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An explorable explanation of relativistic spacetime
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He created a Wikipedia article per day for a year, including on his wedding day
Today, Pranayraj Vangari concluded a 365-day challenge where he created a new article on the Telugu Wikipedia every day for the past year—including when he got married.
Remember The Milk can sync with your iPhone calendar
From the moment we tried Siri on our shiny new iPhone 4S, we knew we had to teach Siri to add tasks to Remember The Milk.
SN Pro Typeface
A friendly new font family that's open source and free for both personal and commercial use. Discover a detailed breakdown of our design process and download links.
Once seen as fleeting, a new solar tech proves its lasting power
Princeton Engineering researchers have developed the first perovskite solar cell with a 30-year lifespan. The new device is the first of its kind to rival the performance of silicon-based solar cells. A pioneering new test method will help industry develop consumer-friendly products.
GNU Artanis 1.0.0 Released
The first product-level modern Web framework of Scheme programming language.
Understanding Email Encryption (2025)
A comprehensive overview of how email is encrypted, the benefits, and the trade-offs.
How Biotech Startup Funding Will Change in the Next 10 Years
Back when YC was getting started about 10 years ago, Paul Graham wrote some [http://www.paulgraham.com/webstartups.html] essays [http://www.paulgraham.com/future.html] that predicted the way startup fundraising would change in the next decade – accurately, it turns out. Paul Graham predicted that there would be way…
Shrinking freshwater availability increasing land contribution to sea level rise
New findings from studying over two decades of satellite observations reveal that the Earth’s continents have experienced unprecedented freshwater loss since 2002, driven by climate change, unsustainable groundwater use and extreme droughts.
Robin
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Digging for performance gold: finding hidden performance wins
We are fortunate that so many people choose Chrome as their browser to get things done, which is why we are continually investing in making ...
Nearby Connections 2.0: offline high bandwidth peer to peer device communication
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
Helion: A high-level DSL for performant and portable ML kernels
Introduction to Helion In modern machine learning, the demand for high-performance computation has led to a proliferation of custom kernels. While these kernels can deliver impressive performance, they are often...
Kong gateway reaches 1.0 GA, now supports service mesh
Kong 1.0 includes Service Mesh, Mutual TLS, and gRPC support; as well as a Plugin Development Kit.
Switcher (2004)
The first commercial product that I worked on after going on leave of absence from Apple in March 1984 (see Leave Of Absence ) was a low cost, high resolution scanner for the Macintosh called Thunderscan, that I created in collaboration with a tiny company named Thunderware (see Thunderscan ) . I started working on it…
The State of SSL Stacks
The SSL landscape has shifted dramatically. In this paper, we examine OpenSSL 3.x, BoringSSL, LibreSSL, WolfSSL, and AWS-LC with HAProxy.
Docker can now run within Docker
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded
Figuring out how it went missing.
New updates and more access to Google Earth AI
Earth AI is helping enterprises and cities with everything from environmental monitoring to disaster response.
The simple joys of scaling up
Explores why scale-out became so dominant, whether those rationales still hold, and some joyful advantages of scale-up architecture. | Reading time: 16 min read
Like diffusion but faster: The Paella model for fast image generation
The ability to generate realistic images without waiting would unlock applications from engineering to entertainment and beyond. New work takes a step...
RISC-V port accepted for inclusion in GCC
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