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How setting the TZ environment variable avoids thousands of system calls
In this article, you can find how setting the TZ environment variable can prevent thousands of system calls.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,671 posts.
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Polars 2.0
The release Python Polars 2.0, bringing the streaming engine, out-of-core and first class blazingly fast SQL support
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Stellarium 1.0
The Stellarium team did it. Stellarium 1.0 is here!
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Is Every Speed Limit Too Low?
Americans nearly universally speed, and excess speed is a factor in many accidents. But what if higher speed limits made roads safer?
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Svelte 5: Runes
Rethinking ‘rethinking reactivity’
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Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs
Tab grouping feature coming to Google Chrome
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Study finds billions of nanoplastics released when microwaving containers
The fastest way to heat food and drink might also rank as the fastest route to ingesting massive quantities of minuscule plastic particles, says new research led by Husker engineers.
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How mobile apps illegally share personal data
Some mobile apps share your personal data immediately after they're opened. This isn't compliant with EU privacy laws
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Block: Inflated user metrics and “frictionless” fraud facilitation
Initial Disclosure: After extensive research, we have taken a short position in shares of Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ). This report represents our opinion, and we encourage every reader to do their own due diligence. Please see our full disclaimer at the bottom of the report.
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Statement on EU-US Cooperation on Turning Public Opinion Against Encryption
The members of the Global Encryption Coalition’s Steering Committee issued a statement on the EU-US collaboration against encryption.
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A lighter V8
The V8 Lite project dramatically reduced the memory overhead of V8 on typical websites, this is how we did it.
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Section 215 Expires For Now
Senate to Vote on USA FREEDOM Act Later in the WeekSection 215 has expired. At least for now.The law that the NSA used to authorize its collection of vast amounts of information about the telephone calls of ordinary Americans is no more. Even though it’s likely temporary, it’s a good thing and we...
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Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)
How I built a queryable video archive locally on a 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max using Gemma 4 31B in LM Studio. The build journey, the absurdity of 50GB of swap, and four bugs that taught real lessons.
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Elasticsearch 1.0.0 released
Powered by Elasticsearch. Ready to deploy your data? Start free.
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Qualcomm and Apple agree to drop all litigation
The companies have reached a global patent license agreement and a chipset supply agreement.
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Lessons learned from sharding Postgres at Notion
With an effort to make Notion faster and more reliable for years to come — we migrated Notion’s PostgreSQL monolith into a horizontally-partitioned database fleet.
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Listening for illegal logging chainsaws using TensorFlow
Rainforest Connection founder and CEO Topher White shares how TensorFlow, Google’s open-source machine learning framework, aids in their efforts.
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New Mac Mini with M4
Apple today unveiled the all-new Mac mini powered by the M4 and new M4 Pro chips, and redesigned around Apple silicon so it’s even smaller.
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The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war
The United States Army spent the last two decades optimizing sustainment for permissive environments defined by uncontested supply lines, contractor support, and static forward operating bases. As the National Defense […]
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Is Google Search Deteriorating? Measuring Google's Search Quality in 2022
Has Google's Search Quality deteriorated in recent years? This post measures Google Search using human evaluation.
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Building for the Blockchain
If you’re here, we assume that you’re a developer/hacker who’s intrigued by the blockchain. You’re convinced that you understand how it works and now you’re itching to figure out what the blockchain means for you and your developer skill set.
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Scott Forstall leaves Apple
The official source for news about Apple, from Apple. Read press releases, get updates, watch video and download images.
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Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm Ltd.
Find the latest news, in-depth stories, and important updates from The Walt Disney Company and our brands, businesses, and affiliates.
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Clarifications regarding arrest of climate activist
We would like to provide important clarifications regarding the case of the climate activist who was arrested by French police.
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Summer Reading List
The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan [https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Knew-Times-Greenspan/dp/0143111094] [https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Knew-Times-Greenspan/dp/0143111094] “I thought Greenspan was bad but this book paints a positive image. Seb Mallaby is an awesome author so makes for an easy read.”…
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GPT-5 for Developers
Introducing GPT-5 in our API platform—offering high reasoning performance, new controls for devs, and best-in-class results on real coding tasks.
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McDonald's Real Estate: How They Really Make Their Money (2015)
McDonald’s is one of the biggest real estate companies in the world. It owns $28.4 billion worth of land and buildings (before depreciation).
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Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available
Work around hard NATs and tricky networks with production-grade connectivity nodes you control