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Backblaze Vaults: Zettabyte-Scale Cloud Storage Architecture
Backblaze Vaults are not only incredibly durable, scalable, and performant, but they dramatically improve availability and operability.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,531 posts.
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Bringing Clang to Windows
As you may know, Visual Studio now supports building Android and iOS applications using Clang. We realize the need of our users to write cross-platform
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Google Calendar for iPhone
Posted by Robin Züger, Product Manager Today we’re bringing the new Google Calendar to iPhone. Just like on Android, you’ll get the fol...
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FBI Returns Seized Devices to EFF Client
EFF is pleased to announce that our client, Chris Roberts, is now in the possession of all of his digital devices that had been held by the FBI since April 2015. Earlier this year, Mr. Roberts was detained for tweeting about airplane network security. When he landed in Syracuse, the FBI escorted...
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Asm.js Speedups Everywhere
asm.js is an easy-to-optimize subset of JavaScript. It runs in all browsers without plugins, and is a good target for porting C/C++ codebases such as game engines - which have ...
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How to achieve low latency with 10Gbps Ethernet
In a recent blog post we explained how to tweak a simple UDP application to maximize throughput. This time we are going to optimize our UDP application for latency. Fighting with latency is a great excuse to discuss modern features of multiqueue NICs.
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High-reproducibility and high-accuracy method for automated topic classification
Much of human knowledge sits in large databases of unstructured text. Leveraging this knowledge requires algorithms that extract and record metadata on unstructured text documents. Assigning topics to documents will enable intelligent searching, statistical characterization, and meaningful classification. Latent…
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The AWS SDK for Go is now 1.0
Earlier this year, my colleague Peter Moon shared our plans to launch an AWS SDK for Go. As you will read in Peter’s guest post below, the SDK is now generally available! — Jeff; At AWS, we work hard to promote and serve the developer community around our products. This is one of the reasons […]
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CoreOS Introduces Clair: Open Source Vulnerability Analysis for Your Containers
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
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Software Architect – A Role, Not a Job
A structure where software architects work on a team separate from the development team can lead to dysfunction, reduced quality, and poor morale.
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Improved Digital Certificate Security
Posted by Stephan Somogyi, Security & Privacy PM, and Adam Eijdenberg, Certificate Transparency PM On September 14, around 19:20 GMT, Syma...
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Announcing Docker Machine Beta
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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Open Sourcing Our SDKs
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Microsoft and Arduino Announce Partnership
It’s a special day for the Makers’ community. Massimo Banzi is in San Francisco attending Build Conference, the biggest developer event of the calendar
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Ceres' Deepening Mysteries
Even as we discover more about Ceres, some mysteries only deepen. Mission Director Marc Rayman gives an update on Dawn as it moves ever closer to its next…
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Hacker News as a case study to test the wisdom of the crowd theory
Marketing Plan: What It Is & How to Create One (With Examples)
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Signify: Securing OpenBSD from Us to You
I'm going to talk today about signify, a tool I wrote for the OpenBSD project that cryptographically signs and verifies. This allows us to ensure that the releases we ship arrive on your computer in their original, intended form, without tampering.
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Dead Code Should Be Buried – Why I Didn't Contribute to NLTK
Natural Language Processing moves fast, so maintaining a good library means constantly throwing things away. Most libraries are failing badly at this, as academics hate to editorialize. This post explains the problem, why it's so damaging, and why I wrote spaCy to do things differently.
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Vagrant 1.8 released
Today we announce the release of Vagrant 1.8. Vagrant is a tool for building and managing development environments. Vagrant 1.8 introduces a number of major features and hundreds of improvements and bug fixes. The major features are outlined below and the full list of improvements can be found in the official…
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Meet: Fast way to schedule a one-to-one on the go
Stories about sunrise, sunset, twilight, golden hour, daylight, solar phenomena and travel — published on Sunrise.am.
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A Few Global Cultural Treasures We Will Lose for 20 Years Under the TPP
What do Japan's Blue Sky Library, Malaysia's answer to John Wayne, and the first recorded composer from New Zealand, all have in common? They could all disappear from their countries' public domain for the next 20 years, if the current agreement on copyright term extension in the Trans-Pacific...
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