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How to be more productive without forcing yourself
Imagine you could work more and be wildly productive. And you wouldn’t need to force yourself to work.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,323 posts.
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Dumping and extracting the SpaceX Starlink user terminal firmware
COSIC - Dumping and extracting the SpaceX Starlink User Terminal firmware ( )
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Tor Browser 11.0
Tor Browser 11.0 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and our distribution directory. This is the first stable release based on Firefox ESR 91, and includes an important update to Tor 0.4.6.8.
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Open Letter from Laura Poitras
The Intercept Promised to Reveal Everything. Then Its Own Scandal Hit. Laura Poitras says she's been fired by First Look Media over Reality Winner controversy. Now she's questioning the watchdog's integrity.
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Generally capable agents emerge from open-ended play
In recent years, artificial intelligence agents have succeeded in a range of complex game environments. For instance, AlphaZero beat world-champion programs in chess, shogi, and Go after starting out with knowing no more than the basic rules of how to play. Through reinforcement learning (RL), this single system…
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Why Zig when there is already C++, D, and Rust?
If Zig code doesn’t look like it’s jumping away to call a function, then it isn’t. This means you can be sure that the following code calls only foo() and then bar() , and this is guaranteed without needing to know the types of anything:
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Sequencing your DNA with a USB dongle and open source code
It takes the most exquisite measurements you can imagine, recording the changes in current associated with different bits of DNA.
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Netlify raises $105M and acquires OneGraph
Realize the speed, agility and performance of a scalable, composable web architecture with Netlify. Explore the composable web platform now!
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OpenTTD 1.11
With 1.11 we bring you a lot of new features which you hopefully enjoy as much as we did creating them:
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Racket v8.0
_posted by John Clements_ Racket version 8.0 is now available from https://racket-lang.org/. *** Racket 8.0 is here!*** Racket 8.0 marks the first release where Racket CS is the default implementation. Creating, polishing, and adopting Racket CS has be...
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AMD and Xilinx Stockholders Overwhelmingly Approve AMD’s Acquisition of Xilinx
View the press release archives from AMD.
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We killed our end-to-end test suite
How Nubank switched from and End-to-End suite to a Contract and Acceptance testing strategy to scale to over 1k engineers
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Update about the October 4th outage
To all the people and businesses around the world who depend on us, we are sorry for the inconvenience caused by today’s outage across our platforms. We’ve been working as hard as we can to restore…
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Deno 1.10 Release Notes
Deno 1.10 improves the built-in test runner, adds support for Web Storage API, structured clone, and more.
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College campuses are designed at human-scale – cities can be too
Many college campuses are designed to be walkable and human-scaled. But living in a neighborhood like that doesn’t have to end at graduation.
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Update on Omicron
On 26 November 2021, WHO designated the variant B.1.1.529 a variant of concern, named Omicron, on the advice of WHO’s Technical Advisory Group on Virus Evolution (TAG-VE). This decision was based on the evidence presented to the TAG-VE that Omicron has several mutations that may have an impact on how it behaves, for…
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The worst of the two worlds: Excel meets Outlook
Turning Outlook into a keylogger via VBA macros
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Google Cloud products in 4 words or less
If you are just getting started, the 4 words or less developer’s cheat sheet is a great resource that gives you a quick overview of all that is available to you on Google Cloud.
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Estimation of total mortality due to COVID-19
Our updated modeling strategy now estimates total COVID-19 mortality, including unreported deaths due to COVID-19.
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What lies beneath: Evidence from leaked account data on offshore banking use
Matthew Collin uses account data leaked from an Isle of Man bank to investigate the characteristics of individuals and firms that store their money in tax havens.
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Why isn't Godot an ECS-based game engine?
The topic of why Godot does not utilize ECS comes up often, so this article will explain the design decisions behind that, as well as shed some light on how Godot works.
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Pyston v2.2: faster and open source
We are proud to announce Pyston v2.2, the latest version of our faster implementation of the Python programming language. This version is significantly faster than previous ones, and importantly is…
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PeerTube 4 RC
Customization, content discovery, empowering through more control... Here is an overview of the new version of our software solution to create alternative platforms to YouTube and federate them together. « Frama is not just... » Each week of Fall 2021, we want to present you the diversity of what Framasoft does. As…