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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,693 posts.
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A shared file system for lambda functions
July 1, 2020: Post updated to take care that Amazon EFS increased file system minimum throughput, when burst credits are exhausted, to 1 MiB/s. I am very happy to announce that AWS Lambda functions can now mount an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), a scalable and elastic NFS file system storing data within and…
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Indian government withdraws Personal Data Protection Bill
The government has withdrawn the Personal Data Protection Bill, which had been in the works for three years, slamming the brakes indefinitely on privacy safeguards in India.
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A new programming language for high-performance computers
Researchers at MIT CSAIL developed a new programming language specifically for high-performance computing. With the prototype, says PhD student Amanda Liu, “speed and correctness do not have to compete ... they can go together, hand-in-hand.”
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A New Search Engine
Cliqz Journey
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Cree releases LEDs designed for horticulture
💡 Upgrade output and efficiency of two-channel luminaires by 6%💡 System performance up to 3.25 PPF/W💡 Advanced spectrum optimized for horticulture💡 Reduce complicated spectral analysis💡 Standard lead times, samples available now Photophyll™ Select for Horticulture Applications Available on XLamp® XP-G3 and J Series®…
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We made Grok 4.5, GPT-5.5, and Claude build the same apps
Grok 4.5 just launched. So we had it, GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.8, and Fable 5 one-shot the same interactive apps, then measured latency and cost. Here is who won.
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Federal Reserve Bank of NY converts major economic model to Julia
Marco Del Negro, Marc Giannoni, Pearl Li, Erica Moszkowski, and Micah Smith We have implemented the FRBNY DSGE model in a free and open-source language called Julia. The code is posted here on GitHub, a public repository hosting service. This effort is the result of a collaboration between New York Fed staff and folks…
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Real-time messaging
Did you know that ground stations transmit signals to satellites 22,236 miles above the equator in geostationary orbits, and that those signals are then beamed down to the entire North American subcontinent? Satellite radios today serve hundreds of channels across 9,540,000 square miles. Unless you’re working at a…
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Better performance in App Engine with new Lisp language Clojure
This post is part of the Who's @ Google I/O , a series of blog posts that give a closer look at developers who'll be speaking or demoing at ...
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Internet disrupted in Russia amid opposition protests
Network data observed by the NetBlocks Internet Observatory indicate network disruptions in Russia on Saturday 23 January 2021. The outages come amid protests against the detention of prominent opposition activist ...
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Socialist Romania Computer Chips
The socialist bloc of countries that arose after World War II was not a monolithic entity, it had significant country and cultural differences. A number of countries stood apart, one of them was socialist Romania. The leadership of Romania pursued a relatively free domestic and foreign policy, while remaining within…
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Create a positive feedback loop to become motivated
Do you struggle with enjoying your work? Do you struggle with going to the gym regularly?
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Amazon DynamoDB Transactions
May 20, 2024: As of September 2022, DynamoDB now supports 100 items per transactions. March 13, 2020: Post updated to clarify how to use transactions with global tables and the increase in the maximum number of items per transaction from 10 to 25. Over the years, customers have used Amazon DynamoDB for lots of…
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Chrome introduces Web App install banners
Use the beforeinstallprompt event to provide a custom, seamless, in-app install experience for your users.
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The Business of Fake Hollywood Money
Making fake cash is a risky line of work -- even if it's as a certified Hollywood prop master.
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An Electronic Voting Firm Exposes 1.8M Chicagoans
UpGuard has identified an exposure of Chicago voters' personal information by an electronic voting machine firm.
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Load is not what you should balance: Introducing Prequal
Bartek Wydrowski, Google Research; Robert Kleinberg, Google Research and Cornell; Stephen M. Rumble, Google (YouTube); Aaron Archer, Google Research
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