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Saving on egress switching from AWS to Hetzner
Saving over 100x on egress switching from AWS to Hetzner by Zach Wasserman
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You Don't Need the Cloud
Thymer is a beautiful editor to write, outline and plan at the speed of thought. Real-time multiplayer, malleable with plugins and themes, open to your agents through plain files. End-to-end encrypted, on web, desktop and mobile.
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The implementation of the UK Covid-19 dashboard
Why and how the UK Coronavirus Dashboard team built their analytics service on top of PostgreSQL & Citus on Azure.
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Device wraps around hot surfaces, turns wasted heat to electricity
Penn State scientists have created flexible thermoelectric devices that can wrap around pipes and other hot surfaces, converting wasted heat into electricity more efficiently than previously possible.
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Today in the U.S. we are in the fourth superbubble of the last hundred years
Today in the U.S. we are in the fourth superbubble of the last hundred years, and for the first time in the U.S. we have simultaneous bubbles across all major asset classes.
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Click and Swap, our alternative to Drag and Drop
At Contentsquare, we gather hundreds of metrics about user interactions on the websites of our customers. Having all this information can easily become cumbersome and hard to exploit. To make user…
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MoonBounce: The dark side of UEFI firmware
At the end of 2021, we inspected UEFI firmware that was tampered with to embed a malicious code we dub MoonBounce. In this report we describe how the MoonBounce implant works and how it is connected to APT41.
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Food Deserts in America: Understanding The Impact on Communities with Limited Food Access
Learn what a food desert is and the impact of food deserts in America, where communities face limited access to affordable, nutritious food options.
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Audio Sparklines
Audio Sparklines! 3-bit digital wonders! A lofi waveform representation of audio buffers in tests and lldb debuggers!
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How we bootstrapped our SaaS to $1M ARR
How it took us almost five years and multiple failed projects to grow a sustainable and almost bootstrapped SaaS.
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IP Addressing in 2021
What can IPv4 and IPv6 addressing in 2021 tell us about the changing nature of the network?
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Starlink satellites hindering detection of near-Earth asteroids, study finds
A study of archival images from Zwicky Transient Facility shows an increase in satellite streaks.
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NoJS – Creating a calculator with only HTML and CSS
Everyone loves CSS! So I built a calculator where the CSS handles the logic without the help of javascript. In this blog post, I will discuss how I achieved this and maybe make a case for my sanity for making it.
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Free Postgres databases for small projects
Announcing free Postgres storage on Fly.io.
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SICP: JavaScript Edition available for pre-order
Since the publication of its first edition in 1984 and its second edition in 1996, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) has influenced co...
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Roblox October Outage Postmortem
Roblox is a global platform where millions of people gather together every day to imagine, create, and share experiences with each other in immersive, user-generated 3D worlds.
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Porting USB applications to the web. Part 1: libusb
Learn how code that interacts with external devices can be ported to the web with WebAssembly and Fugu APIs.
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No amount of alcohol is good for the heart, says World Heart Federation
GENEVA (20 January 2022) – In a new policy brief, the World Heart Federation (WHF) challenges the widespread notion that drinking moderate amounts of alcohol can decrease the risk of heart disease, and calls for urgent and decisive action to tackle the unprecedented rise in alcohol-related death and disability…
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Patents are out of control, and they’re hurting innovation (2017)
The government issues thousands of new patents every week — each one a new regulation — with little to no oversight or review.
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DynamoDB 10 years later
Amazon DynamoDB was introduced 10 years ago today; one of its key contributors reflects on its origins, and discusses the 'never-ending journey' to make DynamoDB more secure, more available and more performant.
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An Armful of CHERIs
Microsoft Security Response Center Blog2022105 points24 commentscited by 3Security & Privacy details
Today, Arm announced that the first silicon supporting the Morello prototype architecture, a research project led by Arm, Microsoft, University of Cambridge and others, is now available on a limited run of demonstration boards, which are being shipped from today to industry partners for testing. Morello is the first…