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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,693 posts.
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The x86 architecture is the weirdo, part 2
It does everything differently, because of course it does.
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How on-the-wrist sleep apnea detection works
80% of sleep apnea cases are undiagnosed, and undiagnosed sleep apnea causes $150B of wasted medical spend every year.
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Ruby 3.3's YJIT Runs Shopify's Production Code 15% Faster
Ruby 3.2 YJIT has optimized the production workloads of Shopify and other companies. We encourage you to enable YJIT in production. Once Ruby 3.3 is released, it should make your application even faster.
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Why we choose Java instead of a polyglot stack
Java is HubSpot's language of choice. Read how it's helping the company scale its product, tech stack, and team.
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No safe efficient ways to do three-way string comparisons in Go
Golang online books, articles, tools, etc.
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Teach your LLM to answer with facts, not fiction
Learn how to train LLM for accurate answers with VectorSQL which allows you to execute finely-grained vector searches to target and retrieve the required information
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WebBundles harmful to content blocking, security tools, and the open web
Google is proposing a new standard called WebBundles. This standard allows websites to “bundle” resources together, and will make it impossible for browsers to reason about sub-resources by URL. While we appreciate the problems the WebBundles and related proposals aim to solve, we believe there are other, better ways…
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The Stack Overflow Developer Story: A New Technical Resume
If you write code, you know that you’re more than a list of places where you worked or went to school. However you got to where you are now, what should matter is what you’ve built, and what you can do. Whether you're currently looking for new opportunities or not — and whether you're active on Stack Overflow or not …
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Upcoming changes to user limits on Free tier of Gitlab SaaS
5 user limit per top-level group on GitLab SaaS Free tier
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New WebKit Features in Safari 12.1
There are many improvements and new web platform features in WebKit that are now available with the release of Safari 12.1, included with macOS Mojave 10.14.4 and iOS 12.2.
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IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE
The new processor is being developed to allow organizations to run Arm-native Linux environments simultaneously with z/OS and Linux on IBM Z, while benefiting from IBM’s established security, reliability, and scale.
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“I survived the TCP transition” (2013)
This year we invited Vint Cerf to tell the story.
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Common data model mistakes made by startups
Data modeling is hard. Here are some missteps to avoid when you're developing your models.
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Speech Is 3x Faster Than Typing for English and Mandarin on Mobile Devices
With the ubiquity of mobile devices like smartphones, two new widely used methods have emerged: miniature touch screen keyboards and speech-based dictation. It is currently unknown how these two modern methods compare. We therefore evaluated the text entry performance of both methods in English and in Mandarin Chinese…
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Across the Globe, People Increasingly Say Social Media Is Harming Democracy
Most think social media leads to manipulation and division, but they also say it informs people and gives them a voice in politics.
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Requests for Startups Refreshed
We’ve refreshed the Requests for Startups [http://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/]. Here are the additions: Food and Farming An estimated 40% of the world’s workforce works in agriculture. Better food and farming could increase the world’s health, unlock the potential of numerous workers, and improve living conditions for…
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Photon Micro GUI
Update: Renamed the library to avoid the name Clash with QNX Photon.Let me tell you a bit about Elements... From my previous post about Ascend, some folks noticed its existence and actually found the github repository. The repository is rather underwhelming, I thought to myself, devoid of any do
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Research finds immune system responds to mRNA treatment for cancer
ROCHESTER, Minn. ― Adding messenger RNA, or mRNA therapy improves the response to cancer immunotherapy in patients who weren't responding to the treatment, Mayo Clinic research shows. Immunotherapy uses the body’s immune system to prevent, control and eliminate cancer. The study is published in Cancer Immunology…
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Kaspersky exposes hidden malware on GitHub stealing personal data
Kaspersky Global Research & Analysis Team (GReAT) discovered hundreds of open source repositories with multistaged malware targeting gamers and cryptoinvestors within a new campaign that was dubbed by Kaspersky as GitVenom. The infected projects include an automation instrument for interacting with Instagram accounts…
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CircleCI Announces Support for Gitlab
Learn how teams using GitLab SaaS can build, test, and deploy on CircleCI.
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Using WebTransport
The WebTransport API offers low-latency, bidirectional, client-server messaging. Learn about its use cases, and how to give feedback about the future of the implementation.
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Nile: Serverless Postgres for modern SaaS
I am thrilled to announce Nile, a serverless Postgres database designed for modern SaaS applications.
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Low Light and High Dynamic Range photography in the Google Camera App
Posted by Marc Levoy, Google[x] Software Engineering Manager and Professor Emeritus, Stanford University As anybody who has tried to use a smartpho...
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Crypto wallet security as seen by security engineers
How to build secure crypto wallets, analysing issues found during crypto wallet security audits.
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DraftKings: a $21B SPAC betting it can hide its black market operations
Initial Disclosure: After extensive research, we have taken a short position in shares of DraftKings, Inc. This report represents our opinion, and we encourage every reader to do their own due diligence. Please see our full disclaimer at the bottom of the report.
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Elixir at Ramp
Discover the latest in finance automation that increases the lifespan of businesses from the Ramp team