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No Cookie for You
The developer community remains the heart of GitHub, and we’re committed to respecting the privacy of developers using our product.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,277 posts.
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YouTube-dl's repository has been restored
Today we reinstated youtube-dl, a popular project on GitHub, after we received additional information about the project that enabled us to reverse a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown.
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Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC
Raspberry Pi 400 is your complete personal computer, built into a compact keyboard. It's our most powerful and easy-to-use computer yet.
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GitHub is now free for teams
Every developer and team can now get private repositories with unlimited collaborators at no cost with GitHub Free, and we reduced prices for some of our paid plans.
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Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B
NVIDIA and SoftBank Group Corp. today announced a definitive agreement under which NVIDIA will acquire Arm Limited from SBG and the SoftBank Vision Fund in a transaction valued at $40 billion.
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Deno 1.0
Dynamic languages are useful tools. Scripting allows users to rapidly and succinctly tie together complex systems and express ideas without worrying about details like memory management or build systems.
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Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension
We at Pushbullet have received some bad news from Google. It appears our extension will be removed from the Chrome Web Store if we don’t make required changes within 14 days. Not good! The bigger problem? Google hasn’t told us what those required changes are.
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Zoom Acquires Keybase
You're reading the Keybase blog. There are more posts . When you're done, you can install Keybase .
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Factorio 1.0
Hello, the atmosphere in the last week was kind of special. We experienced the feeling of the final release being on the horizon many times. And we were shown that it isn't the case time and time again. So it feels very special when it is actually becoming reality. We were trying to be especially careful with any last…
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NPM Is Joining GitHub
We're excited to announce that npm will be joining GitHub.
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It’s Time to Build
Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will reverberate for the rest of the decade, but it’s not too early to ask why, and what we need to do about it. Many of us would like to pin the cause on one…
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Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study
The design of "technical interviews" is hurting the tech sector.
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How journalists use youtube-dl
The popular free software project “youtube-dl” was removed from Github on Friday following a legal notice from the Recording Industry Association of America claiming it violates copyright law. The tool is widely used by journalists for various reporting purposes.
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Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it
Ever wish you felt like creating that presentation? Felt like doing that research? Felt like doing the dishes?
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Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products
This is a time of change for the internet and for Mozilla. From combatting a lethal virus and battling systemic racism to protecting individual privacy —
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American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination of daylight saving time
Public health and safety would benefit from eliminating daylight saving time, according to a position statement from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
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Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act
[21 April 2020—Hundreds of people are arriving here from this tweet, which calls me a “Harvard researcher” and suggests that this post and the three that follow are about “the ful…
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Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
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New iPhone SE
Apple today announced the second generation iPhone SE, a powerful new iPhone featuring a 4.7-inch Retina HD display.
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AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology
Proteins are essential to life, supporting practically all its functions. They are large complex molecules, made up of chains of amino acids, and what a protein does largely depends on its unique 3D structure. Figuring out what shapes proteins fold into is known as the “protein-folding problem”, and has stood as a…
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ICANN board withholds consent for a change of control of the .org registry
After completing extensive due diligence, the ICANN Board found that withholding consent of the transfer of PIR from the Internet Society (ISOC) to Ethos Capital was reasonable, and the right thing to do.
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We Chat, They Watch
WeChat communications conducted entirely among non-China-registered accounts are subject to pervasive content surveillance that was previously thought to be exclusively reserved for China-registered accounts.
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Mozilla VPN
We are working hard to make the official product, the Mozilla VPN, available in selected regions this year. We will continue to offer the Mozilla VPN at the current pricing model for a limited time, which allows you to protect up to five devices on Windows, Android, and iOS at $4.99/month.
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Zoom rolled their own encryption scheme, transmit keys through servers in China
This report examines the encryption that protects meetings in Zoom and finds that they have made their own encryption scheme and has significant weaknesses.
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BitTorrent v2
libtorrent-2.0 has just been released with a few major new features. One of them is support for BitTorrent v2 .
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What's SAP?
What's SAP? And why is it worth $163B?
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