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Beyond CI/CD: GitLab's DevOps Vision (2017)
How we're building GitLab into the complete DevOps toolchain.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,089 posts.
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Real-Time Noise Suppression Using Deep Learning
Imagine waiting for your flight at the airport. Suddenly, an important business call with a high profile customer lights up your phone. Tons of background noise clutters up the soundscape around you…
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A Bank for Student Hackers
It was February 2nd, 2018 at 2 PM when I got a call from Jake Reilly, the founder of Kapaa High School's Hack Club, our first chapter in…
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Red Hat contributes etcd to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Today Red Hat is thrilled to announce our contribution of etcd, an open source project that is a key component of Kubernetes, and its acceptance into the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), a vendor-neutral foundation housed under The Linux Foundation to drive the adoption of cloud native systems.The etcd…
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PostgreSQL Features You May Not Have Tried but Should
pgDash is an in-depth monitoring solution designed specifically for PostgreSQL deployments. pgDash shows you information and metrics about every aspect of your PostgreSQL database server, collected using the open-source tool pgmetrics.
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How F5Bot Slurps All of Reddit
Lewis Van Winkle, he creator of F5Bot—a free service that emails you when selected keywords are mention on Reddit, Hacker News, or Lobsters—explains in detail how it works, and how it's able to scrape million of Reddit comments per day.
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Researchers have developed a water-based battery to store solar and wind energy
Stanford scientists have developed a manganese-hydrogen battery that could fill a missing piece in the nation’s energy puzzle by storing wind and solar energy for when it is needed, lessening the need to burn carbon-emitting fossil fuels.
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Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook
Just over half of Facebook users have adjusted privacy settings in the past year. Around four-in-ten have taken a break from checking for several weeks or more.
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South Korea has limited a working week to 52 hours, in order to stop overwork
The previous limit was almost 10 hours every single day, including weekends.
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Nim 0.19
The Nim team is happy to announce that the latest release of Nim, version 0.19.0, is now available. Nim is a systems programming language that focuses on performance, portability and expressiveness.
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Direct Coupling of the Higgs Boson to the Top Quark Observed
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Librem 5 dev kits are shipping
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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The EU's Copyright Proposal Is Extremely Bad News for Everyone, Even Wikipedia
The pending update to the EU Copyright Directive is coming up for a committee vote on June 20 or 21 and a parliamentary vote either in early July or late September. While the directive fixes some longstanding problems with EU rules, it creates much, much larger ones: problems so big that they...
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The FBI could have broken into San Bernadino shooter's phone without Apple
The Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) last week released a new report that supports what EFF has long suspected: that the FBI’s legal fight with Apple in 2016 to create backdoor access to a San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone was more focused on creating legal precedent than...
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NEON is the new black: fast JPEG optimization on ARM servers
Cloudflare's jpegtran implementation was optimized for Intel CPUs. Now that we intend to integrate ARMv8 processors, new optimizations for those are required.
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How a fix in Go 1.9 sped up our Gitaly service by 30x
After noticing a worrying pattern in Gitaly's performance, we uncovered an issue with fork locking affecting virtual memory size. Here's how we figured out the problem and how to fix it.
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Transitioning Google Cloud leadership after three great years
When I joined Google full-time to run Cloud in December 2015, I told my family and friends that it would be for two years. Now, after an unbelievably stimulating and productive three years, it’s time to turn to the passions I’ve long had around mentoring and education.
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Introducing Workers KV
In 1864 British computer pioneer Charles Babbage described the first key-value store to be used as part of his Analytical Engine.
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Introducing DNS Resolver for Tor
As was mentioned in the original 1.1.1.1 blog post, our policy is to never write client IP addresses to disk and wipe all logs within 24 hours. Still some folks might not want to reveal their IP address to the resolver at all. This is why we are launching a Tor hidden service for our resolver.
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A Heretic's Guide to Deplatforming
[Update: Ironically, after ascending rapidly and fostering vigorous commentary over on Hackernews, this article has been "flagged" there . Update #2: A few hours later it was unflagged and is currently on the first page of HN ] The phenomenon of deplatforming in the internet age, which includes the component of…
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The Public Domain Starts Growing Again Next Year
We're taking part in Copyright Week, a series of actions and discussions supporting key principles that should guide copyright policy. Every day this week, various groups are taking on different elements of copyright law and policy, and addressing what's at stake, and what we need to do to make...