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PureOS is convergent
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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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,170 posts.
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The most important software dev skills aren’t technical
Over the course of my career, I've found two characteristics to be among the most important for software developers to thrive.
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Why do poor school kids have to clean up rich commuters’ pollution?
Item: In the past two years, Portland Public Schools has spent nearly $12.5 million of its scarce funds to clean up the air at Harriet Tubman Middle School. This money will buy an expensive state-of-the-art air filtration system that will make the air inside the school safe for students to breathe. Scientists from…
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The rise of wgpu
gfx-rs is a project bringing efficient cross-platform graphics to rust. This blog supposedly hosts the major milestones, concepts, and recaps of the project.
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Serious Chrome zero-day
The Sophos Blog
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Open-Sourcing Windows Calculator
Today, we’re excited to announce that we are open sourcing Windows Calculator on GitHub under the MIT License. This includes the source code, build system, unit tests, and product roadmap. Our goal is to build an even better user experience in partnership with the community. We are encouraging your fresh perspectives…
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Microservices, Containers and Kubernetes in Ten Minutes
What is a microservice? What is Kubernetes for? In this post, we try to explain microservices, containers and Kubernetes in 10 minutes
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Updated Microsoft Store App Developer Agreement: New Revenue Share
As of March 5th, the Microsoft Store team has updated the Microsoft Store App Developer Agreement (ADA). The next time you log into your Partner Center dashboard, you or someone with an administrative role on your account will be prompted to reaccept the ADA before you can continue to update or manage your…
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Waymo: Bringing 3D perimeter Lidar to partners
Simon Verghese, Head of Lidar Team
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How to Spoof PDF Signatures
One year ago, we received a contract as a PDF file. It was digitally signed. We looked at the document - ignoring the "certificate is not tr...
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PEP 584 – Add + and – operators to the built-in dict class
This PEP proposes adding merge (|) and update (|=) operators to the built-in dict class.
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The Growth Stacks of 2019
Explore the latest trends, best practices, and expert tips shaping the future of customer engagement.
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A Behind the Scenes Take on Lithium-Ion Battery Prices
Automakers and policy makers are increasingly voicing their belief that the passenger vehicle of the future will be powered (partially or fully) by electricity. There remains, however, a lack of consensus on the timing and speed of the transition, in large part due to differing opinions on current and future…
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Achieving 100k connections per second with Elixir
In this article, we explain how to scale Elixir to handle 100k connections per second.
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FaunaDB 2.5.4
In 2012, Thomson, Diamond, Weng, et al. published Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems : a transactional protocol optimized for geographic replication. Each Calvin cluster is comprised of multiple replicas , where a replica is a collection of nodes which store a complete copy of the…
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Spidermon: Scrapinghub’s Now Open Sourced Spider Monitoring Library
Learn how to easily monitor scrapy spiders & validate data with Spidermon! Developed by Zyte Spidermon is now available as an open-source library.
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Neural MMO – A Multiagent Game Environment
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
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Web Design 3.0: When Your Web Design Matters
Explore Web Design 3.0 and discover modern website design principles with free positioning, overlapping elements, creative layouts, and flexible grids.
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Google open sourced GPipe, a library for training large ML models
Posted by Yanping Huang, Software Engineer, Google AI Deep neural networks (DNNs) have advanced many machine learning tasks, including speech rec...
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Facebook Doubles Down on Misusing Your Phone Number
When we publicly demanded that Facebook stop messing with users’ phone numbers last week, we weren’t expecting the social network to double down quite like this: By default, anyone can use the phone number that a user provides for two-factor authentication (2FA) to find that user’s profile. For...
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Understand, Design, Build: A Framework for Problem-Solving
Discover how to create solutions using Lob’s framework for problem solving. Learn how to understand the problem, design an approach, and build a solution.
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Building Fast Interpreters in Rust
In the previous post we described the Firewall Rules architecture and how the different components are integrated together. We created a configurable Rust library for writing and executing Wireshark®-like filters in different parts of our stack written in Go, Lua, C, C++ and JavaScript Workers.