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Glitch employees vote to form union, joining CWA
In a historic step forward for workers organizing in tech, employees at Glitch, a coding platform tool company, today won recognition for their union.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,277 posts.
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Windows Terminal Preview 0.9
The v0.9 release of the Windows Terminal has arrived! This is the last version of the Terminal that will include new features before the v1 release. You
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A Few More Reasons Rust Compiles Slowly
Learn about the benefits of TiDB and the TiDB Cloud solutions from PingCAP. Read our latest post "A Few More Reasons Rust Compiles Slowly" here.
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Insights from Adopting TypeScript at Scale
Rob Palmer shares some of the insights & lessons learned during Bloomberg Engineering's journey to adopt TypeScript as a first-class supported language.
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The GitHub Availability Report
What is the Availability Report? Historically, GitHub has published post-incident reviews for major incidents that impact service availability. Whether we’re sharing new investments to infrastructure or detailing site downtimes, our…
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End-of-Life Announcement for CoreOS Container Linux
CoreOS was founded in 2013 with the mission to improve the security and reliability of the internet.
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Announcing Google Cloud VMware Engine
VMware Engine is a fully managed offering that lets enterprises run existing virtual machines on Google Cloud infrastructure.
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Testing Sync at Dropbox
Executing a full rewrite of the Dropbox sync engine was pretty daunting. (Read more about our goals and how we made the decision in our previous post here .) Doing so meant taking the engine that powers Dropbox on hundreds of millions of user’s machines and swapping it out mid-flight. To pull this off, we knew we…
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Stacked Borrows: An Aliasing Model for Rust
Type systems are useful not just for the safety guarantees they provide, but also for helping compilers generate more efficient code by simplifying important program analyses. In Rust, the type system imposes a strict discipline on pointer aliasing, and it is an express goal of the Rust compiler developers to make use…
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How Much Does a Mile of Road Cost?
The Federal Highway Administration has a chart full of answers to that question you might find useful.
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AWS just went multi-cloud
Confirmed: EKS Anywhere will support workloads on Azure and GCP. As predicted: AWS hearts multi-cloud. Forrest Brazeal @re:Invent 2020
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The CPUs of Spacecraft Computers in Space
Many CPUs have been used in space craft, space stations and other such probes. Such CPUs must be highly reliable, and very durable. The temperatures in space, even with heaters, can vary widely. The radiation that a system is exposed too can be immense. So when designing one of these systems designers don't always use…
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YC Startup School: Build Sprint and Equity-Free Grants
We’re excited to announce our first-ever YC Build Sprint. This is a 4-week period to work intensively towards a defined goal alongside a community of thousands of other founders. The sprint will kick off on August 24 and be administered through our free Startup School platform. Also, we’ll be awarding 20 grants of…
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Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code
The Eclipse Foundation - home to a global community, the Eclipse IDE, Jakarta EE and over 415 open source projects, including runtimes, tools and frameworks.
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Police in Mississippi to Pilot a Program to Live-Stream Amazon Ring Cameras
The police surveillance center in Jackson, Mississippi, will be conducting a 45-day pilot program to live stream the security cameras, including Amazon Ring cameras, of participating residents.
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Facebook acquires Mapillary
Today we're announcing that Mapillary has joined Facebook on the quest to improve maps everywhere and for everyone.
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The future of work requires a return to apprenticeships
With apprenticeship programs, government and the private sector can partner to train and reskill workers – and meet the challenges of 4IR.
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OT and CRDT trade-offs for Real-Time collaboration
What do OT (Operational Transformation) and CRDT (Conflict-free Replicated Data Type) really mean? And which one should you use in your real-time collaboration solution?
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Misconfigured Circuit Breakers
Learn to predict how your application will behave in times of failure and how to configure every parameter for your Semian circuit breaker.
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Fast open-source intrusion detection
The system, developed by Carnegie Mellon University CyLab researchers, achieves speeds of 100 gigabits per second using a single server.
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Dividing front end from back end is an antipattern
We software developers have historically used the terms “frontend” and “backend” to describe work on client-side (e.g., browser) and server-side applications, respectively. This conceptual split has evolved into the creation of specialized developer roles for each, which is still the norm throughout the industry. In…
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My C code works with -O3 but not with -O0
v1.2 - added comments from HN v1.3 - added “What does fits mean ?” v1.4 - added the conclusion When something very basic goes wrong, I have this hierarchy of potential culprits: the compiler buggy hardware OS vendor last and least me, because I don’t make mistakes :) So what...
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Towards a conversational agent that can chat about anything
Posted by Daniel Adiwardana, Senior Research Engineer, and Thang Luong, Senior Research Scientist, Google Research, Brain Team Modern conversatio...
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How to Memorize Faster with the Spaced Repetition Learning Technique
The spaced repetition system is a learning technique based on the Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve. Learn more about why it is effective and how to use it.
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We spent two weeks hunting an NFS bug in the Linux kernel (2018)
Here's an in-depth recap of debugging a GitLab issue that culminated in a patch for the Linux kernel.
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Researcher questions years of his own work with a reexamination of fMRI data
Hundreds of published studies over the last decade have claimed it's possible to predict an individual’s patterns of thoughts and feelings by scanning their brain in an MRI machine as they perform some mental tasks.