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An HTTP reverse proxy for realtime
Pushpin makes it easy to create HTTP long-polling, HTTP streaming, and WebSocket services using any web stack as the backend. It’s compatible with any framew...
LLVM 3.8 Release Notes
This document contains the release notes for the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, release 3.8. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including major improvements from the previous release, improvements in various subprojects of LLVM, and some of the current users of the code. All LLVM releases may be downloaded from the…
EFF to Court: The First Amendment Protects the Right to Record First Responders
The First Amendment protects the right of members of the public to record first responders addressing medical emergencies, EFF argued in an amicus brief filed in the federal trial court for the Northern District of Texas. The case, Adelman v. DART, concerns the arrest of a Dallas freelance press...
Khronos Group Releases Vulkan Ray Tracing
Today, The Khronos Group announces the ratification and public…
Godot Engine Release Management: 4.0 and beyond
We are closer to releasing Godot 4.0. No matter the amount of time dedicated to testing and profiling — bugs and issues are inevitable. Still, we intend to follow 4.0 with bug fix releases to ensure a stable experience as soon as possible.
Recycling memory buffers in Go
This blog post is very old now. You probably don't want to use the techniques described here. GO'S sync.Pool is a better way to go.
Tech valuations are back to pre-AI boom levels
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Code in the Browser with GitHub Classroom
Learn about some new ways students can code in the browser. With online integrated development environments (IDEs), students can get right to work in a web browser, avoiding software conflicts that might happen on their local machines.
Today is the 15th Anniversary of the Apache HTTP Server
ASF Flagship Project is World’s Most Popular Web Server, Powering More than 112 Million Websites FOREST HILL, MD, 23 February, 2010 — The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) — developers, stewards, and incubators of 138 Open Source projects — today announced the 15th anniversary of the Apache HTTP Web Server.The ASF’s…
Sandstorm, Tempest, and the Future
Take control of your web by running your own personal cloud server with Sandstorm.
We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary
Vary support is now available in Cache Rules on every plan. You can normalize known negotiation headers, pass exact values through to the origin when those small differences matter, or bypass cache when the variation is too unpredictable.
Step 5 Preview, a 1M-context MoE from StepFun, shows up on OpenRouter
Step 5 Preview is StepFun's flagship model for agentic work, built on a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture (27B active / 600B total parameters).
How to Get into Y Combinator
Aptible's experience with Y Combinator and what it meant for the company's early direction on security and compliance infrastructure.
Searching statically-linked vulnerable library functions in executable code
Helping researchers find 0ld daysPosted by Thomas Dullien, Project ZeroExecutive summarySoftware ...
IK12 and YC
We are excited to announce that Imagine K12, the original edtech accelerator, is joining Y Combinator to form an edtech vertical within YC. We founded Imagine K12 in 2011 to help companies innovate in education technology in order to improve outcomes for children in the United States and around the world. YC founder…
Take One Small Step
Think smaller–then act.
Firefox 6 for web developers
Download Firefox 6 What's new in Firefox 6? The most notable addition to this new release are the <progress> element, touch events, Server-Sent Events as well as the return of ...
Flickr now offers Public Domain and CC0 designations
Starting today, Flickr is happy to support Public Domain and Creative Commons 0 (CC0) works on our site.
Operation Triangulation: iOS devices targeted with previously unknown malware
While monitoring the traffic of our own corporate Wi-Fi network, we noticed suspicious activity that originated from several iOS-based phones. Since it is impossible to inspect modern iOS devices from the inside, we created offline backups of the devices, inspected them and discovered traces of compromise.
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Nvidia Cosmos 3
Physical AI systems must understand the real world before they can act within it. Robots, autonomous vehicles, and smart spaces need to understand what’s happening in their world…