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Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation
Anthropic has raised $65 billion in Series H funding led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,674 posts.
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What happens when US economic data becomes unreliable
Sound economic planning and policymaking requires trustworthy data. Private data can serve as a complement but not fully replace official U.S. statistics.
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Performance Improvements in .NET 6
Take a rip-roarin' tour through hundreds of PRs worth of performance improvements for .NET 6.
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WebSockets cost us $1M on our AWS bill
Learn how WebSockets caused Recall.ai's AWS bill to spike $1M and what architectural changes the team made to lower the cost.
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MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
MariaDB Corporation Ab to Become a Publicly Traded Company via Combination with Angel Pond Holdings Corporation
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Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4
Modern applications often spread state across a variety of systems: databases, caches, queues, data warehouses, search indices, and so on. Coordinating these systems is challenging: caches are often stale, the analytics platform might lag days behind the primary database, the search index might lose data, and…
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The Vivaldi browser will not support Google’s FLoC
At Vivaldi, we stand up for the privacy rights of our users. We do not approve of Google’s new FLoC technology. It creates privacy risks for users on the web.
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It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis
After a year of work, hundreds of commits, 5 generations of pull requests, dozens of tests, rewriting part of Anubis in Rust, the first compiler bug of my career, and at least three times making my tower run out of ram I think I have finally done it. The next version of Anubis will ship with WebAssembly-based proof of…
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Skype group video calling becomes free
Start free Teams video calls instantly! Connect, collaborate, and communicate effortlessly. Enjoy features like video calls, chat, file sharing, and more. Perfect for personal use, freelancers, solopreneurs, PTAs, teachers, small businesses and social events. Get started today!
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The Web’s Cruft Problem
The Web's Cruft Problem is out. Stay connected to Telerik Blogs for .NET, JavaScript, cross-platform app development (and beyond) news and tutorials.
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Firefox 51.0
We'd also like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!
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Group sex app leaks locations, pics and personal details
We’ve seen some pretty poor security in dating apps over recent years; breaches of personal data, leaking users locations and more. But this one really takes the biscuit: probably the worst security for any dating app we’ve ever seen And it’s used for arranging threesomes. It’s 3fun. It exposes the near real time…
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Deno v1.8 – support for WebGPU, private modules, Intl, and much more
Deno 1.8 adds experimental support for the WebGPU API, adds support for importing private modules, stabilizes import maps, revamps coverage tooling, adds ICU to provide internationalization out of the box, and a whole lot more.
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Americans' Access to Strong Encryption Is at Risk, an Open Letter to Congress
When sophisticated adversaries want to hack a network, they ultimately win. A government mandated encryption backdoor would make Americans less safe.
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Factorio that you can touch
Hello, we have very unusual Friday facts for you.
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Building a rocket engine from scratch
How I learned to stop worrying and love the burn.
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Introduction to Datalog
A rule-based data query language that thinks differently
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Roboto: Google’s signature font is now open source
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
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Stack Graphs
Precise code navigation is powered by stack graphs, a new open source framework that lets you define the name binding rules for a programming language.
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How We Ported Linux to the M1
Virtual iOS, Android, and Arm devices to speed up security testing, research, and DevSecOps for security teams, mobile pentesters, and software developers.
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The Video Game History Foundation library opens in early access
For free. For everyone. Wherever you are.
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Open-sourcing the MuJoCo physics simulator for robotics
When you walk, your feet make contact with the ground. When you write, your fingers make contact with the pen. Physical contacts are what makes interaction with the world possible. Yet, for such a common occurrence, contact is a surprisingly complex phenomenon. Taking place at microscopic scales at the interface of…
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CERN and Mistral sign a statement of intent to establish a strategic partnership
CERN and Mistral sign a statement of intent to advance AI for science and strengthen Europe’s scientific and technological capabilities
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New Course: The Design of Everyday Things
After reading The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman, I remember thinking to myself, “I probably learned more from this book than I learned from a majority of classes I took in graduate school.” This wasn’t the best feeling in the face of my $60,000+ graduate school loans! My loans feel less painful though …