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How X-Plane Works
X-Plane works by reading in the geometric shape of any aircraft and then figuring out how that aircraft will fly. […]
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,692 posts.
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After the Deadline: Acquired
Today I have big news to announce for After the Deadline. But first, I have to tell you a story. I left the Air Force in March 2008 to pursue my dream of launching a startup and to finish graduate…
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WebVR Experiments
We’ve created a showcase of the amazing VR experiences developers are building on the web. To play with them, all you need is a browser.
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Introducing the Python Language Server
Visual Studio has long been recognized for the quality of its IntelliSense (code analysis and suggestions) across all languages, and has had support for
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Supreme Court Should Block Printer Company’s Ploy to Undermine Consumer Rights
San Francisco - When you buy a printer cartridge, is it yours? Or can the company control what you do with it, even after you pay your bill and take it home? The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged the U.S. Supreme Court today to protect consumers’ property rights in a court case centering...
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When your IP traffic in AWS disappears into a black hole
When we’d spin up new machines, some would fail our health checks. There was no network traffic between these boxes and our database machines.. The ARP tables on the database boxes had cached, outdated MAC addresses from no-longer-living boxes.
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No one cares about open-source, until
If you follow privacy news, you have probably heard that Skiff, an end-to-end encrypted productivity suite, announced that it has been acquired by Notion. We could not resist chiming in since Skiff was compared with CryptPad in the past.
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Gut microbes eat medication
The first time Vayu Maini Rekdal manipulated microbes, he made a decent sourdough bread. At the time, young Maini Rekdal, and most people who head to the kitchen to whip up a salad dressing, pop popcorn, ferment vegetables, or caramelize onions, did not consider the crucial chemical reactions behind these concoctions.
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New HTTP standards for caching on the modern web
If you run any large public-facing website or web application on the modern web, caching your static content in a CDN or other caching service is super...
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How Referral Spam Like lifehacker.com Gets into Google Analytics
Find out how referral spam in Google Analytics can be produced, why anybody would take time to do that and personality behind the latest spam wave.
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ING open-sources Lion, a library of accessible and flexible Web Components
TL;DR: Web development can be hard, whether you’re making your own components, implementing Design Systems, support many different…
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Faster MySQL with HTTP/3
In this article we explore how our HTTP/3 API compares to the latency of a traditional MySQL client.
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I wrote a display server, a desktop environment, and a debugging/reversing tool
This post is to consolidate some information about the project and sub-projects in an attempt to disseminate what I have been spending way too much time on. Arcan – When a Game Engine meets a…
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A Moss Girl’s Guide to Japanese Moss Viewing
Predictive Intelligence for the Future of Crypto. AI-powered analytics for Web3.
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Saving 4M books from landfill
It’s the classic librarian’s dilemma: Because no library has unlimited storage, every library has to carefully manage its physical collection, and that means removing books to make space for new ones. On one hand, it’s exciting to bring in fresh voices, new stories and modern research, but on the other, a library’s…
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Tor in Google Summer of Code 2014
Interested in coding on Tor and getting paid for it by Google? If you are a student, we have...
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Parse 1.0 is released
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Crossplane – Open Source Multicloud Control Plane
Today we are introducing Crossplane, the open source multicloud control plane. It exposes workload and resource abstractions on-top …
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NanoGPT Slowrun: Language Modeling with Limited Data, Infinite Compute
NanoGPT Slowrun is an open effort to implement data-efficient learning algorithms; 5.5x data efficiency in the first week and improving.
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Single File Elixir Scripts
Experiment and debug with Elixir Scripts!
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Mitchell Feigenbaum, physicist who pioneered chaos theory, has died
Mitchell J. Feigenbaum , a mathematical physicist whose groundbreaking work on deterministic chaos influenced fields ranging from cardiology to cartography, died in New York City on June 30 at the age of 74. Feigenbaum was the Toyota Professor and director of the Center for Studies in Physics and Biology at…
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Urgent and Important – Rotate Your Amazon RDS, Aurora, and DocumentDB Certs
Feb 5th, 2020: We’ve made an edit to this post. Previously, we had communicated that between February 5 and March 5, 2020, RDS would automatically stage the new certificates on RDS database instances without a restart. Based on customer feedback and to give customers as much time as possible to complete updates, RDS…
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Build Your Own Mobile Proxy for Web Scraping
In this guide, we show how you can build your own mobile proxy pool step by step. Mobile proxies offer improved reliability for web automation. This guide shows how to build your own mobile proxy infrastructure.
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A hands-on introduction to static code analysis
An example-rich description of the architecture of static code analysis systems along with a hands-on tutorial on how to implement it.