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The First 15 Years of PyPy – A Personal Retrospective
A few weeks ago I (=Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick) gave a keynote at ICOOOLPS in Amsterdam with the above title. I was very happy to have bee...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,089 posts.
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How to speed up the Rust compiler some more in 2018
I recently wrote about some work I’ve done to speed up the Rust compiler . Since then I’ve done some more.
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Movim – Federated, open-source alternative to Tumblr
Tumblr has decided to ban all NSFW content from its network. Although we understand the reasons…
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Why Personas Fail
Personas are useful tools for UX work, so why do they often fail? Find out what pitfalls cause personas to fail, and how to avoid and overcome them.
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Eclipse Vert.x goes Native
Vert.x | Reactive applications on the JVM
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µUBSan: clean-room reimplementation of the Undefined Behavior Sanitizer runtime
Over the past month, I've implemented from scratch a clean-room version of the UBSan runtime. The initial motivation was the need of developing one for the purposes of catching undefined behavior reports (unspecified code semantics in a compiled executable) in the NetBSD kernel. However, since we need to write a new…
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Apple iMac Pro and Secure Storage
Explore the Duo Blog for expert tips, security insights, and resources to stay updated on the latest in security and access management trends.
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Star Citizen: The Road to Release, Financials and New Partners
Now that we’ve wrapped up the Anniversary Event, I wanted to give you all a couple updates.
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How YC Has Changed
As YC grows, founders are wondering how it’s improved over time. This is a valid line of questioning – clearly much has changed about YC over 13 years. We have new leadership [http://www.ycombinator.com/people/], much larger batch sizes [https://blog.ycombinator.com/category/batch-stats/], we invest more money…
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Rust Analyzer in 2018 and 2019
The rust-analyzer Project
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SJ Games vs. the Secret Service (1990)
On March 1, 1990, the offices of Steve Jackson Games, in Austin, Texas, were raided by the U.S. Secret Service as part of a nationwide investigation of data piracy. The initial news stories simply reported that the Secret Service had raided a suspected ring of hackers. Gradually, the true story emerged.
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Qualcomm’s Chain of Trust
Covering Qualcomm bootloader’s up to the point of Android being loaded
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Announcing Flutter Release Preview 1
Community momentum builds on the path to release
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The Cult of the Root Cause
“Why?” is my favorite question because it illuminates relationships between cause and effect. And when we ask this question more than once we expose even deeper causal relationships. Unfortunately,…
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Electrical properties of dendrites help explain our brain’s computing power
MIT neuroscientists have discovered that human dendrites have very different electrical properties from those of other species. These differences may contribute to the enhanced computing power of the human brain.
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Python Pandas: Tricks and Features
Lesser-known but idiomatic pandas features for those already comfortable with Pandas' basic functionality and concepts.
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GIMP 2.10.0 Release Candidate 1 Released
GIMP 2.10.0-rc1: bugfixes, stability and polish
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The Horrors of Upgrading Etcd Beneath Kubernetes
We dig into the challenges of in-place etcd upgrades beneath autonomous Kubernetes clusters running in air-gapped environments.
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Virtlet: run VMs as Kubernetes pods
Virtlet: run VMs as Kubernetes pods | Mirantis
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Removing Bad Actors on Facebook
We removed 32 Pages and accounts from Facebook and Instagram because they were involved in coordinated inauthentic behavior.
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Observable Universe contains 10x more galaxies than previously thought (2016)
Astronomers using data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescopes and other telescopes have performed an accurate census of the number of galaxies in the Universe. The group came to the surprising conclusion that there are at least 10 times as many galaxies in the observable Universe as previously thought. The results…
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Lambda School Announces $14M Series A Led by GV
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We looked at how a thousand college students performed in technical interviews
Campus recruiting marches on, and companies keep doing the same thing expecting different results. So what can companies do differently?
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Creating Windows XP Icons (2001)
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EFF to Texas AG: Epson Tricked Its Customers with a Dangerous Fake Update
If you've ever bought an inkjet printer, you know just how much the manufacturers charge for ink (more than vintage Champagne!) and you may also know that you can avoid those sky-high prices by buying third-party inks, or refilled cartridges, or kits to refill your own cartridges.The major printer...