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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,567 posts.
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Life Is Driven by Network Effects
Revealing the Unseen Forces That Guide Your Life What city you live in. Who you date or marry. Which job you choose. What clothes you wear. We all think we make these choices ourselves. It certainly feels like we’re in full control. But it turns out that our choices — both in our startups and in … Continue reading…
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Human body temperature has decreased in United States, study finds
Stanford researchers have determined that average human body temperature in the United States has decreased since the 1800s.
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How to Corrupt a SQLite Database File
An SQLite database is highly resistant to corruption. If an application crash, or an operating-system crash, or even a power failure occurs in the middle of a transaction, the partially written transaction should be automatically rolled back the next time the database file is accessed. The recovery process is fully…
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SaaS marketing tactics and case studies
What SaaS marketing really is, plus 41+ strategies that grow MRR: SEO, content, product-led growth, and the channels worth your budget. A practical playbook.
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Mir: A lightweight JIT compiler project
Take an in-depth look at the MIR lightweight JIT compiler project's goals and state of development, such as the addition of support for CRuby.
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Half the world is now middle class or wealthier (2018)
Just over 50 percent of the world’s population, or some 3.8 billion people, now live in households with enough discretionary spending to be considered middle class or rich.
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BMW Connected Apps Protocol
Stories about my nerd projects
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Analysis of compensation, level, and experience details of 19k tech workers
[Twitter thread, Hacker News discussion, Reddit discussion]
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My FOSS Story
I’d like to break from my normal tradition of focusing almost strictly on technical content and share a bit of my own personal relationship with Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). While everyone is different, my hope is that sharing my perspective will help build understanding, empathy and trust.
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Reformer, the Efficient Transformer
Posted by Nikita Kitaev, Student Researcher, UC Berkeley and Łukasz Kaiser, Research Scientist, Google Research Understanding sequential data — s...
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Demoscene, the secret behind Finnish game industry
This is my story as a game developer. It is also a story of how the Finnish game industry came to be.
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How is search so bad? A case study
Personal site for Data Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer - Svilen Todorov
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Dynamic type systems are not inherently more open
Internet debates about typing disciplines continue to be plagued by a pervasive myth that dynamic type systems are inherently better at modeling “open world” domains. The argument usually goes like this: the goal of static typing is to pin everything down as much as possible, but in the real world, that just isn’t…
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The Polygons of Another World: Super Nintendo
This article is part of a study about the ports of Another World. It is highly recommended to read Another World 101 before reading this.
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Yukihiro Matsumoto: “Ruby is designed for humans, not machines”
Yukihiro Matsumoto talks to Evrone about what makes Ruby shine
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Fedora CoreOS Out of Preview
Fedora CoreOS is a new Fedora Edition built specifically for running containerized workloads securely and at scale. It's now available for general use.
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C++ coroutines: Initial implementation pushed to master
This is the mail archive of the gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
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Let People Move to Jobs
When I argue that we should bring rents down by building more housing, one kind of response I've gotten is: Why are you trying to move more people into cities? There's lots of housing available in the US, it's just not in the currently trendy cities. Instead of moving people we should be moving jobs. Why couldn't…
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Technical Debt Is Like a Tetris Game
Expressive code in C++
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AlphaFold: Using AI for Scientific Discovery
In our study published in Nature, we demonstrate how artificial intelligence research can drive and accelerate new scientific discoveries. We’ve built a dedicated, interdisciplinary team in hopes of using AI to push basic research forward: bringing together experts from the fields of structural biology, physics, and…
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Lisping at JPL (2002)
This is the story of the rise and fall of Lisp at the Jet Propulsion Lab as told from my personal (and highly biased) point of view. I am not writing in my official capacity as an employee of JPL, nor am I in any way representing the official position of JPL. (This will become rather obvious shortly.)
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In search of a better job scheduler
What if cron and systemd had a baby? Wouldn't it be beautiful?
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Algorithm for Drawing Trees
I recently wanted to take a hierarchy of items and draw them in a nice tree structure. For example, a Family Tree. At the time, I thought “This will be easy, I’ll just Google for an alg…