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Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%
Brave has overhauled its Rust-based adblock engine to reduce memory consumption by 75%, bringing better battery life and smoother multitasking to all users.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,671 posts.
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A Classic Extension Reborn: Tree Style Tab
Yuki “Piro” Hiroshi is a trailblazer and a true do-it-yourselfer. Whenever the Tokyo-based programmer gets irritated with any aspect of his browsing experience, he builds a workaround for himself and ...
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Our data centers now work harder when the sun shines and wind blows
Today we’re announcing a carbon-intelligent computing platform, which can shift tasks to hours of the day when energy from cleaner power sources is plentiful.
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The <select> element can now be customized with CSS
All the same interfaces, sweet new looks.
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PostgreSQL 10 Beta 1 Released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces today that the first beta release of PostgreSQL 10 is available for download. This …
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This Month in Ladybird – April 2026
Inline PDF viewer powered by pdf.js, GTK4 frontend, browsing history, speculative HTML parsing, off-thread JS compilation, async DNS, CSS anchor positioning, and more.
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New cancer therapy holds potential to switch off major cancer types
In mice and in human tissue, a new compound discovered at Princeton disables a key gene that’s implicated in breast, prostate, liver, lung, colon and other cancers.
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The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users' emotional state
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available
Update: March 11, 2026 If you use Certbot, see Six-Day and IP Address Certificates Available in Certbot for details on requesting these certificates. Short-lived and IP address certificates are now generally available from Let’s Encrypt. These certificates are valid for 160 hours, just over six days. In order to get a…
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Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012)
Discover effective online language learning with SuperMemo. Learn languages with proven courses, intelligent repetitions, and AI tools. Start today!
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How we hacked McKinsey's AI platform
An autonomous AI agent found a SQL injection in McKinsey's Lilli AI platform. What it extracted was worse than we expected.
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Minimalism – An undervalued development skill
Here's a cheap trick to make a difference: focus on the bare essentials and get rid of the rest. It's easy to be different, because others are mostly doing
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Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance
The Secretary of Defense has given an ultimatum to the artificial intelligence company Anthropic in an attempt to bully them into making their technology available to the U.S. military without any restrictions for their use. Anthropic should stick by their principles and refuse to allow their...
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Open Whisper Systems partners with WhatsApp to provide end-to-end encryption
At Open Whisper Systems, our goal is to make private communication simple. For the past three years, we’ve been developing a modern, open source, strong encryption protocol for asynchronous messaging systems, designed to make seamless end-to-end encrypted messaging possible. Today we’re excited ...
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Git tips and tricks
Some things that people don’t tend to know about Git anymore, and some new things you might not have noticed.
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Gas Leak in the Baltic Sea
After the three gas leaks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea, the Danish Defence deployed the frigate Absalon and the pollution control vessel Gunnar Thorson, as well as a helicopter capacity.
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The downfall of smart TVs: From promises of seamless viewing to ad tool
Smart TVs have upended the way we consume television content. They are luring us in with great picture quality and the promise of customized and seamless viewing, but they are also collecting and sharing our data. Find out how to make the most of your smart TV without compromising privacy.
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Twitterrific has been discontinued
Twitterrific has been discontinued. A sentence that none of us wanted to write, but have long felt would need to be written someday. We didn’t expect to be writing it so soon, though, and certainly not without having had time to notify you that it was coming. We are sorry to say that the app’s […]
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Disagreement among frontier LLMs on real-world fact-checks
63% of real-world claims expose disagreement among the five top frontier LLMs. Methodology, breakdowns, and data CSV.
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Mister Rogers had a point – routinely greeting six neighbors maximizes wellbeing
U.S. adults who routinely say hello to their neighbors have higher wellbeing than those who greet fewer or no neighbors.
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Improving GitHub Code Search
Today, we are rolling out a technology preview for GitHub code search, the next iteration for search, discovery, and navigation on GitHub.
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PyQt5 Tutorial: Create a Python GUI in 2018
This PyQt5 tutorial shows how to use Python 3 and Qt to create a GUI on Windows, Mac or Linux. It even covers creating an installer for your app.
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How Verizon and Turn Defeat Browser Privacy Protections
Update 2014-01-16: Turn announced today they will suspend their zombie cookie program by early February, but left open the possibility to resume in the future. We ask that they end the program permanently.Verizon advertising partner Turn has been caught using Verizon Wireless's UIDH tracking header...
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Cloudflare servers don't own IPs anymore so how do they connect to the internet?
In this blog we'll discuss how we manage Cloudflare IP addresses used to retrieve the data from the Internet, how our egress network design has evolved, how we optimized it for best use of available IP space and introduce our soft-anycast technology
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When setting an environment variable gives you a 40x speedup
Today, we'd like to share some of our recent work on Sherlock that allowed a pretty significant speedup when listing files in directories with a lot of entries. > Unlike our usual announcements, this post is more of a behind-the-scenes...
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