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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,838 posts.
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Small share of U.S. adults produce majority of tweets on national politics
The findings of this analysis paint a nuanced picture of just how prevalent political speech is among U.S. adults on Twitter.
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Cook: ‘China Hasn’t Pressured Us’
Link to: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/tim-cook-talks-vision-apple-breaks-ground-facility/story?id=67165042
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Shipping a compiler every six weeks
This blog post is a slightly edited version of the live transcript of the talk I gave at RustFest 2019 in Barcelona on November 10th, 2019. As it's a transcript some parts of it are a bit repetitive or badly worded, but I hope the message behind the talk will be conveyed by this post anyway.
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WebOS OSE 2.1
We’re delighted to announce the release of webOS Open Source Edition (OSE) 2.1.0. The highlights of this release are as follows: Change of the default logging system to journald Japanese Virtual Keyboard support and iLib upgrade Bug fix and improvements For more details on this release, see the release notes. Change…
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Trends in the San Francisco (mostly dog?) poop crisis
Oscar Wilde once said, “it’s an odd thing but anyone who disappears is said to be in San Francisco.” Indeed, with the weather, view, and diversity, San Francisco is one of the most beautiful cities in the U.S. But then, every city has a dark side, and San Francisco is no exception. San Francisco, as […]
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Towards a unified theory of reactive UI
Update 26 Sep 2020: A followup to this post is Towards principled reactive UI.
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Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered in data leak
Bespoke cyber investigations and dark web intelligence — threat actor attribution, asset tracing, digital forensics, and ransomware negotiation.
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Overview of Rust error handling libraries
Rust's error handling is a pleasure to use thanks to the Result type . It ensures Rust's error handling is always correct , visible , and performant . And with the addition of the ? operator in Rust 1.13 , and the addition of return types from main in Rust 1.26 Rust's error handling has only kept improving.
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Flan Scan: Lightweight Network Vulnerability Scanner
Flan Scan is a thin wrapper around Nmap that converts this popular open source tool into a vulnerability scanner with an easy deployment.
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Differences between expert and novice brains in mice: study
When mice learn to do a new task, their brain activities change over time as they advance from ‘novice’ to ‘expert.’ The changes are reflected in the wiring of cell circuits and activities of neurons. Using a two-photon imaging microscope and a wealth of genetic tools, researchers from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory…
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GitLab 12.5
GitLab release announcements and feature highlights.
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An introduction to data processing on the Linux command line
This article will provide the reader with a brief overview for a number of different Linux commands. A special emphasis will be placed on explaining how each command can be used in the context of performing data science tasks. The goal will be to convince the reader that each of these commands can be extremely useful…
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Cname cloaking, a disguise of third-party trackers
An in-depth exploration of a new method used by tracking companies to disguise their third-party trackers as first-party trackers.
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The Danger of “Simplicity”
Opinions and discussions of various topics, mostly related to programming.
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Mu: Sketching out a minimal system programming language
In the previous post , I described what my new hobbyist computing stack looks like today, and how the design decisions seemed to accumulate inevitably from a small set of axiomatic goals. In this post I describe some (far more speculative) future plans for Mu and try to articulate how the design process continues to…
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Debugging Network Stalls on Kubernetes
In this deep-dive, we identified and worked through sporadic latency issues with services running on Kubernetes in our environment.
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The care and feeding of software engineers, or why engineers are grumpy (2012)
The Official Web Site of Nicholas C. Zakas
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Things I’ve learned in 20 years of programming
This year, I’ve become increasingly acquainted with the DEV platform. It’s a refreshingly positive oasis in the large sea of angry Reddit commenters and “well actually” connoisseurs that is the broader software world. One interesting facet of this community is that it seems pretty beginner-heavy. I regularly see posts…
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Go’s Features of Last Resort
A “Feature of Last Resort” (FOLR) is a useful feature which solves certain otherwise hard-to-solve problems, but are often best avoided.
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The impact of direct air carbon capture on climate change
By Michael Nielsen, November 21, 2019
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Bad Binder: Android In-the-Wild Exploit
Posted by Maddie Stone, Project ZeroIntroductionOn October 3, 2019, we disclosed issue 1942 (CVE-...
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An update on YC China
In the summer of 2018, Qi Lu joined [https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-china-qi-lu/] Y Combinator to help create YC China, a localized version of our U.S. program. As we worked to establish YC China, we had a change in leadership [https://blog.ycombinator.com/geoff-ralston-for-president/]. With this, our strategy…
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Bits on the Wire
Exactly 100% of everything on the Internet involves exchanging messages which represent items of interest to humans. These items can be classified into three baskets: One for “media” (images, sound, video), one for text (HTML, PDF, XML), and one for “objects” (chat messages, payments, love poems, order statuses). This…
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Multi-Value All the Wasm
Multi-value is a proposed extension to core WebAssembly that enables functions to return many values, among other things. It is also a prerequisite for Wasm interface types. Nick Fitzgerald has ...
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How to make your C codebase Rusty: rewriting keyboard firmware keymap
Recently, my colleague introduced me to QMK 1, an open-source keyboard firmware. Like many non-trivia C projects, macro is heavily used everywhere, especially in keymap files 2. It didn’t bother me much since I have been programming C for many years. But I kept thinking to myself, “what would it look like if I can…