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Why we decided for and against Ubuntu Core
Nitrokey explains why NextBox runs Debian instead of Ubuntu Core. An in-depth look at the technical and philosophical reasons behind the OS choice for the NextBox platform.
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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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MacKichan Software, maker of Scientific Word, has gone out of business
Scientific Word: Now Free for All Versions We are excited to announce that all versions of Scientific Word , from 4.1 through 6.1, are now available for free!
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The first commercial astronaut mission to orbit Earth aboard Dragon
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.
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Where does the plastic in oceans come from?
Which countries and rivers emit the most plastic to the ocean? What does this mean for solutions to tackle plastic pollution?
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Nintendo DS-TV-Out Restoration Project
How Instagram helps gamers build authority, attract sponsors, and grow a loyal community beyond the game.
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(Very) Basic Intro to Elliptic Curve Cryptography
Learn cryptography in Go by building ciphers, hashes, password security, and encryption tools. Understand security beneath the library call.
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Alan Kay on the context and catalysts of personal computing
Alan Kay — “father of personal computers" — is best known for his work on personal computing and for leading the team that developed Smalltalk.
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PostgreSQL EXPLAIN Output Explained
UPDATED July 2023: How to use EXPLAIN ANALYZE in PostgreSQL, learn tools to visualize the output. See query execution time and row count.
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What’s up with these new not-open source licenses?
Understanding the movement of ‘single source’ companies from ‘open source’ to ‘source available’ licenses.
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We still believe in private offices (2015)
There was a time where it seemed like we barely even needed to talk about this: Joel had won the argument , the Internet agreed that private offices were the future, and only incompetent management (or a tight budget) was still putting developers in cubicle farms. A glorious future lay before us.
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Atlas robot does parkour
By training Atlas to maneuver its way through complex parkour courses, our engineers push the humanoid robot to its limits.
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How often do people copy and paste from Stack Overflow?
April Fool's may be over, but once we set up a system to react every time someone typed Command+C, we realized there was also an opportunity to learn about how people use our site. Here’s what we found.
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Why does it take so long to build software? (2020)
Why does it take so long to build software? We hear variations of this question frequently: Why is building software so expensive? Why is my team delivering software so slowly? Why am I perpetually behind schedule with my software? There is a good reason we hear these questions over and over. Businesses need more and…
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My app failed: lessons learned
Making Software, the hardest way to make an easy living. TL:DR – check out Rithm: Habit tracking machine v2 in apple app store today Hey Kyle here, maker of Rithm. So early 2020, I launched Rithm, an app that helps...
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Make your monorepo feel small with Git’s sparse index
The new sparse index feature makes it feel like you are working in a small repository when working in a focused portion of a monorepo.
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Container security best practices: Ultimate guide
Container security is critical as companies use them more often for AI workloads and cloud workloads. Learn about 17 container security best practices here.
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Firefox 91
We’d like to extend a special thank you to the 210 volunteers who helped resolve more than 1,200 bugs in the Firefox 91 release. Of the 210 volunteers, 16 developers contributed their first code changes to Firefox as brand new volunteers!
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How a hypermedia approach can address usability concerns with multi-page apps
In this essay, Carson Gross gives an analysis of Rich Harris's talk 'Have Single-Page Apps Ruined the Web?', exploring the debate between Single-Page Applications (SPAs) and Multi-Page Applications (MPAs). Carson examines Harris's criticisms of both approaches and proposes hypermedia-oriented solutions using htmx…
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Intent to issue €2.5M fine to Disqus over GDPR breaches
The Norwegian Data Protection Authority has notified Disqus Inc. (Disqus) that we intend to issue an administrative fine of NOK 25 000 000 for not complying with the GDPR rules on accountability, lawfulness, and transparency.
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Three reasons fungi are not plants
Fungi are more closely related to us than they are to plants. Yet, fungi have been grouped with plants historically, with an impact felt even today.
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OpenWrt 21.02.0 Released
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Gunship “Tech Noir” Breakdown
Gunship's
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Citus 10 brings columnar compression to Postgres
Deep dive into Citus columnar storage for Postgres. Includes a quickstart, as well as performance measurements for data loading, compression ratios, and query response times. Also covers how columnar relates to Citus, integration with Postgres range partitioning, limitations, & ways to get started.
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Ruby 3.1.0 Preview 1
Since Ruby 2.6 introduced MJIT in 2018 , its performance greatly improved, and finally we achieved Ruby3x3 last year . But even though Optcarrot has shown impressive speedups, the JIT hasn’t benefited real world business applications.
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State of Independent SaaS 2021
The State of Independent SaaS is our annual survey and benchmark report covering the insights you need to know in the Bootstrapped SaaS sector. Get data to help you make decisions about how to build and grow a successful software business.
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Ray Tracing Gems II available as free download
This Open Access book is a must-have for anyone interested in real-time rendering.
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Intercal, YAML, and Other Horrible Programming Languages
Discover the bizarre world of INTERCAL, a parody programming language that will leave you scratching your head. Then, delve into the blurred line b...
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Renesas enters FPGA market with the first ultra-low-power, low-cost family
TOKYO, Japan ― Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced that it is entering the Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) market with a new line of very low-cost, very low-power devices. The ForgeFPGA™ Family will address the underserved market need…