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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,277 posts.
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Debunking that C++ is faster and safer than Rust
Spoiler: C++ isn′t faster or slower — that′s not the point, actually. This article continues our good tradition of busting myths about the Rust language shared by some big-name Russian companies.
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Published my first proper product after working as a developer for 10 years
The AI agent for accounting and bookkeeping firms. Dytto works inside the tools your firm already uses and handles the routine work. You sign off on everything.
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Racket is 25
posted by Matthias Felleisen and Matthew Flatt The First Thoughts [Matthias]: Wednesday 25 January 1995: POPL used to be a Monday-through-Wednesday-noon affair. Cormac Flanagan presented his future paper there (a static analysis on how to eliminate i...
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) Testing
Explore data on COVID-19 testing across the world.
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AWS services to avoid
Get ready for some personal and definitely opinionated opinions!
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AWS EC2 General Price Cut
It is my great pleasure to tell you about a price reduction for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) customers who plan to use Standard Reserved Instances or EC2 Instance Saving Plans. The price changes are already in effect, and so anyone buying new RIs or a new EC2 Instance Saving Plan will be able […]
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Debian 10.4
[05 Dec 2020] Updated Debian 10: 10.7 released [26 Sep 2020] Updated Debian 10: 10.6 released [30 Aug 2020] DebConf20 online closes [01 Aug 2020] Updated Debian 10: 10.5 released [18 Jul 2020] Updated Debian 9: 9.13 released [09 Jul 2020] Debian 8 Long Term Support reaching end-of-life [16 Jun 2020] Ampere donates…
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Godot 4.0 will get a new lightmapper
In most game engines, a lightmap is baked for a whole scene and there is only one of it at the same time. In Godot, different scenes can have their own lightmaps and you can mix and match them however you like.
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Rebuilding our tech stack for the new facebook.com
Facebook.com launched in 2004 as a simple, server-rendered PHP website. Over time, we’ve added layer upon layer of new technology to deliver more interactive features. Each of these new features an…
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Stack Overflow reduces global workforce by approximately 15%
This is a key moment in our company’s history, as the whole world is dealing with significant uncertainty. Know that you are not alone. We are facing this situation together. Our goal is to stay focused on living our core values and actively connect with teammates, our community, and our customers.
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We Chat, They Watch
WeChat communications conducted entirely among non-China-registered accounts are subject to pervasive content surveillance that was previously thought to be exclusively reserved for China-registered accounts.
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The Patent Office is “adjusting” to a Supreme Court ruling by ignoring it
In 2014, the Supreme Court decided the landmark Alice v. CLS Bank case. The Court held generic computers, performing generic computer functions, can’t make something eligible for patent protection. That shouldn’t be controversial, but it took Alice to make this important limitation on patent-...
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Cross-signing and end-to-end encryption by default
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Happiness is a freshly organized codebase
Starting From the Top Imagine joining a new team at a new company and you finally get access to a codebase. Slack iOS Xcode File Hierarchy 2017 Where do you add a source file for your team’s project? Great question. Your new team has three source directories for you to add files to, and oh,…
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Researchers unveil a pruning algorithm to shrink deep learning models
MIT researchers have proposed a technique for shrinking deep learning models that they say is simpler and produces more accurate results than state-of-the-art methods. It works by retraining the smaller, pruned model at its faster, initial learning rate.
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Driving engineers to an arbitrary date is a value destroying mistake
Executive Mandates shutdown the value discovery efforts of software teams
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Debt Collectors Are Transforming the Business of State Courts
The business of state civil courts has changed over the past three decades. In 1990, a typical civil court docket featured cases with two opposing sides, each with an attorney, most frequently regarding commercial matters and disputes over contracts, injuries, and other harms.
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Zoom Acquires Keybase
You're reading the Keybase blog. There are more posts . When you're done, you can install Keybase .
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Hello, World – Zerodha, India's largest stock broker
TLDR: 30 member tech team formed over seven years built India's largest stock broker. Unconventional setup. The long pending tech blog is finally here. Some backstory and context.
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ESO Instrument Finds Closest Black Hole to Earth
A team of astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and other institutes has discovered a black hole lying just 1000 light-years from Earth. The black hole is closer to our Solar System than any other found to date and forms part of a triple system that can be seen with the naked eye. The team found…
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Surface Go 2, Surface Book 3, Surface Headphones 2 and Surface Earbuds
Available for preorder today, new Surface devices and accessories are designed to help you work, learn, connect and play from anywhere The way we work, connect and learn continues to change right in front of us. Our devices have become our window to the world – our office, our school and our social space. To
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Firefox for Mobile now supports NoScript, PrivacyBadger, HTTPS Everywhere
Back in February, we announced support for the first extension for Firefox Preview, the new and rebuilt mobile browser for Android that is set to replace Firefox for Android later ...