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What it's Really Like Working with Steve Jobs
People who worked with Steve Jobs (I'll call him Steve) usually don't talk about it. It's kind of an unwritten rule, partly because he was obsessive about his privacy.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,675 posts.
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Replace CoffeeScript with ES6
Use ES6 on your next project.
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Deno Queues
Introducing Deno Queues - zero config, scalable messaging with a guaranteed at-least-once delivery. This new primitive builds on the foundation set by Deno KV, and is available today in the Deno JavaScript runtime and Deno Deploy.
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A Digital Rumor Should Never Lead to a Police Raid
Law Enforcement, Courts Need to Better Understand IP Addresses, Stop Misuse If police raided a home based only on an anonymous phone call claiming residents broke the law, it would be clearly unconstitutional. Yet EFF has found that police and courts are regularly conducting and approving raids...
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Htmx 1.9.0 has been released
htmx gives you access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypertext htmx is small (~14k min.gz’d), dependency-free, extendable, IE11 compatible & has reduced code base sizes by 67% when…
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Seven signs of ethical collapse (2012)
How to spot moral meltdowns before it's too late.
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Vespa.ai is spinning out of Yahoo as a separate company
Vespa is becoming its own company!
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Zig, parser combinators, and why they're awesome
In this article we will be exploring what parser combinators are, what runtime parser generation is - why they're useful, and then walking through a Zig implementation of them.
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MIT and Harvard announce edX
Cambridge is booming with innovation, food, music, and history, highlighted in detail by the Cambridge Office for Tourism’s “Unpack my Cambridge” video series.
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Speeding Up the Rust Compiler
I last wrote in October about my work on speeding up the Rust compiler. With the year’s end approaching, it’s time for an update.
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B-Trees and Database Indexes
B-trees are used by many modern DBMSs. Learn how they work, how databases use them, and how your choice of primary key can affect index performance.
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Mercury 2: Fast reasoning LLM powered by diffusion
Today, we're introducing Mercury 2 — the world's fastest reasoning language model, built to make production AI feel instant.
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macOS gatekeeper and file quarantine bypass
bypassing macOS's file quarantine, gatekeeper, and notarization requirements
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Servo nightly builds on Windows now available
Servo's Windows builds are ready for public consumption.
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Rustenstein 3D: Game programming like it's 1992
For this Hack Week edition we decided to port the classic Wolfenstein 3D game to Rust.
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Why We Still Believe in Working Remotely
It’s 2013, almost three years after we first raised money and started growing beyond the first four employees . At the time, Jeff wrote a great blog post about working remotely, basically laying out our plan for how we were going to make it work. Now we’re a few years in and it’s time to update it with, well, what…
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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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Google CDN Beta is already one of the fastest CDNs
Some months ago, Google launched their Alpha program for their upcoming CDN service. We kept a close eye to their development and in the meanwhile, in NEXT 2016 Google has already announced the Beta phase of their CDN. We already discussed how this new product will fit in the broad palette of content distribution…
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A Julia Interpreter and Debugger
The authors are pleased to announce the release of a fully-featured...
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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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Scaling your API with rate limiters
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
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How SQLite Helps You Do ACID
Let's take a peek at how the rollback journal works.
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Sourcehut's Year in Alpha
sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.
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Quantization from the Ground Up
A complete guide to quantization: how LLMs store parameters as floats, why shrinking them to 4 or 8 bits barely hurts accuracy, and how to measure the tradeoff.
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