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MirageOS 4.0 – Self-managed internet infrastructure with unikernels
Read the post on "Announcing MirageOS 4.0.0" from our blog.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,697 posts.
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When “idle” isn't idle: how a Linux kernel optimization became a QUIC bug
We investigated a bug where CUBIC's congestion window became pinned at its minimum floor, causing a performance to plummet. The fix involved correctly measuring idle periods to distinguish RTT wait times from actual application idleness.
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Canonical Offering Blender Support
Blender's ecosystem gets a boost. Independent Blender LTS support and services for enterprises are available via Canonical now.
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Apache Kafka 0.9 is released
Major milestone release Apache Kafka 4.0 removes ZooKeeper entirely, provides early access to Queues for Kafka, and enables faster rebalances, in addition to many other new KIPs.
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Announcing Amazon ElastiCache - Managed Memcached
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Announcing Amazon ElastiCache
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Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One
An in-depth exploration of maintenance, and a powerful argument for its civilizational importance.
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Presentations and pitch decks by failures and frauds
Discover investor presentations and pitch decks from leading companies on Slidebook.
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Sealed Rust Update
Part 2 - The Plan
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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2017
Since 2013, Backblaze has been showcasing daily statistics from our hard drives. Find out how our drives have been doing throughout 2017 with this blog post.
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Pitching Your Startup
Tell your company’s story more effectively, including specific details that matter to investors.
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End of the m0n0wall project
on this day 12 years ago, I have released the first version of m0n0wall to the public. In theory, one could still run that version - pb1 it was called - on a suitably old PC and use it to control the Internet access of a small LAN (not that it would be recommended security-wise). However, the world keeps turning, and…
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Designing a Programming Language for the Desert
A high-performance and high-level purely functional data-parallel array programming language that can execute on the GPU and CPU.
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It's Coming: The Great Swift API Transformation
Cocoa, the Swift standard library, maybe even your own types and methods—it’s all about to change, and you can help determine how.
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Bbtree: Fastest Ordered Map
How bbtree, a drop-in replacement for std's BTreeMap, cuts cache misses, instructions and cache coherence traffic, and how it is kept correct.
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How an Illinois rest stop inspired a web page
Last summer I was driving back to Chicago from Wisconsin. On the Illinois side there are a couple of rest stops over the tollway. It’s a great place to get some gas, grab some caffeine, and stretch your legs a little before the final 50 miles home. The rest stop usually has a booth where y…
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Styling Flowcharts Using CSS
Flowchart Fun is the fastest free online text to flowchart generator. Easily convert text to flowcharts, mind maps, and process diagrams with our text-based editor.
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Training agents to invent a language
In this post we’ll outline new OpenAI research in which agents develop their own language.
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Zluda 6 release (run unmodified CUDA applications on non-Nvidia GPUs)
Hi, and welcome to the latest ZLUDA update! Since I skipped the last update, this special issue covers all the developments made in ZLUDA since the start of the year. We now have two new major workloads: PhysX ( PhysX pre-alpha ) and Blender ( Textures support ). Much of this overlaps with Much improved Windows…
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Happy New Year from Y Combinator
We’ve collected advice from the founders of a few YC companies that can help you with some common New Year’s resolutions. > Land a new job HackerRank [https://www.hackerrank.com/]: A community of programmers who solve interesting problems for fun, prizes and jobs. > “Companies are beginning to place more importance on…
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Building a Large-Scale Distributed Storage System Based on Raft
Guest post by Edward Huang, Co-founder & CTO of PingCAP In recent years, building a large-scale distributed storage system has become a hot topic. Distributed consensus algorithms like Paxos and Raft…
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Google-Landmarks: A New Dataset and Challenge for Landmark Recognition
Posted by André Araujo and Tobias Weyand, Software Engineers, Google ResearchImage classification technology has shown remarkable improvement over ...