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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,170 posts.
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Amazon SageMaker Autopilot
Update September 30, 2021 – This post has been edited to remove broken links. Today, we’re extremely happy to launch Amazon SageMaker Autopilot to automatically create the best classification and regression machine learning models, while allowing full control and visibility. In 1959, Arthur Samuel defined machine…
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An Update on Plugin Security
Learn about Figma's response to the security vulnerabilities that were reported in a 3rd-party library that we use for plugin security
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Trigger a Kernel Panic to Diagnose Unresponsive EC2 Instances
When I was working on systems deployed in on-premises data centers, it sometimes happened I had to debug an unresponsive server. It usually involved asking someone to physically press a non-maskable interrupt (NMI) button on the frozen server or to send a signal to a command controller over a serial interface (yes…
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Stellarium 0.19
The major changes of this version: 5 new sky cultures Refactoring the code: many improvements and fixes Added many DSO textures Many improvements for Scripti...
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Intel 80386, part 1: Introduction
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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Ruby Lazy Enumerators
Ruby provides support for lazy loading enumerators, allowing efficient processing of large or infinite sequences.
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Useful Postgres Extension: Pg_stat_statements
Inspired by a talk in the PostgreSQL devroom at FOSDEM, a post on the usefulness of the pg_stat_statements extension to Postgres and why every Postgres developer should have it in their toolbox. With sections on getting started, and how to extract insights with pg_stat_statements.
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DNS-over-HTTPS Policy Requirements for Resolvers
Over the past few months, we’ve been experimenting with DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH), a protocol which uses encryption to protect DNS requests and responses, with the goal of deploying DoH by default ...
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Free Dropbox Accounts Now Only Sync to Three Devices
Do you use a free Dropbox account? As of March 2019, you can only connect Dropbox with three devices. Here's how to work around the limit.
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Losing the News: The Decimation of Local News and the Search for Solutions
Losing the News: The Decimation of Local News and the Search for Solutions lays out the devastating impact of the shrinking and consolidation of local news outlets.
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The most important software dev skills aren’t technical
Over the course of my career, I've found two characteristics to be among the most important for software developers to thrive.
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Ice cold archive storage
Get the latest cloud storage news here from Google Cloud, with a new archive storage class and Persistent Disk updates.
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A German court forced the removal of a Wikipedia article’s history
Three months ago, a German court ruled that part of a Wikipedia article—found to be defamatory in a previous court decision—had to be removed from both the article and its associated revision tracker, known as a “history” page. (History pages allow anyone to see how a Wikipedia article has developed since they were…
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The speed reading fallacy: the case for slow reading
Speed reading promises to help anyone read at speeds of above 1000 words per minute. Sounds fantastic. The problem? It’s completely bogus.
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Debugging WebAssembly outside of the browser
WebAssembly has begun to establish itself outside of the browser via dedicated runtimes like Mozilla’s Wasmtime and Fastly’s Lucet. While the promise of a new, universal format for programs is ...
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VxWorks now with C++17 and Rust support, alongside Ada and SPARK
Wind River announces Wind River Professional Services has been appraised at Level 3 of the CMMI® Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration.
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Recreating the Death Star Trench Run Scene with Lego
South Korean LEGO Certified Professional Wani Kim, with the help of Olive Seon, has created an incredible replica of the Death Star Trench Run scene from
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Ukrainian Billionaires Allegedly Laundered Money in the US
Ukraine’s largest bank is taking its battle with its former owners to US shores. In a civil lawsuit filed in the state court of Delaware, PrivatBank accuses Ihor Kolomoisky and Gennady Bogolyubov, the billionaires who owned the bank before it was nationalized three years ago, of large-scale money laundering in the…
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During World War II, Steinway Produced Special Pianos for American Troops
During World War II, STEINWAY AND SONS produced specially-built pianos for the American troops. Called the Victory Vertical or G.I. Steinways, the pianos were sometimes airdropped onto battlefields to provide a bit of relaxation...
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TypeScript 3.7: The Biggest Features and How to Use Them
The TypeScript 3.7 release is coming soon, and it's going to be a big one. The target release date is November 5th, and there's some seriously exciting...
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Using Deep Learning to Predict the Olfactory Properties of Molecules
Posted by Alexander B Wiltschko, Senior Research Scientist, Google Research Smell is a sense shared by an incredible range of living organisms, a...
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Mental models
Mental models affect how we see problems and people. Depending on how you use them, mental models can be incredibly constructive or destructive.
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Chip design drastically reduces energy needed to compute with light
MIT researchers have developed a “photonic” artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator that computes using light instead of electricity — and consumes relatively little power in the process — to run massive neural networks millions of times more efficiently than today’s classical computers.
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PostgreSQL Count(*) Performance Improvements
count(*) is often quite slow in PostgreSQL. This article explores how to count rows faster using approximations and other tricks.
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Tuna are spawning in marine protected areas
Marine sanctuaries have benefited at-risk species living within their borders, but their implications for highly migratory species such as tuna have been less clear. Now, researchers at MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have found evidence that tuna are spawning in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area in…
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Google Chrome is ditching its XSS detection tool
The Sophos Blog
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Level Design and Shaping a Roguelike Experience
A complete rundown of the entire process behind designing and building a new map for the world of Cogmind, and explaining how it integrates with gameplay.