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The Inner Osborne Effect (2021)
In software development, we talk a lot about software anti-patterns, how to recognize them, and how to extricate yourself from them via refactoring.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,153 posts.
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Impact to DigitalOcean customers resulting from Mailchimp security incident
Today, we wanted to share an update about how DigitalOcean and our customers were impacted by a recent security incident disclosed by Mailchimp.
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A robots.txt Problem
To prevent a part of our web application from being scanned by search engines and other web crawlers, we add a robots.txt like User-agen...
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How Discord supercharges network disks for extreme low latency
Learn how Discord optimizes its platform to respond to the high frequency of queries for all types of content and data as quickly as possible.
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Learnings of a CEO: Wade Foster, Zapier
Today, Zapier automates work by connecting with over 5,000 apps. The company has been profitable since 2014 and is valued at $5B – with 700 employees working remotely. Wade, Zapier CEO, shared his learnings growing into the role of a growth-stage CEO.
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Android 13
Android 13 is here with new customization features, privacy features and multi-device features for phones, laptops and tablets.
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Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux?
In the ELF format there are two ways of providing a hash table of symbols. DT_HASH and DT_GNU_HASH . The first one is part of SYSV generic ABI and is well documented and marked as mandatory. DT_GNU_HASH is a newer, smaller, and faster replacement that is not documented , implemented in a few places (Glibc, GNU ld…
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How to design a referral program
Above: Dropbox’s innovative growth initiative — A referral program to give/get storage
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Scaling Kubernetes to Thousands of CRDs
Over the past few months Crossplane has pushed the boundaries of Kubernetes with the number of Custom Resources it supports. In this post we’ll explore the limitations Upbound engineers have discovered and how we’ve helped to overcome them.
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Process behaviour anomaly detection using eBPF and unsupervised learning
Hello everybody, I hope you’ve been enjoying this summer after two years of Covid and lockdowns :D In this post I’m going to describe how to use eBPF syscall t…
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How to create a blog post title optimizer with GPT-3 and Hacker News data
GPT-3 says the title for this post is very bad.
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Attacking Titan M with Only One Byte
Following our presentation at Black Hat USA, in this blog post we provide some details on CVE-2022-20233, the latest vulnerability we found on Titan M, and how we exploited it to obtain code execution on the chip.
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Investing in Flow
Our nation has a housing crisis. The demographic trends driving America’s housing market are impossible to ignore: our country is creating households faster than we’re building houses. Structural shortages in available homes for sale push housing prices higher, while young people are staying single for longer and…
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Big changes ahead for Deno
Learnings from our recent survey and feedback from across our community. We'll discuss how we're addressing this feedback and the features to expect from Deno in the coming months.
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Email Is Async
Email is often used as a synchronous (real-time) comms channel when it shouldn't be. Learn why email is async and how to keep it that way.
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Why use Paxos instead of Raft?
TLDR: Neon separates storage and compute, substituting the PostgreSQL persistency layer with a custom-made distributed storage written in Rust. Due to this separation, some nodes don’t have persistent disks. The original Raft paper works only with uniform nodes, but Paxos variants support proposers without storage and…
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Second-Order Thinking
Second-order thinking is a mental model that smart people like Warren Buffett & Howard Marks use to avoid problems. Read this article to learn how it works.
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How to Delete Gmail Attachments Without Deleting the Emails
Gmail can't delete an attachment without deleting the email. Learn how to remove or downsize Gmail attachments in bulk, keep your emails, and free up storage.
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The layoffs at Klarna
The FinTech company valued at $45B laid off 10% of its staff. How did it happen, and what can other companies learn from its execution?
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Will Bun JavaScript Take Node's Crown
Bun is the newest and fastest all-in-one JavaScript framework. Will it take over Node? Is it better than Deno? Let's do some testing.
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Quaternions: A Practical Guide
AnyLeaf Articles: Quaternions: A practical guide
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Observations on tragedy in a digital age
Viewed in the proper light, influencer is a career path of tragic dimensions.
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Efficient simulation through linear algebra
I spent a lot of time working on a project in which physically plausible simulation of soft materials with pressure chambers was a key part, and in doing so, we managed to improve a part of our simulation by a significant amount. I was very happy with how this small part of the whole system turned out, and I've been…
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It’s raining PFAS: rainwater is unsafe to drink even in Antarctica and Tibet
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are man-made hazardous chemicals that are spread globally in the atmosphere and as a result they can be found in the rainwater and snow in even the most remote locations on Earth. During the last 20 years, guideline values for PFAS in drinking water, surface waters and soils…