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HTML Tips (2020)
20 HTML tips with examples: mailto and tel links, opening links in a new tab, lazy loading, a native accordion, range sliders, download links and more.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,820 posts.
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CLUI: Building a Graphical Command Line (2020)
“Command line interfaces. Once that was all we had. Then they disappeared, replaced by what we thought was a great advance: GUIs. GUIs were - and still are - valuable, but they fail to scale to the demands of today's systems. So now command line interfaces are back again, hiding under the name of search. Now you see…
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Apache Arrow 4.0
The Apache Arrow team is pleased to announce the 4.0.0 release. This covers 3 months of development work and includes 711 resolved issues from 114 distinct contributors. See the Install Page to learn how to get the libraries for your platform. The release notes below are not exhaustive and only expose selected…
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Why has nuclear power been a flop?
Nuclear is expensive, but it should be cheap
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Anim State Graph: Node-Based Animation Editor for WebGL
We’re excited to be able to release a new system for creating fantastic and high fidelity animations in PlayCanvas!
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TimescaleDB raises $40M
We just raised a $40M Series B to bring our relational database for time-series to developers everywhere. Learn how we got started and what’s still yet to come.
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Threaded Code (1999)
What is threaded code? What is it good for? What are the differences between the various threading techniques? How do I implement threaded code portably? How fast are various threading techniques?
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SeL4 on RISC-V Verified to Binary Code
… and seL4 and RISC-V Foundations form an alliance In June 2020 we announced that the seL4 microkernel, the world’s first operating system (OS) kernel with a machine-checked proof of implemen…
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Happy Hacking: Music Implementation in NieR:Automata (2017)
Hello! I’m Masami Ueda, a music composer at PlatinumGames, here to write about some of my work on NieR:Automat […]
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Generating more interesting image previews using imagemagick
A couple of tries at generating more interesting image previews using imagemagick with the mini_magick gem.
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The origin of “tweet” at Twitter (2013)
Last week, one of my colleagues informed me that the word “tweet” was now included in the Oxford English Dictionary (see “Quiet announcement” at the end of the page.) The noun and verb tweet (in the social-networking sense) has just been added to the OED. This breaks at least one OED rule, namely that a […]
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How we use web components
GitHub has long been a proponent of Web Components. Here's how we use them.
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Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt
Let engineers learn cloud without jeopardizing their personal well-being.
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Just Say No to Paxos Overhead: Replacing Consensus with Network Ordering (2016)
Jialin Li, Ellis Michael, Naveen Kr. Sharma, Adriana Szekeres, and Dan R. K. Ports, University of Washington
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Instagram ads Facebook won't show you
Companies like Facebook aren’t building technology for you, they’re building technology for your data. They collect everything they can from FB, Instagram, and WhatsApp in order to sell visibility into people and their lives. This isn’t exactly a secret, but the full picture is hazy to most – dim...
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On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness
My father’s father was by all accounts a really bitter-hearted sort of person.
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Branchless Coding in Go
So, I was recently inspired by a coworker’s design to pack what would have been JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) data into a bunch of bit fields in an array of 64-bit elements. Binary arithmetic, bit-packing, and high performance are fun for me, so I thought of some ways to improve it, for learning purposes. Then I…
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Dell patches 12-year-old driver vulnerability impacting millions of PCs
Update your Dell devices now! SentinelLabs discover five high severity flaws in Dell firmware update driver impacting desktops, laptops, notebooks & more.
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Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2021
A look at the quarterly and lifetime failure rates of 175,443 drives, including a comparison of failure rates of HDD and SSD boot drives.
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Seeing Like an SRE: Site Reliability Engineering as High Modernism
I recently spent some time trying to write a set of general guidelines for what to monitor in a software system. I came up with this list:
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Is your son a computer hacker? (2001)
As an enlightened, modern parent , I try to be as involved as possible in the lives of my six children. I encourage them to join team sports. I attend their teen parties with them to ensure no drinking or alcohol is on the premises. I keep a fatherly eye on the CDs they listen to and the shows they watch, the company…
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Google banned almost 120k spam developer accounts in 2020 for the play store
Posted by Krish Vitaldevara, Director of Product Management Trust & Safety, Google Play Providing safe experiences to billions of users a...
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An opinionated map of incremental and streaming systems
Disclaimer: I used to work for Materialize which is one of the systems being compared in this post.