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Tor Browser 6.0 is released
The Tor Browser Team is proud to announce the first stable release in the 6.0 series. This...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,677 posts.
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Globally Distributed Postgres
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Ten years of ClickHouse in open source
ClickHouse was released in open source on Jun 15 2016, ten years ago. Since then, it became the most popular open source analytical database with more than 2000 contributors.
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Rust at OneSignal
Read all about our blazing fast Push Notification delivery system, OnePush, which is written in The Rust Programming Language.
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Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
Jailbreaking a Kindle makes it able to do much more. Adding Tailscale takes the Kindle even further.
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Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Englert and Higgs
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 was awarded jointly to François Englert and Peter W. Higgs "for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by…
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Uncloaking a Slumlord Conspiracy with Social Network Analysis
An economic justice organization uses InFlow SNA software to reveal a slumlord conspiracy
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New analysis reveals significant ROI in open source technologies
Examples abound of leading tech companies that have adopted open source strategy and contribute actively to open source tools and communities. Google, for example, has been a long contributor to open source with projects – such as its popular mobile operating system, Android – and recently launched a directory of ...
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Visualizing Garbage Collection Algorithms
Developers take garbage collection for granted, but it's hard to see how it works. Watch 5 different GC algorithm visualizations.
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The Algorithms Behind Probabilistic Programming
We recently introduced our report on probabilistic programming. The accompanying prototype allows you to explore the past and future of the New York residential real estate market. This post gives a feel for the content in our report by introducing the algorithms and technology that make probabilistic programming…
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Children, left behind by suburbia, need better community design
Walkable, mixed-use planning is the key to getting young people outside again and enabling their independence.
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Early progress on accelerating drug development with Claude
Over the past several months, we’ve partnered with six organizations to accelerate curing disease. We’ve also started drug discovery efforts of our own, including programs for rare childhood forms of muscular dystrophy. In this post, we provide an update on our progress.
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Migrating Uber's ledger data from DynamoDB to LedgerStore
This week, we'll dive into how we migrated Uber’s business-critical ledger data to LedgerStore. We'll detail how we moved more than a trillion entries (making up a few petabytes of data) transparently and without causing disruption, and we'll discuss what we learned during the migration.
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Android Developer Verification
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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Go runtime: 4 years later
A check-in on the status of Go runtime development
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We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3"
At thousands of uploads/second, S3’s per-request fees dominated costs. We built N3, a Rust in-memory landing zone with S3 as overflow.
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OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev
TypeSafe's Jev is a genuine breakthrough – snap judgments with calibrated probabilities instead of generated text. My bet is OpenAI is already figuring out how to copy it, and then embed it inside its own models where Jev can't follow.
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Pharo 9
Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful environment, focused on simplicity and immediate feedback.
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You don't need a build step
The build step helps Node.js/npm run in the browser, optimize end-user performance, etc. But long build times limit productivity. With modern tooling, do we still need a build step?
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Apple can comply with the FBI court order
Earlier today, a federal judge ordered Apple to comply with the FBI’s request for technical assistance in the recovery of the San Bernadino gunmen’s iPhone 5C. Since then, many have argued whether these requests from the FBI are technically feasible given the support for strong encryption on iOS devices. Based on my…
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Our Chrome Extension Is Safe
This is a follow-up to Wednesday’s Let’s Guess What Google Requires In 14 Days Or They Kill Our Extension .