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Ideas that changed my life
You spend years trying to learn new stuff but then look back and realize that maybe like 10 big ideas…
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,688 posts.
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Grafana Tempo, a scalable distributed tracing system
Tempo is designed to be a robust trace id lookup store whose only dependency is object storage (GCS/S3).
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StableStudio, an open-source release of DreamStudio
Stability AI releases StableStudio, an open-source text-to-image consumer application that emphasizes the company's commitment to advancing open-source development within the AI ecosystem. With StableStudio, users can help shape the future of generative AI through community-driven development and lo
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Multi-tenant queues in Postgres
How we implemented fair queueing strategies for Postgres-backed task queues to ensure fair execution time across tenants.
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The CTO Journey at a Small Startup
As a co-founder and CTO, here's how my role has changed over the years.
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Google IP Vandalizing OpenStreetMap [Not a comprehensive post]
Two OpenStreetMap accounts have been vandalizing OSM in London, New York and elsewhere from Google’s IP address, the same address in India reported by Mocality.
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AWS, Azure, and GCP respond to cloud report
Key learnings about how to get the best performance from GCP, AWS, and Azure based on original research and conversations with the big three.
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Does cashless society discriminate against the poor and elderly? (2019)
Does cashless society discriminate against the poor and elderly? By Adara Liao | October 13, 2019
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C’s Biggest Mistake (2009)
C is arguably the world’s most successful programming language. Its success has, of course, endlessly tempted people to improve upon it. Thus, C is probably the patriarch of the longest list of languages. Notable among these are C++, the D programming language, and most recently, Go. There are endless discussion…
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It’s Official, Apple Kills Web Apps in the EU
If you ship a Web App in the EU and will be impacted by this, please sign our open letter to Tim Cook. It is critical that we gather as much evidence as possible to prevent Apple from breaking Web Apps in the EU.
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Mozilla Reaction to U.S. vs. Google
Today the US Department of Justice (“DOJ”) filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google, alleging that it unlawfully maintains monopolies through anticomp
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Lambda School lays off 65 employees
Get the latest news about Bloom Institute of Technology, where you can launch your new tech career from anywhere in just 6-9 months.
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Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust (2020)
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
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How Iran Uses Bitcoin Mining to Evade Sanctions and “Export” Oil
The US imposes an almost total economic embargo on Iran, including a ban on all Iranian imports and sanctions on Iranian financial institutions.
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Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude
Anthropic researchers find weaknesses in cryptographic algorithms with Claude Mythos Preview
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Ruby has been fast enough for 13 years
When I started programming Ruby, it was on an Apple iBook G4/800. That beautiful 12” powerhouse of a 800 MHz PowerPC with a rocking 256MB of RAM. A lovely computer that was not only fast enough to …
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When did Postgres become cool?
Craig takes a look at the history of Postgres. From the origins of the project through some of the key production features that make Postgres what it is today.
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Apple has removed us from the App Store
The RescueTime for iOS app has been temporarily removed from the App Store. This is obviously incredibly disappointing for us and all our users.
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Treating children for worms yields long-term benefits, says new study
Children who receive a few extra years of deworming treatment eventually have better jobs, higher incomes, says study led by Berkeley economist Edward Miguel.
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Introducing Google Cast for audio
In 2014, many of you—millions, in fact—helped make Chromecast one of the most popular streaming media devices globally. It's been exciting t...
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Vivaldi browser v1.8 released, with calendar-style browsing history
Introducing the new Vivaldi History – a powerful tool that lets you explore your browsing habits and finding previously visited web pages like never before.
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Sleep research led to a new sleep apnea drug
A University of Toronto professor’s research on the physiology of sleep and breathing has paved the way for a new sleep apnea treatment that recently reported positive results in a phase 3 clinical trial.
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Progress toward fusion energy gain as measured against the Lawson criteria
Today we’ve released a pre-publication version of an update to our 2022 paper “Progress toward fusion energy breakeven and gain as measured against the...
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There are very few suitable use cases for DynamoDB
Edit: This article is firmly out of date now. I have not gone back to try dynamoDB but I have heard they have changed how throughput is…
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Announcing Wolfram Programming Lab
Easily learn programming and computational thinking with the Wolfram Programming Lab environment. Jump in and explore or learn systematically.