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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,678 posts.
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How I Start: Clojure
We are going to explore Clojure by creating a fun project together. In particular, we will create a twitter bot that creates its text based on a mashup of Edward Lear’s poetry , and a goodly selection of functional programming text taken from Wikipedia.
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Mozilla Fights On For Net Neutrality
Mozilla took the next step today in the fight to defend the web and consumers from the FCC’s attack on an open internet. Together with other petitioners,
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Dopamine and Temporal Difference Learning
Learning and motivation are driven by internal and external rewards. Many of our day-to-day behaviours are guided by predicting, or anticipating, whether a given action will result in a positive (that is, rewarding) outcome. The study of how organisms learn from experience to correctly anticipate rewards has been a…
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Significant US farm losses persist, despite federal assistance
While FBA and ECAP payments are an important and welcome step in addressing near-term financial stress, they do not fully close the gap between costs and returns.
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The case for why Google should be regulated as a public utility
Discover SEO strategies, AI search optimization tips, and digital marketing insights from RankScience. Boost your search rankings and grow your business.
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Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
The method is based on a recyclable filtration fluid consisting of a superbase-alcohol compound. One gram of the new compound can absorb 156 milligrams of carbon dioxide.
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Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage
Worldwide smartphone shipments are forecast to decline 12.9% year-on-year in 2026.
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How we’re responding to The NYT’s data demands in order to protect user privacy
OpenAI is fighting a court order at the demands of The New York Times and plaintiffs, which involves retention of consumer ChatGPT and API user data indefinitely. Learn how we’re working to uphold user privacy, address legal requirements, and stay true to our data protection commitments.
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Cisco workforce reductions
Cisco announces a realignment of resources to support strategic investment areas and a workforce reduction. Cisco announces a realignment of resources to support strategic investment areas and a workforce reduction.
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Is htmx Just Another JavaScript Framework?
Alexander Petros give a thoughtful exploration of htmx's relationship to traditional JavaScript frameworks, examining how its HTML-first approach and narrow focus on network requests sets it apart. He argues that while htmx exhibits framework-like qualities in how it shapes application architecture, its deep…
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Online Safety Act – shutdowns and site blocks
Report incorrectly blocked sites on UK ISP and mobile networks.
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Is Chrome the New IE? (2023)
With a global browser market share of over 65%, Google’s Chrome has become the target of criticism and disdain, much like Microsoft’s Internet Explorer once was. Is Chrome facing similar challenges to Internet Explorer (IE) and will this lead to its downfall?
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Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card
The humble Suica card was developed in the 90’s and has kept Japan moving for almost three decades. Here’s the story of how it came to be.
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Human use of high-bandwidth wireless brain-computer interface
In an important step toward a fully implantable intracortical brain-computer interface system, BrainGate researchers demonstrated the first human use of a wireless transmitter capable of delivering high-bandwidth neural signals.
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Over 100k Infected Repos Found on GitHub
Secure everything coding agents build, use, and ship - prevent risk before code exists, AutoFix the backlog, and protect the coding agents and supply chain.
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Flash and Chrome
Chrome will de-emphasize Flash in favor of HTML5, giving you improved security, reduced power consumption and faster page load times.
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The centrality of stupidity in mathematics
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Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi and Vim
The history of Vi & Vim goes hand in hand with the history of open-source software. This article looks at the historical events that shaped the evolution of these text editors.
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Gitlab reducing free tier CI/CD minutes from 2000 to 400 minutes
The reduction of CI/CD minutes aligns with the majority of free user usage
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Prisma Postgres – Runs on bare metal and unikernels
At Prisma, we believe that deploying a database should be as simple as adding a new page in Notion. Today, we are excited to share the first milestone towards this vision: Prisma Postgres® gives developers an always-on database with pay-as-you-go pricing, thanks to our unique architecture design.
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Calibre 8.0
calibre: The one stop solution for all your e-book needs. Comprehensive e-book software.
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The Objects of Our Life (1983)
Exclusive video footage of Steve Jobs talking about his design vision and philosophy and how design worked at Apple.
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Mullvad Leta: A search engine used in the Mullvad Browser
Online privacy isn't just about a VPN. That’s why we have developed the Mullvad Browser.
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io_uring is faster than mmap
Sourcing data directly from disk IS faster than caching in memory. I brought receipts. Because hardware got wider but not faster, the old methods don't get you there. You need new tools to use what is scaling and avoid what isn't.
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Things Not Strings -- Google Launches Knowledge Graph
We hope this will give you a more complete picture of your interest, provide smarter search results, and pique your curiosity.
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How we bootstrapped a $1M ARR email client
Five years ago, we launched Missive, an innovative but somewhat hard-to-define email client to the world....
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The US Supreme Court is hearing a case about patent law’s “exhaustion doctrine”
Today, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could allow companies to keep a dead hand of control over their products, even after you buy them. The case, Impression Products v. Lexmark International, is on appeal from the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, who last year affirmed...
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How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH
In a post on Wednesday, researchers Alex Halderman and Nadia Heninger presented compelling research suggesting that the NSA has developed the capability to decrypt a large number of HTTPS, SSH, and VPN connections using an attack on common implementations of the Diffie-Hellman key exchange...
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