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Java 21 VirtualThreads vs. Clojure Lazy Seqs
Welcome to the Clojure Deref! This is a weekly link/news roundup for the Clojure ecosystem (feed: RSS ). Thanks to Anton Fonarev for link aggregation.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,689 posts.
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Ten Years of TypeScript
Today is TypeScript's birthday! But this birthday is a special one - 10 years ago today, on October 1st, 2012, TypeScript was unveiled publicly for the
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LibreOffice and the art of overreacting
A donation banner is not an attack to users The announcement that LibreOffice 26.8 will feature a donation banner in the Start Centre has prompted a flood of responses, ranging from positive from many FOSS supporters, who understand the need for funding, to mild apprehension to extreme alarm from others. Some articles…
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Dopamine signals when a fear can be forgotten
Study shows how a dopamine circuit between two brain regions enables mice to extinguish fear after a peril has passed.
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Software Development Waste
I've looked back at the end of every software project I've ever been on and thought, "If I'd known then what I know now, I'd have been done in half the time." Despite this, I've never thought carefully about exactly where all the time went and why so much of it felt wasted.
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Security keys are now supported for SSH Git operations
You can now use FIDO2 security keys to authenticate over SSH for remote Git operations, providing a higher level of account security.
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Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps
Instant 1.0 is out! This essay shows a bunch of demos, to explain why we think Instant is the best backend for AI-coded apps. We also cover the architecture that makes all of it work.
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AI agents find $4.6M in blockchain smart contract exploits
On a benchmark of real exploited contracts, AI agents found vulnerabilities worth a combined $4.6 million, underscoring the need for AI-powered defense.
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Interview with Jeff Geerling
Andrew Gregory of HackSpace magazine sat down with the one and only Jeff Geerling to chat about the wholesome corner of the internet he created.
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New storage classes for Google Cloud Storage
Businesses seek the best price and performance to suit the storage needs of workloads ranging from multimedia serving, to data analytics and machine learning, to data backup/archiving, all of which drive demand for a variety of storage options. At Google, we aim to build a powerful cloud platform that can meet the…
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A lost decade chasing distributed architectures for data analytics?
We benchmark DuckDB on a 2012 MacBook Pro to decide: did we lose a decade chasing distributed architectures for data analytics?
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Sustainable Web Interest Group Is Formed
Announcement of the formation of the W3C Sustainable Web Interest Group.
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Stop Wasting Connections, Use HTTP Keep-Alive
The latest tutorials, best practices, insights and customer stories on the Lob APIs, direct mail, and address verification.
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Formatting a 25M-line codebase overnight
This is the story of how our Developer Productivity team extended and rolled out rubyfmt, our Rust-based zero-config, ultra-fast autoformatter across the world's largest Ruby codebase.
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Lessons learned from cracking 2 million LinkedIn passwords
A community of security professionals discussing IT security and compliance topics and collaborating with peers.
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Debt Collection Companies Have Hijacked the Justice System
Lauren Smith (pseudonym) a mother of three in Indiana, had to file for bankruptcy because she couldn’t afford to repay her bills for treatment for thyroid cancer. And because she was unable to work, she had to stay with her parents in Florida while she recovered. She didn’t know that during that time, at the request…
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Introducing Jib — Build Java Docker images better
By Appu Goundan and Qingyang Chen Containers are bringing Java developers closer than ever to a "write once, run anywhere" workflow, but c...
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Making JavaScript run fast on WebAssembly
JavaScript in the browser runs many times faster than it did two decades ago. And that happened because the browser vendors spent that time working on intensive performance optimizations.
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Preparing to Issue 200M Certificates in 24 Hours
On a normal day Let’s Encrypt issues nearly two million certificates. When we think about what essential infrastructure for the Internet needs to be prepared for though, we’re not thinking about normal days. We want to be prepared to respond as best we can to the most difficult situations that might arise. In some of…
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How 4000 Physicists Gave a Vegas Casino Its Worst Week (2015)
Learn about public engagement activities from the American Physical Society
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Keeping the Internet fast and secure: introducing Merkle Tree Certificates
Cloudflare is launching an experiment with Chrome to evaluate fast, scalable, and quantum-ready Merkle Tree Certificates, all without degrading performance or changing WebPKI trust relationships.
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