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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,567 posts.
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On not choosing WordPress for the W3C redesign project
Explaining the background of our choice on CMS platform and the response to a recent WordPress Tavern post
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Ruby 3.0 Preview 1
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 3.0.0-preview1.
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Swift System Is Now Open Source
In June, Apple introduced Swift System, a new library for Apple platforms that provides idiomatic interfaces to system calls and low-level currency types. Today, I’m excited to announce that we’re open-sourcing System and adding Linux support! Our vision is for System to eventually act as the single home for low-level…
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The K-shaped recovery
This installment of The Pomp Letter is free for everyone.
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Bringing the Mona Lisa Effect to Life with Tensorflow.js
Urban legend says that Mona Lisa's eyes will follow you as you move around the room. This interactive digital portrait brings the phenomenon to life..
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Iron, How Did They Make It? Part II
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2020263 points74 commentscited by 10History & Retro Computing details
This week we continue our four-part (I, II, III, IVa, IVb, addendum) look at pre-modern iron and steel production. Last week we prospected our iron ore and extracted it from the ground and did some…
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Finding Goroutine Bugs with TLA+
My job these days is teaching TLA+ and formal methods: specifying designs to find bugs in them. But just knowing the syntax isn’t enough to write specs, and it helps to have examples to draw from. I recently read Chris Siebenmann’s Even in Go, concurrency is still not easy and thought it would make a good case study…
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PG and Jessica
A lot of people want to replicate YC in some other industry or some other place or with some other strategy. In general, people seem to assume that: 1) although there was some degree of mystery or...
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Using time travel to remotely debug faulty DRAM
The story of debugging a mysterious Julia segfault.
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People expect technology to suck because it sucks
I get at least 27 tech annoyances on a single day
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China blocks Wikimedia Foundation’s accreditation to WIPO
China yesterday blocked the Wikimedia Foundation’s application for observer status at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations (UN) organization that develops international treaties on copyright, IP, trademarks, patents and related issues. As a result of the block, the Foundation’s…
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You're enlightened – now what?
Suppose you are enlightened.
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SaaS Financial Model
How to build a SaaS financial model you'll actually use: operating model, revenue forecast, hiring plan, scenarios, and forecast vs actuals.
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The US is using the Guardian to justify jailing Assange for life
Julian Assange is not on trial simply for his liberty and his life. He is fighting for the right of every journalist to do hard-hitting investigative journalism without fear of arrest and extradition to the United States. Assange faces 175 years in a US super-max prison on the basis of claims by Donald Trump’s administ
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Assange Hearing Day 17
During the hearing of medical evidence the last three days, the British government has been caught twice directly telling important lies about events in Belmarsh prison, each lie proven by documentary evidence. The common factor has been the medical records kept by Dr Daly, head of the jail’s medical services. There…
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Calibre 5.0
calibre: The one stop solution for all your e-book needs. Comprehensive e-book software.
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AppStore Reviews Should Be Stricter
Miguel de Icaza's Blog
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A Few Rules
The person who tells the most compelling story wins.
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Work on What Matters
I’ve taken to using the word “energized” over “impactful.” “Impactful” feels company-centric, and while that’s important, “energized” is more inwards-looking. Finding energizing work is what has kept me at Stripe for so long, pursuing impactful work. - Michelle Bu We all have a finite amount of time to live, and…
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Breakdown of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide emissions by sector
How much do electricity, transport, and land use contribute to different greenhouse gas emissions?
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We cancelled standups and let the team build
When is the last time you experimented with process? Here's a fun example
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Escaping the Dark Forest
On September 15, 2020, a small group of people worked through the night to rescue over 9.6MM USD from a vulnerable smart contract. This is our story.
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Compiling a Lisp: Reader
Adding a reader to our Lisp compiler
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An update to the Timescale license
Learn how we are building an open-source business in the cloud and why we added the Timescale License. Read the full article on the Tiger Data blog.