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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,327 posts.
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Introducing Project Loon: Balloon-powered Internet access
Today we’re unveiling our latest moonshot from Google[x].
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Why HTTP/2.0 does not seem interesting (2012)
Varnish is a powerful, flexible HTTP accelerator that speeds up web applications by caching content and optimizing delivery.
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5D ‘Superman memory’ crystal could lead to unlimited lifetime data storage
Scientists at the University of Southampton have made a major step forward in the development of digital data storage that is capable of surviving for billions of years.
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PEP 435 Accepted – Adding an Enum type to the Python standard library
This PEP proposes adding an enumeration type to the Python standard library.
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Mozilla in 2013
What an amazing year for the Web. In 2013, we celebrated 15 years of Mozilla and 15 Years of a Better Web, which we’ve been instrumental in innovating an
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Introducing Trello Business Class
Research, expert perspectives, and product announcements from Atlassian on how teams can work smarter with AI. Subscribe for monthly insights on the future of teamwork.
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Erlang at Basho, Five Years Later
Justin Sheehy discusses whether or not Riak would choose Erlang today.
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Functional thinking: Why functional programming is on the rise
IBM Developer is the source for hands-on training and in-demand learning on relevant technologies such as generative AI, data science, Java, and more.
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Little Lisp interpreter
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
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Carlsen wins game 9, only needs 1 draw in 3 remaining games
The Lecturer Training Programme (LTP) is a process that is used by the FIDE Arbiters’ Commission to ensure that those qualifying from it will have the necessary knowledge and skills to teach candidates who wish to become arbiters at FA level and above. The following have progressed to the final stage of the Lecturer…
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CSS Variables in Firefox Nightly
As reported by Cameron McCormack, Firefox Nightly (version 29) now supports CSS variables. You can get a quick overview in this short screencast: You can define variables in a ...
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PEP 450: Adding A Statistics Module To The Standard Library
This PEP proposes the addition of a module for common statistics functions such as mean, median, variance and standard deviation to the Python standard library. See also http://bugs.python.org/issue18606
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SQLite improves performance with memory-mapped I/O
A complete list of SQLite releases in a single page and a chronology are both also available. A detailed history of every check-in is available at SQLite version control site .
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Google Compute Engine available for everyone, App Engine adds PHP
Over the last fourteen years we have been developing some of the best infrastructure in the world to power Google’s global-scale services. W...
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