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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,323 posts.
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Cloudflare Pages is now Generally Available
Today, we’re excited to announce that Cloudflare Pages is now Generally Available and ready for your production needs.
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Private Home Directories for Ubuntu 21.04
Ubuntu has evolved a lot since its early beginnings as an easier-to-use derivative of Debian that catered primarily to the nascent Linux desktop market. Today Ubuntu is deployed beyond just your laptops at home and in the office. Nowadays you are more likely to find Ubuntu in the cloud, powering some of the world’s…
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Which form of transport has the smallest carbon footprint?
How can individuals reduce their emissions from transport?
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Making Librem 5 Apps [video]
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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“Buy and Hold” No More: The Resurgence of Active Trading
Conventional wisdom holds that passive trading is the rational investing strategy. Active traders are often portrayed as gambling rubes or lucky opportunists who will (eventually) be handily beaten by index funds. But the steady growth of platforms like eToro and Robinhood, coupled with the acceleration of investing…
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Best practices for writing SQL queries
SQL best practices: a brief guide to writing better SQL queries.
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Ink 1.0 – Open-source scripting language for interactive narrative
Independent developer of narrative games and interactive stories.
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ESP32-C6, a Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5 (LE) SoC
ESP32-C6 is Espressif’s first low-power and cost-effective Wi-Fi 6 + Bluetooth 5 (LE) SoC, with a 32-bit RISC-V core, for securely connected devices. ESP32-C6 is already certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance.
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A look at LLVM: comparing clamp implementations
Please note that this is not an endorsement or criticism of either of these languages. It’s simply something I found interesting with how LLVM handles code generation between the two. This is an implementation quirk, not a language issue. Update (April 9, 2021): A bug report was filed and a fix was pushed! The LLVM…
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Monster Mash: A Sketch-Based Tool for Casual 3D Modeling and Animation
Posted by Cassidy Curtis, Visual Designer and David Salesin, Principal Scientist, Google Research 3D computer animation is a time-consuming and hig...
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AWS Lambda Edge changes duration billing granularity from 50ms down to 1ms
Discover more about what's new at AWS with AWS Lambda@Edge changes duration billing granularity from 50ms down to 1ms
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Zoom zero-day discovery
White hat hackers demonstrated a Zoom vulnerability allowing a Remote Code Execution attack at the Pwn2Own event.
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Nix is the ultimate DevOps toolkit
At Channable we use Nix to build and deploy our services and to manage our development environments. This was not always the case: in the past we used a combination of ecosystem-specific tools and custom scripts to glue them together. Consolidating everything with Nix has helped us standardize development and…
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Docker without Docker
Our users deliver software to us as Docker containers, but we don’t use Docker to run them. We transmogrify container images into Firecracker micro-VMs. Here's how.
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Monkey MindPong
Get the latest on neurotech directly from our experts. Check out the Neuralink blog for news, insights, and behind-the-scenes looks at our work.
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Commits are snapshots not diffs (2020)
Git has a reputation for being confusing. Users stumble over terminology and phrasing that misguides their expectations. This is most apparent in commands that “rewrite history” such as git cherry-pick or git rebase. In my experience,…
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The Tarnished Moon
Remote sensing observations reveal the presence of ferric iron in the form of the mineral hematite at high latitudes on the Moon, possibly the product of reaction of ferrous iron on the Moon with oxygen from the Earth�s upper atmosphere.
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EFF's reply to cease-&-desist letter – “Virtual Coachella” parody video
eff_ltr_to_rico_mgmt_re_krazam_llc.pdf
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How to Learn Complex Things Quickly: A Guide
No matter what your field, learning efficiently (and well) is an indispensable skill. Here's how.
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We scaled the GitHub API with a sharded, replicated rate limiter in Redis
Adventures in leveling up our API rate limiting infrastructure
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New Mexico is the second state to ban qualified immunity
SANTA FE, NM (April 7, 2021) – Today, New Mexico became the second state in the nation to abolish qualified immunity when Governor Lujan Grisham signed the New Mexico Civil Rights Act into law. In addition to eliminating qualified immunity, this historic legislation will allow New Mexicans – including the wrongfully…
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Productivity vs Wages | Productivity is Soaring, But Wages Aren't Keeping Up
The debate about productivity vs wages has been answered here. A study has found that the growth in compensation is lagging behind the productivity of employees.
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AMD and Xilinx Stockholders Overwhelmingly Approve AMD’s Acquisition of Xilinx
View the press release archives from AMD.
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FDA approves first test of CRISPR for genetic defect causing sickle cell disease
UC scientists and physicians hope to permanently cure patients of sickle cell disease by using CRISPR-Cas9 to replace a defective gene with the normal version
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Apple’s Find My network now offers new third-party finding experiences
The Find My network accessory program enables users to keep track of their belongings in the new Items tab within the Find My app
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BleedingTooth: Linux Bluetooth Zero-Click Remote Code Execution
This project hosts security advisories and their accompanying proof-of-concepts related to research conducted at Google which impact non-Google owned code.