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Nile: Serverless Postgres for modern SaaS
I am thrilled to announce Nile, a serverless Postgres database designed for modern SaaS applications.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,908 posts.
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Wait, what's a bookmarklet?
How this one small browser quirk turned into a tool used by countless people for decades.
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What Transport for London can learn about us from our mobile data
Big Brother meets Big Data
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Web components will outlive JavaScript frameworks
If we're building things that we want to work in five or ten or even 20 years, we need to avoid dependencies and use the web with no layers in between.
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Tarsnap has given 2^18 dollars to open source
The largest recipient of this funding every year has been the FreeBSD Foundation, and to date they have received $173,920. It's hard to overstate the importance of the work the Foundation does; they provide hardware which keeps the FreeBSD project running, they fund a myriad of independent projects, and they have…
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Not knowing the /proc file system
Overview Edit: this post was discussed on hacker news Some of the comments contained valuable reviews of the C code listed below. I’ve appended some edits after the original listing. I’ve been working quite with files and file systems on Linux recently. Mostly from the vantage point of either a shell or a python…
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Oh-Auth – Abusing OAuth to take over millions of accounts
OAuth Account Takeover. Salt Labs shows how hackers could abuse OAuth to take over millions of accounts on Grammarly, Vidio, and Bukalapak.
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Things I've learned about building CLI tools in Python
I build a lot of command-line tools in Python. It’s become my favorite way of quickly turning a piece of code into something I can use myself and package up …
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MAME 0.260
Some long-anticipated updates landed in October, making MAME 0.260 a very exciting release! Firstly, there are some general updates to MAME itself. After a few false starts, MAME now supports bgfx video output with Wayland on Linux. As requested by users, you can finally use delta CHD files for clone systems and…
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Windows 11's default mail client will show ads starting 2024
Original Publish Date: June 2023 | MC650424 Revised Date: August 30, 2023, based on Microsoft's Updated Message See text in red font. Microsoft's...
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LIGO Surpasses the Quantum Limit
New technology in operation at LIGO is tackling quantum mechanical noise, enabling LIGO to probe a larger volume of the Universe and greatly boost the observatory's ability to study the exotic events that shake space and time.
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Server-side sandboxing: Containers and seccomp
An overview of containers and seccomp as sandboxing primitives
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Thunderbird 115.4.0
Thunderbird is a free email application that’s easy to set up and customize - and it’s loaded with great features!
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Why we don’t generate elliptic curves every day
Elliptic curves are standardized, instead of being generated like Diffie-Hellman parameters. There's good reasons!
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Reconciliation is a knapsack problem
Yesterday, we announced adding AI to our recon engine. Today, we're underscoring how reconciliation is a pain point by delving into the math.
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There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries
On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
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Good times create weak men (2019)
Software abstraction ladder becomes too tall and starts to fall
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I face investigation for terrorism
My phone is not being returned to me by police as, astonishingly, I am now formally under investigation for terrorism. Whether this relates to support for Palestine or for Wikileaks has currently not been made clear. What follows is, unspun and unvarnished, my account of my interview under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism…
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The risk of RISC-V: What's going on at SiFive?
Updated 10/25
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Goodbye, Node.js Buffer
It’s time to move from Buffer to Uint8Array.
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The killer features of the Steam Deck
In the beginning of the year I gave myself a late Christmas gift and bought a Steam Deck for myself. There were two main reasons I decided to buy it:
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Unified versus Split Diff
Which is better for code reviews, a unified diff or a split diff?
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How to Build Your Own AI-Generated Images with ControlNet and Stable Diffusion
We are excited to explore the latest developments in generative AI and how it can drive ML applications through image augmentation and dataset population.
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Two Kinds of Techno-Optimism
A few things Marc Andreessen forgot to mention
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How does macOS manage virtual cores on Apple Silicon?
Code run in a lightweight Virtual Machine can’t take advantage of the Efficiency cores of the host Apple silicon Mac. How then does Sonoma handle its threads?