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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,838 posts.
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World of Goo Update, 10 Years Later
Tomorrow Corporation is an independent game developer behind indie games Little Inferno and Human Resource Machine
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The Search for the Extra Pedal (2017)
McLaren Mastercard Formula 1 will race with Mercedes-Benz power in the 2026 F1 season, taking to the track for 24 race weekends with Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri.
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Epic Games Is Acquiring Psyonix
Psyonix is Joining the Epic Family!
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Open-Sourcing Ax and BoTorch: New AI Tools for Adaptive Experimentation
We are open-sourcing BoTorch and Ax, two new tools that leverage adaptive experimentation to efficiently tackle optimization challenges in tuning software configurations, machine learning hyperparameters, ranking systems, and more.
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Remote Code Execution on Most Dell Computers
What computer do you use? Who made it? Have you ever thought about what came with your computer? When we think of Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in mass, we might think of vulnerabilities in the operating system, but another attack vector to consider is "What third-party software came with
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Rails 6: B-Sides and Rarities
Discover lesser-known Rails 6 features that stay out of the spotlight but can bring a lot to your current applications.
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CallJoy – A cloud-based phone agent for small businesses
Every day, local small businesses receive 400 million calls from consumers. CallJoy’s phone technology helps them answer with intelligence.
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An Introduction to Vectorization
Your CPU has a 32-bit addition instruction that computes the sum of two 32-bit integers x and y, producing a 32-bit result. (The 33rd bit of the sum, the "carry bit", is usually thrown away.)
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Everything Is Correlated
Anthology of sociology, statistical, or psychological papers discussing the observation that all real-world variables have non-zero correlations and the implications for statistical theory such as ‘null hypothesis testing’.
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I forgot how to manage a server
Something embarrassing happened to me the other day. I was playing around with a new server on Digital Ocean and it occurred to me: I had no idea how to manage …
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Benefits of a Monorepo
A monorepo? Isn't that just a weird Facebook and Google thing? Why is PSPDFKit using a monorepo?
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Intermediate Vim
A few tips to level up your vim editing skills from beginner to intermediate.
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Making Sandspiel
Sandspiel is a falling sand game I built in late 2018. I really enjoyed writing this game, and wanted to put into writing some of my goals, design decisions, and learnings from that process. If you’re reading this but haven’t played sandspiel, you should probably go try it !
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Career advice I wish I’d been given when I was young
Seventeen recommendations from someone we think had a big impact with their career.
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Modern C++ for C Programmers
2018 is an exciting time to be a programmer, with so many good “full service” programming languages to choose from: C, C++ 2017, Go, Python, Rust and who knows Swift too. Programming languages are complicated beasts - even the simplest languages have specifications that run (or would run) in the hundreds of pages, and…
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Apple Q2 Results
Apple reported its second quarter financial results for the fiscal year after the market close on Tuesday, April 30, 2019.
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Now dev – Serverless on localhost
With Vercel CLI's new `vercel dev` command, you can locally work on Vercel applications easily, without having to deploy them.
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DHS Asserting Unconstitutional Authority to Search Travelers’ Phones and Laptops
BOSTON — The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the ACLU today asked a federal court to rule without trial that the Department of Homeland Security violates the First and Fourth Amendments by searching travelers’ smartphones and laptops at airports and other U.S. ports of entry without a...
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What predicts students’ drinking habits? How much they think others are drinking
A new study by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University examined students’ genetic risk of alcohol use, roommates’ drinking habits and the perception of peer drinking.
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Anatomy of an ELF executable
Almost every one of you must have written a program, compiled it and then ran it to see the fruits of your hard labour. It feels good to finally see your program working, isn’t it? But to make all of this work, we have someone else to thankful too. And that is your compiler (of course, assuming that you are working in…
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Fedora 30
It seems like it was just six months ago that we announced Fedora 29, and here we are again. Today, we announce our next operating system release. Even though it went so quickly, a lot has happened in the last half year, and you’ll see the results in Fedora 30. If you’re impatient, go to […]