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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,323 posts.
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A “perfect coronal mass ejection” could be a nightmare
The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the national association for amateur radio, connecting hams around the U.S. with news, information and resources.
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Berkshire: Bitcoin is ‘contrary to the interest of civilization.’
Every year, professional and amateur shareholders have the opportunity to partake in Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting where legendary investors Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger field questions on Berkshire’s business and investment decisions. Typically, the annual event is...
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Swift Actors: A practical example, part 1
Swift development related blog-posts. Combine, modern concurrency model, Instruments, and more.
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Game theory as an engine for large-scale data analysis
Modern AI systems approach tasks like recognising objects in images and predicting the 3D structure of proteins as a diligent student would prepare for an exam. By training on many example problems, they minimise their mistakes over time until they achieve success. But this is a solitary endeavour and only one of the…
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Remote-first companies that actively hire
Do you ever dream of working remotely in a place where you will thrive the most? Here's 82 remote-first companies that actively hire people worldwide!
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Eating sardines regularly helps prevent type 2 diabetes
Nutrients such as taurine, omega 3, calcium and vitamin D help to protect against the diseaseThe study was carried out on a group of participants aged 65 and above. However, investigators claim the results could be extrapolated to other age groupsSardine consumption also improves other health parameters, such as…
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The Time Everyone “Corrected” the World’s Smartest Woman (2015)
In 1990, Marilyn vos Savant correctly answered a probability puzzle in her column for Parade Magazine. And then, the world called her an idiot.
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My service to check whether an item is counterfeit or not
I Make $200,000/Year (Age 23) Writing Messages | Build your free Simple.ink website in 1 minute!
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So what’s wrong with 1975 programming? (2006)
Varnish is a powerful, flexible HTTP accelerator that speeds up web applications by caching content and optimizing delivery.
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Rust for Windows 0.9
Rust for Windows v0.9 has recently been released and includes full consumption support, along with several other updates! With completed consumption support, you can now call any Windows APIs (past, present, and futur
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A New AWS SDK for Rust
We’re excited to announce the alpha release of a new AWS SDK for Rust. AWS customers developing in Rust want a native Rust SDK so they can use the language constructs they are used to, and customers new to Rust want an SDK that behaves similarly to SDKs they have used in other language environments. […]
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Estimation of total mortality due to COVID-19
Our updated modeling strategy now estimates total COVID-19 mortality, including unreported deaths due to COVID-19.
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The Pinecone Overlay Network
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Racket 8.1
_posted by John Clements_ Racket version 8.1 is now available from https://racket-lang.org/. DrRacket tabs can be dragged, and have new close buttons. Racket CS supports cross-compilation using `raco exe`. Racket CS supports Android on 32-...
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Faster DISTINCT queries on PostgreSQL
Learn common performance pitfalls and discover techniques to optimize your DISTINCT PostgreSQL queries. Read the full article on the Tiger Data blog.
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Researchers chart path to drastically lower administrative costs of health care
A new analysis by Stanford researchers suggests the health care industry can reap many of the economic benefits of a "Medicare for All" program through incremental changes to the private health care market.
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A future without passwords
On World Password Day, we’re providing a sneak peek at a future in which, one day, you won’t need a password at all.
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Branch predictor: How many “if”s are too many?
Is it ok to have if clauses that will basically never be run? Surely, there must be some performance cost to that...
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Gleam 0.15
News post: Gleam v0.15 released!