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Mozilla launches venture fund to fuel responsible tech companies
Initial $35M will foster an ecosystem of startups that push the internet — and the tech industry — in a better direction Industry veteran M
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,153 posts.
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Linux boot partitions and how to set them up
Posts and writings by Lennart Poettering
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Bye Twitter – Manu Cornet
Manu Cornet's personal website.
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Testing Microsoft's Windows Dev Kit 2023
Last week Microsoft started selling their $599 Windows Dev Kit 2023, formerly known as 'Project Volterra'. I got my hands on one after a little bit of a shipping delay, and promptly started tearing it down to see what's inside. You can click here to browse the entire Twitter thread where I posted pictures of the box…
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I Posted on YouTube Consistently for 1 Month. This Is What Happened
As part of my creative sabbatical, I have been posting a new software development video on my YouTube channel every Monday and Friday.It takes a long time to grow on YouTube, and I knew this going in but I have been pleasantly surprised with my growth in the first month. YouTube is about consistency over a long period…
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Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce
Earlier today, Stripe CEO Patrick Collison sent the following note to Stripe employees.
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Over 16k people still use a Pebble smartwatch
Time flies when you’re having fun. It’s been a year since our last blog post announcing the launch of the Rebble developer portal and in that time we’ve seen...
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Taste vs. Skills
A simple mental model that can help you navigate your career.
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A large collection of fraudulent web stores
It started simply enough...
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An AWS account just for getting into other AWS accounts
“An AWS account just for getting into other AWS accounts” has moved to https://src-bin.com/substrate/blog/an-aws-account-just-for-getting-into-other-aws-accounts/ .
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Next C compiler is a D compiler: Introducing DMD's ImportC
In my never ending quest to have oksh support every C compiler in existence, I sometimes find C compilers in places you wouldn't expect them. Today, I'd like to demonstrate the C compiler built into the Digital Mars D compiler, or DMD for short. Recent versions of DMD have a complete C11 compiler built in named…
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Facebook (Meta) international cable expansion: animated map
Facebook has increased its submarine cable holdings from near-zero to 6% of the world's total backbone infrastructure as of 2022, and will double by 2024.
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The case for JPEG XL
The recent decision by Chrome developers to no longer support JPEG XL has sent a ripple through the developer community and is a bit premature given the relative newness of the image format.
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Cree releases LEDs designed for horticulture
💡 Upgrade output and efficiency of two-channel luminaires by 6%💡 System performance up to 3.25 PPF/W💡 Advanced spectrum optimized for horticulture💡 Reduce complicated spectral analysis💡 Standard lead times, samples available now Photophyll™ Select for Horticulture Applications Available on XLamp® XP-G3 and J Series®…
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Employee gift ideas that make people feel bad
Curious if company swag still lands? Get the data on gifting misfires and straightforward ways to reward employees with choices they value.
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Why did the OpenSSL punycode vulnerability happen?
We look at how fuzzing should have caught the OpenSSL Punycode vulnerability, and why that code was even necessary in the first place.
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Seeking the productive life: Some details of my personal infrastructure (2019)
Some of Stephen Wolfram’s “productivity hacks” to make his days and projects more productive. Daily life, desk environment, outside the office, presentation setup, filesystem organization, Wolfram Notebook systems, databases, personal analytics.
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Phlare: open-source database for continuous profiling at scale
Grafana Labs is helping enable continuous profiling at cloud native scale for the open source community and enterprises, giving developers a better understanding of resource usage of their code.
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Doing what you love when the money won’t follow
I have frequently been critical of the advice given by baby boomers to “do what you love and the money will follow”. After the hard experience of my generation and the ones following it…
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Verifying GCC optimizations using an SMT solver
This post describes the implementation of pysmtgcc. See “GCC Translation Validation” for background information.
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TomTom’s new mapping platform and ecosystem
TomTom is redefining not just how maps are made, but the entire ecosystem around them too. It'll lay the foundation for a future of innovative location tech.
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A few of my favourite things about the OpenBSD Packet Filter tools
Guest Post: How to use PF features and tools.
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Comparing TCP and QUIC
There is a common view out there that the QUIC transport protocol (RFC 9000) is just another refinement to the original TCP transport protocol [ 1 ] [ 2 ]. I find it hard to agree with this sentiment, and for me QUIC represents a significant shift in the set of transport capabilities available to applications in terms…