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Nix: An idea whose time has come
Joe Armstrong once described Erlang as the quest for programs you “write once, run forever.” Nix, conversely, might be one that runs wherever, whenever.
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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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Accident Forgiveness
Charging for resources you didn't mean to buy is bad business.
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Do you even need a database?
We built the same HTTP server in Go, Bun, and Rust using two storage strategies: read the file on every request, or load everything into memory. Then we ran real benchmarks. The results are more interesting than you'd expect.
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Amazon follows Google and Apple and bans system-wide ad blockers on app store
AdGuard is the best way to get rid of annoying ads and online tracking and protect your computer from malware. Make your web surfing fast, safe and ad-free
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Redefining what a map can be with new information and AI
Here's a snapshot of how we're using AI to make Maps work better for you with a number of updates coming this year.
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Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022)
Not an artistic judgement. Just a technical one.
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The .NET Language Strategy
The .NET Language Strategy I am constantly aware of the enormous impact our language investments have on so many people’s daily lives. Our languages are a huge strength of the .NET platform, and a primary factor in people choosing to bet on it – and stay on it. I’ve been here on the .NET languages […]
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Wizards of the Coast Releases SRD Under Creative Commons License (CC-BY-4.0)
Over the past few weeks you, the community, have made your voices heard. And we’ve listened. OGL 1.0a will remain untouched AND the entire SRD 5.1...
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NixOS 21.05
This section lists the release notes for each stable version of NixOS and current unstable revision.
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Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab
Roku provides the simplest way to stream entertainment to your TV. On your terms. With thousands of available channels to choose from.
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Cloudflare loses 22% of its domains in Freenom .tk shutdown
A staggering 12.6 million domains on TLDs controlled by Freenom (.tk, .cf and .gq) have been shut down and no longer resolve, leading to a significant reduc ...
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We Make Mistakes
We’ve just finished reviewing applications for the Winter 2015 batch and have sent out invitations for interviews. In this cycle we saw a +40% increase in the number of companies applying over the Summer 2014 batch. Reviewing this many companies is a humbling experience and one we take very seriously. Most of us who…
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How Nestlé gets children hooked on sugar in lower-income countries
Nestlé’s leading baby-food brands, promoted in low- and middle-income countries as healthy and key to supporting young children’s development, contain high levels of added sugar. In Switzerland, where Nestlé is headquartered, such products are sold with no added sugar. These are the main findings of a new…
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QEMU v4.0.0 released
We would like to announce the availability of the QEMU 4.0.0 release. This release contains 3100+ commits from 220 authors.
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The Sparrow Problem
We’ve all read stories about and been enthralled by the idea of App Store millionaires. As the story goes… individual app developers are making money hand over fist in the App Store! And if you can just come up with a great app idea, you’ll be a millionaire in no time!
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Apple’s device surveillance plan is a threat to user privacy – and press freedom
The backlash from privacy and human rights advocates to Apple's new plan this month for scanning photos on user devices to detect known child sexual abuse images has been loud and nearly unanimous. The tech raises press freedom problems, too.
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Kodak has no plans to cease, go out of business, or file for bankruptcy
Kodak clarifies it is not closing or filing bankruptcy; plans debt repayment and pension fund transaction for a stronger balance sheet in 2025.
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Gitlab's Journey from Azure to GCP
GitLab Staff Engineer Andrew Newdigate shares how we completed our migration to Google Cloud Platform, and how we overcame challenges along the way.
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President Signs Government-Wide Open Data Bill
The Data Coalition is dedicated to improving government, business, and society through open data and evidence-informed public policy
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Node.js is now available on App Engine standard environment
Developers love Google App Engine ’s zero-config deployments, zero server management and auto-scaling capabilities. At Google Cloud, our goal is to help you be more productive by supporting more popular programming languages. Starting today, you can now deploy your Node.js 8 applications to App Engine standard…
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Introducing Google Cloud Container Builder
At Google everything runs in containers, from Gmail to YouTube to Search. With Google Cloud Platform (GCP) we're bringing the scale and developer efficiencies we’ve seen with containers to our customers. From cluster management on Google Container Engine , to image hosting on Google Container Registry , to our…
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Zulip 2.0: Open source team chat
We’re excited to announce the release of Zulip Server 2.0, containing hundreds of new features and bug fixes. Zulip is the world’s most productive team chat software, used by thousands of teams as an alternative to Slack, HipChat, Mattermost and IRC. Zulip’s unique topic-based threading combines the …
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GrayKey iPhone unlocker poses serious security concerns
Ever since the case of the San Bernadino shooter pitted Apple against the FBI over the unlocking of an iPhone, opinions...