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C stdlib isn't threadsafe and even safe Rust didn't save us
Threads, TLS, a C stdlib race, and Rust: how EdgeDB hit a hidden landmine.
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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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Docker 2.0 went from $11M to $135M in 2 years
Just 2 years after laying off 80% of their team and being left for dead, we estimate Docker is now at $135M+ ARR growing roughly 150% YoY—and rebuilding Docker 2.0 as a bottom-up, developer-first company. For more on Docker’s future, check out our interview with Docker CEO Scott Johnston along with our Docker profile…
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Doctors Without Borders declares the war in Gaza as genocide
Amid continued attacks, siege, and blockade, Israel is destroying conditions of life in Gaza.
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Sublime Text 3 Public Beta
Build 3047 is now available to both registered users and the general public. Build 3047 is the fastest, most stable, most polished version of Sublime Text yet.
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Goodbye CoffeeScript, Hello TypeScript
Given the shortcomings of CoffeeScript, we investigated many alternatives, including ClojureScript, Babel, Elm, and PureScript. TypeScript stood out as a clear winner. Here's why.
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Will Nix Overtake Docker?
Nix and Docker both tackle the works-on-my-machine problem, but in different ways. A practical comparison of their approaches to reproducible environments.
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Salesforce to Acquire Fin (formerly Intercom) for $3.6B
Acquisition will bring Fin’s customer agent platform to companies of all sizes, accelerating time-to-value and expanding Salesforce’s ability to deliver
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NL Judge: Meta must respect user's choice of recommendation system
Bits of Freedom komt op voor internetvrijheid door de online grondrechten op communicatievrijheid en privacy te beschermen.
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Sync Engines Are the Future
We've been building frontends that talk to backends for years. But in the meantime the browser has become an OS. In that case what should your stack look like?
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A billion reasons never to buy IBM services
IBM just stole $1 billion from Canada. If this is how IBM treats staff and governments, how would IBM treat your small business?
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Introducing extended line endings support in Notepad
For many years, Windows Notepad only supported text documents containing Windows End of Line (EOL) characters - Carriage Return (CR) & Line Feed (LF).
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First Victim of Amazon Drones: The Credibility of CBS and 60 Minutes
Confused about AI? Discover how artificial intelligence will transform the way you work, your marketing and sales strategy, and your customers' shopping habits.
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De-Location Package: Keep Your Career and Live Beyond the Bay Area
Learn about the most recent initiatives at Zapier.
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Compromised PyTorch-nightly dependency chain between December 25th – December 30
If you installed PyTorch-nightly on Linux via pip between December 25, 2022 and December 30, 2022, please uninstall it and torchtriton immediately, and use the latest nightly binaries (newer than...
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Waymo One: The next step on our self-driving journey
Over time, we hope to make Waymo One available to even more members of the public as we add vehicles and drive in more places.
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ProtonMail blocked by Vodafone Turkey
Turkey has a track record of blocking certain websites. Here's how you can bypass Turkey's online censorship and access any site (such as Proton Mail).
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AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields
Discover how AlphaEvolve optimizes algorithms for genomics, quantum physics, global infrastructure, and more to accelerate scientific progress and solve real-world challenges.
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Akamai to shut down its CDN operations in China
Akamai provides a global CDN that serves visitors inside and outside of China via the Akamai global network and strategic in-country partners.
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Firefox OS devices officially released
Almost two years ago, we announced Boot to Gecko (B2G) here on Mozilla Hacks. We discussed the aims of the project and the work we were planning to do. Today, ...
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Supporting the use of Rust in the Chromium project
Posted by Dana Jansens (she/her), Chrome Security Team We are pleased to announce that moving forward, the Chromium project is going to s...
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HyperCard On The Archive
On August 11, 1987, Bill Atkinson announced a new product from Apple for the Macintosh; a multimedia, easily programmed system called HyperCard. HyperCard brought into one sharp package the ability for a Macintosh to do interactive documents with calculation, sound, music and graphics. It was a popular package, and…
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Cloudflare Workers: Run JavaScript Service Workers at the Edge
You see this everywhere, but as a lifelong gamer, my personal favorite example is probably graphics cards. In the '90s, graphics hardware generally provided a fixed set of functionality.
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Ruby 3.0.0 RC1
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 3.0.0-rc1.
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Shutting down CodePlex
Almost 11 years after we created CodePlex, it’s time to say goodbye. We launched CodePlex in 2006 because we, like others in the industry, saw a need for a great place to share software. Over the years, we’ve seen a lot of amazing options come and go but at this point, GitHub is the de […]