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When an SQL Database Makes a Great Pub/Sub
We explore how databases be used as effective Pub/Subs in Go, demonstrating how SQL's unique features can enhance message-driven applications.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,170 posts.
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Proton Technologies awarded €2M from the EU
We are happy to announce that the European Commission has awarded €2 million to Proton AG, the parent company of Proton Mail and Proton VPN, to develop a suite of encrypted services.
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Prime Video on Chromecast and Android TV, YouTube on Fire TV
Starting today, you can watch Amazon Prime Video on Chromecast and Android TV devices.
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Ember.js Octane Edition
Ember 3.15 is Octane! Curious what Octane means for web development? This blog post will get you oriented. For a write up of the technical details (upgrade strategies, deprecations, new Ember Data...
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New Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3+
Compute Module 3+, the latest iteration of our flexible board for industrial applications, offers better performance and more Flash at competitive prices.
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Reborn 3: Desktop browser with Web 3, faster VPN and ad blocker
Reborn 3 (Opera 60) was designed to improve people’s control over their privacy, security, and to give them access to Web 3, the Web of the future Hello, Today, we are launching Opera 60, codenamed Reborn 3. With this release, we believe we are setting a new standard for browsers. In our entire Reborn series, […]
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Using Web Bluetooth to Communicate with Bluetooth Devices
Let's experiment with controlling Bluetooth Low Energy devices from a web browser with this LED project and balenaCloud.
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Librem 5 Hardware Update
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.
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Hubble takes gigantic image of the Triangulum Galaxy
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the most detailed image yet of a close neighbour of the Milky Way — the Triangulum Galaxy, a spiral galaxy located at a distance of only three million light-years. This panoramic survey of the third-largest galaxy in our Local Group of galaxies provides a mesmerising…
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Commas in big numbers everywhere: An OpenType adventure
My job involves a lot of staring at large numbers, mostly latencies in nanoseconds, and picking out magnitudes like microseconds. I noticed myself constantly...
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Sealed Rust: A plan to bring Rust to safety critical software domains
Part 1 - The Pitch
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Business Models
Agency for great inventors
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Red Programming Language: Plans for 2019
The past year It has been a tough year 2018, filled with roller-coasters and instability. The constant dropping of the crypto markets has ...
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Fedora 30
It seems like it was just six months ago that we announced Fedora 29, and here we are again. Today, we announce our next operating system release. Even though it went so quickly, a lot has happened in the last half year, and you’ll see the results in Fedora 30. If you’re impatient, go to […]
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Gut microbes eat medication
The first time Vayu Maini Rekdal manipulated microbes, he made a decent sourdough bread. At the time, young Maini Rekdal, and most people who head to the kitchen to whip up a salad dressing, pop popcorn, ferment vegetables, or caramelize onions, did not consider the crucial chemical reactions behind these concoctions.
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Mitchell Feigenbaum, physicist who pioneered chaos theory, has died
Mitchell J. Feigenbaum , a mathematical physicist whose groundbreaking work on deterministic chaos influenced fields ranging from cardiology to cartography, died in New York City on June 30 at the age of 74. Feigenbaum was the Toyota Professor and director of the Center for Studies in Physics and Biology at…
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Are we happier when we spend more time with others?
In this topic page, we explore data on loneliness and social connections and review available evidence on the link between social connections and well-being.
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Working with Errors in Go 1.13
How to use the new Go 1.13 error interfaces and functions.
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What SQL Analysts Need to Know About Python (2016)
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
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Designing a COM Library for Rust
I interned with Microsoft as a Software Engineering Intern in the MSRC UK team in Cheltenham this past summer. I worked in the Safe Systems Programming Language (SSPL) group, which explores safe programming languages as a proactive measure against memory-safety related vulnerabilities.
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Hubble Reveals Latest Portrait of Saturn
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 observed Saturn on 20 June 2019 as the planet made its closest approach to Earth this year, at approximately 1.36 billion kilometres away.
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Parallel Commits: A New Atomic Commit Protocol for Distributed Transactions
Parallel Commits are an atomic commit protocol in CockroachDB. The feature promises to halve the latency of distributed transactions by performing all consensus round trips required to commit a transaction concurrently.
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Google Cloud Platform Security Best Practices
A walkthrough of a couple of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) features with security recommendations and advice on how to configure your GCP environments.