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Project Silica proof-of-concept stores movie on quartz glass
Microsoft and Warner Brothers collaborate to store and retrieve the 1978 'Superman' movie on a piece of glass roughly the size of a drink coaster.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,170 posts.
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Exploring alternative funding models for the web
The online advertising ecosystem is broken. The majority of digital advertising revenue is going to a small handful of companies, leaving other publishers with scraps. Meanwhile users are on the ...
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Electron 6.0
The Electron team is excited to announce the release of Electron 6.0.0! You can install it with npm via npm install electron@latest or download it from our releases website. The release is packed with upgrades, fixes, and new features. We can't wait to see what you build with them! Continue reading for details about…
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Announcing AMP Real URL
The promise of the AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) project was that it would make the web, and, in particular, the mobile web, much more pleasant to surf. The AMP HTML framework was designed to make web pages load quickly.
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People see it as more acceptable to make passionate employees do extra: study
Love Your Job? Someone May be Taking Advantage of You | Duke's Fuqua School of Business
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ArangoDB Receives $10M Series A Funding
The only enterprise AI data platform that cuts complexity, reduces costs, and gets you to production faster.
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Clojure’s Approach to Identity and State (2008)
Many people come to Clojure from an imperative language and find themselves out of their element when faced with Clojure’s approach to doing things, while others are coming from a more functional background and assume that once they leave Clojure’s functional subset, they will be faced with the same story re: state as…
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Samsung to Replace Plastic Packaging with Sustainable Materials
Under the company’s sustainability policy, Samsung plans to minimize and replace packaging
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When pigs fly: optimising bytecode interpreters
This is part two in my series of articles about bytecode interpreters, based on a small stack virtual machine which I have nicknamed PM…
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The Maturing of QUIC
QUIC, the new internet transport protocol set to replace TCP, was comprehensively built by tech industry leaders over nearly seven years. Go behind the scenes to see how QUIC evolved from a lofty experiment to a standard set to modernize the internet.
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Microsoft’s visual data explorer SandDance open sourced
SandDance, the beloved data visualization tool from Microsoft Research, has been re-released as an open source project on GitHub.
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Why Does Infrastructure Cost So Much?
Why does infrastructure cost so much to build in the U.S.? The fundamental reasons aren’t technical. We’ve structured our postwar economy to use overspending on infrastructure as a way to induce short-term growth.
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Windows will improve user privacy with DNS over HTTPS
Announcing and explaining our intention to support DNS over HTTPS in future versions of Windows
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Netherlands ACM launches investigation into abuse by Apple in its App Store
ACM (Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets)2019189 points117 commentsTech Industry & Business details
The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) will investigate whether Apple abuses the position it has attained with its App Store. ACM will do so following indications that ACM has received from other app providers over the course of its market study into app stores.
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The Notion of “Trolling” in Ancient Sanskrit
May 12, 2019 @ 4:36 am · Filed by Victor Mair under Language and philosophy , Logic , This blogging life
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Unleashing Open-Source Silicon
We all know that open source software has changed the fundamental nature of the software industry and that Google generously adds fuel to this culture of openness and community through Google Summer of Code. What few people realize is that there is another major industry that is ripe for an open source overhaul—the…
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Build an Air Quality Monitor with InfluxDB, Grafana and Docker on a Raspberry Pi
balenaSense reads temperature- humidity- barometric pressure- and air quality- and provides a dashboard that you can access from anywhere.
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EFF Wins National Security Letter Transparency Lawsuit
A federal district court in San Francisco has ruled strongly in favor of our Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking records of how and when the FBI lifts gag orders issued with National Security Letters (NSLs). These records will provide a window into the FBI’s use of a highly secretive...
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Let's Talk Concurrency with Sir Tony Hoare
When considering the panel to discuss concurrency, you’d be pushed to find a higher calibre than Sir Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong, and Carl Hewitt.
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r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAView.com
TL;DR: Reddit has been a great incubator for the r/ChangeMyView project, but we’re very excited to announce that…
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Which Way Do You Run?
The difference between a good CEO and a great one? Trusting your gut and confronting your fears head on.
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PostgreSQL Performance on Raspberry Pi
Have you ever wondered how well PostgreSQL performs on a Raspberry Pi 3B ? Oh. You haven't? Oh well, I asked myself that question and put it to the test. This post covers how I used pgbench to answer this question and the results of what I found.
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Librem 5 Shipping Announcement
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.