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Why we are not leaving the cloud
What we learned from our community vetting our proposal to leave the cloud.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,763 posts.
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Docker Enterprise Edition
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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AWS Lambda – Best practices
In this post we are going to go through the best practices while building an AWS Lambda function. In order to go through this blog you should know what is it and you should ideally have built at le…
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Should economists be more concerned about AI?
Mauricio Armellini and Tim Pike. This post highlights some of the possible economic implications of the so-called “Fourth Industrial Revolution” — whereby the use of new technologies and artificial…
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Operation Rosehub – patching thousands of open-source projects
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
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UC Berkeley makes course video content unavailable to public
Here is additional information about upcoming changes to UC Berkeley’s library of legacy public Course Capture (classroom lecture) content
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Dilution
There has probably been more capital looking to invest in private technology companies in the past five years than any five-year period before. An obvious consequence of this increased supply is that company valuations (i.e. prices) have gone up, and so has the amount of capital raised by most companies. A non-obvious…
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Dodging S3 Downtime with Nginx and HAProxy
How we took eggs out of the S3 basket.
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Removing everything from GitHub
Github recently drafted an update to their Terms Of Service. The new TOS is potentially very bad for copylefted Free Software. It potentially neuters it entirely, so GPL licensed software hosted on Github has an implicit BSD-like license. I'll leave the full analysis to the lawyers, but see Thorsten's analysis .
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Quantifying the Impact of “Cloudbleed”
Last Thursday we released details on a bug in Cloudflare's parser impacting our customers. It was an extremely serious bug that caused data flowing through Cloudflare's network to be leaked onto the Internet.
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The Other Half
On January 19th of this year, I set off to California to participate in a hastily-arranged appearance in a UCLA building to talk about saving climate data in the face of possible administrative swi…
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ReBreakCaptcha: Breaking Google’s ReCaptcha v2 Using Google
TL;DR A logic vulnerability, dubbed ReBreakCaptcha, which lets you easily bypass Google’s ReCaptcha v2 anywhere on the web. Overview Back in 2016, I started poking around to see how hard it w…
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Kotlin 1.1 Released with JavaScript Support, Coroutines and more
Members of our community have translated this blog post into several languages: Today we're releasing Kotlin 1.1. It is a big step forward that enables the use of Kotlin in many new scenarios, and
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V8: A Tale of TurboFan
Personal website of Benedikt Meurer, JavaScript Engine Hacker and Programming Language Enthusiast.
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Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989)
For Richard, a crazy idea was an opportunity to either prove it wrong or prove it right.
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Riot Games Messaging Service
Hey there! My name is Michal 0xDEADB33F Ptaszek, and I’m a software architect at Riot. Today I would like to talk about communication. But not the kind of communication you’re probably thinking of. I want to talk about the other, more exci…
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The myth of using Scala as a better Java
When people talk about their experience with Scala, they often say that it is possible to use Scala as a better Java. And indeed, many companies, especially the ones that adopted Scala around 2008-2009, didn't want to give up the familiar tooling and simply integrated Scala into existing workflows based on Maven. At…
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Compile-Time Evaluation in the Zig System Programming Language
Zig places importance on the concept of whether an expression is known at compile-time. There are a few different places this concept is used, and these building blocks are used to keep the language small, readable, and powerful.
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Given Choice, Patients Will Choose Cannabis Over Prescribed Opioids
Chronic pain sufferers and those taking mental health meds would rather turn to cannabis instead of their prescribed opioid medication, according to new research by the University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria.
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Satirical Summaries of Hacker News
Does anyone have any questions about NAFTA for my PSYCHIC PIG?
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Problems with RESTful APIs (2015)
Why you might benefit from letting this popular paradigm rest in peace.