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Firefox 85
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,820 posts.
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The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML
I've told this story at conferences - but due to the general situation I thought I'd retell it here. A few years ago I was doing policy research in a housing benefits office in London. They are singularly unlovely places. The walls are brightened up with posters offering helpful services for people fleeing domestic…
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Postgres scaling advice
Planning to scale PostgreSQL? Learn when a single node is enough, how to prepare for sharding, and which scaling steps to consider first.
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What color was “Apple Beige”?
I went looking for a defining color of the personal computer era. I found it in an old jar of paint.
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System separation in the Continental Europe Synchronous Area on 8 January 2021
On 8 January 2021 at 14:05 CET the synchronous area of Continental Europe was separated into two parts due to outages of several transmission network elements in a very short time. ENTSO-E has published the first information on the event already on 8 January 2021, followed by an update with geographical view and time…
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Greens: why we eat the leaves that we do (2013)
Jeanne reveals which branches of the evolutionary tree of plants bear edible leaves and speculates about why that is. Most of the 300,000 + plant species have leaves, and the function of all of the…
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Grindr to be fined almost €10M over GDPR complaint
The Norwegian Data Protection Authority confirmed that Grindr did not receive valid consent from users and announces a fine of 100 Mio NOK (€ 9.63 Mio) on Grindr.
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Mozilla announces Open Web Docs
We’re happy and proud to announce Open Web Docs, to support a community of technical writers that is open and inclusive for all.
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New campaign targeting security researchers
Details on an ongoing campaign, which we attribute to a government-backed entity based in North Korea, targeting security researchers working on vulnerability research a…
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Right to Repair off to the races in 2021 with 14 active states
2021 is shaping up to be a big year for our efforts to secure your right to fix your stuff.
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Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces
A few months ago I experimented with DigitalOcean spaces as my backup solutionthat could replace Dropboxeventually.
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Scaling Kubernetes to 7,500 Nodes
We’ve scaled Kubernetes clusters to 7,500 nodes, producing a scalable infrastructure for large models like GPT-3, CLIP, and DALL·E, but also for rapid small-scale iterative research such as Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models.
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Improving how we deploy GitHub
As GitHub doubled it’s developer head count, tooling that worked for us no longer functioned in the same capacity. We aimed to improve the deployment process for all developers at GitHub and mitigate risk associated with deploying one of the largest developer platforms in the world.
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A deeper dive into our May 2019 security incident
We take a detailed look at a hacking incident that gave a user unauthorized access to our code and data.
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The high price of mistrust
When we can’t trust each other, nothing works. As we participate in our communities less and less, we find it harder to feel other people are trustworthy. But if we can bring back a sense of trust in the people around us, the rewards are incredible.
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Latches in C++20
Latches and barriers are coordination types that enable some threads to wait until a counter becomes zero. You can use a std::latch only once, but you can use a std::barrier more than once. Today, I have a closer look at latches.
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Making is show business now (2020)
Nadia Eghbal’s new book, Working In Public: the Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software, may not have been on your short list of books to read this year. It’s admittedly a nerdy topic: …
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Escaping the Roadmap Trap
Stop chasing your feature development plan and start crafting strategic product roadmaps
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Krita 4.4.2 Released
Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
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The computer revolution hasn’t happened yet (1997)
In this video, Alan Kay talks about his vision of object oriented programming and how to design scalable systems.
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Proof of X
I’ve spent a lot of time recently thinking about different proof-of-work mechanisms. When I say proof-of-work, I’m not talking about consensus algorithms like the ones that some crypto currencies use. I’m talking about social networks.
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Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA
The International Energy Agency's World Energy Outlook 2020 report has found that, in most major countries, solar power is now cheaper than coal and gas.
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Racket Compiler and Runtime Status
posted by Matthew Flatt With the upcoming version 8.0 release, Racket on Chez Scheme (Racket CS) will become the default implementation of Racket. This report discusses the implications of that change, continuing a series that was originally about Racket...