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Revenue is easy, profit is harder
The fundamentals needed to run a business in the next economic cycle.
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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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Microsoft and Red Hat partner
The cloud is changing the world, offering enterprises, independent software vendors (ISVs) and developers alike endless scale, speed and agility in a cost-effective way. I’ve been talking with customers about “why cloud” for years. Recently there has been a shift in these conversations, as the benefits have become…
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Wild mammals are making a comeback in Europe
Hunting and habitat loss drove many large mammals in Europe close to extinction. New data shows us that many of the continent’s mammal populations are flourishing again.
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CamScanner, a malicious Android app with more than 100M downloads in Google Play
Kaspersky researchers found malware in CamScanner, a text recognition app that was downloaded more than 100 million times from Google Play.
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How Facebook encodes videos
People upload hundreds of millions of videos to Facebook every day. Making sure every video is delivered at the best quality — with the highest resolution and as little buffering as possible — mean…
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Languages Which Almost Became CSS
When Tim Berners-Lee announced HTML in 1991 there was no method of styling pages. How a given HTML tag was rendered was determined by the browser, often with significant input from the user’s preferences
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Firefox Reality Now Available
Earlier this year, we shared that we are building a completely new browser called Firefox Reality. The mixed reality team at Mozilla set out to build a web
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Linux 7.2
Igalia is an open source consulting firm specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and client-side web technologies, graphics pipeline, compilers and virtual machines. We have the most WPE, WebKit…
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Engineers should invest in decision-making skills early
Reforge drives team performance, with the most actionable learning from vetted operators that your team will actually use and apply.
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A Call for Developers – Jellyfin
Jellyfin needs your help to get better, so join us this October and beyond!
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Worst Computer Bugs in History: Therac-25 (2017)
The Worst Computer Bugs in History is a mini series to commemorate the discovery of the first computer bug seventy years ago. Although these stories are more extreme than most software bugs engineers will encounter during their careers, they are worth studying for the insights they can offer into software development…
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Lyft releases self-driving research dataset
By Luc Vincent, EVP Autonomous Technology
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Meta Is Transferring Jest to the OpenJS Foundation
Meta Open Source is officially transferring Jest, its open source JavaScript testing framework, to the OpenJS Foundation. With over 17 million weekly downloads and over 38,000 GitHub stars, Jest i…
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Books from 1923 to 1941 Now Liberated
[press: boingboing] The Internet Archive is now leveraging a little known, and perhaps never used, provision of US copyright law, Section 108h, which allows libraries to scan and make available materials published 1923 to 1941 if they are not being actively sold. Elizabeth Townsend Gard, a copyright scholar at Tulane…
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SQLite briefing for Linux kernel hackers (2019)
This is a briefing on SQLite intended for Linux kernel hackers, and especially those working on Linux filesystems.
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Replacing WebRTC: real-time latency with WebTransport and WebCodecs
Media over QUIC: The long path to use something else for real-time media.
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Patent Owners Can Prevent You from Owning Anything
A “notice” slapped on the outside of a package saying “single use only” continues to ensure a manufacturer selling you the product can sue for patent infringement should someone dare reuse its goods. This is what the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held on Friday, reaffirming its previous...
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What is a transformer model? (2022)
Transformer models apply an evolving set of mathematical techniques, called attention or self-attention, to detect subtle ways even distant data elements in a series influence and depend on each other.
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Introducing ccv, a modern computer vision library
It has been two years since the first commit. Two years ago, I promised 1). an object detection algorithm; 2). a text detection algorithm; 3). a feature point algorithm; and 4). a 3d reconstruction algorithm. With the 0.1, there is: 1
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DeepMind releases Lyria 2 music generation model
Google has long collaborated with musicians, producers, and artists in the research and development of music AI tools. Ever since launching the Magenta project, in 2016, we’ve been exploring how AI can enhance creativity — sparking inspiration, facilitating exploration and enabling new forms of expression, always…