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How Postgres chooses which index to use for a query
How the Postgres planner breaks down a query into scans and how this impacts indexing choices
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,332 posts.
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Go maps in action
How and when to use Go maps.
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The Birth of Tcl
Tap, Click, Launch
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A cautionary tale from the decline of SourceForge
There are thousands of books in print today about starting a business, but only a handful about ending one and moving on . Tamburri2020 is a deep dive into one particular (and not yet complete) ending: the decline of SourceForge , which was the first (and for many years the largest) open source software forge. Over…
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Neubrutalism is taking over the web?
A new design style merges chaotic visuals with good typography.
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Managing mental health while running a startup
Okta co-founder Frederic Kerrest explains why all startup founders need to stay mentally, emotionally, and physically fit.
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Electoral Turnovers
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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State machine replication, and why you should care
Listen in on Jane Street’s Ron Minsky as he has conversations with engineers working on everything from clock synchronization to reliable multicast, build systems to reconfigurable hardware. Get a peek at how Jane Street approaches problems, and how those ideas relate to tech more broadly.
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Discussions: Real human answers in search results
Brave is announcing an exciting new feature of Brave Search. It's called Discussions, and it’s now available on desktop and mobile.
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Go Developer Survey 2021 Results
An analysis of the results from the 2021 Go Developer Survey.
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Amazon releases 51-language dataset for language understanding
MASSIVE dataset and Massively Multilingual NLU (MMNLU-22) competition and workshop will help researchers scale natural-language-understanding technology to every language on Earth.
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QEMU 7.0
We’d like to announce the availability of the QEMU 7.0.0 release. This release contains 2500+ commits from 225 authors.
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De-AMP: Cutting out Google and enhancing privacy
Brave is rolling out a new feature called De-AMP, which allows Brave users to bypass Google-hosted AMP pages, and instead visit the content's publisher directly.
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How DALL-E 2 Works
How does OpenAI's groundbreaking DALL-E 2 model actually work? Check out this detailed guide to learn the ins and outs of DALL-E 2.
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Netlify Edge Functions: A new serverless runtime powered by Deno
Build fast, personalized web experiences with Netlify Edge Functions: a serverless runtime built for on Deno, and compatible with your favorite JavaScript frameworks.
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How we upgraded our 4TB Postgres database
Last fall, we migrated our 4TB Postgres database from version 9.6 to version 13 with minimal downtime. Here is how we did it (gotchas included).
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The x86 architecture is the weirdo (2004)
So unlike all the others, yet people think it's the normal one.
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The x86 architecture is the weirdo, part 2
It does everything differently, because of course it does.
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Introducing a16z START
Introducing the a16z START program, which fuels founders at the earliest stages with 1:1 support, network introductions, and up to $1M in funding.
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UK Government Officials Infected with Pegasus
We confirm that in 2020 and 2021 we observed and notified the government of the United Kingdom of multiple suspected instances of Pegasus spyware infections within official UK networks, including the Prime Minister’s Office and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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Highlights from Git 2.36
Another new release of Git is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what's new in Git 2.36.
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SVG passthrough precision
If an SVG is imported into a design tool, then immediately exported as another SVG, how much precision is kept? What’s added, removed, or altered?
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CatalanGate: Spyware operation against Catalans using Pegasus and Candiru
The Citizen Lab, in collaboration with Catalan civil society groups, has identified at least 65 individuals targeted or infected with mercenary spyware, including members of the European Parliament, Catalan Presidents, legislators, jurists, and members of civil society organisations.
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Security experts declare all Proton apps secure after security audit
All our apps (Proton Mail, Proton Drive, etc) are open source and independently audited. Anyone can inspect our software and confirm our encryption works.
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About Emergency Access
The emergency access feature of the Bitwarden password manager enables you to designate trusted emergency contacts to access your vault in an emergency.