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Hard Drive Stats for 2019
In 2019 we monitored the performance of 122,507 hard drives. In this article we look at the failure rates by make and model.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,277 posts.
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Eleven Years of Go
Happy Birthday, Go!
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Media Owned by Wealthy Are Quick to Tell You Wealth Taxes Are a Bad Idea
Corporate media—whose owners are overwhelmingly from the class that would be paying a wealth tax—are returning to throw cold water on the idea.
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Bosch develops rapid test for Covid-19
The PCR diagnostic platform Vivalytic enables COVID-19 rapid tests — a blessing for Clemens Weller and his mother, who suffers from dementia. Learn more!
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Oculus Quest 2
Shop the Meta Quest 2 all-in-one VR headset and immerse yourself within new virtual worlds. Explore everything that our second gen VR device has to offer.
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Israeli startup claims Covid-19 likely originated in a lab, willing to bet on it
Rootclaim helps people understand complex issues by combining the power of crowdsourced information with the mathematical validity of statistics.
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Xfce 4.16
Today, after 1 year and 4 months of work, we are happy to announce the release of the Xfce desktop 4.16, a new stable version that supersedes Xfce 4.14.
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How to Favicon in 2021: Six files that fit most needs
Prefer SVG over PNG, trust browsers to downscale, drop obscure formats—the ultimate, exhaustive guide to favicons for modern web. Includes steps for static HTML and Webpack.
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Vercel raise $40M Series B
Today we announce $40M in new funding to help everyone build the next web. Next.js and Vercel help teams collaborate and move faster with greater flexibility.
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Ways to make a web component
Compare coding style, bundle size and performance of 61 different ways to make a Web Component.
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How Shopify reduced storefront response times with a rewrite
We rewrote critical software that powers all online storefronts on Shopify, offering the fastest online shopping experience, entirely from scratch and without downtime.
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We’ve decided to rename Riot
Hi all, It's almost four years since we launched Riot, and it's been a crazy journey - going from a relatively bare bones Matrix app through to today's all-singing, all-dancing encrypted-by-default collaboration tool used by folks ranging from Mozilla to the French Government and beyond. However, as some may know,
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PinePhone Manjaro Community Edition
I am thrilled to announce that the next Community Edition (CE) of the PinePhone will feature Manjaro. For those of you who do not know, Manjaro is an Arch-based Linux operating system designed with user-friendliness in mind. But Manjaro is more than just an operating system, it is also a large and vibrant community of…
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Firefox 82
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox.
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Netflix is now doing per-shot encoding for UHD content
by Aditya Mavlankar, Liwei Guo, Anush Moorthy and Anne Aaron
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ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-Supervised Learning of Language Representations
Posted by Radu Soricut and Zhenzhong Lan, Research Scientists, Google Research Ever since the advent of BERT a year ago, natural language research...
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Dark’s new backend will be in F#
Welcome HN! Dark is a programming language, structured editor, and infrastructure—all in one—whose goal is to make it 100x easier to build backend services. Check out the website, our What is Dark post, and How Dark deploys in 50ms for more. Thanks for checking us out! Part of
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8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75
A new 8GB RAM variant of Raspberry Pi 4 is available today, priced at just $75. Visit your favourite Raspberry Pi Approved Reseller to get yours.
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Bottlerocket, an open source Linux distribution built to run containers
As our customers increasingly adopt containers to run their workloads, we saw a need for a Linux distribution designed from the ground up to run containers with a focus on security, operations, and manageability at scale. Customers needed an operating system that would give them the ability to manage thousands of…
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OpenPush: A Free, Decentralized Push Messaging Framework for Android
Push messages are an essential part of connected mobile devices. They are also one of the critical missing pieces in the open source Android ecosystem. Until...
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Requirements volatility is the core problem of software engineering
It's now been more than 50 years since the first IFIP Conference on Software Engineering, and in that time there have been many different software engineering methodologies, processes, and models proposed to help software developers achieve that predictable and cost-effective process. But 50 years later, we still seem…
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How to unc0ver a 0-day in 4 hours or less
By Brandon Azad, Project ZeroAt 3 PM PDT on May 23, 2020, the unc0ver jailbreak was released for ...
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 was divided, one half awarded to Roger Penrose "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity", the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our…
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Debian donation for Peertube development
The Debian project is happy to announce a donation of 10,000 € to help Framasoft reach the fourth stretch-goal of its Peertube v3 crowdfunding campaign -- Live Streaming. This year's iteration of the Debian annual conference, DebConf20, had to be...
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Grafana 7.0
The Grafana 7.0 release is full of major new features and enhancements. Find out all the details here.
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GitHub Container Registry
GitHub Container Registry introduces easy sharing across organizations, fine-grained permissions, and free, anonymous access for public container images
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