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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,706 posts.
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Final features of C++17
With last weeks C++ committee meeting in Oulu, C++17 is feature complete and on its way to become an international standard. After the last meeting in Jacksonville I had little hope to see big surprises, but Oulu managed to add a few important and interesting features to the new standard. There is a very good overview…
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SQLite in Go, with and Without Cgo
Most people use the mattn/go-sqlite3 package to interact with SQLite in Go. This package uses cgo and bundles the SQLite C amalgamation files with the Go source.
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Dealing with the Evasive Witness
In this Lawyer Minds contributor piece, Phillip Miller discusses deposition strategies and non-cooperative witnesses. Learn more here.
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NeXT: Steve Jobs’ Dot.com IPO That Never Happened
Had Steve Jobs’ first company not bought his second, history likely would have been very different. Apple might not exist today. No iPhone. But what could have happened to NeXT?
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Strands Harness
Strands harness is a fully assembled, customizable, state-of-the-art agent you run locally or deploy anywhere.
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Hotlinking to jquery.com will be disabled on January 31, 2011
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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An introduction to metaprogramming in Ruby
Learn Ruby metaprogramming: call methods dynamically with send, define them at runtime with define_method, and handle missing calls with method_missing.
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Research shows that people who BS are more likely to fall for BS (2021)
People who frequently try to impress or persuade others with misleading exaggerations and distortions are themselves more likely to be fooled by impressive-s
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Sigils are underappreciated (2022)
Sigils have a bit of a bad reputation. According to their detractors, sigils are “just a way of encoding type information” in variable names – basically a glorified version of apps Hungarian notati…
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Nvidia Releases Low-Cost, Open-Source Ventilator Design
Bringing together the world’s brightest minds and the latest accelerated computing technology leads to powerful breakthroughs that help tackle some of the biggest research problems....
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Elementary OS 7
Forward thinking and designed for real life
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Replacing HLS/Dash – Live Mass Fanout with Media over QUIC
Media over QUIC: Low-latency, high bitrate, mass fan-out is hard. Who knew?
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Flashlight: Fast and flexible machine learning in C++
Deep and machine learning (ML) frameworks are good at what they do, but altering their underlying code is typically difficult. Flashlight is a new open source library written entirely in C++ that enables teams to rapidly modify frameworks to fit their needs. Read more:
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Amazon Announces $2B Fund to Invest in Climate Tech Companies
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 23, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced The Climate Pledge Fund to support the development of sustainable technologies and services that will enable Amazon and other companies to meet The Climate Pledge—a commitment to be net zero carbon by 2040. This…
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Kotlin 1.1: What’s coming in the standard library
Java 9 preparations Java 9 is coming and brings Project Jigsaw to the table — the Java platform module system. One of the constraints it imposes is that no two modules can declare public API in the s
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Amazon S3 Block Public Access: Protection for Your Accounts and Buckets
Update (4/27/2023): Amazon S3 now automatically enables S3 Block Public Access and disables S3 access control lists (ACLs) for all new S3 buckets in all AWS Regions. Update (August 2019)– Fresh screen shots and changes to the names of the options. Newly created Amazon S3 buckets and objects are (and always have been)…
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We rebuilt the Linux MicroVM stack on Apple Silicon
Firecracker needs KVM and therefore a Linux host, and the image tooling around it needs loop mounts and Linux userland. We rebuilt the stack on Apple's Virtualization.framework to boot the same OCI images as microVMs on macOS and on Linux.
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Antioxidants found to spur cancer growth and metastasis in mice
Vitamin C and other antioxidants stimulate the formation of new blood vessels in lung cancer tumours, a new study from Karolinska Institutet published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation shows. The discovery corroborates the idea that dietary supplements containing antioxidants can accelerate tumour growth and…
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Asking AI to build scrapers should be easy right?
Skyvern now writes and maintains its own code, making AI scraper building 2.7x cheaper and 2.3x faster. Learn how explore-replay works in June 2026 (Updated).
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On Adobe acquiring Figma
Week 53 of Founding Typogram
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Intel to Acquire Tower Semiconductor for $5.4B
Intel and Tower Semiconductor on Feb. 15, 2022, announced a definitive agreement under which Intel will acquire Tower for $53 per share in cash, representing a total enterprise value of approximately $5.4 billion. (Credit: Intel Corporation and Tower Semiconductor)
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Why PostgreSQL High Availability Matters and How to Achieve It
Achieving PostgreSQL high availability is vital for application uptime. Explore popular HA deployment options to make an informed choice that fits your needs.
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An update on attempted man-in-the-middle attacks
Posted by Heather Adkins, Information Security Manager Today we received reports of attempted SSL man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks again...
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An Empirical Analysis of Hardware Failures on a Million Consumer PCs
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