use Elixir to write code that writes code.
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The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)
One keyboard bug three decades in the making
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Sublime Text 4
Meet the new Sublime Text - it's faster and smarter than ever with hardware acceleration, Apple silicon support, and more!
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Scaleway announces measures against abusive Chia plotting and farming
Chia is a few months old, and we are already witnessing the impact of Chia on all our products. Speculative farmers are forcing their way in to make as much money as possible, as quickly as possible.
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WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser
Today we're excited to announce WebContainers, a new type of WebAssembly-based operating system that boots instantly and enables Node.js environments to run natively in-browser.
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Parcel 2 Beta 3 – improved build performance
The Parcel team is excited to release Parcel 2 beta 3! This release includes a ground up rewrite of our JavaScript compiler in Rust, which improves overall build performance by up to 10x. In addition, this post will cover some other improvements we’ve made to Parcel since our last update, along with our roadmap to a…
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MUM: A new AI milestone for understanding information
Our latest AI milestone, Multitask Unified Model, has the potential to take Google’s information understanding to a new level.
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FemtoStar: Taking Aim for the Stars
Networking and communication is something that has been on our minds as of late. As many of you are surely aware, we have started developing our own solution to private and secure peer-to-peer and group text messaging based on the PineDio gateway system, available next month. While we have high hopes for this system…
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YouTube ads in Safari: you see them now, will you see them in the future?
Content blocking in Safari is a thing in and of itself, and it's not good. One of the consequences is ads appearing in YouTube. Why does it happen and can it be prevented?
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Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022
Update: The retired, out-of-support Internet Explorer 11 desktop application has bee
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Previews of software updates designed for people with disabilities
Apple today announced powerful software features designed for people with mobility, vision, hearing, and cognitive disabilities.
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Next-generation Deploy Previews, plus Netlify acquires FeaturePeek (YC S19)
Netlify has acquired FeaturePeek and is launching the next generation of Deploy Previews. Learn about collaboration tools for teams to manage feedback and deliver better web experiences.
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Improving Firefox stability on Linux
A year ago at Mozilla we started to improve Firefox stability on Linux. This effort quickly became an example of good synergies between FOSS.
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Welcome to Libera Chat
A warm welcome to a new IRC network!
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Over the past 10 years, the LHC has found more than 50 new hadrons
This content is currently in the process of being archived and integrated into the CERN Library collections.
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Elixir 1.12
Elixir v1.12 is out with improvements to scripting, tighter Erlang/OTP 24 integration, stepped ranges, and dozen of new functions across the standard library.
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Material You – The next stage for Material Design
Announcing Material You: The latest release from Material Design. Learn about the next stage for Material Design.
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Security keys are now supported for SSH Git operations
You can now use FIDO2 security keys to authenticate over SSH for remote Git operations, providing a higher level of account security.
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The Matrix Space Beta
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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The data model behind Notion's flexibility
Notion’s data model enables the product’s most foundational component: blocks. Through blocks, we allow users more flexibility over their information.
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Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together
Introducing Project Starline, a technology project that makes you feel like you're together, even when you're apart.
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Unveiling our new Quantum AI campus
Google is unveiling a new Quantum AI campus in Santa Barbara, California.