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The Docker Compose Specification
Docker is pleased to announce that we have created a new open community to develop the Compose Specification.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,277 posts.
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The naked truth about writing a programming language (2014)
My career has been all about designing programming languages and writing compilers for them. This has been a great joy and source of satisfaction to me, and perhaps I can help others with some observations about what you’re in for if you decide to design and implement a professional programming language. Of course…
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Webpack 5
webpack is a module bundler for JavaScript, CSS, HTML, WebAssembly and assets. It builds a dependency graph from your project and emits optimized bundles for browsers, Node.js, Deno, Bun and other environments.
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Cloudflare launches Workers Unbound, next evolution of its serverless platform
Today, we are excited to announce the next phase of this with the launch of our new platform, Workers Unbound, without restrictive CPU limits in a private beta.
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R adds native pipe and lambda syntax
‘all.equal(f, g)’ for ‘function’s now by default also compares their ‘environment(.)’s, notably via new ‘all.equal’ method for class ‘function’. Comparison of ‘nls()’ fits, e.g., may now need ‘all.equal(m1, m2, check.environments=FALSE)’.
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Digital surveillance technologies to fight pandemic must respect human rights
The COVID-19 pandemic is a global public health emergency that requires a coordinated and large-scale response by governments worldwide. However, States’ efforts to contain the virus must not be...
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Retool Raises $50M from Sequoia
Retool raises $50M led by Sequoia
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Apple releases new Covid-19 app and website based on CDC guidance
Apple today released a new screening tool and resources to help people stay informed and protect their health during the spread of COVID-19.
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Poverty, not trauma, affects cognitive function in refugee youth: study (2019)
Household poverty alone drives cognitive decline in war-displaced children, a study has found — in keeping with research on U.S. children living under hardship.
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KeePassXC 2.6.0 Released
KeePassXC Password Manager
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First AI model that translates 100 languages without relying on English
Facebook AI is introducing M2M-100, the first multilingual machine translation model that can translate between any pair of 100 languages without relying on English data.
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Signifier – a Brutalist response to 17th century typefaces
Signifier is a Brutalist response to 17th century typefaces. Acknowledging the processes and tools of digital form-making, Signifier’s digital immateriality draws on a deeply material past.
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How Tailscale Works
Understand the entire Tailscale system, how it works, how we built it, and its benefits compared to legacy VPNs. Use this article as a guide to quickly build your own Tailscale replacement.
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Adventures in Improving AI Economics
AI has enormous potential to disrupt markets that have traditionally been out of reach for software. These markets – which have relied on humans to navigate natural language, images, and physical space – represent a huge opportunity, potentially worth trillions of dollars globally. However, as we discussed in our…
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Evolving Reddit’s Workforce
Earlier this year, Reddit had to evolve with the unexpected challenge of going 100% remote. Our employees, or Snoos as we’re known, rose to the occasion, a
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The antitrust case against Google
State and federal authorities are reportedly preparing to bring antitrust charges against Google. We talked to Yale SOM’s Fiona Scott Morton about the company's dominant role in online advertising and how it limits competition.
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Yukihiro Matsumoto: “Ruby is designed for humans, not machines”
Yukihiro Matsumoto talks to Evrone about what makes Ruby shine
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Zoom Rolling Out End-to-End Encryption Offering
We’re excited to announce that starting next week Zoom’s E2EE offering will be available as a technical preview! Learn more
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MoreOnionsPorfavor: Onionize your website and take back the internet
Starting today, July 8th, the Tor Project is running a one month campaign called #MoreOnionsPorfavor to raise awareness about onion sites, that is, websites available over onion services. We recently released a feature called Onion-Location in Tor Browser that announces to users if a website has an onion site…
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PINE64 December Update
Welcome to the last community update of the year. I want to start this month’s update by thanking everyone who helped us make this challenging year a fruitful and successful one. A special thanks goes to the core community team - our mods and admins - who keep the cogs spinning on a daily basis. Marek (gamiee) and…
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Why is Snowflake so Valuable?
An overview of some of the reasons Snowflake is trading at 150x its revenue.
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How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2020
I last wrote in December 2019 about my work on speeding up the Rust compiler. Time for another update.
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 was awarded jointly to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna "for the development of a method for genome editing"
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Financial Statements: A Beginner's Guide
Causal has joined Lucanet to deliver Extended Planning and Analysis (xP&A) as part of the Lucanet CFO Solution Platform. Make smarter planning decisions with unified real-time insights across financial and operational planning.
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What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017)
We’re proud to be profitable without making your personal information the product. Here's how we make it work (and how other companies can, too).
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Welcome to C# 9.0
Note: This post is out of date. Now that C# 9.0 has been released, an updated version can be found here. C# 9.0 is taking shape, and I’d like to share our thinking on some of the major features we’re adding to this next version of the language. With every new version of C# we […]
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Moznet IRC is dead; long live Mozilla Matrix
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications