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New disclosures to our archive of state-backed information operations
Transparency is at the heart of everything we do at Twitter. That’s why we routinely disclose datasets of information operations we can reliably link to state actors.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,170 posts.
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Astrophotography with Night Sight on Pixel Phones
Posted by Florian Kainz and Kiran Murthy, Software Engineers, Google Research Taking pictures of outdoor scenes at night has so far been the dom...
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We decided to go for the big rewrite
For small programs, where it would be a question of a few days or a few weeks to rewrite them, it will generally not be worth pondering this question for very long, and in most cases it will be better to just get started on either fixing the existing implementation or on rewriting it. For small programs it is possible…
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Lessons we learned when debugging a scaling problem
Get a closer look at how we investigated errors originating from scheduled jobs, and how we stumbled upon "the tyranny of the clock."
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GCC eBPF for Linux port has landed
This is the mail archive of the gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
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‘A Swiss cheese-like material’ that can solve equations
Engineering professor Nader Engheta and his team have demonstrated a metamaterial device that can function as an analog computer, validating an earlier theory about ‘photonic calculus.’
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Designing Accessible Color Systems
How we designed a color system with hand-picked, vibrant colors that also met standards for accessibility and contrast.
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BodyPix: Real-Time Person Segmentation in the Browser with Tensorflow.js
The TensorFlow blog contains regular news from the TensorFlow team and the community, with articles on Python, TensorFlow.js, TF Lite, TFX, and more.
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Disassembling the Sony FE 135mm F/1.8 GM
When we optically tested the Sony FE 135mm f/1.8 GM we were mighty impressed. Then I threw up in my mouth a little when I read a couple of reviewers comment on the build quality. Because holding a…
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Crystal 0.28.0 Released
Crystal 0.28.0 has been released!
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Dependent Haskell Is the Future (2018)
Are dependent types the future of software development? Read more about our work on Dependent Haskell in this blog post.
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Dark Mode for Slack
Slack is where work flows. It's where the people you need, the information you share, and the tools you use come together to get things done.
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Unreasonable Effectiveness of SQL
Read Couchbase engineering tutorials, product news, and customer stories on AI agents, Capella, vector search, mobile sync, and real-time analytics.
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Avoid Artificial Stupidity
The first step to AI - data democratisation
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Building Facebook's Service Encryption Infastructure
We run one of the largest microservices deployments in the world, with thousands of services that perform billions of requests per second. Keeping information secure as these services communicate g…
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The Architecture of a Large-Scale Web Search Engine, Circa 2019
Our Journey to Microservices, Kubernetes and beyond.
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Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg Addresses the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 Report
We at Boeing are sorry for the lives lost in the recent 737 MAX accidents. These tragedies continue to weigh heavily on our hearts and minds, and we extend our sympathies to the loved ones of the...
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We launched an app with $500k annual revenue, and then Apple copied it
Discover the story of launching an app. with $500,000 annual run rate—and then Apple killed it and launched a similar feature
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Some airlines and regulators ground 737 Max in wake of Ethiopian Airlines crash
Some airlines and national aviation authorities have grounded their Boeing 737 MAX fleet in the wake of the crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 (ET302).
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Applying BERT models to Search
How new advances in the science of language understanding will help you find more useful information in Search.
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Problems with the CSS background-image property
The CSS background-image property allowed us to do some amazing things, but in most cases, it's time to leave it behind.
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CVE-2019-9193: Not a Security Vulnerability
There is widespread mention in the media of a security vulnerability in PostgreSQL, registered as [CVE-2019-9193](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-9193). The PostgreSQL Security Team …
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A guide to threads in Node.js
While it is single-threaded, Node.js uses worker threads that allow for a separate execution thread that runs alongside the main thread.
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Compilers for Free
I’m fascinated by programming, and by metaprogramming in particular. When Ruby programmers talk about metaprogramming they usually mean programs that write programs , because Ruby has various features — like BasicObject#instance_eval , Module#define_method and BasicObject#method_missing — which make it possible to…
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Using Python and OCaml in the same Jupyter notebook
The cover image is based on Jupiter family by NASA/JPL.
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Ransomware-ing a DSLR Camera
Research by: Eyal Itkin TL;DR Cameras. We take them to every important life event, we bring them on our vacations, and we store them in a protective case to keep them safe during transit. Cameras are more than just a tool or toy; we entrust them with our very memories, and so they are very important […]
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An Inside Look at the Backblaze Storage Pod Museum
Nearly 10 years after the first Storage Pod altered the storage landscape the innovation continues to deliver great returns to the market.