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Students invent quieter leaf blower
Patent-pending design by Hopkins undergrads could be available in stores within two years
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,678 posts.
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Starlink satellites hindering detection of near-Earth asteroids, study finds
A study of archival images from Zwicky Transient Facility shows an increase in satellite streaks.
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The Invention of the AeroPress
How one inventor went from making Frisbees to one of the world's best coffeemakers.
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React Native is not the future
When we finished our transition from two to one codebases, we asked ourselves why we hadn't done it sooner.
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Developing a new app is unreasonable condition that Apple imposes on dating apps
ACM (Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets)2022280 points325 commentsTech Industry & Business details
The revised conditions that Apple has imposed on dating-app providers are unreasonable, and create an unnecessary barrier. Apple must therefore pay another 5 million euros.
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AMD's MI300X Outperforms Nvidia's H100 for LLM Inference
There has been much anticipation around AMD's flagship MI300X accelerator. With unmatched raw specs, the pressing question remains: Can it outperform NVIDIA's Hopper architecture in real-world AI workloads? We have some exciting early results to share. For the past month, TensorWave and MK1 have worked closely to…
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Eliminating Robocalls
Twilio's CEO talks about trusted communications, reputation, robocalling, and making it safe to pick up your phone again.
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Stanford historian uncovers a grim correlation between violence and inequality
Professor Walter Scheidel examines the history of peace and economic inequality over the past 10,000 years.
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What makes us Red Hat
Open source software is, in fact, eating the world. It is a de facto model for innovation, and technology as we know it would look vastly different without it. On a few occasions, over the past several years, software industry observers have asked whether there will ever be another Red Hat. Others have speculated that…
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We switched to Java 21 virtual threads and got a deadlock in TPC-C for Postgres
We revise some fundamental background and highlight an important concern behind Java 21 virtual threads: deadlocks might be unpredictable
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Yubico and Microsoft Introduce Passwordless Login
The Security Key by Yubico with FIDO2 enables passwordless login for Windows 10 devices and Microsoft Azure Active Directory.
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Mythical man month: 10 lines per developer day
February 10, 2020 4 minutes read The mythical book, Mythical man month quotes that no matter the programming language chosen, a professional developer will write on average 10 lines of code (LoC) day. After 14 years of full-time development on the tool NDepend I’d like to elaborate a bit here. Let’s start with the…
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Media Can’t Stop Presenting Horrifying Stories as ‘Uplifting’ Perseverance Porn
In the popular trend of unintentionally horrifying “uplifting” news, out-of-touch corporate media give us supposedly charming, wholesome and positive news that actually, upon even minimal retrospection, reveals the dire conditions of late capitalism so many Americans now live under, and makes you feel worse after…
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Mozilla and Partners Prepare to Launch First Firefox OS Smartphones
First Open Web Devices Powered by Firefox OS Make Smartphones More Accessible; Regional announcements coming soon Mountain View, Calif. – July 1, 2013 – Mozilla, the mission-based organization dedicated to ...
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Cache made consistent: Meta’s cache invalidation solution
Caches help reduce latency, scale read-heavy workloads, and save cost. They are literally everywhere. Caches run on your phone and in your browser. For example, CDNs and DNS are essentially geo-rep…
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Microsoft actions following attack by nation state actor Midnight Blizzard
Microsoft Security Response Center Blog
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How we protect our most sensitive secrets from the most determined attackers
As a bank, we have a lot of secrets we need to protect to keep our customers and ourselves safe. These include private keys that only we know, which we use to digitally sign requests as coming from us (sort of like a private password). These private keys are super important and are used all over Monzo and when…
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Python 3.4.0 released
The official home of the Python Programming Language
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IE7 users, we need to talk…
In 2014 we dropped support for Internet Explorer 7 — and offered to buy a new computer for any customer stuck on it. The offer has long since closed.
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Github Copilot Wants to Play Chess Instead of Code
When OpenAI announced GPT-3 & its public beta I was fascinated but didn’t have an API key. I played with everything free that was built with GPT-3. Naturally, when I heard about GitHub Copilot I signed up for the waitlist and a few months later, I got access!
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A whole website in a single JavaScript file
Explanation and making of a website in a single JavaScript file
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Someone is impersonating us in a recruiting scam
Our startup was recently the center of an elaborate recruiting scam. What do other companies do if they realize that someone is impersonating them to attack vulnerable job seekers? This article gives advice to job seekers and shares our story.
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Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event – September 2025
As part of standard incident-response practice, Ruby Central is publishing the following post-incident review to the public. This document summarizes the September 2025 AWS root-access event, what occurred, what we verified, and the actions we’ve taken to strengthen our security processes.
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The drive stats of Backblaze storage pods
Dive into Backblaze's analysis of storage server performance, exploring Drive Stats, Storage Pods, and insights on drive failure rates since 2009.
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Planning and Managing Layoffs
How you handle a layoff, how you communicate it to the people impacted, and how you manage and lead throughout the process really matters. It takes careful thought and planning, but it may be the most important planning you ever do as a leader.
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Neki – Sharded Postgres
Neki, sharded Postgres by PlanetScale, is now available in platform preview.
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Let’s talk about open-source sustainability
Do you contribute to open source software (OSS)? We'd love to hear your perspective.