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In defense of cryptocurrency
Last week a group of technologists, including Bruce Schneier, sent a letter to Congress outlining their concerns around cryptocurrency and urging Congress to regulate the space. Now let me be the f…
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Bluetooth signals can be used to identify and track smartphones
A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego has demonstrated for the first time that the Bluetooth signals emitted constantly by our mobile phones have a unique fingerprint that can be used to track individuals’ movements.
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Vivaldi Mail 1.0: Email client built into the browser
Vivaldi browser launches a powerful built-in mail client Vivaldi Mail with an integrated Vivaldi Calendar, and Feed Reader. Download desktop and notebooks.
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Techniques for Training Large Neural Networks
Large neural networks are at the core of many recent advances in AI, but training them is a difficult engineering and research challenge which requires orchestrating a cluster of GPUs to perform a single synchronized calculation.
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New GitHub Profile Badges Beta
Available in public beta today, we're announcing Achievements as a new way to commemorate milestones on GitHub.
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Why is American administrative capacity in decline?
Some speculative hypotheses
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Why are nuclear power construction costs so high?
Nuclear power currently makes up slightly less than 20% of the total electricity produced in the US, largely from plants built in the 70s and 80s.
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The collapse of complex software
In 1988, the anthropologist Joseph Tainter published a book called The Collapse of Complex Societies. In it, he described the rise and fall of great…
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Rust without the async (hard) part
A comparison between async Rust's and lunatic's approach to massive concurrency.
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How to build undo/redo in a multiplayer environment by Liveblocks
Notoriously tough to build, undo/redo in a multiplayer environment is even more fraught with difficulty. In this article, we will take you on a behind-the-scenes exclusive, explaining one of the most complex developer issues for multiplayer apps.
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More than you ever wanted to know about font loading on the web (2021)
When I started thinking about writing a post about web font loading my intention was to propose relatively sophisticated ideas that I've...
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Public CDNs Are Useless and Dangerous
Once upon a time, loading common scripts & styles from a public CDN like cdnjs or Google's Hosted Libraries was a 'best practice' - a great way to instantly...
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How I finally get daily journaling done with a workflow on my iPhone
Hello, I’m Michael Sliwinski, founder of Nozbe - to-do app for business owners and their teams. I write essays, books, work on projects and I podcast for you using #iPadOnly in #NoOffice as I believe that work is not a place you go to, it’s a thing you do.
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I killed my startup
It's been over a year since I killed my startup, and a few weeks ago I revisited the spot where I decided to do it. It's about time I talk about it
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OpenBSD folklore and share/misc/airport
OpenBSD's share/misc/airport file and a day trip to Lublin
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Xbox 360 Architecture
An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally
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Stop Interviewing with Leet Code
During interviews, technical skills in the industry are still largely vetted through LeetCode-style questions. These are small algorithmic riddles in the for...
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50th Anniversary of the Mother of All Demos (2018)
I was asked to give a toast in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of [The Mother of All Demos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos) so I spent some time reflecting on Engelbart's w...
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Hacker News “Who is Hiring?” top-level comments over time
tl;dr: I believe HN Who is Hiring? posts are down; scroll to the bottom for the chart, code lives here. Hacker News. The Orange Site. Since April 2011, it’s had a thread every month, which dares potential employers to answer one question: who is hiring? I take a quick skim through this thread every month. ... Hacker…
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Private Access Tokens: eliminating CAPTCHAs on iPhones and Macs with open standards
Today we’re announcing Private Access Tokens, a completely invisible, private way to validate that real users are visiting your site
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Cache made consistent: Meta’s cache invalidation solution
Caches help reduce latency, scale read-heavy workloads, and save cost. They are literally everywhere. Caches run on your phone and in your browser. For example, CDNs and DNS are essentially geo-rep…
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Pyston-lite: our Python JIT as an extension module
Today we’re very excited to announce Pyston-lite, a JIT for Python that is easily installable as an extension module. We’ve taken the core technology of Pyston and repackaged it so that…
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The case for expanding rather than eliminating gifted education programs (2021)
Teach For America's blog—real change is within reach. Explore stories of our people, tools for making change, leadership development, and career resources.
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The End of Localhost
All the Cloud's A Staging Env, and All the Laptops Merely Clients
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Sunsetting Atom
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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Entropy Is Fatal
Like a lot of people, I used to be a pathological maximalist. A phone with more features is necessarily better, a company with more people is better, a program with more lines of code is better, a house with more stuff is better. Until the day when reality hit me
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Blender 3.2
Blender Foundation and the online developers community are proud to present Blender 3.2!
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