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More than half of YC startups don't have a dot com
After decades as the default, dot coms are no longer used by most new startups, and alternative TLDs are the new default.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,299 posts.
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Security audit of account and payment services
Assured AB were contracted to perform a security assessment of our account and payment services between 2022-11-07 and 2022-11-29.
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95% of Bay Area Cities Lost Zoning Authority
In 105 jurisdictions of the Bay Area, anyone can build any residential projected at any height or density so long as 20% of the units are for low income.
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Valve bans 40k Dota 2 accounts using honeypot patch
Today, we permanently banned over 40,000 accounts that were using third-party software to cheat in Dota over the last few weeks. This software was able to access information used internally by the Dota client that wasn't visible during normal gameplay, giving the cheater an unfair advantage. While fixing the…
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Gluon, a high-performance IMAP library
Gluon is a new high-performance IMAP library that is open source, RFC compliant, and actively maintained and improved by the Proton Mail team.
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Common Lisp Implementations in 2023
Much has been written on Common Lisp; there is rarely one year without someone proclaming the death of the language and how nobody uses it anymore. And yet it is still here, so something must have…
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PFAS can suppress white blood cells’ ability to destroy invaders
GenX can suppress some white blood cells' ability to kill invaders.
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The beginner's guide to overcomplicating coffee
There’s a scene in AMC’s “ Breaking Bad ” where Gail Boetticher explains to Walter White how to make the perfect cup of coffee . And it all sounds so plausible—there’s a perfect coffee, and science will magic it for us.
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Mermaid Cheat Sheet
Cheat Sheet for Mermaid.
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Squeezing a Sokoban game into 10 lines of Haskell
Call-by-push-block
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Monitoring my weather at home
Weather is often hyper-local. For example, trying to suss out the temperature this morning:
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Multiple Sclerosis discovery could end disease's chronic inflammation
A new study IDs a key contributor to the hyperactive autoimmune response and neuroinflammation that are the hallmarks of multiple sclerosis.
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What's Postgres got to do with AI?
Chris is cooking up some examples for us on how to use AI inside Postgres. We have a simple demo of using pgvector and Open AI to grab relationships and query for other similar items.
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LED lighting badly suppresses human melatonin production at night
Yes, it’s a spicy title. Yes, I plan to back it with what I consider very reasonable evidence of the claims, in the form of a lot of research papers. I would simply ask that you read to the end before deciding I’ve lost it.
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Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illness in teen girls
Journalists should stop saying that the evidence is just correlational
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Webb telescope spots super old, massive galaxies
In a new study, CU Boulder astrophysicist Erica Nelson and her colleagues spotted six "fuzzy dots" of light in images from the James Webb Space Telescope. The
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Amazon officially becomes a health care provider after purchase of One Medical
Together, Amazon and One Medical will help more people get better care, when and how they need it.
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1 in 6 retirees are considering returning to work, and 53% want remote positions
In the last few years, the pandemic and inflation in the U.S. have upended peoples’ lives in different levels making young people adjust their retirement goals.
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C++ Coroutines
C++ is late to the coroutine party, compared to other programming languages, but they are part of C++20. Prior to coroutines, a C++ programmer had two choices, roughly speaking:
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Gossip Glomers: Fly.io Distributed Systems Challenges
Fly.io Distributed Systems Challenges
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The unreasonable effectiveness of conditional probabilities
I have been steeping myself in probabilistic exercises recently, because it’s an area where I feel like I could benefit from building better intuition. I have found a recurring key to solving many of them: conditioning on an intermediary state, and then computing the value of that intermediary state separately. This…
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Connecting a 1980s Pinball Machine to the Internet
I built a device that allows a pinball machine from 1984 to automatically upload scores to the internet. The device taps into the machine’s memory bus and monitors the game state, uploading scores after each game.
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AsciiDoc, Liquid and Jekyll
A couple of days ago I was giving a little update to my website and I needed a wayto create and inject custom HTML into some of my posts.
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What I did not learn about writing in school
Surprising lessons I picked up from the best books, essays, and videos on writing non-fiction.
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AI Is Useful for Capitalists but Probably Terrible for Anyone Else
AI is finally useful for business, and everyone is likely underestimating its impact. But unless AI is open-source and truly owned by the end users the future for everyone but the software providers looks grim.