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Announcing TypeScript 3.0
TypeScript 3.0 is here! Today marks a new milestone in the TypeScript journey, serving JavaScript users everywhere.If you're unfamiliar with TypeScript,
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,089 posts.
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New DHS policy on demands for passwords to travelers’ electronic devices
US Customs and Border Protection, a component of the Department of Homeland Security, today posted a revised policy on Border Searches of Electronic Devices and a Privacy Impact Assessment of some of the changes made by the new policy.
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Illegal Production and Use of Banned CFC-11 in China's Foam Blowing Industry
We investigate and campaign against environmental crime and abuse
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Getting 1Password 7 ready for the Mac App Store
We are getting close to the official release date and have begun final preparations, including submitting 1Password 7 to the Mac App Store.
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How we scaled Nginx
10 million websites, apps and APIs use Cloudflare to give their users a speed boost. At peak we serve more than 10 million requests a second across our 151 data centers. Over the years we’ve made many modifications to our version of NGINX to handle our growth. This is blog post is about one of them.
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PostgreSQL 11 Partitioning Improvements
pgDash is an in-depth monitoring solution designed specifically for PostgreSQL deployments. pgDash shows you information and metrics about every aspect of your PostgreSQL database server, collected using the open-source tool pgmetrics.
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It is not possible to detect and block Chrome headless
An updated example of techniques to avoid detection.
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Becoming a Better Software Developer: A Handbook on Personal Performance
Explore Appfire's Blog for everything from ITSM and Workflow and Automation to System Administration, Software Development, and DevOps.
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Firefox 58
With this release, we’re building on the great foundation provided by our all-new Firefox Quantum browser . We're optimizing the performance gains we released in 57 by improving the way we render graphics and cache JavaScript. We also made functional and privacy improvements to Firefox Screenshots. On Firefox for…
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Unexpected challenges of making money on the internet
Before I left Google to work on my own startup, I hadn’t thought much about monetization. I believed that, because so many websites do it everyday, charging people for online services would be straightforward. But as I started growing Kapwing, my video editing website, [https://www.kapwing.com/] with
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Android P
We’re unveiling a beta version of Android P, the next release of Android.
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Politics is bad because we use an 18th century voting system
While it might not seem sexy, this single change could transform politics.
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Measuring the “Filter Bubble”: How Google is influencing what you click
Does Google show you different search results based on your personal info, even when signed out and in so-called "incognito" mode? We ran a study to find out.
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AWS now supports U2F/Yubikeys
April 25, 2023: We’ve updated this blog post to include more security learning resources. Update on October 8, 2018: After we launched support for security devices manufactured by Yubico on September 25, 2018, we received feedback from customers to support other U2F security key providers, as well. Starting October 8…
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Create Statistics in PostgreSQL 10
Postgres stores a lot of statistics about your data in order to effectively retrieve results when you query your database. Here we deep dive into some of the statistics PostgreSQL stores and how you can leverage a new feature in Postgres 10 to improve performance when different columns are related.
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Clojure 1.10 release
Clojure 1.10 focuses on two major areas: improved error reporting and Java compatibility.
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The New Wave of Indian Type
Discover new fonts for Indian languages. Learn about open-source fonts & design solutions.
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Why I've lost faith in p values
[Note: There is a followup to this post .] There has been a lot written over the past decade (and even longer) about problems associated with null hypothesis statistical testing (NHST) and p values. Personally, I have found most of these arguments unconvincing. However, one of t
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Community-Owned Fiber Networks: Value Leaders in America
Our examination of advertised prices shows that community-owned fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) networks in the United States generally charge less for entry-level broadband service than do competing private providers, and don’t use initial low “teaser” rates that sharply rise months later.
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YC China and Qi Lu
Edit: Read this update [https://blog.ycombinator.com/an-update-on-yc-china/] on YC China. I am delighted to announce that Qi Lu [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSydk0XzxEE] is joining YC to launch and run YC China. I have been trying to recruit Qi for many years—he is one of the most impressive technologists I know…
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Go's New Brand
Go’s new look and logo (don't worry, the mascot isn’t changing!).
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Impostor syndrome strikes men just as hard as women in technical interviews
The modern technical interview is a rite of passage for software engineers and (hopefully!) the precursor to a great job.
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Blind since birth, writing code at Amazon since 2013
Michael Forzano said he has a good “mental map of the structure of the code,” which allows him to help colleagues and provide unique feedback to his team.