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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,277 posts.
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Linode launches free DDoS protection
/PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Linode, the world's largest independent cloud provider, today announced advanced protection across its global network of 11 data centers...
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Sketch: Proud to Build a Truly Native Mac App
From personalization and performance, to familiarity and flexibility — there are plenty of reasons to love native apps
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Turing-NLG: A 17B-parameter language model
This figure was adapted from a similar image published in DistilBERT. Turing Natural Language Generation (T-NLG) is a 17 billion parameter language model by Microsoft that outperforms the state of the art on many downstream NLP tasks. We present a demo of the model, including its freeform generation, question…
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Asking Microsoft to resign from the RIAA over YouTube-dl takedown demand
We learned on Friday that GitHub removed youtube-dl's primary collaboration forum and code repository from their site, which had been hosted at https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl. The action was in response to a DMCA Section 512 notice that the RIAA sent demanding removal of youtube-dl, which was released and…
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A preview of x64 emulation on Windows for ARM
Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21277 (RS_PRERELEASE) to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. As mentioned here, we are giving Windows Insiders in
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2+1=4, by quinoa
I was struck the other day by the following: The cooking instructions on my Bob’s tri-colored quinoa package said to combine 2 cups of water with 1 cup of dried quinoa, which would ultimately create 4 cups of cooked quinoa. See image above. My first reaction was to believe …
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Cloudflare One
Today we’re announcing Cloudflare One. It provides secure, fast, reliable, cost-effective network services, integrated with leading identity management and endpoint security providers.
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Godot 3.2
Godot contributors are thrilled and delighted to release our newest major update, Godot 3.2! It's the result of over 10 months of work by close to 450 contributors who authored more than 6000 commits! Godot 3.2 is a major improvement over our previous 3.1 installment, bringing dozens of major features and hundreds of…
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To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language
MIT neuroscientists have found reading computer code does not rely on the regions of the brain involved in language processing. Instead, it activates the “multiple demand network,” which is also recruited for complex cognitive tasks such as solving math problems or crossword puzzles.
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MIT and Harvard file suit against new ICE regulations
MIT and Harvard have filed a lawsuit in response to the ICE and the DHS announcement that international students on F-1 visas will not be permitted to take a full online course load this fall while studying in the United States.
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Elixir v1.10
Elixir v1.10 is out with standard library, compiler, and releases improvements.
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Zero-days in Cisco Discovery Protocol
Identify which devices of your company are impacted by five vulnerabilities that Armis found out in the Cisco Discovery Protocol (CPD).
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Open Letter from Facebook Content Moderators
Full text of the letter from 200 Facebook content moderators.
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An Update on MDN Web Docs
Mozilla announced some general changes in our investments and we would like to outline how they will impact our MDN platform efforts moving forward. It hurts to make these cuts, ...
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Apache Arrow 1.0
The Apache Arrow team is pleased to announce the 1.0.0 release. This covers over 3 months of development work and includes 810 resolved issues from 100 distinct contributors. See the Install Page to learn how to get the libraries for your platform. Despite a "1.0.0" version, this is the 18th major release of Apache…
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Emacs: The most successful malleable system
Emacs is probably the most successful malleable system in the history of computing. What can we learn from it for designing the malleable systems of the future?
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Deploys at Slack
Deploys require a careful balance of speed and reliability. At Slack, we value quick iteration, fast feedback loops, and responsiveness to customer feedback. We also have hundreds of engineers who are trying to be as productive as possible. Keeping to these values while growing as a company means continual refinement…
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Dolt is Git for data
Blog for DoltHub, a website hosting databases made with Dolt, an open-source version-controlled SQL database with Git-like semantics.
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Racket is 25
posted by Matthias Felleisen and Matthew Flatt The First Thoughts [Matthias]: Wednesday 25 January 1995: POPL used to be a Monday-through-Wednesday-noon affair. Cormac Flanagan presented his future paper there (a static analysis on how to eliminate i...
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Nim 1.2
We are very proud to announce Nim version 1.2 after six months of continuous development!
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DigitalOcean VPC
Helping millions of developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size - faster than ever before.
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HTML attributes to improve your users' two factor authentication experience
Learn how to use the HTML autocomplete, inputmode and pattern attributes to improve the user experience of logging in.
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Internet Archive responds to publishers’ lawsuit
Yesterday, the Internet Archive filed our response to the lawsuit brought by four commercial publishers to end the practice of Controlled Digital Lending (CDL), the digital equivalent of traditional library lending. CDL is a respectful and secure way to bring the breadth of our library collections to digital learners…
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Docker to rate limit image pulls
Docker announces significant upgrades to its subscription plans, delivering more value, flexibility, and tools for customers of all sizes.
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