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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,426 posts.
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From kafkatrap to honeytrap
The short version is: if you are any kind of open-source leader or senior figure who is male, do not be alone with any female, ever, at a technical conference. Try to avoid even being alone , ever, because there is a chance that a “women in tech” advocacy group is going to try to collect your scalp.
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D 2.069.0 released, compiler automatically ported from C++ to D
D Programming Language
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Quasi-Polynomial Algorithm for Graph Isomorphism
Update (Dec. 14): The long wait is over! Here’s Laci’s paper on the arXiv. So far, I’ve read it only deeply enough to note that it contains the following sentence: A group G ≤ S…
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What Developmental Milestones Are You Missing?
[Epistemic status: Speculative. I can’t make this post less condescending and elitist, so if you don’t like condescending elitist things, this might not be for you.] Developmental psych…
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Fedora 23 released
It’s (approximately) Halloween, so you know what that means — new Fedora! The Fedora 23 release is here, and it’s better than ever before. We’re pleased to bring you the latest incarnations of the three main Fedora editions — Fedora Workstation, Fedora Cloud, and Fedora Server, each built with love by the Fedora…
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Browser Engines 2015: Commit Rates and Active Developer Counts
I used to work as a developer in the “core” group at Opera that developed thePresto web engine. During this period, I often wondered just how many developers...
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Announcing Docker 1.9: Production-Ready Swarm and Multi-Host Networking
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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Irmin: Git-like distributed DB
Read the post on "Introducing Irmin: Git-like distributed, branchable storage" from our blog.
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Introducing 1Password for Teams
The ultimate password keeper for business, 1Password simplifies team security. Secure your company's data with our business password vault.
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Computer, Respond to This Email
Posted by Greg Corrado*, Senior Research Scientist Machine Intelligence for You What I love about working at Google is the opportunity to harness c...
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The Road to 2M Websocket Connections in Phoenix
If you have been paying attention on Twitter recently, you have likely seen some increasing numbers regarding the number of simultaneous connections the Phoenix web framework can handle. This post documents some of the techniques used to perform the benchmarks.
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Signal for Android: RedPhone and TextSecure in one app
Today we’ve started rolling out Signal for Android, which unites simple private messaging and simple private calling into a single app on Android. This is the culmination of our effort to combine TextSecure and RedPhone into one app, which we began on iPhone and are now bringing to completion on ...
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Radicalizing the Romanceless
[PLEASE NOTE: This post is from 2014.] [Content note: Gender, relationships, feminism, manosphere. Quotes, without endorsing and with quite a bit of mocking, mean arguments by terrible people. Some…
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Self-flying drone dips, darts and dives through trees at 30 mph
A researcher from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has developed an obstacle-detection system that allows a drone to autonomously dip, dart and dive through a tree-filled field at upwards of 30 miles per hour.
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The Tech Bust of 2015
Maybe instead of a tech bubble, we’re in a tech bust. No one seems to fervently believe tech valuations are cheap, so it’d be somewhat surprising if we were in a bubble. In many parts of the...
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Chrome OS is here to stay
We’ve been working on ways to bring together the best of both Android and Chrome OS, but there's no plan to phase out Chrome OS.
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GTA V – Graphics Study
The Grand Theft Auto series has come a long way since the first opus came out back in 1997. About 2 years ago, Rockstar released GTA V. The …
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The Kotlin Language: 1.0 Beta Is Here
We are extremely pleased to present Kotlin 1.0 Beta for JVM and Android! To recap: Kotlin is a modern programming language that JetBrains has been working on for quite some time now. This post gives
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IntelliJ IDEA 15 Released, Adds Kotlin to the Family of Supported JVM Languages
Great news from the JetBrains team: today we're announcing the release of IntelliJ IDEA 15!As always, the new IntelliJ IDEA release brings a rich set of new features, better user interface, more bui
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CSS Based Attack fontface
In this post, I would like to share about new CSS based attack with unicode-range descriptor of @font-face rule . Using this technique, an...
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System design implications of declining network latency vs. disk latency
Hardware performance “obviously” affects software performance and affects how software is optimized. For example, the fact that caches are multiple orders of magnitude faster than RAM means that blocked array accesses give better performance than repeatedly striding through an array.
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Ten years ago Wikipedia was widely considered a doomed experiment
Today, Wikipedia is widely considered an invaluable resource. There are occasional errors and controversies, but for the most part it…
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The git repo as art.