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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,170 posts.
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CowToilet, a Toilet for Cows
If you are a dairy farmer looking for ways to reduce your environmental impact, Hanskamp's CowToilet may be for you. This innovative system is designed to…
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RFC8482 – Saying Goodbye to ANY
Ladies and gentlemen, I would like you to welcome the new shiny RFC8482, which effectively deprecates DNS ANY query type. DNS ANY was a "meta-query" - think about it as a similar thing to the common A, AAAA, MX or SRV query types, but unlike these it wasn't a real query type - it was special.
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Addressing Spotify’s Claims
We want more app businesses to thrive — including the ones that compete with some aspect of our business, because they drive us to be better.
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2019 Guide to Cryptographic Key Sizes and Algorithm Recommendations
A simple, accessible recommendation for key sizes and recommended algorithms for various cryptographic algorithms.
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Fast, Bump-Allocated Virtual Doms with Rust and Wasm
Dodrio is a new virtual DOM library that is designed to leverage the strengths of both Wasm’s linear memory and Rust’s low-level control by making extensive use of fast bump ...
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ArangoDB Receives $10M Series A Funding
The only enterprise AI data platform that cuts complexity, reduces costs, and gets you to production faster.
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PrivateStorage.io: A secure and privacy-focused cloud storage solution
Announcing a cloud storage solution where you are in control of all your data with client-side encryption and no data or vendor lock-in.
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Krita 4.2.0: First painting application with HDR support on Windows
Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
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Calculating a record-breaking 31.4T digits of Pi with GCP
Pi in the sky: Calculating a record-breaking 31.4 trillion digits of Archimedes’ constant on Google Cloud
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A Pi-Powered Plan 9 Cluster
Building a 4-node cluster for experimenting with the distributed operating system.
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Godot 3.1 Released
After a bit more than one year of work, the Godot developers and contributors are delighted to get their new release out the door, Godot 3.1! It brings much-requested improvements to usability and many important features. Godot 3.1 is more mature and easy to use, and it does away with many hurdles introduced in the…
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Understanding the Stellar Consensus Protocol
What’s an agreement system? What makes one “Byzantine”? What makes a Byzantine one “federated”?
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Iodide: An experimental Mozilla tool for data exploration on the web
Meet Iodide, an experimental open source tool to help scientists write beautiful interactive documents using web technologies, all within a browser-based iterative workflow that will be familiar to many scientists.
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Android Q Beta
Today we’re releasing Beta 1 of Android Q for early adopters and a preview SDK for developers. You can get started with Beta 1 today by enrolling any Pixel device (including the original Pixel and Pixel XL, which we’ve extended support for by popular demand!) Please let us know what you think! Read on for a taste of…
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How we made Haskell search strings as fast as Rust
In this post, we will describe our quest to create Alfred–Margaret, the fastest Haskell implementation of the Aho–Corasick string searching algorithm, which powers string search in Channable.
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Erlang OTP 21.3
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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Extracting Bitlocker Keys from a TPM
Extracting BitLocker keys sealed with a TPM by sniffing the LPC bus
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Rewarding Neglect and Punishing Investment in Struggling Neighborhoods
In cities all over America, we deter people from revitalizing neighborhoods by punishing them with higher taxes for improving their property. A change in how we tax property could fix these incentives.
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JIT-Less V8
V8 v7.4 supports JavaScript execution without allocating executable memory at runtime.
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Beginner's Guide to Attention Mechanisms and Memory Networks
SkyMind AI — humanoid robotics and the case for physical AI. Curated rather than complete: deliberate selection, checked content and clear structure…
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Scaleway cloud adds AMD EPYC instances
With an ideal mix of compute, memory, and networking, General Purpose virtual machines are the default choice for reliable performance across most common applications. Whether you’re scaling dev/test environments or hosting production-grade applications, these instances deliver consistent performance and value for a…
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Party Affiliation
In politics, as of today, do you consider yourself a Republican, a Democrat, or an Independent? (Asked of independents: As of today, do you lean more to the Democratic Party or the Republican Party?)
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Opioids and the Labor Market (2018)
This paper finds evidence that opioid availability decreases labor force participation while a large labor market shock does not influence the share of opioid abusers. We first identify the effect of availability on participation using the geographic variation in opioid prescription rates. We use a combination of the…
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On the Road to WebRTC 1.0, Including VP8
Safari 11 was the first Safari version to support WebRTC.
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Researchers find trapdoor in SwissVote election system
A team of researchers have examined the source code published as part of the SwissPost e-voting system, provided by Scytl, and discovered a cryptographic trapdoor.
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On “Open” Distros, Open Source, and Building a Company
At Elastic, our focus is on building great products, form communities around them, and make our users successful.
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Our Boss Will Call Your Boss
On February 17, seven Blackwater-like security contractors were arrested in Haiti while driving in unmarked vehicles and transporting illegal weaponry and tactical equipment. They claimed to be on a government mission. Four days later the US “rescued” them. None are expected to face charges. What happened?