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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,170 posts.
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Cancer death rates are falling, five-year survival rates rising
Cancers are one of the leading causes of death globally. Are we making progress against them?
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Dystopia Is What Results from the Attempt to Create Utopia
D ystopia is all the rage these days. Not only does it make for hit television, in the form of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale or Amazon’s The Man in the High Castle , but it is the concern of many popular fiction and Internet ruminations. Indeed, it has become a weaponized term in the culture, used against Donald Trump…
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Trolls Are Real
In most issues of EFFector, we give an overview of all the work we’re doing at EFF. Today, in light of recent developments at the U.S. Patent Office, we’re doing a deep dive into a single issue: recent changes to the patent system, and how it’s in danger of heading backwards.
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20th Century Fox Uses ML to Predict a Movie Audience
Success in the movie industry relies on a studio’s ability to attract moviegoers—but that’s sometimes easier said than done. Moviegoers are a diverse group, with a wide variety of interests and preferences. Historically, movie studios have relied heavily on experience when deciding to invest in a particular script—but…
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Password Managers: Under the Hood of Secrets Management
February 19, 2019
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Let’s Talk Concurrency: Panel with Sir Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong, Carl Hewitt
When considering the panel to discuss concurrency, you’d be pushed to find a higher calibre than Sir Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong, and Carl Hewitt.
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Discovering a New Form of Communication in the Brain
Case Western Reserve researchers observe waves ‘leap’ across cut in brain tissue; ‘ephaptic coupling’ said to be producing self-propagating wa...
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Announcing workers.dev
We are working really hard to allow you to deploy Workers without having a Cloudflare domain. You will soon be able to deploy your Cloudflare Workers to a subdomain-of-your-choice.workers.dev, which you can go claim now on workers.dev!
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First .dev Domains Go Live
Today we’re introducing .dev, the latest top-level domain (TLD) from Google Registry, offering secure domains for developers and technology.
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How Not to Do Time Tracking for Software Developers
Time tracking can be beneficial for software developers. Want to know how? Follow our best practices and see what mistakes to avoid.
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SIMD Instructions Considered Harmful (2017)
In the process of writing a short introduction to RISC-V, we compared RISC-V vector code to SIMD. We were struck by the insidiousness of the SIMD instruction extensions of ARM, MIPS, and x86. We de…
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V100 Server On-Prem vs. AWS P3 Instance Cost Comparison
A cost and speed comparison between the Lambda Hyperplane 8 V100 GPU Server and AWS p3 GPU instances. A very similar comparison to the DGX-1.
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A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency
MIT researchers developed a new cryptocurrency, Vault, that reduces data users need to join the network and verify transactions by up to 99 percent compared to Bitcoin and Ethereum.
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SOCKMAP – TCP splicing of the future
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Deciphering the Messages of Apple’s T2 Coprocessor
Explore the Duo Blog for expert tips, security insights, and resources to stay updated on the latest in security and access management trends.
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Chaos Monkey Guide for Engineers
A complete and comprehensive guide to learn about, set up, and deploy Chaos Monkey and other similar tools for creating chaos. Download the whole guide.
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Obesity and overweight
Obesity and overweight fact sheet from WHO providing key facts and information on causes, health consequences, double burden of disease, prevention, WHO response.
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Intern at a YC Company
If you’re an ambitious undergrad or graduate student with an engineering background, YC can help you get an internship at a YC-backed company. You apply once, and your profile will be sent to over 50 YC startups that are looking for summer interns. The 50 companies participating in our Work at a Startup…
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An Inside Look at the Backblaze Storage Pod Museum
Nearly 10 years after the first Storage Pod altered the storage landscape the innovation continues to deliver great returns to the market.
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Moving from Ruby to Rust
How we migrated our Tier 1 service from ruby to rust and didn’t break production.
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Opening the Filecoin Project Repos
Today, we are excited to open several repos on GitHub, and invite everybody to join us on GitHub.
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Winning the Blackbird Battle
We’re happy to report that on Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an opinion affirming a lower court decision dismissing the case brought by Blackbird Tech. This is the last step in the process, we’ve won.