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Be prolific
Produce lots of stuff and share it.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,567 posts.
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PHP 8: Before and After
The impact of PHP 8 on my code
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Egypt Blocks Access to Telegram
Technology and Law Community "Masaar” documented the blocking of the Telegram website and application by the Egyptian authorities on 22 October 2020. The authorities blocked Telegram on three of the Internet service networks operating in Egypt. These networks included “We”, “Vodafone” and “Orange”. Masaar learned…
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My Life Countdown (2007)
When I was about 29 years old I got a spiritual “assignment” on an Easter morning in the old city of Jerusalem. According to this assignment my job was to live as if I had only 6 months left to … Continue reading →
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First AI model that translates 100 languages without relying on English
Facebook AI is introducing M2M-100, the first multilingual machine translation model that can translate between any pair of 100 languages without relying on English data.
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KeePassXC 2.6.2 Released
KeePassXC Password Manager
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Logs, Tails, Long Tails (2013)
Learn the shape of the logs of probability distributions, and you’ll be able to guess how they behave.
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Whose Computer Is It?
Patrick Wardle highlighted a tweet by Maxwell (" Some Apple apps bypass some network extensions and VPN Apps. Maps for example can directly access the internet bypassing any NEFilterDataProvider or NEAppProxyProviders you have running "), sparking an extensive HN discussion on Apple's ham-fisted tactics (not unlike…
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A Programmer’s Intuition for Matrix Multiplication
What does matrix multiplication mean? Here's a few common intuitions: This is useful when first learning about vectors: vectors go in, new ones come out.…
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Media Owned by Wealthy Are Quick to Tell You Wealth Taxes Are a Bad Idea
Corporate media—whose owners are overwhelmingly from the class that would be paying a wealth tax—are returning to throw cold water on the idea.
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Amazon RDS on Graviton2 Processors
I recently wrote a post to announce the availability of M6g, R6g and C6g families of instances on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). These instances offer better cost-performance ratio than their x86 counterparts. They are based on AWS-designed AWS Graviton2 processors, utilizing 64-bit Arm Neoverse N1 cores…
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Let’s build a high-performance fuzzer with GPUs
TL;DR: Can we use GPUs to get 10x performance/dollar when fuzzing embedded software in the cloud? Based on our preliminary work, we think the answer is yes! Fuzzing is a software testing technique that supplies programs with many randomized inputs in an attempt to cause unexpected behavior. It’s an important, […]
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AWS NLBs and the mixed up TCP connections
One of my services was running into timeouts, because connections were being reset by clients. I had assumed that it couldn't be the Network Load Balancers (NLB
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Google Antitrust Notes
I just read the US antitrust “Complaint” against Google. This is obviously just the first chapter of a very long story, but here are early observations.
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Debian donation for Peertube development
The Debian project is happy to announce a donation of 10,000 € to help Framasoft reach the fourth stretch-goal of its Peertube v3 crowdfunding campaign -- Live Streaming. This year's iteration of the Debian annual conference, DebConf20, had to be...
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Startup Financial Modeling: What is a Financial Model? (2016)
This series is the result of a friendly debate I had recently with Troy Henikoff (former Techstars Chicago Accelerator Managing Director) regarding the best...
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Notes on My Colon Cancer
My bout with colon cancer at age 34 in 2020
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James Randi Has Died
We are very sad to say that James Randi passed away yesterday, due to age-related causes. He had an Amazing life. We will miss him. Please respect Deyvi Peña’s privacy during this...
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Talking, Typing, Thinking: Software Is Not a Desk Job
tl;dr Developers over-optimise for the egonomics of typing and not enough for the egronomics of thinking.
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Stable 1.2 Gigabit/s Internet achieved in moving train in Switzerland
Uninterrupted, good quality mobile phone reception is extremely important to rail passengers.
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1Password for Linux beta
Buckle up Linux Desktop users! We just opened an awesome ride that we'd love for you to join us on. 🎢 🙌🏼
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The majority of Facebook's traffic now uses QUIC and HTTP/3
We are replacing the de facto protocol the internet has used for decades with QUIC, the latest and most radical step we’ve taken to optimize our network protocols to create a better experience for …
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The Importance of End-to-End Thinking in System Design
I once attended a talk by Yoky Matsuoka when I was young – so young, in fact, that I don’t remember when or where the talk was. What I do remember is her telling the story of designing…
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BPF, XDP, Packet Filters and UDP
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Attempts to make Python fast
Posted on Hacker News there was an Implementation Plan for making CPython (the official Python implementation) faster. The author claims a 5x speedup is possible for the low cost of $2 million USD.
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United States vs. Google
The Justice Department’s lawsuit against Google is appropriately narrow, and if it fails it gives a template for Congressional action.
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/* You Are Not Expected to Understand This */ (2018)
<a href="https://community.cadence.com/cadence_blogs_8/b/breakfast-bytes"></a>The title of this post, you are not expected to understand this, is one of the most famous comments ever. It is in the v6 version of Unix, the mother operating system of Linux, Android,and iOS. Unix was developed by Dennis Ritchie and Ken…