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Qt for WebAssembly
Explore the Qt Blog for the latest insights on e.g. Qt Creator, your go-to source for cross-platform development tips and updates.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,089 posts.
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What the f*** is the edge?
The edge - or edge-computing has become the latest installment in a never ending chain of tech-buzzwords electrifying investors and managers alike. But beyond the hype lies a fairly simple concept - with enormous potential"
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Google Needs to Come Clean About Its Chinese Plans
Eight years after Google initially took a stand against Internet censorship by exiting the Chinese search market, we are disappointed to learn the company has been secretly re-considering an extended collaboration with the massive censorship and surveillance-wielding state. According to an...
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What Businessweek got wrong about Apple
The 8 October, 2018 issue of Bloomberg Businessweek incorrectly reports that Apple found “malicious chips” in servers on its network in 2015.
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Cloud Filestore, high-performance file storage for GCP users
By Tad Hunt, Product Manager; Chris Talbott, Product Marketing As we celebrate the upcoming Los Angeles region for Google Cloud Platform ...
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Wendelstein 7-X achieves world record
In the past experimentation round Wendelstein 7-X achieved higher temperatures and densities of the plasma, longer pulses and the stellarator world record for the fusion product. Moreover, first confirmation for the optimisation concept on which Wendelstein 7-X is based, was obtained. Wendelstein 7-X at Max Planck…
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Private Internet Access Goes Open Source
Private Internet Access is the world's best open-source VPN, with open-source VPN protocols, tons of advanced features, and apps for all devices.
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Cloud Memorystore: A fully managed in-memory data store service for Redis
Cloud Memorystore is fully compatible with open source Redis, letting you migrate your applications to Google Cloud with zero code changes.
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LibreOffice 6.0 released
Berlin, January 31, 2018 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 6.0, a major release and a dramatically improved free office suite, which celebrates the 7th anniversary of the availability of the very first version of LibreOffice. Today LibreOffice is more powerful, simple and secure, and offers superior…
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EU copyright proposal could undermine the use of Creative Commons licenses
Over the last few years the European Union has been working on revising its rules on copyright. But the latest proposal from the head of the copyright committee would deny creators the right to refuse remuneration — the right to share a work without getting paid — which could undermine the use of CC licenses…
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TSA’s Roadmap for Airport Surveillance Moves in a Dangerous Direction
The Transportation Security Administration has set out an alarming vision of pervasive biometric surveillance at airports, which cuts against the right to privacy, the “right to travel,” and the right to anonymous association with others.The FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018, which included language...
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World of Warcraft: one simple line of code can cost you dearly (2016)
A few days ago, a new type of gold/item scam made the rounds. Usually scamming in MMORPGs is done using social engineering techniques, e.g. an attacker sells a fake item code for alleged in-game items like mounts to a potential victim for in-game currency. But this most recent kind of attack does not only involve…
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What Happens to Us Does Not Happen to Most of You
This blog post is a personal account of sexism, harassment, and racism that I and some anonymous members of the computer architecture community have experienced. We are sharing these experiences in…
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Lessons learned scraping 100B product pages
Price Intelligence experience scraping over 100 billion product pages. Learn the best practices and demands of extracting product data from e-commerce stores.
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A Global Optimization Algorithm Worth Using
Here is a common problem: you have some machine learning algorithm you want to use but it has these damn hyperparameters . These are number...
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Scaling Kubernetes to 2,500 Nodes
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
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How to price a product, sell it to customers, and build a sales team
Steli Efti explains how to price a product, sell it to customers, and build a sales team.
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Why Development Teams Struggle to Deliver on Time, on Budget, or at All
Learn how to predict the timeline, budget, and resources more accurately in your software development project in 7 steps.
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Shifting Gears
Jenkins – an open source automation server which enables developers around the world to reliably build, test, and deploy their software
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Datomic Cloud
Announcing Datomic Cloud: a fully AWS-integrated database, up and running from the Marketplace in minutes, delivering the complete Datomic information model.
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Just one QUIC bit
A proposal to add a "spin bit" to the QUIC protocol sparked much debate at IETF 101.
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SIGIL, a New Doom Campaign by John Romero
Romero Games is an independent game development studio based in Galway, Ireland, founded by legendary game designers John Romero and Brenda Romero. The studio creates original PC and console games, combining decades of industry experience with with innovative gameplay, immersive worlds, and modern t
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15 Years of SparkFun
To celebrate our "crystal anniversary," here's a collection of the stories, blog posts, products and adventures from 15 years of making crazy things.
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Intelligent Tracking Prevention 2.0
Note: Read about improvements to this technology in recent blog posts about Intelligent Tracking Prevention, and the Storage Access API.
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Three-day no-meeting schedule for engineers
Brian Donohue | Pinterest engineering manager, Product Engineering
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Babel 7 Released
After almost 2 years, 4k commits, over 50 pre-releases, and a lot of help we are excited to announce the release of Babel 7. It's been almost 3 years since the release of Babel 6! There's a lot of moving parts so please bear with us in the first weeks of release. Babel 7 is a huge release: we've made it faster…
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The future of Java and OpenJDK updates without Oracle support
This post describes the furture support for Java and OpenJDK updates, now that Oracle has announced that soon it will no longer supply free binaries for JDK releases or write patches for bugs.
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Perceived Physical Activity and Mortality: Study
A study of over 60,000 people who were followed for as long as two decades found that people’s perceptions about their level of activity have a more significant effect on their longevity than the...