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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,691 posts.
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 was awarded "for contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos" with one half to James Peebles "for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology", the other half jointly to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz "for the discovery of an…
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Firefox Can Now Get Push Notifications from Your Favorite Sites
UPDATED TO CLARIFY HOW TO MANAGE PUSH NOTIFICATIONS Firefox for Windows, Mac and Linux now lets you choose to receive push notifications from websites if y
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The state of gRPC in the browser
gRPC 1.0 was released in August 2016 and has since grown to become one of the premier technical solutions for application communications. It has been adopted by startups, enterprise companies, and open source projects worldwide. Its support for polyglot environments, focus on performance, type safety, and developer…
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When AWS Autoscale Doesn’t
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
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The IIT Entrance Exam
This is the story of India's Joint Entrance Examination, the yearly attempt to pick out the ten thousand most intelligent students in a country of 1.2 billion people.
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Thunderbird 52.7.0 released
Thunderbird is a free email application that’s easy to set up and customize - and it’s loaded with great features!
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Vulkan update: version 1.2 conformance for Raspberry Pi 4
For the last couple of years, we have been working with our friends at Igalia to bring Vulkan to the Raspberry Pi 4 platform, and today we're happy to announce that we have achieved Vulkan 1.2 conformance from Khronos.
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Searching 20 GB/sec: Systems Engineering Before Algorithms
SentinelOne unifies AI-powered endpoint, cloud, identity, and data protection—enhanced by our Security Data Lake for seamless and efficient cybersecurity.
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At least 11 cities use automated surveillance in the EU
At least 11 local police forces in Europe use computer vision to automatically analyze images from surveillance cameras. The risks of discrimination run high but authorities ignore them.
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Feynman’s advice to W&M student resonates 45 years later (2020)
Early in her career as a William & Mary student, Beulah Elizabeth Cox turned in a physics exam that contained what became one of the most famous incorrect answers in science.
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LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting
The histogram says it all. First, rapid growth between 2011 and 2014 to 30 million downloads, despite the fierce hostility of the project created to kill LibreOffice. Then a few years of stagnation, at a time when it seemed that desktop office suites were destined to die, and fashion was driving users to the cloud…
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Intel's Tofino P4 Software Is Now Open Source
Contributed by Deb Chatterjee, Intel We are excited to usher in the dawn of a new era for the P4 programming language. For many years, the Tofino family of programmable...
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How when AWS was down, we were not
Nothing can have an unlimited uptime. But even when AWS and other hyperscalers are having incidents, we've created an architecture that is resilient to those outages. Here's how we do it for Authress.
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Postgres 11 Beta 1 released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces that the first beta release of PostgreSQL 11 is now available for download. This …
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Recovering redacted information from pixelated videos
We explore the history of image unblurring and present a simple yet effective technique to get a high-resolution image from a pixelated video in order to recover redacted information (with no guessing involved).
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Golang’s Real-Time GC in Theory and Practice
How the Golang concurrent GC achieves low latencies in real-time systems: a visualization of the algorithm and an empirical comparison with other languages.
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TrustTunnel: AdGuard VPN protocol goes open-source
Today is a big day for us, and for everyone who cares about transparency, privacy, and having full control over their own traffic. We’re finally open-sourcing the protocol that powers AdGuard VPN. And it now has a name: TrustTunnel.
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Improve Git monorepo performance with a file system monitor
Monorepo performance can suffer due to the sheer number of files in your working directory. Git’s new builtin file system monitor makes it easy to speed up monorepo performance.
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Jepsen: Dgraph 1.1.1
Dgraph is a graph database which aims to provide scalable, highly-available, and snapshot-isolated transactions over a labeled directed graph, while minimizing network communication for performance. Conceptually, Dgraph stores a set of (entity, attribute, value) triples. Entities (also known as subjects), are compact…