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How we built a serverless SQL database
CockroachDB serverless is the first truly scalable serverless SQL database. Learn how it works and how a serverless sql database can relieve the operational burden of developers.
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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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Innernet: open source Rust based Tailscale alternative
Nurture and shape your own private networks with simple, free, open-source infrastructure
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AWS free tier data transfer expansion
The AWS Free Tier has been around since 2010 and allows you to use generous amounts of over 100 different AWS services. Some services offer free trials, others are free for the first 12 months after you sign up, and still others are always free, up to a per-service maximum. Our intent is to make […]
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My Go executable files are still getting larger
The original draft of the analysis we presented was reviewed internally, and yet still inaccuracies slipped through. We are a team of humans. We make mistakes. We take full responsibility for the invalid conclusions we published.
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Jonathan Smith walks free after 21 years of wrongful imprisonment
Jonathan Smith was released from Talbot County DOC Wednesday, April 21, 2021 after 21 years of wrongful incarceration. He was greeted by his two sons, Jonathan pictured here picking him up. (Image: Eric Kayne/AP Images for the Innocence Project)
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Sorbet Compiler: An experimental, ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby
For the past year, the [Sorbet](https://sorbet.org/) team has been working on an experimental, ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby, powered by Sorbet and LLVM. Today we're sharing the source code for it. It lives alongside the existing code for Sorbet on GitHub, mostly in the `compiler/` folder:
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YouTube algorithm recommends videos that violate its own policies: study
Conducted using data donated by thousands of YouTube users, research reveals the algorithm is recommending videos with misinformation, violent content, …
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AstraZeneca vaccine doesn't prevent B1351 Covid in early trial
Two doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford University COVID-19 vaccine were ineffective against mild-to-moderate infections with the B1351 variant first identified in South Africa, according to a phase 1b-2 clinical trial published today in the New England Journal of Medicine .
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Replit now supports every programming language in Nix
At Replit, we want to give our users the most powerful, flexible, and easy-to-get-started coding environment. However, it has been limiting because we only support a fixed set of languages and OS packages, some of which are outdated. Ideally, users should be able to use any language and install any package with…
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Salesforce completes acquisition of Slack
Slack is where work flows. It's where the people you need, the information you share, and the tools you use come together to get things done.
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The Dunant subsea cable
The Dunant submarine cable system, crossing the Atlantic Ocean between Virginia Beach in the U.S. and Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez on the French Atlantic coast, has been deployed and tested and is now ready for service.
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Next.js 11
Next.js 11 continues our mission to create the best developer experience with a new conformance system and performance improvements.
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Rust in the Android Platform
Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep and Stephen Hines, Android Team Correctness of code in the Android platform is a top priority for the securit...
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Memcached vs. Redis – More Different Than You Would Expect
Insights from the Kablamo Engineering Team
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Boosting upload speed and improving Windows' TCP stack
One of the best ways to find ways to improve performance, we’ve found, is to work closely with our customers. We love shared troubleshooting sessions with their own engineering teams to find and eliminate bottlenecks.
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Big name corporations more likely to commit fraud: study
Fortune 500 firms with strong growth profiles are more prone to “cooking the books” than smaller, struggling companies, according to a recent study led by WSU sociologist Jennifer Schwartz.
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Footnotes now supported in GitHub Markdown
Footnotes let you reference relevant information without disrupting the flow of what you're trying to say: Here is a simple footnote[^1]. With some additional text after it. [^1]: My reference.…
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Japan HP accidentally deleted 77TB data in Kyoto U. supercomputing system
京都大学学術情報メディアセンターセンター長 岡部 寿男
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The deck we used to raise our seed funding
We thought the deck we used for our seed round could be helpful to some companies, especially those that are open source or developer tools.
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China issues new encryption import control
On November 2, 2021, Ministry of Commerce of China (“MOFCOM”) officially released the revised Catalogue of Technologies Subject to Import Prohibition and Restriction (“Technology Catalogue”), effective immediately, which identifies, among others, foreign “data encryption technology employing a key length greater than…
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Firefox 90 supports Fetch Metadata Request Headers
We are pleased to announce that Firefox 90 will support Fetch Metadata Request Headers which allows web applications to protect themselves and their users against various cross-origin threats like ...
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How we use web components
GitHub has long been a proponent of Web Components. Here's how we use them.
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Advanced console.log Tips and Tricks (2020)
There is more than just console.log()