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Evidence of oldest known alphabetic writing unearthed in ancient Syrian city
Findings suggest alphabetic writing may be some 500 years older than other discoveries
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Stop postponing things by embracing the mess
Does your day get derailed frequently because of unexpected circumstances?
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Notepad++: Help us to take down the parasite website
I’ve received numerous complaints via email, social media, and forums regarding a website that poses a significant threat to our community. The copycat site in question is https://notepad.plus/ which appears prominently when users google for “download Notepad++”.
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Translation of Rust's core and alloc crates to Coq for formal verification
We continue our work on formal verification of Rust programs with our tool coq-of-rust, to translate Rust code to the formal proof system Coq. One of the limitation we had was the handling of primitive constructs from the standard library of Rust, like Option::unwrapordefault or all other primitive functions. For each…
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Common DB schema change mistakes in Postgres
Common DB schema change mistakes and how to avoid them in PostgreSQL development.
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Cold Email Handbook
Learn how to master cold email outreach from 0 to $1M ARR. A comprehensive playbook on infrastructure, copywriting, and AI-powered personalization at scale.
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New Renderers for GTK
Recently, GTK gained not one, but two new renderers: one for GL and one for Vulkan. Since naming is hard, we reused existing names and called them “ngl” and “vulkan”. They are built from the same sources, therefore we also call them “unified” renderers. But what is exciting about them? A single source As mentioned...
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The Pumpkin Eclipse
The Lumen blog and newsroom is your source for business technology news and insights, customer stories, press and media, and trending articles.
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Jpegli: A new JPEG coding library
Jpegli, an advanced JPEG coding library that maintains high backward compatibility is faster, and more efficient, than traditional JPEG.
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Testing Generative AI for Circuit Board Design
An article studying the use of LLMs fror designing circuit boards
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First anode-free sodium solid-state battery
UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering2024352 points129 commentsHardware & Electronics details
UChicago Pritzker Molecular Engineering Prof. Y. Shirley Meng’s Laboratory for Energy Storage and Conversion has created the world’s first anode-free sodium
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Lies I was told about collab editing, Part 1: Algorithms for offline editing
In early 2024, I began investigating collaborative editing systems for use in Moment ’s core text editor.
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B-Trees and Database Indexes
B-trees are used by many modern DBMSs. Learn how they work, how databases use them, and how your choice of primary key can affect index performance.
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A deep dive into email deliverability in 2024
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WebKit switching to Skia for 2d graphics rendering
In recent years we have had an ongoing effort to improve graphics performance of the WebKit GTK and WPE ports. As a result of this we shipped features like threaded rendering, the DMA-BUF renderer, or proper vertical retrace synchronization (VSync). While these improvements have helped keep WebKit competitive, and…
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Bluesky signups are now open to the public
Sign up for Bluesky! No invite code required.
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On clock faces, 4 is Expressed as IIII, not IV
The Mystery of Numerical Notation on the Dial Plate - 4 is Expressed as IIII, not IV
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Our Android app is frozen in carbonite
Google altered the deal
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More Memory Safety for Let's Encrypt: Deploying ntpd-rs
When we look at the general security posture of Let’s Encrypt, one of the things that worries us most is how much of the operating system and network infrastructure is written in unsafe languages like C and C++. The CA software itself is written in memory safe Golang, but from our server operating systems to our…
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Second factor SMS: Worse than its reputation
One-time passwords are often sent via SMS. Security researchers from the CCC recently had live access to over 200 million such SMS messages from more than 200 affected companies.
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The Arc Product-Market Fit Framework
Arc is our company-building immersion for pre-seed and seed stage companies. This framework outlines three distinct archetypes of PMF which help you understand your product’s place in the market and determine how your company operates.
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The EdTech Revolution Has Failed
The Case Against Student Use of Computers, Tablets, and Smartphones in the Classroom
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The Great Migration from MongoDB to PostgreSQL
How Infisical migrated from MongoDB to PostgreSQL.
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No Abstractions: our API design principle
This post explains one of the core design principle of Increase’s API, dubbed No Abstractions, which we’ve found useful as our product and company scale.
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2024: The year of the OpenStreetMap vector maps
OpenStreetMap will take a large leap forward with the introduction of vector tiles on openstreetmap.org this year. This is the first of a series of blog posts where we will share our progress.
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Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source code
Winamp builds tools that empower artists to manage their music and revenue, while delivering a player that offers a seamless listening experience. Discover our products!
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Up to $41B in World Bank climate finance unaccounted for, Oxfam finds
Up to $41 billion in World Bank climate finance —nearly 40 percent of all climate funds disbursed by the Bank over the past seven years— is not being properly tracked due to poor record-keeping practices, reveals a new Oxfam report published today ahead of the World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings in Washington D.C.
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Should I open source my company? (2022)
The unexpected upsides of building in public