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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,567 posts.
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Jim Keller to Depart Intel
Intel Newsroom delivers the latest news, announcements, and updates. Stay informed on Intel innovations.
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GitLab acquires Peach Tech and Fuzzit
Acquisitions will make GitLab the first security solution to offer both coverage-guided and behavioral fuzz testing
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What to write down when you’re reading to learn
One of the hardest questions I’ve had to answer as part of the project formerly known as epistemic spot checks is: “how do I know what to write down?” This will be kind of meandering, so here’s the…
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Spark joy by running fewer tests
Developers write tests to ensure correctness and allow future changes to be made safely. However, as the number of features grows, so does the number of tests. Tests are a double-edged sword. On one hand, well-written ones catch bugs and maintain a program’s stability, but as the code base grows, a high number of…
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The antitrust case against Google
State and federal authorities are reportedly preparing to bring antitrust charges against Google. We talked to Yale SOM’s Fiona Scott Morton about the company's dominant role in online advertising and how it limits competition.
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A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website
Francesco Napoletano is a highly competent staff software engineer with 20+ years of experience developing a wide range of tools and applications for the web stack.
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Gimp 2.10.20
“GIMP 2.10.20 comes with new features as well as important bugfixes.”
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MIT Ends Elsevier Negotiations
Standing by its commitment to provide equitable and open access to scholarship, MIT has ended negotiations with Elsevier for a new journals contract. Elsevier failed to present a proposal that aligned with the principles of the MIT Framework for Publisher Contracts.
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A New RegExp Engine in SpiderMonkey
Regular expressions – commonly known as RegExps – are a powerful and heavily used tool for manipulating strings in JavaScript. This post describes how we updated the RegExp engine in ...
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Windows Explorer Through the Years
At a glance comparison of every major Explorer release
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The Map Is Not the Territory (2015)
The map is not the territory reminds us that our mental models of the world are not the same as the world itself. It cautions against confusing our abstractions and representations with the complex, ever-shifting reality they aim to describe.
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Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn
Ruminations on outsourcing our values
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How much did AlphaGo Zero cost? (2018)
Answer: probably around $35 million.
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How and why GraphQL will influence the Sourcehut alpha
sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.
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Book Review: Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind
I. Julian Jaynes’ The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind is a brilliant book, with only two minor flaws. First, that it purports to explains the origin of consciou…
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AWS CodeArtifact: A fully managed software artifact repository service
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Introducing AWS CodeArtifact: A fully managed software artifact repository service
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Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors
Today, we’re thrilled to announce that Michael Seibel will be joining Reddit’s Board of Directors. Seibel is Partner at Y Combinator and CEO of the YC star
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The social obligation to be bad at things
This page has moved to https://drmaciver.com/notebook/2020/02/the-social-obligation-to-be-bad-at-things/ .
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A one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition
We’re implementing a one-year moratorium on police use of Amazon’s facial recognition technology. We will continue to allow organizations like Thorn, the International Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and Marinus Analytics to use Amazon Rekognition to help rescue human trafficking victims…
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Speeding up a Git monorepo
We migrated from Mercurial to Git in 2014 to improve local performance and began consolidating our repositories that hosted our backend code. But as this monorepo grew, we experienced Git performance issues that grew linearly with the number of files we added. Inconveniently, this problem was the most severe on…
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Self-Hosted Homelab Website
This website, along with a stack of other projects—including virtualization, remote observability, VPNs, NAS, and more—runs from my wall-mounted home lab.
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YOLOv5: State-of-the-art object detection at 140 FPS
YOLOv5 license and commercial-use guide: AGPL-3.0 terms, specs, resources, and alternatives. Compare YOLOv5 against other vision models free.
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AWS Ruins Own Attempt at Sabotage
This week’s analysis on multi-cloud being a bad idea is once again pushed back by breaking news. In this case, AWS is suing a former executive, Brian
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Advice to new managers: don't joke about firing people
A guide to scaling product & engineering teams from $0 to past $100M ARR
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Short term usability is not the same as long term usability
When designing almost any piece of code or other functionality, the issue of usability often comes up. Most of the time these discussions go...