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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 31,707 posts.
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Why Is the Migration to Python 3 Taking So Long?
For some companies who have already made the change years ago, it won’t be an issue. However, there’s a whole range of companies who won’t be making the change anytime soon, for a number of reasons. What does this change mean for companies heavily utilizing the language, particularly those who may not be ready to…
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Happiness and Life Satisfaction (2017)
Self-reported life satisfaction differs widely between people and between countries. What explains these differences?
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CVE-2019-1347: When a mouse over a file is enough to crash your system
Advanced security testing platforms for hardware and software investigations. Collaborative tools, proven attack libraries, and expert services for security teams.
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The importance of decentralisation
Affordable VM hosting in Glarus, Switzerland, operated by 100% hydropower. Devuan, debian, freebsd, ubuntu, centos. Our tech stack is fully open source.
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The Consul outage that never happened
Sometimes a good plan is the best tool for the job.
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AWS Data Exchange
We live in a data-intensive, data-driven world! Organizations of all types collect, store, process, analyze data and use it to inform and improve their decision-making processes. The AWS Cloud is well-suited to all of these activities; it offers vast amounts of storage, access to any conceivable amount of compute…
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Go.dev: a new hub for Go developers
Announcing go.dev, which answers: who else is using Go, what do they use it for, and how can I find useful Go packages?
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We Can Choose an Internet Without Surveillance
The internet is not just a network of computers—it’s a network of people. We hold great power in deciding its future.
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Brave launches 1.0
San Francisco – November 13, 2019 – Brave Software, makers of the innovative Brave browser which combines privacy with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform, today announced the official launch of Brave 1.0. The Brave open source browser fundamentally shifts how users, publishers, and advertisers interact…
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Helm (the Kubernetes package manager) 3.0.0 has been released
The Helm Team is proud to announce the first stable release of Helm 3.
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16-inch MacBook Pro
Apple today unveiled an all-new 16-inch MacBook Pro, the world’s best pro notebook, designed for pros from developers to scientists and more.
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Privacy: Is That iPhone?
A new Mozilla-Ipsos poll reveals that a majority of iPhone users treasure privacy — but aren’t aware of the device's ad tracking
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Court: Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Phones and Laptops Unconstitutional
Government Must Have Reasonable Suspicion of Digital Contraband Before Searching Electronic Devices at the U.S. Border
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Red Hat Introduces Open Source Project Quay Container Registry
Red Hat introduces the open sourcing of Project Quay, the upstream project representing the code that powers Red Hat Quay and Quay.io.
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CockroachDB 19.2
CockroachDB 19.2 improves latency, reliability, and usability. We’re bringing the speed of distributed transactions closer to the theoretical minimum.
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The Bytecode Alliance: Building a secure, composable future for WebAssembly
Lin Clark introduces the Bytecode Alliance, and uses Code Cartoon illustrations to share their vision of a WebAssembly ecosystem that is secure by default, fixing cracks in today’s software foundations. ...
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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2019
A problem that would have been discovered in the future would now be captured by the SMART stats when the process reads that section of disk today.
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Blogwashing
Blogwashing is a scammy SEO tactic which involves changing an old blogs publish date to a more current date to fake freshness to a search engine.
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PeerTube v2
Thanks to your donations, we have been developing a software to free us all from YouTube & Co for a year. Why have we gone much further than the first release, (crowdfunded in the spring of 2018), you might ask? Well, that's because we sincerely believe in the emancipatory power of PeerTube. This article is...
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Moving towards a faster web
Speed has been one of Chrome’s core principles since the beginning - we’re constantly working to give users an experience that is instant a...
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Multiple ways to compute e in Raku
The first task of the 21st Weekly Challenge was a very old one: to find (what would eventually become known as) Euler’s number.
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How We Built a Vectorized SQL Engine
Using vectorized processing in an execution engine makes more efficient use of modern CPUs by changing the data orientation (from rows to columns) to get more out of the CPU cache and deep instruction pipelines by operating on batches of data at a time.
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The Maturing of QUIC
QUIC, the new internet transport protocol set to replace TCP, was comprehensively built by tech industry leaders over nearly seven years. Go behind the scenes to see how QUIC evolved from a lofty experiment to a standard set to modernize the internet.
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Makers, Don't Let Yourself Be Forced into the 'Manager Schedule'
In Masters of Doom, a book about the game development company id Software and its influence on popular culture, David Kushner reflected on the...