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Layout 2013 and Layout 2020
Overview of the effort to rewrite Servo’s layout engine, and our proposal for layout in Servo going forward.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,706 posts.
19802
A new approach to text rendering
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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1Password and the Crypto Wars
A series of debates, civil disobedience, and cryptographic developments have come to be known as “The Crypto Wars”. Learn how 1Password can help you protect your data.
19805
Why most mobile development projects fail
You just signed a new client. You are excited to work on this new project. It’s technically challenging and financially fulfilling. You’re going to do your absolute best to make this project a success for you and your client. You’re hoping to build your reputation along the way by featuring this client in your…
19806
HipHop VM: now at 98.5% PHP framework parity, 16% faster
On November 4th, the HHVM team went on a 3-week performance and parity lockdown. The lockdown officially ended on November 22nd. Overall, this lockdown was a...
19807
Firefox, Heal Thyself
This week's release of Firefox includes the beginning of a pretty cool feature. The Firefox Health Report is a new system we've built to log basic health information about your ...
19808
Replacing Pull Requests with Delta
From the Zed Blog: Delta is now in public beta. Replacing pull requests is our first step toward replacing GitHub.
19809
Searching for the killer app of unikernels
When a radically different technology comes along it usually takes time before we figure out how to apply it. When we had steam engines running factories there was one engine in each factory with a giant driveshaft running through the whole factory. When the electric engine came along people started replacing the…
19810
Compiling Java into native binaries with Graal and Mill
One recent development is the ability to compile Java programs into self-contained native binaries. This provides more convenient single-file distributions, faster startup time, and lower memory footprint, at a cost of slower creation time and limitations around reflection and dynamic classloading. This article…
19811
GCC 13 and the State of Gccrs
The first official GCC 13 release is just around the corner, and you may be a bit surprised to find out that gccrs will not be included in it. The aim of this blogpost is to go into a little bit more detail as to why this was done and how you can still try out our compiler if you’d like to.
19812
ListenBrainz moves to TimescaleDB
The ListenBrainz team has been working hard on moving our primary listen store from InfluxDB to TimescaleDB , and today at UTC 16:00 we’re going to make the switch.
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Invention of DNA "page numbers" opens up possibilities for the bioeconomy
A major technological advance in DNA writing enables researchers to construct and create in the language of biology
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Rethinking legal education in the AI era
OverviewArtificial Intelligence is already impacting higher education and the legal profession, and the pace of change appears only to be accelerating. It is thus critical for us to use this moment to carefully reflect on how legal education should adapt. This memo describes the approach we are taking to legal…
19818
G Suite: intelligent tools designed for teams
Posted by Prabhakar Raghavan, Vice President Apps, Google Cloud Research shows that each week we spend the equivalent of three work day...
19819
Clojure: Transducers
Transducers are composable algorithmic transformations. They are independent from the context of their input and output sources and specify only the essence of the transformation in terms of an individual element. Because transducers are decoupled from input or output sources, they can be used in many different…
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Extending per-second billing in Google Cloud
We are pleased to announce that we’re extending per-second billing, with a one minute minimum, to Compute Engine, Container Engine, Cloud Dataproc, and App Engine flexible environment VMs. These changes are effective today and are applicable to all VMs, including Preemptible VMs and VMs running our premium operating…
19823
Taxpayers may have to pay $280B in plugging costs for oil and gas wells
Industry guarantees cover only 1% of estimated costs. NEW YORK, October 1 – By failing to require that oil and gas companies provide sufficient financial assurance when drilling new wells, U.S....
19824
Positional preferences, order effects, prompt sensitivity undermine AI judgments
When Large Language Models are used as judges for decision-making across various sensitive domains, they consistently exhibit unpredictable and hidden measurement biases, making their verdicts unreliable despite common prompt engineering practices.
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024 was awarded jointly to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun "for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation"
19827
Lessons Learned while Converting from ASP.NET to .NET Core
At Stackify we have been doing a lot of work with .NET Core. Find our top suggestions on converting an application from ASP.NET to NET Core.
19828
Happy Hacking: Music Implementation in NieR:Automata (2017)
Hello! I’m Masami Ueda, a music composer at PlatinumGames, here to write about some of my work on NieR:Automat […]
19829
Trustworthy Chrome Extensions, by default
Incredibly, it’s been nearly a decade since we launched the Chrome extensions system. Thanks to the hard work and innovation of our deve...
19830
MariaDB 10.1 can do 1M queries per second
MariaDB 10.1 not only contains tons of new features, it has also been polished to deliver top performance. The biggest improvement has been achieved for scalability on massively multithreaded hardware. The following numbers show the throughput for a simplified sysbench OLTP benchmark on MariaDB-10.1.8 compared to…