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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,153 posts.
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Do you remember Ultima Online?
I was there, Gandalf. I was there 3000 years ago when... Not really; I wish I were there, but I joined as soon as I could.
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JEP 431: Sequenced Collections
Introduce new interfaces to represent collections with a defined encounter order. Each such collection has a well-defined first element, second element, and so forth, up to the last element. It also provides uniform APIs for accessing its first and last elements, and for processing its elements in reverse order.
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The State of AWS Security
We analyzed trends in the implementation of security best practices and took a closer look at various types of misconfigurations that contribute to the most common causes of security breaches.
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Lessons learned since posting my salary history publicly
What I've learned in the year since posting my salary history publicly.
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Seven sins of numerical linear algebra
In numerical linear algebra we are concerned with solving linear algebra problems accurately and efficiently and understanding the sensitivity of the problems to perturbations. We describe seven si…
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How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)
In 1978, Brian Eno released Ambient 1: Music for Airports, a landmark album in ambient and electronic music. Although it wasn't the first ambient
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Ocean plastics: How much do rich countries contribute by shipping their waste?
Many countries ship plastic waste overseas. How much of the world’s waste is traded, and how big is its role in the pollution of our oceans?
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Brex layoffs
Our co-founder and co-CEO sent an email to the Brex team today to share a difficult message.
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When going somewhere does a thing: on links and buttons
At the Fronteers conference, Manuel during his presentation did an exercise on building HTML that seemed fairly straightforward. On the site of Max Böck there's a thing you can click to open up a theme selector. What's that thing? Of course, it's a button! Because it opens the theme selector at the top of the […]
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Researchers find ‘significant rates’ of sinking ground in Houston suburbs
Professor of Geology Shuhab Khan and his team analyzed thousands of water and oil wells in the Houston metro area and uncovered significant rates of subsidence in Houston's fast-growing suburbs that has not been reported before.
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What “diversity and inclusion” means at Microsoft
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From 2021 to 2022, I worked as a manager in Microsoft’s AI Platform division. I’ve been working in the software industry for over a decade, and while I’ve often encountered some combination of the words “diversity” and “inclusion,” how those words have been translated into culture and policy has varied dramatically…
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I wish my web server were in the corner of my room
Posted on Monday 10 Oct 2022. 1,417 words, 11 links. By Matt Webb.
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Apple introduces Ask Apple for developers
New series of interactive Q&As and one-on-ones provide developers with direct access to Apple experts.
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A Memory Safe Implementation of the Network Time Protocol
Folkert and the team at Tweede golf are helping us to build a memory safe NTP implementation. We asked them to share their experience in this blog post. Thank you for your partnership and contributions, Tweede golf team! Josh Aas, Head of ISRG’s Prossimo project For the last few months we at Tweede golf have been…
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Layout Breakouts with CSS Grid
Extending elements beyond the content area with CSS Grid and named grid lines.
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Protect your privacy and your phone number with Firefox Relay
When you share your personal phone number with anyone outside your circle of family and friends, it essentially gives them permission to call you anytime o
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Pico.js – A face-detection library in 200 lines of JavaScript (2018)
We introduce pico.js , a face-detection library written in JavaScript, and show how it works. Although similar projects already exist, our goal is to provide a smaller and computationally more efficient alternative.
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They Called It LISP for a Reason: List Processing (2005)
Lists play an important role in Lisp--for reasons both historical and practical. Historically, lists were Lisp's original composite data type, though it has been decades since they were its only such data type. These days, a Common Lisp programmer is as likely to use a vector, a hash table, or a user-defined class or…
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Linux NILFS file system: automatic continuous snapshots
In this article, I present the Linux file system NILFS and its automatic continuous snapshoting system.
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Blender: Wayland Support on Linux
Introducing native support for the popular display server protocol on Linux.
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Vectis IP Announces Call for Patents Essential to the Opus codec
London, UK: UK-based IP and technology licensing company Vectis IP today announced a call for patents essential to the Opus codec.
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Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts (2020)
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts said Richard Feynman. Feynman had a Nobel prize in physics. He was a remarquable educator: his lecture notes are still popular. He foresaw nanotechnology and quantum computing. He is credited with identifying the cause of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. There is…
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U.S. Army Chooses Google Workspace
Google Public Sector will provide 250,000 active-duty enlisted members of the U.S. Army with Google Workspace.
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SmooshGate (2021)
What can SmooshGate teach us about standards development and the Web Platform? This write-up gives an overview.
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Microbes that cause cavities can form superorganisms able to ‘crawl’
These multicellular, cross-kingdom assemblages were more resistant to antimicrobials and removal and caused more extensive tooth decay than their single-species equivalents, according to research led by School of Dental Medicine scientists.
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How Wine works 101
Wine is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, macOS, & BSD (https://www.winehq.org). If you have been using Linux for some time now, chances are you’ve used Wine at some point. Maybe to run that one very important Windows program that…
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