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The Elroy Lamp: A transparent LCD lamp (2019)
Elroy is a table lamp with a unique feature -- the shade can dynamically change to a new style or pattern from your phone or web browser.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,567 posts.
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Iron, How Did They Make It, Part IVb: Work Hardening, or Hardly Working?
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2020107 points23 commentsHistory & Retro Computing details
This week, we close out our four(and a half)-part (I, II, III, IVa, IVb, addendum) look at pre-modern iron and steel production, although I ought to note that there will be at least one addendum di…
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Hum to Search Song
Google Search helps you find the melody that’s stuck in your head with machine learning technology.
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Beware the Casual Polymath
We live in times of great disaggregation, and yet, seem to learn increasingly from generalists. In the past, an expert in one field of Psychology might have been forced to teach a broad survey class.
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Cruise (GM) receives permit for fully driverless cars
2020 has been a heap of bad. And not small bad either. As we’ve been stuck at home, viewing the world through either real or virtual…
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Expanded extension support in Firefox for Android Nightly
Starting September 30, 2020, you can configure Firefox for Android Nightly to install extensions listed on addons.mozilla.org.
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What if we had Local-First Software?
The path to an offline SaaS model
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Waypoint: Build, deploy, and release applications across any platform
A consistent developer workflow to build, deploy, and release applications across any platform.
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SpaCy v3.0 Nightly
spaCy v3.0 is a huge release! It features new transformer-based pipelines that get spaCy's accuracy right up to the current state-of-the-art, and a new workflow system to help you take projects from prototype to production. It's much easier to configure and train your pipeline, and there are lots of new and improved…
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Why are so many unprofitable companies the best performing stocks this year?
3 ways to look at the stocks with huge gains despite businesses with huge losses.
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Reimagining the Browser: Introducing Cloudflare Browser Isolation Beta
Today, we’re excited to open up a beta of a third approach to keeping web browsing safe with Cloudflare Browser Isolation.
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Congress should invest in open-source software
Free and open-source software underpins the digital world. Federal funding should prioritize its development and maintenance.
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Reverse Engineer Amazon's Whispersync
I am a big fan of my Kindle. This is the device I’d bring over to a desert island. I am also a fairly frequent user of the highlight feature where you can select a bit of text you like and save it. One thing is bothering me though: the lack of open API on the Kindle to retrieve the data about me. Amazon provides the…
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How We Institutionalized Incompetence
And so we face the ultimate irony: 'bailing-out-everything' destroys the entire rotten system. You've probably noticed things no longer ...
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What is expected of a engineering manager?
Husband, software engineer at Nubank , computer scientist, coffee taster, book reader, stand up coder
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How to put machine learning models into production
The goal of building a machine learning model is to solve a problem, and a machine learning model can only do so when it is in production and actively in use by consumers. As such, model deployment is as important as model building.
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Telegram, Apple, Belarus, and Conflating ‘Irrelevance’ with ‘Inconvenience’
I’ve said it before and will adamantly say it again: it is *prima facie* wrong that one of the rules of the App Store is that an app is not allowed to explain the rules of the App Store.
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Introduction to ARC/ORC in Nim
Nim is advancing towards more efficient memory management models. Let's talk about ARC/ORC and see how they will change the way memory works in Nim.
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LDM: My Favorite ARM Instruction
LDM—or load multiple —is my favorite assembly instruction of the ARM instruction set. Here’s why.
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Unifying the Technical Interview
Aisha’s hands rattle you. They float gently in front of her shoulders, wrists cocked back. One sways cheerfully as she banters with the hiring manager—her lacquered nails a cyan mosaic over ochre palms. They flit, then hover momentarily as the two women arrange lunch. When the door closes, Aisha slaps her fingertips…
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Snap! 6 is here, and it's all about scale
The Snap! Community. Snap! is a blocks-based programming language built by UC Berkeley and used by hundreds of thousands of programmers around the world.
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Oldschool Gaming on FreeBSD
When was the last time you played a computer game? I really like one of Benjamin Franklin quotes – “We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.̶…
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How to Build a Great Series A Pitch and Deck
YC's Janelle Tam on how to put together a great Series A pitch and deck.
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Zoom Rolling Out End-to-End Encryption Offering
We’re excited to announce that starting next week Zoom’s E2EE offering will be available as a technical preview! Learn more
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HashiCorp Boundary
Simple and secure remote access — to any system anywhere based on trusted identity.
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Pg_stat_monitor – better insights into query performance in PostgreSQL
Percona has developed a new pg_stat_monitor plugin for PostgreSQL which captures all the details in order to provide deep query performance insights.
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PRISM – NSA surveillance program did not prevent a single terrorist attack
Mass surveillance costs millions of Dollars. Yet, it does not improve security.
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Dockerfile Security Best Practices
Quickly improve the security of your docker containers by following security best practices in the Dockerfile
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The Unspoken Hard Bits of Bootstrapping a SaaS Product to Life
The challenges that I’ve faced as a bootstrapped founder simply aren’t the ones that are commonly talked about. Here's where I've struggled.