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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,170 posts.
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SOCKMAP – TCP splicing of the future
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Allsorts: font parser and shaping engine implemented in Rust
Today YesLogic is open-sourcing the Allsorts font parser, shaping engine, and subsetter for OpenType, WOFF, and WOFF2 under the Apache 2.0 license. Allsorts was extracted from the Prince HTML to PDF typesetting and layout tool and is implemented in Rust. Prince is a tool that converts HTML and CSS into well laid out…
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Language, trees, and geometry in neural networks
Language is made of discrete structures, yet neural networks operate on continuous data: vectors in high-dimensional space. A successful language-processing network must translate this symbolic information into some kind of geometric representation—but in what form? Word embeddings provide two well-known examples…
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Cloud kitchens – commercial facilities built to produce food for delivery
Known as shared kitchens, ghost kitchens, or virtual kitchens, cloud kitchens are commercial facilities purpose-built to produce food for delivery.
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The history and legacy of jQuery
jQuery has lately fallen out of favor in web development, but it still powers an estimated 74 percent of sites and paved the way for modern web frameworks.
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A material way to make Mars habitable
Silica aerogel could warm the Martian surface similar to the way greenhouse gasses keep Earth warm
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The Magical Excel 97 Far East Language Build Screwdriver
For your magical build needs.
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AWS Is Now Available from a Local Zone in Los Angeles
AWS customers are always asking for more features, more bandwidth, more compute power, and more memory, while also asking for lower latency and lower prices. We do our best to meet these competing demands: we launch new EC2 instance types, EBS volume types, and S3 storage classes at a rapid pace, and we also reduce […]
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Public hacker test on Swiss Post’s e-voting system
Die Post unterstützt mit ihren Dienstleistungen den Alltag der Menschen in der Schweiz, in der physischen und in der virtuellen Welt. Beim E-Voting digitalisiert sie, was sie bereits am besten kann: den sicheren Transport vertraulicher Informationen.
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Timeline of Slack’s Tech Stack Evolution
Discover and share the technology stacks used by top companies. Compare tools, read reviews, and make informed decisions about your tech stack.
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.NET Core gRPC
The .NET team at Microsoft has been working in close collaboration with the gRPC team since November 2018 on a new fully managed implementation of gRPC for .NET Core. We’re pleased to announce that grpc-dotnet is now available with .NET Core 3.0 today! How to get it? grpc-dotnet packages have just been released to…
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Scribe: Transporting petabytes per hour via a distributed, buffered queueing
Our hardware infrastructure comprises millions of machines, all of which generate logs that we need to process, store, and serve. The total size of these logs is several petabytes every hour. The o…
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GLFW 3.3 Is Released
New GLFW release announcement.
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Three Big Things: Important forces shaping the world
An irony of studying history is that we often know exactly how a story ends, but have no idea where…
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OS X/Linker: New Mac malware attempts zero-day Gatekeeper bypass
Last week, Intego researchers discovered new Mac malware, OSX/Linker, that attempts to leverage a recently disclosed zero-day flaw in macOS' Gatekeeper protection. Let's examine what we know about this latest Mac malware campaign. What is the back story? Before digging into the OSX/Linker malware, it would be helpful…
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Nim's author on v1 launch: Personal words about version 1
When I started Nim's development I had a small simple language in mind that compiles to C; its implementation should not be more than 20,000 lines of code. The core guideline has always been that Nim should be a small language with a macro system, which should be capable of extending Nim with all the features that the…
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New research suggests that we’re making ourselves sick over politics
New Nebraska U-led research reports nearly 40% of Americans say politics is stressing them out, and one in five are losing sleep. The study published in PLOS ONE Sept. 25.
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How Water Heaters Have Evolved into Grid-Scale Energy-Storage Devices (2014)
ContentsWhat is grid-interactive water heating? Benefits to the utilityLowest-cost energy storage New control technologiesSo far, no negative impact on customersGetting GIWHs into customers’ homesWhat’s happening with GIWHs now?
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Swift UTF-8 String
Swift 5 switches the preferred encoding of strings from UTF-16 to UTF-8 while preserving efficient Objective-C-interoperability. Because the String type abstracts away these low-level concerns, no source-code changes from developers should be necessary*, but it’s worth highlighting some of the benefits this move gives…
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Mayo Clinic to partner with Google
Google Cloud will be at the cornerstone of Mayo Clinic’s digital transformation as it looks to the cloud to enhance patient and clinician experiences, improve diagnostics and patient outcomes, and expand its unparalleled clinical research.
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Red Hat Universal Base Image
There are a lot of choices when it comes to container base images, so why should you select Red Hat Universal Base Image (UBI)? Well, first off, all of the code in Red Hat Universal Base Image is derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
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Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless
The database is usually the most critical part of a software architecture and managing databases, especially relational ones, has never been easy. For this reason, we created Amazon Aurora Serverless, an auto-scaling version of Amazon Aurora that automatically starts up, shuts down and scales up or down based on your…
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OpenCensus Web: A tool to trace and monitor user-perceived performance
OpenCensus Web is a tool to trace and monitor the user-perceived performance of your web pages. It can help determine whether or not your web pages are experiencing performance issues that you might otherwise not know how to diagnose.
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Maesh, a Lightweight and Simpler Service Mesh
We are proud to introduce Maesh, Containous’ new service mesh designed from the ground up to be straightforward, easy to install and easy to use...
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Dolphin Progress Report for June and July
As seems to be happening annually, due to a short summer lull, we decided to combine the June and July Progress Reports. As you may have noticed, we're a few days into August at this point and things ended up running a bit late. That's actually a consequence of how we do these Progress Reports - we sometimes will go…