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Code together in real time with Teletype for Atom
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,763 posts.
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No boundaries: Exfiltration of personal data by session-replay scripts
This is the first post in our “No Boundaries” series, in which we reveal how third-party scripts on websites have been extracting personal information in increasingly intrusive ways. [0] by Steven Englehardt, Gunes Acar, and Arvind Narayanan Update: we’ve released our data — the list of sites with session-replay…
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A Guide to Natural Language Processing
A guide to Natural Language Processing (NLP): how to analyze text, extract information and understand documents written in a natural language
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Dell Offers Computers Preinstalled with Ubuntu
Looking for a new PC with Ubuntu pre-installed? We thought we’d run through the latest Dell Precision computers that come pre-installed with Ubuntu. These are systems developed by and for developers, and are available in form factors ranging from sleek ultrabooks to powerful workstations. Here’s a quick runthrough of…
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Debian and GNOME announce plans to migrate communities to GitLab
GitLab today announced it was abandoning the industry-standard Contributor License Agreement in favor of a Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) and license
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What is a Source Map
These days web assets such as JS and CSS aren’t simple text files. Instead, they’re typically minified or come from a complex build process involving compili...
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Node.js v9.2.0
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
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“It is never a compiler error”
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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The best laptop ever made
Apple has made many great laptops, but the 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro (2012–2015) is the epitome of usefulness, elegance, practicality, and power for an overall package that still hasn’t been (and may never be) surpassed.
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Writing interactive stories with Ink in Unity
Why I chose Ink as one of the core technologies for my game.
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Elasticsearch 6.0.0 GA released
With 2236 pull requests by 333 commiters added since the release of Elasticsearch 5.0.0, we are proud to announce the release of Elasticsearch 6.0.0 GA, based on Lucene 7.0.1.
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Augmented reality with Python and OpenCV
You may (or may not) have heard of or seen the augmented reality Invizimals video game or the Topps 3D baseball cards. The main idea is to render in the screen of a tablet, PC or smartphone a 3D mo…
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How Discord Resizes 150M Images Every Day with Go and C++
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
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Using SVG as image placeholders
I’m passionate about image performance optimisation and making images load fast on the web. One of the most interesting areas of…
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Red Hat Introduces Arm Server Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Today marks a milestone for Red Hat Enterprise Linux with the addition of a new architecture to our list of fully supported platforms. Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM is a part of our multi-architecture strategy and the culmination of a multi-year collaboration with the upstream community and our silicon and hardware…
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Firefox Features Google as Default Search Provider in the U.S.
Firefox Quantum was released today. It’s the fastest Firefox yet built on a completely overhauled engine and a beautiful new design. As part of our focu
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Fedora 27 released
The Fedora Project proudly announces the release of Fedora 27, its latest leading-edge operating system. Download it free and experience it today.
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Firefox 57.0 Released
Brace yourself for an all-new Firefox. It’s fast. Really fast. It’s over twice as fast as Firefox from 6 months ago, built on a completely overhauled core engine with brand new technology from our advanced research group, and graced with a clean, modern interface. Today is the first of several releases we’re calling…
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WebAssembly support now shipping in all major browsers
While Mozilla has been preparing to launch Firefox Quantum, its fastest browser yet, some notable developments have happened with WebAssembly, the binary f
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There are over a billion outdated Android devices in use
It's common knowledge that Android device tend to be more out of date than iOS devices, but what does this actually mean? Let’s look at android marketshare data to see how old devices in the wild are. The x axis of the plot below is date, and the y axis is Android marketshare. The share of all devices sums to 100%…
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Phoenix WebSockets under a Microscope
This is a code-reading and exploration post about the WebSockets side of Phoenix. It builds upon some of the tracing techniques showcased in the previous post, to observe some of the internals of Phoenix. It also features some tricks I commonly employ to debug WebSocket related issues. The title and nature of this…
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FreeOTP – An open-source solution for authentication soft tokens
freeOTP is a soft token authenticator that can be used for two-factor authentication, and is available as a free Android app or iOS app. Two-factor authentication — requiring a user to have “something you have”, as well as “something you know” i.e. a password — is being supported on many more services these days…
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