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To Message Bus or Not: Distributed Systems Design (2017)
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 7,293 posts.
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Were Intelligence Agencies Using Heartbleed in November 2013?
Yesterday afternoon, Ars Technica published a story reporting two possible logs of Heartbleed attacks occurring in the wild, months before Monday's public disclosure of the vulnerability. It would be very bad news if these stories were true, indicating that blackhats and/or intelligence agencies...
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What are skiplists good for?
An exotic data structure and a whole lot of JOINs.
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Tacotron 2: Generating Human-Like Speech from Text
Posted by Jonathan Shen and Ruoming Pang, Software Engineers, on behalf of the Google Brain and Machine Perception TeamsGenerating very natural sou...
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Self-hosted x86 back end is now default in debug mode
This page contains entries for the year 2025 . Other years are available in the Devlog archive page .
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Composable multi-threaded parallelism in Julia
Software performance depends more and more on exploiting multiple processor cores....
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Django 4.1
Posted by Carlton Gibson on Aug. 3, 2022
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Use SQL subqueries to count distinct 50x faster
NB: These techniques are universal, but for syntax we chose Postgres. Thanks to the inimitable pgAdminIII for the Explain graphics. So useful, yet so slow
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Unison 1.0
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we're excited to release Unison 1.0. This version delivers a refined programming workflow and a mature toolchain. Join us as we celebrate this milestone and look ahead to the future of Unison.
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Jank is C++
jank is Clojure. jank is C++. The combination is amazing.
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When LIMIT 9 works but LIMIT 10 hangs
I got a Slack message from colleagues at a major partner. They’d updated their dev environment to support WebSockets, so that Neon’s serverless driver could be used there, but then they’d run into a weird issue. The nub of it was this: This hangs: This works Reproducibly, the query without an ORDER BY ran fine […]
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All in with Nuitka
After more than 10 years of working on the Python compiler Nuitka, and at the age of 50, I have finally decided to take the plunge. My projects “Nuitka” and “Nuitka commercial” are now my day job , and I quit my work in the Air Traffic Community, after working on ARTAS (a software to create an Air Situation Picture…
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What Test Engineers Do at Google: Building Test Infrastructure
Author: Jochen Wuttke In a recent post, we broadly talked about What Test Engineers do at Google . In this post, I talk about one aspect o...
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Differentiable Neural Computers
In a recent study in Nature, we introduce a form of memory-augmented neural network called a differentiable neural computer, and show that it can learn to use its memory to answer questions about complex, structured data, including artificially generated stories, family trees, and even a map of the London Underground…
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Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs
Brave's vertical tabs feature is now available for Windows, macOS, and Linux users to experience a new way to manage open tabs.
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Nix: Taming Unix with Functional Programming
Nix is all about applying functional programming to files and processes.
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PHP 7.4
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
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The 4-chan Go programmer
A very silly concurrency exercise in using Go channels that send channels that send channels that send channels.
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Go 1.19 Released
The latest Go release, version 1.19, arrives five months after Go 1.18 . Most of its changes are in the implementation of the toolchain, runtime, and libraries. As always, the release maintains the Go 1 promise of compatibility . We expect almost all Go programs to continue to compile and run as before.
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Vim ported to iOS
เว็บตรง API แท้ รับทรูวอเลทไม่มีขั้นต่ำ สล็อตเว็บตรง แตกหนักจัดเต็มทุกเกม บริการ สล็อต จากค่ายหลัก ไม่มีล็อคยูส รวมเกมสล็อตเด็ด 2026 ไว้ในที่เดียว
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Babelfish: SQL Server-to-Postgres Translation Layer
“The greatest force in legacy databases is inertia,” a widely regarded industry analyst once told me. Not superior functionality. Not better performance. Not lower cost. None of the above. Just inertia. Developers might say they prefer to run PostgreSQL to proprietary alternatives (and they do), but enterprises have…
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A new set of vulnerabilities affecting users of PGP and S/MIME
UPDATE: Enigmail and GPG Tools have been patched for EFAIL. For more up-to-date information, please see EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense guides.UPDATE (5/14/18): More information has been released. See EFF's more detailed explanation and analysis here.A group of European security researchers have...
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Erlang/OTP 19.0 has been released
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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Building an end-to-end Speech Recognition model in PyTorch
The complete guide on how to build an end-to-end Speech Recognition model in PyTorch. Train your own CTC Deep Speech model using this tutorial.
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Extensions in Firefox 58
With the release of Firefox Quantum on November 14, 2017, we officially entered a WebExtensions-only world for add-on development. While that event was certainly the news of the day, Firefox ...