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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,838 posts.
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Firefox brings smooth video playback with the fastest AV1 decoder
With this week's release of Firefox 67, the new high performance royalty-free AV1 video decoder dav1d is now enabled by default on all desktop platforms (Windows, OSX and Linux) for ...
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The APA Meeting: A Photo-Essay
The first thing you notice at the American Psychiatric Association meeting is its size. By conservative estimates, a quarter of the psychiatrists in the United States are packed into a single giant…
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Moving Camera, Moving People: A Deep Learning Approach to Depth Prediction
Posted by Tali Dekel, Research Scientist and Forrester Cole, Software Engineer, Machine Perception The human visual system has a remarkable abili...
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YC's request for startups: Government 2.0
In 2018, Pew Research Center reported [https://www.pewglobal.org/2019/03/04/u-s-german-relations-methodology-spring-2018-global-attitudes-survey/] that 57% of Americans believe that children in America today will be worse off financially than their parents. Since 2013, this number has been as high as 65% — even though…
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The End of an Era for EasyDNS
It all started about two or three years ago, I walked into the office one Monday morning around 10am... and I set the alarm off. My initial shock that I was the first person in on a Monday at 10am was quickly overridden by the realization that I had no idea…
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To Keep Track of Reddit Conversations Around NYT Articles, We Built a Slack Bot
How we’re getting feedback from the Reddit community
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Data Science Interview Study Guide
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BigInt Shipping in Firefox
wingolog: article: bigint shipping in firefox!
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PayPal's Beautiful Demonstration of Extended Validation FUD
Sometimes the discussion around extended validation certificates (EV) feels a little like flogging a dead horse. In fact, it was only September that I proposed EV certificates are already dead [https://www.troyhunt.com/extended-validation-certificates-are-dead/] for all sorts of good reasons that have only been…
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JavaScript Array.push is 945x faster than Array.concat
It took six whole seconds to merge 15,000 arrays with an average size of 5 elements with .concat. What the hell is the Javascript's .concat method doing under the hood?
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PostgreSQL 12 Beta 1 Released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces that the first beta release of PostgreSQL 12 is now available for download. This …
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Travels with a Pi (2018)
Pete's Random Notes Blog - I have opinions on lots of things...
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Google faces first investigation by its European lead authority over GDPR
Today, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has announced a major GDPR probe into “suspected infringement” by Google’s DoubleClick/Authorized Buyers advertising business. The probe was triggered by a formal complaint from Dr Johnny Ryan, Chief Policy Officer at Brave, the private web browser.
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Buying an IBM Mainframe
I bought an IBM mainframe for personal use. I am doing this for learning and figuring out how it works. If you are curious about what goes i...
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China, Leverage, and Values
If there is a new tech cold war, it is one with shots fired over a decade ago, largely by China. The questions going forward are about both leverage and values.
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PEP 594 – Removing dead batteries from Python's standard library
This PEP proposed a list of standard library modules to be removed from the standard library. The modules are mostly historic data formats (e.g. Commodore and SUN file formats), APIs and operating systems that have been superseded a long time ago (e.g. ...
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Terraform 0.12
We are very proud to announce that Terraform 0.12 is officially released. Terraform 0.12 is a major update that includes dozens of improvements and features spanning the breadth and depth of Terraform's functionality.
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The C language is purely functional (2009)
Inspirations & experiments, mainly about denotative/functional programming in Haskell
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Google and Binomial Open-Source Basis Universal Texture Format
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
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QEMU 4.0 adds micro:bit emulation support
micro:bit emulation support is available from QEMU 4.0 onwards and can be used for low-level software testing and development. Unlike existing micro:bit simulators, QEMU performs full-system emulation and actually runs the same ARM code as the real hardware. This blog post explains what full-system emulation means and…
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Implementing a Convolutional Neural Network from Scratch in Python
A simple guide to what CNNs are, how they work, and how to build one from scratch in Python.
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Privacy-Preserving Ad Click Attribution for the Web
A typical website is made of numerous components coming from a wide variety of sources.
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A whirlwind tour of object-oriented code in F# (2012)
A whirlwind tour of object-oriented code in F#
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Fingerprinting iPhones
This clever attack allows someone to uniquely identify a phone when you visit a website, based on data from the accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer sensors. We have developed a new type of fingerprinting attack, the calibration fingerprinting attack. Our attack uses data gathered from the accelerometer…
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Tor Browser 8.5
Tor Browser 8.5 includes our first stable release for Android plus many new features.