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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,277 posts.
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Why Getting Paid for Your Data Is a Bad Deal
One bad privacy idea that won’t die is the so-called “data dividend,” which imagines a world where companies have to pay you in order to use your data.Sound too good to be true? It is. Let’s be clear: getting paid for your data—probably no more than a handful of dollars at most—isn’t going to fix...
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At least 11 cities use automated surveillance in the EU
At least 11 local police forces in Europe use computer vision to automatically analyze images from surveillance cameras. The risks of discrimination run high but authorities ignore them.
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Jepsen: Dgraph 1.1.1
Dgraph is a graph database which aims to provide scalable, highly-available, and snapshot-isolated transactions over a labeled directed graph, while minimizing network communication for performance. Conceptually, Dgraph stores a set of (entity, attribute, value) triples. Entities (also known as subjects), are compact…
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Servers for an Accelerated Future
We designed and built Cloudflare’s network to be able to grow capacity quickly and inexpensively; to allow every server, in every city, to run every service; and to allow us to shift customers and traffic across our network efficiently.
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Visidata 2.0
This is a major milestone. After almost 2 years of development, version 2.0 of VisiData is finally released. It's got several major improvements, a bunch of new loaders, and tons of new features and quality of life improvements. And, most importantly, an API specification for plugins.
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How SHA-2 works step-by-step (SHA-256)
Learn to code from scratch with hands-on lessons, a structured curriculum, and real projects. Stop watching tutorials, start writing code for free now.
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RethinkDB 2.4.1
We’re pleased to announce the availability of RethinkDB 2.4.1. This update includes bug fixes, build improvements and the reintroduced update checker. For a complete list of changes in this update, you can refer to the release notes . Don’t forget that we replaced our download server, please read our latest blog post .
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On not choosing WordPress for the W3C redesign project
Explaining the background of our choice on CMS platform and the response to a recent WordPress Tavern post
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Mozilla Is Crowdsourcing Research into YouTube Recommendations
Mozilla has built a browser add-on that transforms YouTube users into YouTube watchdogs YouTube recommendations can be delightful, but they can also be…
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Highlights from Git 2.28
The open source Git project just released Git 2.28 with features and bug fixes from over 58 contributors, 13 of them new. We last caught up with you on the…
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Electric cooker an easy, efficient way to sanitize N95 masks, study finds
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Owners of electric multicookers may be able to add another use to its list of functions, a new study suggests: sanitization of…
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Factorio 1.1 is getting close
1.1 is getting close kovarex I have been tracking the amount of tasks and forum bugs required to finish 1.1 since the 1.0 release. This allowed me to get quantifiable feedback whether we are actually keeping the timeframe of the 1.1 release reasonable, or digging too deep and expanding the scope too much. If we…
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Materialize Raises a $32M Series B
Materialize secures Series B funding to enhance its Operational Data Warehouse with real-time streaming capabilities for immediate data action.
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The value of Tor and anonymous contributions to Wikipedia
According to a recently published research paper co-authored by researchers from Drexel, NYU, and the University of Washington, Tor users make high-quality contributions to Wikipedia. And, when they are blocked, as doctoral candidate Chau Tran, the lead author describes, "the collateral damage in the form of…
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YC S20 Remote Batch
We have decided to run the S20 batch remotely, because amid the COVID-19 crises, the safety of founders and YC staff is our top priority. Interviews for the batch will be remote, and office hours, evening talks, and meetups throughout the batch will all take place over video conferencing, as well as on our online…
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Text for Proofing Fonts: A Farewell to the Quick Brown Fox
H&Co designs fonts for print, web, and mobile environments.
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13-Year-Old, Nicholas Sharkey, Creates a RISC-V Core
one of our goals with the workshop is to give students an opportunity to learn logic design earlier in their education--like, say, as a college freshman or sophomore. So just imagine our surprise when Nicholas introduced himself in the chat forum of our workshop.
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Increasing transparency through advertiser identity verification
Our goal is to ensure users understand who is advertising to them and why they are seeing specific ads.
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PinePhone Misconceptions
I take no pleasure in writing this blog post. In fact, even as I am writing these words I am internally torn on whether this is the right approach to addressing the problem on hand. Whether I’ve chosen the right approach remains to be seen, but regardless, I now feel it’s time to confront misconceptions about the…
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Timescale Cloud: Multi-cloud, fully-managed time-series in AWS, Azure, and GCP
Fully managed PostgreSQL from the creators of TimescaleDB. 99.9% uptime SLA, 10,000+ IOPS, columnar compression up to 95%, and built-in search. Try it free.
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Menu simulation, Spidertron, Ghost building, Confirm button
Menu simulation V453000 In the last FFF, we presented that we now have the capability to show real game simulations in the Tips and tricks. Naturally we asked ourselves what else could we use this new technology for... We've dreamed about this multiple times in the past, but the technical roadblocks didn't make us…
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Beer Drinkers Guide to SAML
Learn about SAML authentication and the mechanics behind some of the most common SAML use cases, all through the fictional BaaS (Beer-as-a-Service).
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Best practices for managing and storing secrets like API keys and credentials
We have compiled a list of some of the best practices to prevent API key leakage and keep secrets and credentials safe. Secrets management doesn’t have a one-size-fits-all approach, so this list considers multiple perspectives so you can be informed in deciding to or not to implement strategies.
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System Hardening in Android 11
Posted by Platform Hardening Team In Android 11 we continue to increase the security of the Android platform. We have moved to safer def...
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Possible Radio Emission from Exoplanet Detected
By using a radio telescope array, a Cornell postdoc and an international team of scientists may have detected emissions from a planet beyond our own solar system.