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Rocket v0.5: Stable, Async
Rocket is a web framework for the Rust programming language that makes it simple to write fast web applications without sacrificing flexibility or type safety.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,475 posts.
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Postgres Language Server: Implementing the Parser
A detailed analysis of our iterations to implement a Parser for Postgres
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Code coverage for Go integration tests
Code coverage for integration tests, available in Go 1.20.
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The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox (2021)
The pressure the cloud puts on margins can start to outweigh the benefits you scale and growth slows. Understand how much market cap is being suppressed by the cloud to help inform the decision-making framework on managing infrastructure as companies scale.
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OpenSSH Pre-Auth Double Free – Writeup and Proof-of-Concept
Understanding the OpenSSH CVE-2023-25136 high vulnerability. Read our analysis with Proof-of-Concept, learn what's vulnerable, and discover remediations.
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The KDE Free Qt Foundation: 25 Years of Celebration
We are celebrating 25 years of the KDE Free Qt Foundation.
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General Availability of the AWS SDK for Rust
We’re excited to announce that the AWS SDK for Rust is now generally available and supported for production use. The AWS SDK for Rust provides an idiomatic, type-safe API, along with the benefits of the Rust language such as performance, reliability, and productivity. The SDK supports modern Rust language features…
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We have lost access to approximately €6k in bounties
Dear fellow NewPipers, The money that had been accumulating on NewPipe’s Bountysource account is no longer accessible to me (Schabi). As a result, the project has lost about €6,400 worth of awarded bounties.
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Build your own WebAssembly Compiler (2019)
Have you ever wanted to write your own compiler? ... yes? ... of course you have! I've always wanted to have a go at writing a compiler, and with the recent release of WebAssembly, I had the perfect excuse to have a go.
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A compact overview of JDK 21’s “frozen” feature list
Today's main topic is the "freezing" of the JEP list in JDK 21. In addition to that, however, we will also talk about Nulls in Valhalla. And finally, the obligatory Release Radar.
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What are the most common tinnitus frequencies? (2015)
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. I've been reading the literature on tinnitus for several years, and I have yet to come across a paper that provided data…
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Chemists create methane fuel from sun, carbon dioxide and water (2022)
UChicago breakthrough creates methane fuel from sun, carbon dioxide and water
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Guide to Adopting AV1 Encoding
This comprehensive guide to implementing AV1 encoding includes a step-by-step guide and questions you should consider when adding AV1 encoding to your workflow.
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AI Graphics at JetBrains
Generating art at JetBrains At JetBrains, we are constantly refining our approach to creating pieces of art for use as website elements and release graphics. Our mission is to free graphic designers f
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Bun v0.5.7
Support for `FormData` and `git` dependencies, better `setTimeout()` compatibility, `bun wiptest` is now `bun test`, and better support on AWS Lambda and GitHub Actions.
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Zig: Upcoming release postponed two more weeks and lacks async functions
I’ve been saying the upcoming 0.11.0 release of Zig would have async/await/suspend/resume for 9 months now. You can probably find 10 different places where I promised in writing or in front of a camera that this next release would have this feature.
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Microsoft opens MIDI 2.0 repo
The updated MIDI 2.0 specifications have been released, so we're opening the repo to the public.
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Citus 12: Schema-based sharding for PostgreSQL
Release blog post for the 12.0 release of the Citus extension to Postgres. Dive into new Citus 12 features such as schema-based sharding for multi-tenant SaaS applications (and microservices) as well improvements in the Citus support for the Postgres 15 MERGE feature.
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Friday Factorio Facts #381 – Space Platforms
Hello, Several FFFs ago we have shown you what a Space platform can look like (FFF-373), today we would like to explain how they work in a bit more detail.
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Exploring Rust for Vulkan drivers, part 1
Exploring the area of using Rust to write Mesa Vulkan drivers.
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Transaction Isolation in Postgres
Ever dealt with glitches in a SaaS platform where your actions don't seem to sync up? That's often a transaction isolation issue in databases. Lets talk about transaction isolation and how they work in Postgres, so you can write reliable and performant code with minimal headache.
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The architecture of today's LLM applications
Here’s everything you need to know to build your first LLM app and problem spaces you can start exploring today.
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Pooling and Sharing of wealth makes everyone's wealth grow faster
A central puzzle in evolutionary biology is that of spontaneous altruism. When two creatures interact, why might one sacrifice something of value in order to help the other? Why, if I'm rich, might I want to help the poor? In one view of the problem, there's n
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MAME 0.260
Some long-anticipated updates landed in October, making MAME 0.260 a very exciting release! Firstly, there are some general updates to MAME itself. After a few false starts, MAME now supports bgfx video output with Wayland on Linux. As requested by users, you can finally use delta CHD files for clone systems and…
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Marine bacteria genus may hold mitochondria's closest relatives
The new research suggests the closest living relatives to mitochondria may belong to a genus of marine bacteria called Iodidimona.
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Top Mental Health and Prayer Apps Fail at Privacy, Security (2022)
Despite dealing with issues like depression, suicide, domestic violence, and PTSD, these apps share data freely and raise many security concerns
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Curl audit: How a joke led to significant findings
In fall 2022, Trail of Bits audited cURL, a widely-used command-line utility that transfers data between a server and supports various protocols. The project coincided with a Trail of Bits maker week, which meant that we had more manpower than we usually do, allowing us to take a nonstandard approach to the […]