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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,567 posts.
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Elixir v1.10
Elixir v1.10 is out with standard library, compiler, and releases improvements.
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Bill Manning has died
Quantum computing, quantum Internet, Japan, astrophotography
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Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)
Discover why personal websites are the backbone of the independent web. Learn how to build, connect, and maintain your own space on the internet.
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Rat had 'no brain' and somehow lived a normal life
Many scientists believe that parts of the brain are meant only for specific functions. What if there were an animal that proved them wrong?
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GNU Recutils
Fred and George, Turtles in love There are hundreds of cool command line tools that have been made over the years built on the unix philosophy. Plain text is powerful, ubiquitous, and human-centric. It was also the only option for computing for quite a while. It’s no surprise that some of the most sophisticated tools…
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Access to Wikipedia restored in Turkey after more than two and a half years
Today, on Wikipedia’s 19th birthday, the Wikimedia Foundation has received reports that access to Wikipedia in Turkey is actively being restored.* This latest development follows a 26 December 2019 ruling by the Constitutional Court of Turkey that the more than two and a half year block imposed by the Turkish…
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Entropy in the Universe
If you click on this picture, you’ll see a zoomable image of the Milky Way with 84 million stars: But stars contribute only a tiny fraction of the total entropy in the observable Universe. If…
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Distri: 20x faster initramfs (initrd) from scratch
In case you are not yet familiar with why an initramfs (or initrd, or initial ramdisk) is typically used when starting Linux, let me quote the wikipedia definition: “[…] initrd is a scheme for loading a temporary root file system into memory, which may be used as part of the Linux startup process […] to make…
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In 2019, Americans went more to the library than to the movies on average
Of nine leisure activities, visiting a library is the one Americans did most frequently in the past year, followed by attending movies and live sporting events.
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SQLite Is Serverless
Most SQL database engines are implemented as a separate server process. Programs that want to access the database communicate with the server using some kind of interprocess communication (typically TCP/IP) to send requests to the server and to receive back results. SQLite does not work this way. With SQLite, the…
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The Infinite Loop That Wasn't
Once upon a time there was a game for the GBA by the name of Hello Kitty Collection: Miracle Fashion Maker. It was a cutesy game based on the famous Sanrio Hello Kitty franchise, developed by Access. But hidden beneath the surface of the seemingly innocuous title was an insidious problem. Somehow, this simple game…
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Ambitions for a Unix Shell
As discussed in the January blog roadmap , I want to concretely describe a reduced Oil language , and see if we can get it "done" in 2020.
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India Surpassed the USA to Become the 2nd Largest Smartphone Market in the World
Counterpoint Research Insight
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AWS Graviton2
In November of last year, AWS announced the first ARM-based AWS instance type ( AWS Designed Processor: Graviton ). For me this was a very big deal because I’ve been talking about ARM based servers for more than a decade, believing that massive client volumes fund the R&D stream that feeds most server-side innovation…
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Why the Sorbet type checker is fast
This is the second in an indefinite series of posts about things that I think went well in the Sorbet project. The previous one covered our testing approach. Sorbet is fast. Numerous of our early users commented specifically on how fast it was, and how much they appreciated this speed. Our informal benchmarks on…
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Why Lobste.rs Is Better Than Hacker News
Lobste.rs is WAY better than Hacker News (in my opinion). Here's why...
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The Era of the Trident Engine
About the rise and fall of Microsoft's take on the web.
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Jim Lehrer’s Rules of Journalism
The long-time host of PBS NewsHour Jim Lehrer died this week at the age of 85. In this age of news as entertainment and opinion as news, Lehrer seems like one o
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PinePhone Misconceptions
I take no pleasure in writing this blog post. In fact, even as I am writing these words I am internally torn on whether this is the right approach to addressing the problem on hand. Whether I’ve chosen the right approach remains to be seen, but regardless, I now feel it’s time to confront misconceptions about the…
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Linode launches free DDoS protection
/PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Linode, the world's largest independent cloud provider, today announced advanced protection across its global network of 11 data centers...
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JetBrains to reimagine IntelliJ as text editor, add machine learning
This is the second part of the roadmap of IntelliJ IDEA and IntelliJ-based IDEs for 2020. The first part of the roadmap was focused mostly on low-level features in the platform. In this post we’ll be
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Projective Geometric Algebra Done Right
[This is part one of a two-part series. The second part can be found here: Symmetries in Projective Geometric Algebra .]
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Rough.js v4.0 – hand-drawn, sketchy graphics
Rough.js is a light weight javascript library that lets you draw graphics with a hand-drawn, sketchy, appearance.
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25-Hour Digital Myst Clock/Chronometer
Discover the 25-Hour Digital Myst Clock, merging D'ni and conventional timekeeping for Myst fans, with a display of proper D'ni digits.
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Does Your Domain Have a Registry Lock?
If you’re running a business online, few things can be as disruptive or destructive to your brand as someone stealing your company’s domain name and doing whatever they wish with it. Even so, most major Web site owners aren’t taking full advantage of the security tools available to protect their domains from being…
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Master of Orion
Given the shadow which the original Master of Orion still casts over the gaming landscape of today, one might be forgiven for assuming, as many younger gamers doubtless do, that it was the very first conquer-the-galaxy grand-strategy game ever made. The reality, however, is quite different. For all that its position…