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Overview of the Crystal language
In the jungle of new programming languages, Crystal is one of the most popular ones, but also the most mysterious. Let's take a look at it.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,707 posts.
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Your Docker image might be broken without you knowing it
You learned about Docker . It's awesome and you're excited. You go and create a Dockerfile:
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Sublime Text 2 Build 2091
Sublime Text 2 Build 2091 is available now, with a raft of new features. Many thanks to everyone who has tested the dev builds during this time.
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Simply Secure PHP Cryptography
A reflection on the first six months of the year, ext/sodium landing in PHP 7.2, and where to go from here.
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ETL Pipelines with Airflow: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Pipelines with Airflow ETL: Unveiling the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly sides of the process.
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Cerebras Inference now 3x faster: Llama3.1-70B breaks 2,100 tokens/s
Cerebras powers the world's fastest AI inference on the biggest wafer chip. Cerebras CS-4 delivers up to 30x faster inference than GPUs.
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Nim Community Survey 2019 Results
Nim community survey 2019 has been open for 50 days, and we have received 908 responses, which is our record-high number (771 in 2018, 603 in 2017). Before we go into details, we would like to thank all the people who took the time to respond. We really appreciate the feedback!
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Re: Proposed Statement on "HTTPS everywhere for the IETF"
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Overhead of Python asyncio tasks
Textual is a TUI framework for Python, inspired by modern web development.
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Drones that can plant 100k trees a day
Drones could fight deforestation by planting 1 billion trees a year.
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Apple’s Find My network now offers new third-party finding experiences
The Find My network accessory program enables users to keep track of their belongings in the new Items tab within the Find My app
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Cloudflare mitigated yet another Okta compromise
On Wednesday, October 18, 2023, we discovered attacks on our system that we were able to trace back to Okta. We have verified that no Cloudflare customer information or systems were impacted by this event because of our rapid response.
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Making aerial fiber deployment faster and more efficient
Globally, more than 3.5 billion people are still not connected to the internet. With average data usage per person growing 20 to 30 percent annually, legacy bandwidth-limited technologies have been…
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Google’s New Business Profile: When Search Becomes a Political Tool
Google, in an effort to regain control of the antitrust narrative, has brazenly and deceptively enlisted small businesses to argue the company's case.
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D1: Improvements to performance and scalability
We've been heads down iterating on D1, and we've just shipped a major new version that's substantially faster, more reliable, and introduces Time Travel: the ability to restore a D1 database to any point in time.
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A fall spring-cleaning - Google products getting shut down
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Introducing paid subscriptions on GitLab.com
Subscriptions and limits to private CI minutes on shared runners are coming to GitLab.com
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CPanel's Black Week: 3 New Vulnerabilities Patched After Attack on 44k Servers
If you run a server with cPanel or WHM, you need to read this carefully. On May 8, 2026 — just ten days after the cPanel CVE-2026-41940 authentication bypass was used to compromise 44,000 web hosting servers and deploy ransomware — cPanel quietly released a second emergency security patch. This one covers three new…
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Toward policy for open-source software as infrastructure
Open-source software (OSS) sits at the center of almost every digital technology moving the world since the early 1980s—laptops, cellphones, widespread internet connectivity, cloud computing, social media, automation, all the rainbow flavors of e-commerce, and even secure communications and anti-censorship tools.
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Why multi-armed bandit algorithm is not "better" than A/B testing
Learn about the basics of multi armed bandit testing & algorithms, the difference b/w multi-armed bandit testing and A/B testing, its application in the real world.
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Tidyverse 2.0.0
Now including lubridate!
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Speeding up a Git monorepo
We migrated from Mercurial to Git in 2014 to improve local performance and began consolidating our repositories that hosted our backend code. But as this monorepo grew, we experienced Git performance issues that grew linearly with the number of files we added. Inconveniently, this problem was the most severe on…
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What does a PGP signature on a Git commit prove?
With git, a cryptographic signature on a commit provides strong integrity guarantees of the entire history of that branch going backwards...
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Farewell, Periscope
Farewell, Periscope Periscope Community, Today, we’re sharing that we have made the difficult decision to discontinue Periscope as a separate mobile app by March 2021. First off, we want to be …
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Django Best Practices
Deep insights from our research and experience