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How JavaScript works: memory management and common memory leaks
PlaybookUX is an all-in-one software that allows you to recruit, conduct and analyze both qualitative and quantitative research, enhanced by AI.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,673 posts.
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MIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style
An MIT study on “legalese” suggests this convoluted language acts to convey a sense of authority in legal documents. The researchers also found that even non-lawyers use legalese when asked to write laws.
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Announcing Flutter beta 1: Build beautiful native apps
Today, as part of Mobile World Congress 2018, we are excited to announce the first beta release of Flutter . Flutter is Google's new mobile UI framework that helps developers craft high-quality native interfaces for both iOS and Android. Get started today at flutter.io to build beautiful native apps in record time.
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UniFi 5G
Discover the U5G Max and UniFi’s next generation 5G lineup featuring effortless setup, ultra fast speeds, rugged outdoor options, and advanced UniFi integration for unmatched performance.
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Dolphin on Steam Indefinitely Postponed
It is with much disappointment that we have to announce that the Dolphin on Steam release has been indefinitely postponed. We were notified by Valve that Nintendo has issued a DMCA against Dolphin's Steam page, and have removed Dolphin from Steam until the matter is settled. We are currently investigating…
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Limbo: A complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust
we forked SQLite with the libSQL project. What would it be like if we just rewrote it?
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CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3
The word is on the street: the Chaos Computer Club is hosting 40C3 from 27 to 30 December 2026 – Europe’s biggest hacker party, conference and platform for technology, society and civil liberties. We understand the Congress to be a huge shared stage and therefore invite you to help shape it. The Call for Participation…
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We need to do the math, even on “small” projects
It’s easy for “maintaining” our public investments to become “upgrading” our public investments. Especially when there is money available. And especially when that money is borrowed.
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Tour of our 250k line Clojure codebase
At Red Planet Labs we’ve been quietly developing a new kind of developer tool for many years. Our tool reduces the cost of building large-scale end-to-end applications by multiple orders of magnitu…
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Instapaper is joining Pinterest
Today, we’re excited to announce that Instapaper is joining Pinterest. In the three years since betaworks acquired Instapaper from Marco Arment, we’ve completely rewritten our backend, overhauled our mobile and web clients, improved parsing and search, and introduced tons of great features like highlights…
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AppGratis pulled from the App Store. Here’s the full story
After 7 years of operating AppGratis and more than 50 millions installs globally we’re shutting down the service today.
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Firefox 5 is now officially released
Everyone deserves access to the internet — your language should never be a barrier. That’s why — with the help of dedicated volunteers around the world — we make Firefox available in more than 90 languages.
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Mastodon 3.5
A brand new explore page, post editing, and new moderation features are just some of the additions in this new release of Mastodon!
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What One-person SaaS Healthchecks.io uses for hosting, hardware and software
Here's the summary of the hardware and the software that powers Healthchecks.io. Hardware Since 2017, Healthchecks.io runs on dedicated servers at Hetzner. The current lineup is: HAProxy servers: 4x AX41-NVMe servers (Ryzen 3600, 6 cores)Web servers: 3x AX41-NVMe servers (Ryzen 3600, 6 cores)PostgreSQL servers: 2x…
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Wi-Fi packet capturing on M1 Macs is broken
For years, Wi-Fi packet capturing in the Mac has always worked reliably out of the box. Unfortunately, packet capturing is now broken in the new M1 Mac.
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Goodbye InnerHTML, Hello SetHTML: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148
Cross-site scripting (XSS) remains one of the most prevalent vulnerabilities on the web. The new standardized Sanitizer API provides a straightforward way for web developers to sanitize untrusted HTML before inserting it into the DOM. Firefox 148 is the first browser to ship this standardized security enhancing API…
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Tamagui 1.0 – Cross-platform React apps in less time, with better performance
Ship cross-platform React apps in ½ the time with 2x performance.
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First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store
Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
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We lost a customer. This is how we found out
Free business calculators for CAC, Churn Rate, and LTV analysis. Make data-driven decisions for your business growth.
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Warp is now open-source
Warp is now open-source, and the community can participate in building it using an agent-first workflow managed by Oz, our cloud agent orchestration platform.
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Some weekend work that will (hopefully) enable more Egyptians to be heard
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales
How we optimized Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY-backed data streams to 60K writes per second on a single Postgres server, with millisecond-scale latency.
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How to Corrupt a SQLite Database File
An SQLite database is highly resistant to corruption. If an application crash, or an operating-system crash, or even a power failure occurs in the middle of a transaction, the partially written transaction should be automatically rolled back the next time the database file is accessed. The recovery process is fully…
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I tried to adjust the time on my alarm clock
Now it's not even wrong twice a day.