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Go 1.10 is released
Go 1.10 adds automatic caching of build & test results, and more.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,694 posts.
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Self-driving cars will "cruise" to avoid paying to park
If you think traffic in city centers is bad now, just wait until self-driving cars emerge on the scene, cruising around to avoid paying hefty downtown parking fees.
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Starlink militarization and its impact on global strategic stability (2023)
In this piece, two researchers from PLA-affiliated National University of Defense Technology argue that Starlink will negatively impact global stability, in light of its clear military applications, increased risks of accidents and collisions in space, and SpaceX's close relationship with the U.S. military. The…
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Why parking minimums almost destroyed my town and how we repealed them (2017)
Plus 5 tips for repealing parking minimums in your community.
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.NET 6 Preview 5
.NET 6 Preview 5 is now available.
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KiCad and Wayland Support
The KiCad development team frequently receives questions about our support for Wayland. Given that Fedora and Ubuntu are both planning to drop X11 support from their main desktop environments in the near future, we want to provide clear, transparent guidance to our users about the current state of Wayland support in…
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Retrofitting null-safety onto Java at Meta
We developed a new static analysis tool called Nullsafe that is used at Meta to detect NullPointerException (NPE) errors in Java code. Interoperability with legacy code and gradual deployment model…
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Data-Free Disneyland
(Note: This is the companion post to my article at Public Books about evading data detection at Disneyland. For the…
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Study: carpooling apps could reduce traffic 3x in NYC
Traffic is not just a nuisance for drivers: it’s also a public-health hazard and bad news for the economy. Transportation studies put the annual cost of congestion at $160 billion , which includes 7 billion hours of time lost to sitting in traffic and an extra 3 billion gallons of fuel burned. One way to improve…
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America's Cyber Defense Agency Is Burning Down and Nobody's Coming to Put It Out
CISA lost a third of its staff and its acting leader uploaded sensitive docs to public ChatGPT, while China sits inside U.S. critical infrastructure.
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Georgia Tech, Meta create open dataset to advance solutions for carbon capture
To avoid catastrophic climate impacts, excessive carbon emissions must be addressed. At this point, cutting emissions isn’t enough. Direct air capture, a technology that pulls carbon dioxide out of ambient air, has great potential to help solve the problem.
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Yarn 4.0
Today is the day! After more than a year of work, our team is excited to finally put a fancy "stable" sticker on the first release from the 4.x release line! To celebrate, let's make together a tour of the major changes; should you look for a more itemized list, take a look at the changelog.
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The facts around Zoom and encryption for meetings/webinars
Learn more about how to use each Zoom product to connect with coworkers, customers, businesses, and more with insights and best practices.
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Why Responsive Design Is Not Worth It
UPDATE (April 2014): After the huge debate this original post created, we decided to refine and build upon the original article, bearing in mind the thoughts of some very insightful feedback left by some commenters. You can find the new article here. UPDATE (March 2018): Some of the comments are not taking into…
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LLMs understand nullability
The last five years have shown us that large language models, like ChatGPT, Claude, and DeepSeek, can write code in many domains, to huge excitement: many claim to be using these models to write entire web servers and apps from scratch. These tools have opened up programming to a whole new class of people who consider…
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Timescale Is Now TigerData
Cofounders of Tiger Data (creators of TimescaleDB) Ajay Kulkarni and Mike Freedman discuss the company’s new name, showing how it reflects the company’s.
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The algebra and calculus of algebraic data types
Just as algebra is fundamental to the whole of mathematics, algebraic data types (ADTs) are fundamental to many common functional programming languages. They’re the primitives upon which all of our richer data structures are built, including everything from sets, maps, and queues, to bloom filters and neural networks .
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AI-designed camera only records objects of interest while being blind to others
FEATURED NEWS California NanoSystems Institute > Featured News > August 15, 2022 | AI-designed camera only records objects of interest while being blind to others AI-designed camera only records objects of interest while being blind to others To image, or not to image: Class-specific diffractive cameras with…
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The quality of AI-assisted software depends on unit of work management
The craft of AI-assisted software creation is substantially about correctly managing units of work.
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1GB Raspberry Pi 5, and memory-driven price rises
A new 1GB Raspberry Pi 5 maintains access to low-cost computing amid memory-driven price rises on some other Raspberry Pi products.
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Engineering productivity can be measured, just not how you'd expect
Bring all your engineering data in one place and build dashboards in minutes
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