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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,909 posts.
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Archaeologists discover oldest wooden structure
Archaeologists discover world’s oldest wooden structure
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Svelte 5: Runes
Rethinking ‘rethinking reactivity’
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78% MNIST accuracy using GZIP in under 10 lines of code
Using GZIP compression and the k-Nearest Neighbors algorithm, we explore an innovative approach to classifying the MNIST dataset with about 78% accuracy
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Gokrazy is cool
Xe Iaso's personal website.
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MongoDB’s new query engine
SBE Article logo Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. MongoDB has recently released a new query engine coming in version 7.0. I was one of the people work...
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Lean, Coq and other proof assistants: Visualising proofs as trees
This week we (me & Anton Kovsharov) published Paperproof, a Gentzen-tree-like proof interface for Lean 4. In this post I'll review proof visualisations from o...
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Introduction to Linux interfaces for virtual networking (2018)
Explore common Linux virtual network interfaces, including Bridge, Bonded interface, VLAN, VXLAN, MACVLAN, IPVLAN, MACVTAP/IPVTAP, and more. Learn how to create and use them effectively for your
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We have successfully completed our migration to RAM-only VPN infrastructure
Today we announce that we have completely removed all traces of disks being used by our VPN infrastructure!
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Grouping digits in SQL
PostgreSQL 16 was released last week. This is the story of a feature.
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Ruby 3.3's YJIT Runs Shopify's Production Code 15% Faster
Ruby 3.2 YJIT has optimized the production workloads of Shopify and other companies. We encourage you to enable YJIT in production. Once Ruby 3.3 is released, it should make your application even faster.
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Writing HTML by hand
Behind the scenes - how I'm making redblobgames.com - interactive explanations of game development algorithms and math
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Smashing the state machine: the true potential of web race conditions
For too long, web race condition attacks have focused on a tiny handful of scenarios. Their true potential has been masked thanks to tricky workflows, missing tooling, and simple network jitter hiding
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How to evaluate a product roadmap, for engineers
Aka, how do I know if a product leader knows what they're doing? There are thousands of articles, courses, and guides on how to build a roadmap for product managers. Even with all these resources, roadmaps often become a point of contention between product managers and their stakeholders. There
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Programming is hard
Software is weird. In its basic form, software is this very abstract thing with seemingly little connection to the real world. Yet graphical applications running on a hardware device like a modern phone feel very real, even to people who have no appreciation of what happens within this “black box”. Some pieces of…
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Circles do not exist
Many logos, drawings and other graphical designs have the following shape in it. What is this shape? If you thought: "Ah-ha! I'm smart and r...
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Apache Pinot 1.0
Introducing Apache Pinot 1.0 Release
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Fixing for loops in Go 1.22
Go 1.21 shipped a preview of a change in Go 1.22 to make for loops less error-prone.
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RabbitMQ vs. Kafka – An Architect’s Dilemma (Part 1)
RabbitMQ and Apache Kafka might appear similar but serve very different needs. Read to learn and make an informed decision suitable for your needs.
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Quantum Resistance and the Signal Protocol
The Signal Protocol is a set of cryptographic specifications that provides end-to-end encryption for private communications exchanged daily by billions of people around the world. After its publication in 2013, the Signal Protocol was adopted not only by Signal but well beyond. Technical informat...
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Getting into Pinball
Almost exactly a year ago, I began playing pinball at my friend Noah's house. I didn't understand how he could be so interested in Pinball that he bought two machines, but since I....
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Historical maps probably helped cause World War I
On cartography as historical argument
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Improving your online privacy: An update
Ten years ago, after it became clear to almost everyone that all our online activity was being tracked and stored, I wrote a blog post about simple steps a person could take to improve their privacy online .