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A Brief Guide to OTP in Elixir
Learn about OTP, a set of tools and libraries that Elixir inherits from Erlang.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,686 posts.
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Firefox 75: Ambitions for April
Firefox 75 is chock full of handy new dev tooling: instant evaluation in the web console, event breakpoints for WebSockets, and more. New web platform features include HTML lazy loading ...
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Chromium Blog: A New Crankshaft for V8
Today we are introducing Crankshaft, a new compilation infrastructure for V8, Google Chrome’s JavaScript engine. By using aggressive optimi...
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Why 50 Ohms?
Microwaves101 | Why Fifty Ohms?
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Age and High-Growth Entrepreneurship
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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US Government Continues Encryption War
Evergreen privacy guides, threat modeling, encryption, practical tutorials.
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Swift Crypto
I’m thrilled to announce a new open-source project for the Swift ecosystem, Swift Crypto. Swift Crypto is a new Swift package that brings the fantastic APIs of Apple CryptoKit to the wider Swift community. This will allow Swift developers, regardless of the platform on which they deploy their applications, to access…
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How does misalignment scale with model intelligence and task complexity?
Research done as part of the first Anthropic Fellows Program during Summer 2025.
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WebRender is in beta
🎉 WebRender is in beta 🎉! There are still a number of blocking bugs so WebRender will stay on beta for a few trains until it has received enough polish to hit the release population. This is an imp…
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GitHub's new Git storage architecture
GitHub's new Git storage architecture is built so thousands of agents can push to a single repository at once. Here's how it works.
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The future of deep learning
This post is adapted from Section 3 of Chapter 9 of my book, Deep Learning with Python (Manning Publications).
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Books: an immutable double-entry accounting database service
Tracking financial transactions at scale
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The unlikely story of Teardown Multiplayer
Multiplayer has been the single most requested feature for Teardown ever since before its initial release. Synchronizing physics over the network is already known to be hard, and on top of that we have a completely dynamic, destructible world with full modding support. For a long time, we considered the whole idea…
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Logstash joins Elasticsearch
Logstash is an open source data collection engine with real-time pipelining capabilities. Logstash can dynamically unify data from disparate sources and...
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Building a Billion User Load Balancer [video]
Want to learn how Facebook scales their load balancing infrastructure to support more than 1.3 billion users? We will be revealing the technologies and methods we use to global route and balance Facebook's traffic. The Traffic team at Facebook has built several systems for managing and balancing our site traffic…
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The hidden JTAG in a Qualcomm/Snapdragon device’s USB port
Learn about JTAG and EUD
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Spreading Liquid with Three.js
We create beautiful expressions through programming and deliver the best possible experiences.
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Underscore's Scala books are now open source
From today we’re open-sourcing all of our books. They can all be downloaded for free, or you can checkout the source from their Github repositories. In this post I explain why we made this decision and what it means for our books in the future
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PyPy-STM: first “interesting” release
Hi all, PyPy-STM is now reaching a point where we can say it's good enough to be a GIL-less Python. (We don't guarantee there are no more...
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New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published
HarperCollins have announced that a new Tolkien publication, The Fall of Númenor, will be published on 10th November 2022. Edited by well-known Tolkien expert Brian Sibley, the book collects together J.R.R. Tolkien's writings of the…
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Migrating to Postgres
Since early 2022, Motion was on CockroachDB. Cockroach has many qualities going for it: effortless horizontal scaling, especially when…
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The Disneyfication of a University
BY DANE KENNEDY The George Washington University faculty and staff ain’t got no culture. Or worse, we’ve got a negative culture. This was the verdict of the Disney Institute, which the president of…
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Is Clojure dying, and what has Ruby got to do with it?
The past week or so a lot of discussion and introspection has been happening in the Clojure community. Eric Normand responded to my one year Lambda Island post with some...
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NilAway: Practical nil panic detection for Go
Uber has widely adopted Golang (Go for short) as a primary programming language for implementing backend services and libraries due to its high performance. The Go monorepo is the largest codebase at Uber, comprising 90 million lines of code (and growing). This makes tooling for writing reliable Go code a critical…