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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,290 posts.
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Google Update Tanks Traffic
Yet another existential threat to PainScience.com.
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The cult of the free must die
For a terrible half an hour last night I thought Firefox was on the brink of disappearing as an independent browser and rendering engine. I was frightened silly by the rumour that Mozilla laid off significant portions of its browser team. The official press release being full of useless corporate open web blah didn’t…
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Stopping phishing campaigns with Bash
Personal Blog of Christian Haschek
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Entropy explained, with sheep (2016)
An explorable blog post about entropy, with sheep.
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Can we do better than our C compiler?
Today, I wanted to see if I could out-compile my C compiler. I added a hand-compiled assembly version of echo from our previous coding exercise and added a new make target, make asm , that will assemble it. Let's look at our hand-compiled assembly and compare it to our C compiler and ask whether or not it was worth it.
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Self-publishing and the 2nd edition of Ansible for DevOps
Five years, 834 commits, and 24 major revisions later, I've just published the 2nd edition of Ansible for DevOps, a book which has now sold over 60,000 copies and spawned a popular free Ansible 101 video series on YouTube. Making good on my promise to make the ebook updates free, forever, I've published a new revision…
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Vitamin D, part 1: back to basics
Vitamin D is a big deal. Recent studies have shown that patients with low Vitamin D levels are more likely to die from Covid-19 than their Vitamin D-rich counterparts,(1) and deficiency in the…
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Dishwashing detergent hack: Two ingredients (2015)
Run out of dishwasher detergent - here is my two ingredient dishwasher detergent hack that will get your dishes clean until you can restock.
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QEMU should move from C to Rust
Welcome Redditors and HackerNews folks! This post is getting attention outside the QEMU community, so I'd like to highlight two things that...
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Why is there only one Snap Store?
Snap and Flatpak are the basis of two universal app stores for Linux: the Snap Store and Flathub. Interestingly, Flatpak has multiple repositories: Flathub is the main one but both Fedora and Elementary OS also host their own store. In contrast; there is only one Snap store. Why is that?
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Let's Build a 28-Core Raspberry Pi Cluster
I built a 28-core gigabit cluster, Kraken, consisting of 7 Raspberry Pi 3 Model Bs.
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Never use a dependency that you could replace with an afternoon of programming
Never use a dependency that you could replace with an afternoon of programming.
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That coworker who never stops refactoring
We’ve all seen them. They drive the rest of the team crazy. How can we use them to our advantage?
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Single Page Applications using Rust
Easy to follow guide to building SPAs using Rust, WebAssembly and Yew
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Creating a QR Code step by step
This JavaScript demo application visualizes in detailed steps, how a text string is encoded into a QR Code barcode symbol. The content of this page essentially explains and justifies how my QR Code generator library works internally.
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I accidentally built a nudity/porn platform
I didn’t know that my next project will turn into a nudity platform and a home for spammers. But it did happen while I wasn’t paying attention. And here are the details. For the next 5/…
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Parallel Seam Carving
Seam carving is a technique for content-aware resizing, which changes the size of an image while attempting to preserve the interesting content of the image. The basic idea behind the technique is to remove low-energy seams: paths of pixels that are similar to their surroundings. A removed seam can be either vertical…
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Cloud Traffic
I recently watched Build an enterprise-grade service mesh with Traffic Director , featuring Stewart Reichling and Kelsey Hightower of GCP, and of course Google Cloud’s Traffic Director . Coming at this with a brain steeped in 5½ years of AWS technology and culture was surprising in ways that seem worth sharing.
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UX design: Tools, methods and frameworks for generalists
🗝 The Keyring // 001
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How We Got the Favicon (2017)
The favicon was a total experiment, the result of a bit of serendipity and luck.
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Wiki Bankruptcy
An appropriately annoying strategy for dealing with wiki rot at a company.