Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,323 posts.
The page "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names" covers some of the ways names are hard to deal with in programming. This post will ignore most of those complexities, and deal with the problem of matching up loose user input to a database of names.
Windows 10? Or Windows 11? Well, why not Linux instead? Here are 11+ reasons to switch to the great open source operating system now.
In this essay, Carson Gross explores HATEOAS (Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State), explaining how it enables REST APIs through hypermedia responses and contrasting it with modern JSON-based APIs. Using clear HTML examples, Carson demonstrates how HATEOAS allows clients to discover available actions…
Airbnb will cancel reservations in the Washington, D.C. metro area during the Inauguration week.
ZITADEL is the identity infrastructure platform that is built for developers and works for all users and applications.
Fiscal year 2020 revenue totaled $431 million, representing an increase of 50% year-over-year; Q4 revenue totaled $126 million, also representing an increase of 50% year-over-year Fiscal year 2020 GAAP operating margin of (24.8)%, representing an improvement of 1,280 basis points year-over-year; non-GAAP operating…
Zig is a general purpose programming language, meaning that if you have in front of you something that looks like a Von Neumann-ish, Turing-complete machine, you should be able to comfortably program it with Zig. Lately there has been a lot of interest in two such (virtual) machines: BPF and WebAssembly.
Photo by Alex Wong on UnsplashWe all heard that story before: The big monolith which brings so much business value and faithfully serves our customers is starting to slow us down. The product vision is evolving towards reactive features, which means reacting in real time to multiple domain events in the right context…
Secp256k1 and secp256r1 are two commonly used curves. Hyperledger / Fabric developed by IBM is using secp256r1 while Bitcoin is using secp256k1. What is the difference between these two and why did Satoshi decide to use secp256k1 which is considered as a surprising choice at the time?
by John Perry Barlow Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.We have no elected...
UC Riverside-led mouse study finds a receptor greatly contributes to the harmful effects of plastic-associated chemicals
Today is a really good day for the OpenSearch project. Since its start, the goal has been to quickly produce a version of OpenSearch that’s ready to use in production...
Cutting-edge cyber security research from NCC Group. Find public reports, technical advisories, analyses, & other novel insights from our global experts.
The many threats facing bumblebees can be tested using a “virtual safe space” created by scientists at the University of Exeter.
Adventures in leveling up our API rate limiting infrastructure
Nutrients such as taurine, omega 3, calcium and vitamin D help to protect against the diseaseThe study was carried out on a group of participants aged 65 and above. However, investigators claim the results could be extrapolated to other age groupsSardine consumption also improves other health parameters, such as…
When you think of computer programming, what springs to mind? Sitting for hours in front of a screen, memorising indecipherably complex languages, and scrutinising reams of text to find one tiny error?
Consolidating our web sites onto go.dev.
DURHAM, N.C. -- A surgical team at Duke University Hospital, led by Drs. Jacob Schroder and Carmelo Milano, successfully implanted a new-generation artificial heart in a 39-year-old man with heart failure, becoming the first center in North America to perform the procedure.
Today we filed a lawsuit against two individuals for violating our Terms of Service and Portugal’s Database Protection Law.
A look back at the first year of EleutherAI.
We’ve built a first-of-its-kind method for using AI to automatically animate children’s drawings of people.
Netlify has acquired FeaturePeek and is launching the next generation of Deploy Previews. Learn about collaboration tools for teams to manage feedback and deliver better web experiences.
FOSDEM 2022 will take place on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 February 2022. It will be an online event.
Apple today introduced the powerful new iPad mini with a larger 8.3-inch Liquid Retina display in four gorgeous finishes.
From the Microsoft Edge team, we want to thank and celebrate customers and users who continue to trust and partner with us to make Microsoft Edge the best browser for your environment. Customers like GlaxoSmithK
