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Choose SQL
Let’s get straight to the point; choose an SQL database for your web application. I think I can’t make my self clearer.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,763 posts.
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A Visual Guide to What's New in Swagger 3.0
ReadMe helps you create beautiful, interactive API documentation that developers love.
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Developer Preview of Android O
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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Announcing Free and Automated SSL Certs
We are excited to announce that Automated Certificate Management is generally available, at no additional charge, for all applications running on Hobby...
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Deep Learning without Backpropagation
A machine learning craftsmanship blog.
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Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures of the Yahoo Hack
(.. Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures)
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CERN experiment discovers five new particles
STFC supports research in astronomy, physics, space science and operates world-class research facilities for the UK.
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PSD2 – a directive that will change banking in Europe
Tieto is leading Nordic software and technology company serving banking, healthcare, and industry sectors. ~14,000 experts, €1.8B revenue, operating in 20+ countries
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PyPy2.7 and PyPy3.5 v5.7 released
The PyPy team is proud to release both PyPy2.7 v5.7 (an interpreter supporting Python v2.7 syntax), and a beta-quality PyPy3.5 v5.7 (an in...
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YC W17 Launch: Wifi.com.ng – Uncapped ISP for Africa
We’re in the middle of YC’s W17 batch. As companies launch they’ll be doing a Q&A on Hacker News – aka Launch HN – in addition to being included in a roundup on the blog. Here are the companies that have recently launched. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wifi.com.ng…
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Changes I would make to Go
To highlight exactly how I think Go could be better, I want to make comparisons to Rust.
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Epoll is broken – part 2/2
In this post we'll discuss the second argument on why the epoll() is broken. The problem is best described in an LWN comment by Foom :
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Tears
So humans are a peculiar species. You probably knew that. What you may not have realized — like I hadn't until recently — is just how many traits and behaviors are uniquely human.
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I've decided to move on to Distill
I do not plan to write more of my deep learning articles on this site. Instead, I will be co-editor of Distill , a visual, interactive journal for machine learning research emphasizing human understanding. I believe this will allow me to better serve the community.
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Bloaty McBloatface: a size profiler for binaries
I’m very excited to announce that today I’m open-sourcing atool I’ve been working on for several months at Google.It’s called Bloaty McBloatface, and it lets...
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Hash indexes are faster than btree indexes?
PostgreSQL have supported Hash Index for a long time, but they are not much used in production mainly because they are not durable. Now, ...
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3D printing with cellulose
Researchers at MIT have invented a 3-D printing process for cellulose, the world’s most abundant polymer.
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Bootstrapping a Type System (2010)
Magpie has reached a strange but neat little milestone on the road from “weird experiment” to “real language”: the type system is now bootstrapped. I’m not aware of any other languages where a statement like that is even meaningful (maybe Typed Scheme ?), much less true , so I’ll try to break that down.
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TreeMaker: Origami Design Software
In 1989, I wrote an article for the magazine Engineering & Science about the state of technical folding, which, even then, seemed to be progressing by leaps and bounds due to an infusion of scientific and mathematical principles. In recounting some of the connections between origami, math, and technology, I wrote:
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YC AI
Some think the excitement around Artificial Intelligence is overhyped. They might be right. But if they’re wrong, we’re on the precipice of something really big. We can’t afford to ignore what might be the biggest technological leap since the Internet. In an effort to usher in more innovation with AI, Y Combinator is…
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They Used To Last 50 Years
Now refrigerators last 8–10 years, if you are fortunate. How in the world have our appliances regressed so much in the past few decades? I’ve bought and sold refrigerators and freezers from the 1950’s that still work perfectly fine. I’ve come across washers and dryers from the 1960’s and 1970’s that were still working…
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The Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely Must Know About Unicode (2003)
Ever wonder about that mysterious Content-Type tag? You know, the one you’re supposed to put in HTML and you never quite know what it should be? Did you ever get an email from your friends in…