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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,323 posts.
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Evaluating Search Algorithms
The three-step framework Shopify's Data Science & Engineering team built for evaluating new search algorithms.
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100M Posts Analyzed: What You Need to Write the Best Headlines
Write better headlines with tactics from our analysis of 100 million headlines. Discover the best headline trigrams for Facebook, Twitter & more.
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OpenTTD 1.11
With 1.11 we bring you a lot of new features which you hopefully enjoy as much as we did creating them:
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Cheers to 10 Years
elementary OS rounds out its first decade
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Arabian Nights
“It hath reached me, O King of the Age, that there dwelt in a city of the cities of China a man which was a tailor, withal a pauper, and he had one son, Alaeddin hight. Now this boy had been from h…
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Update on campaign targeting security researchers
An update on a hacking campaign targeting security researchers.
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Jump in cancer diagnoses at 65 implies patients wait for Medicare: study
Analyzing a national cancer database, researchers find a bump in diagnoses at 65, suggesting that many wait for Medicare to kick in before they seek care.
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Redefining what a map can be with new information and AI
Here's a snapshot of how we're using AI to make Maps work better for you with a number of updates coming this year.
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The deck we used to raise our seed funding
We thought the deck we used for our seed round could be helpful to some companies, especially those that are open source or developer tools.
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Mullvad VPN | Privacy is a universal right
Free the internet from mass surveillance and censorship. Fight for privacy with Mullvad VPN and Mullvad Browser.
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Libreboot – Defend Richard Stallman
Canoeboot – Free, Libre BIOS/UEFI boot firmware
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Latest Mozilla VPN features
It’s been less than a year since we launched Mozilla VPN, our fast and easy-to-use Virtual Private Network service brought to you by a trusted name in on
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Google is testing its new ad targeting tech in millions of browsers
Update, April 9, 2021 : We've launched Am I FLoCed, a new site that will tell you whether your Chrome browser has been turned into a guinea pig for Federated Learning of Cohorts or FLoC, Google’s latest targeted advertising experiment. Today, Google launched an “origin trial” of Federated Learning...
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Suppressing a gene by using its antibody can lead to tooth growth: animal study
Tooth loss is a widespread problem in adults and results in poor quality of life. Currently, solutions to this problem include artificial teeth and implants. But these aren’t as good as “real teeth,” and they don’t markedly improve quality of life. Now, scientists from Japan have made a discovery that can make…
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What does a PGP signature on a Git commit prove?
With git, a cryptographic signature on a commit provides strong integrity guarantees of the entire history of that branch going backwards...
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EC2 Serial Console
Fixing production issues is one of the key responsibilities of system and network administrators. In fact, I’ve always found it to be one of the most interesting parts of infrastructure engineering. Diving as deep as needed into the problem at hand, not only do you (eventually) have the satisfaction of solving the…
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C# 9 top-level programs and target-typed expressions
Discover the new features in C# 9: top-level statements and target-typed new and conditional expressions. These features make C# less verbose and can be used in everyday programs.
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Kafka without ZooKeeper
Major milestone release Apache Kafka 4.0 removes ZooKeeper entirely, provides early access to Queues for Kafka, and enables faster rebalances, in addition to many other new KIPs.
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Benzene detected in hand sanitizers
Learn how Valisure’s work in pharmaceutical quality and transparency was recognized in the U.S. Senate Aging Committee report, highlighting their collaboration with the Department of Defense and commitment to innovation.
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Social media addiction linked to cyberbullying
Research links cause of cyberbullying to social media addiction, hours spent online and identifying as male.
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Storage is now available in Supabase (YC S20)
Launching Supabase Storage and how you can use it in your apps
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Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
I’m excited to share Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images today. The reason I’m excited about this acquisition is because it’s not goodbye, it’s about acceleration. This is not one of those tech acquisitions where the company is bought to be shut down. Unsplash will
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Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is back in its all-online format
Apple today announced it will host its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 7 through 11, in an all-online format.
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Bebop: An Efficient, Schema-Based Binary Serialization Format
BUILDING FOR HUMANITY
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How to Build a Web App with and Without Rails Libraries
Ruby on Rails is a web framework that contains many libraries you’d need to create and deploy a successful web application. We often take for granted the ability to run rails new to create a fully functional web application with tons of built-in features.