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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,820 posts.
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Decentralised content moderation
With Donald Trump suspended from Twitter and Facebook, and Parler kicked off AWS, there is renewed discussion about what sort of speech is acceptable online, and how it should be enforced. Let me say up front that I believe that these bans were justified. However, they do raise questions that need to be discussed…
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We don't need data scientists, we need data engineers
After analyzing 1000+ Y-Combinator Companies, I discover there's a huge market need for more engineering-focused data practitioner roles.
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Machine Learning: The Great Stagnation
The bureaucrats are running the asylum
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Idris 2 version 0.3.0
A new version (0.3.0) of Idris 2 has been released. You can download the source (including generated Scheme and Racket files for bootstrapping) from the download page .
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What’s behind the recent surge in the M1 money supply?
While the terms “money” and “wealth” often mean the same thing in everyday parlance, economists define money more narrowly as the component of wealth consisting of
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51 Star Flag (2011)
Math, Science and Technology tidbits written for the average person.
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Null
I quite like to break things. While I’m not a QA or security professional, I have developed a knack for doing “stupid” things with software which causes it to malfunction. Some developer friends of mine have lamented that they didn’t show me software before they released it. Because I sometimes find annoying bugs…
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Intel is dying and we can’t save it
How I realized that this is truly the end of the Intel era.
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Helping to secure internet routing
The internet works reliably, in large part, on the basis of a key technology called Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). BGP is a means by which all junction points on the internet (routers) communicate with each other to dynamically establish the correct (and correctly weighted) paths that network packets should follow to…
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An Unlikely Database Migration
From JSON Files to etcd: A Tailscale Database Migration Story
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Ten years without Elixir
A new standard for travel on Crete. The official digital gateway to the island's untamed soul. Experience the future of Greek tourism.
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I believe US could see rolling series of “Ireland events” over next 2 months
I believe there is a non-trivial chance that the United States will experience a rolling series of “Ireland events” over the next 30-45 days, where the Covid effective reproductive number (Re not R0) reaches a value between 2.4 and 3.0 in states and regions where a) the more infectious UK-variant (or similar) Covid…
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Dropbox is reducing its workforce by 11%
Today, our cofounder and CEO Drew Houston shared the difficult news that we’ll be making reductions to our global workforce. Here is the full text of his email to Dropbox employees:
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Workaholism leads to health problems, work addiction risk depends on occupation
Workaholism or work addiction risk is a growing public health concern that can lead to many negative mental and physical health outcomes such as depression, anxiety or sleep disorder. Perception of work (job demands and job control) may become a major cause of employees’ work addiction. The international group of…
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Airbnb to Block and Cancel D.C. Reservations During Inauguration
Airbnb will cancel reservations in the Washington, D.C. metro area during the Inauguration week.
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A rabbit hole full of Lisp
Profiling Emacs and writing some Lisp to work with a 70000-file monorepo.
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Milestone: Half a million downloads for VideoLAN packages in the .NET ecosystem
This page has moved to https://martinfinkel.com/blog/half-a-million-downloads/ .
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The neural network of the Stockfish chess engine
Last time, we briefly mentioned the high-level differences between Stockfish and Leela Chess. To recap, Stockfish evaluates about 100 million positions per second using rudimentary heuristics, wher…
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Distributing Mac apps outside the App Store, a quick start guide
Gui Rambo writes about his coding and reverse engineering adventures.
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Cheap and simple way to mount a smartphone directly above a laptop display
with David Santiano, Deyin Mia Zhang, Xinran Azena Fan, and Yunru Casey Pan, NYU Shanghai; Barak Chamo, New York; Paolo Salvagione…
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SolarWinds: What Hit Us Could Hit Others
New research into the malware that set the stage for the megabreach at IT vendor SolarWinds shows the perpetrators spent months inside the company’s software development labs honing their attack before inserting malicious code into updates that SolarWinds then shipped to thousands of customers. More worrisome, the…
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Computer Science Curriculum in 1000 YouTube Videos
This is The Entire Computer Science Curriculum in 1000 YouTube Videos. The curriculum is going to be organized in 40 courses in total, further organized in 4 academic years...
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Software That Sucks Less
We are the home of quality software such as dwm , dmenu , st and plenty of other tools , with a focus on simplicity, clarity and frugality. Our philosophy is about keeping things simple, minimal and usable. We believe this should become the mainstream philosophy in the IT sector. Unfortunately, the tendency for…
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If it will matter after today, don't talk about it in a chat room
Live chat is for things that can get lost.
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A Proposal for Adding Generics to Go
Generics is entering the language change proposal process
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Using GPT-3 for plain language incident root cause from logs
Skylar Advisor combines real-time observability data, rich operational context, and customer-owned knowledge to deliver explainable AI guidance for IT operations.