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A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,567 posts.
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Quantum supremacy, now with BosonSampling
Update (12/5): The Google team, along with Gil Kalai, have raised questions about whether the results of the new BosonSampling experiment might be easier to spoof classically than the USTC team tho…
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An update to storage policies across your Google Account
Over the past decade, Gmail, Google Drive and Google Photos have helped billions of people securely store and manage their emails, documents, photos, videos and more. To…
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Stripe: Platform of Platforms
Stripe’s announcement of Treasury — banking-as-a-service — manifests the breadth of the company’s ambition.
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Supabase Beta: Auth, SQL Editor, Benchmarks
Build production-grade applications with a Postgres database, Authentication, instant APIs, Realtime, Functions, Storage and Vector embeddings. Start for free.
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AWS just went multi-cloud
Confirmed: EKS Anywhere will support workloads on Azure and GCP. As predicted: AWS hearts multi-cloud. Forrest Brazeal @re:Invent 2020
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Benchmark: Puppeteer vs. Selenium vs. Playwright vs. WebDriverIO
Which one runs faster? Puppeteer, Playwright, WebDriverIO or Selenium? We ran our own benchmark to find out.
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M1 Macs: Truth and Truthiness
The M1 is up *here*, running fast and cool, and all the competing chips from Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, Samsung, and whoever else are down *there*, running hot or running slow, looking around for their recently stolen pants.
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What's new in Svelte (Dec 2020)
Better tooling, export maps and improvements to slots and context
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TimescaleDB vs. Amazon Timestream
Our TimescaleDB vs Amazon Timestream results surprised us, but after intensive testing, we found Timestream slow, expensive, and missing key capabilities.
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How I read books: a guide on how to learn
Disclaimer: I’ve spend hours researching this topic and simplifying things for you.It gets a bit nerdy, but if you apply these techniques…
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These are called opportunities
Yesterday Apple updated three of their machines. During the announcement, it was revealed that the MacBook Air, the MacBook Pro 13", and the Mac Mini would now be running on M1 SoCs. These "One more thing..." events usually comes with raving numbers and this one did not diverge from the tradition.
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HTTP/2 Push is dead
One of the hot features that came with HTTP/2 was PUSH frames. The main idea is that if the server can predict what requests a client might want to make, the server can preemptively send request/response pairs to the client and warm its cache.
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Taking PHP Seriously (2016)
Slack uses PHP for most of its server-side application logic, which is an unusual choice these days. Why did we choose to build a new project in this language? Should you? Most programmers who have only casually used PHP know two things about it: that it is a bad language, which they would never use if…
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Cyberespionage Using SS7 via Circles
Circles is a surveillance firm that reportedly exploits weaknesses in the global mobile phone system to snoop on calls, texts, and the location of phones around the globe, and is affiliated with NSO Group, which develops the oft-abused Pegasus spyware. Using Internet scanning, we found a unique signature associated…
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Using Bloom filters to efficiently synchronise hash graphs
This blog post uses MathJax to render mathematics. You need JavaScript enabled for MathJax to work.
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Materialize Raises a $32M Series B
Materialize secures Series B funding to enhance its Operational Data Warehouse with real-time streaming capabilities for immediate data action.
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Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz
rga is a line-oriented search tool that allows you to look for a regex in a multitude of file types. rga wraps the awesome ripgrep and enables it to search in pdf, docx, sqlite, jpg, zip, tar.*, movie subtitles (mkv, mp4), etc. ExamplesPDFs Say you have a large folder of papers or lecture slides,
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Chris Lattner
This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
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Linux kernel heap quarantine versus use-after-free exploits
It's 2020. Quarantines are everywhere – and here I'm writing about one, too. But this quarantine is of a different kind. In this article I'll describe the Linux Kernel Heap Quarantine that I developed for mitigating kernel use-after-free exploitation.
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QBE vs. LLVM
Both QBE and LLVM are compiler backends using an SSA representation. This document will explain why LLVM does not make QBE a redundant project. Obviously, everything following is biased, because written by me.
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Front: The $1.3B Startup Slackifying Email
Front is a B2B team email product, competitive with Zendesk and Intercom, with 137% net dollar retention. We value Front at $1.3B with a price per share of $11.
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Amazon S3 Update – Strong Read-After-Write Consistency
When we launched S3 back in 2006, I discussed its virtually unlimited capacity (“…easily store any number of blocks…”), the fact that it was designed to provide 99.99% availability, and that it offered durable storage, with data transparently stored in multiple locations. Since that launch, our customers have used S3…