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Gab.com’s Response to Congress
Following Gab’s receipt of a letter from the January 6th Committee investigating the protests at the U.S. Capitol, we responded to Congress today to set the
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,820 posts.
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Apple announces first states to adopt driver’s licenses and IDs in Apple Wallet
Apple is working with states across the country to roll out the ability for their residents to add their driver’s license or state ID to Wallet.
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The Seniority Roller Coaster and Down-Leveling in Tech
In tech, switching jobs almost always comes with either a financial or a title upside. However, it doesn’t always come with both. Switching for higher compensation can result in a “lower” title, like going from Senior Software Engineer to SWE 2 or VP Engineering to Senior Engineering Manager. This
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The future is in symmetrical, high-speed internet speeds
Congress is about to make critical decisions about the future of internet access and speed in the United States. It has a potentially once-in-a-lifetime amount of funding to spend on broadband infrastructure, and at the heart of this debate is the minimum speed requirement for taxpayer-funded...
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AWS acquires Wickr
We’re excited to share that AWS has acquired Wickr, an innovative company that has developed the industry’s most secure, end-to-end encrypted, communication technology. With Wickr, customers and partners benefit from advanced security features not available with traditional communications services – across messaging…
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The visitor pattern is essentially the same thing as Church encoding
The functional programming analog of an object-oriented design pattern
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Requests dropped when using Cloudflare’s free tier for a commercial project
Visits counter was a critical feature of every website just 20 years ago. In this tutorial, we will implement it with Rust Cloudflare Workers by adding persistence and dynamic behaviors to an otherwise static page. We will also discuss other practical use cases of CF workers edge proxy.
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Product Manager vs. Product Marketing Manager vs. Product Owner
Product Owner is a role you play on a Scrum team. Product Manager is the job. — Melissa Perri.
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Implementing form filling and accessibility in the Firefox PDF viewer
We decided it was time to reinvest in the PDF viewer (PDF.js) and support filling PDF forms within Firefox to make our users' lives easier.
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The future of Python build systems and Gentoo
Anyone following my Twitter could have seen me complaining about things happening around Python build systems frequently. The late changes feel like people around the Python packaging ecosystem hav…
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Biomarker predicts severity of Covid-19 infection early on
High expression of the fitness gene hFwe-Lose in the lung reliably predicts severe progression
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A reading list for new engineering managers
<p>Like many engineers, I got thrown into management without any real guidance. I thought management was just telling people what to do. I thought there wasn’t any real science to it; you just needed to feel your way through it. I was wrong: there’s a whole field of study here, and you can learn a lot by…
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Fun and dystopia with AI-based code generation using GPT-J-6B
At the least, AI-generated code is much more readable than the average human’s.
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An Illustrated Guide to Elliptic Curve Cryptography Validation
Cutting-edge cyber security research from NCC Group. Find public reports, technical advisories, analyses, & other novel insights from our global experts.
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Collection of Human Interface and Software Design Guides
I'm thinking about a few things.
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Townscaper’s Rendering Style in WebGL
I love the rendering style of Townscaper by Oskar Stålberg. Since Townscaper can export your town as a .obj (including three “magic” textures), I thought it would be a nice project to reverse-engineer this style. Last weekend, I finally had
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Powering the Lunar Base
NASA’s selection of SpaceX’s Starship within the Human Lander System (HLS) program was both surprising and exciting for space nerds all over. Previously I have written about how Starshi…
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What Does Evergrande Meltdown Mean for China?
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace2021176 points226 commentsTech Industry & Business details
The impact of Evergrande has caused financial distress to spread faster and more forcefully than Beijing’s financial regulators expected, putting pressure on them to move quickly to stop the contagion. But they cannot rescue Evergrande’s creditors without also undermining their fight against bad debt.
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Clubhouse doesn’t value privacy, security or accessibility
It is tempting to excuse Clubhouse’s flaws as growing pains, but the app’s design and rollout illustrate just how little Silicon Valley and its venture capital backers have learned.
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Trolls convinced journalists they were “abortion bounty hunters”
And other misadventures
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Oxford vaccine shows sustained protection of 76% in 3-month gap til second dose
Analyses reveal single standard dose efficacy from day 22 to day 90 post vaccination of 76% with protection not falling in this three-month periodAfter the second dose vaccine efficacy from two standard doses is 82.4% with the 3-month interval being used in the UK. (82.4% effective, with a 95% confidence interval of…
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Moving my home media library from iTunes to Jellyfin and Infuse
Since 2008, I've ripped every DVD and Blu-Ray I bought to my Mac, with a collection of SD and HD media totaling around 2 TB today. To make that library accessible, I've always used iTunes and the iTunes Shared Library functionality that—while it still exists today—seems to be on life support, in kind of a "we still…
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History of the Nautilus loudspeaker
Nautilus is all that and more. Despite being almost 30 years old, this remarkable loudspeaker can still turn heads and win hearts.
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Practical Front-End Architecture
We’ve been upgrading our frontend tech stack at Liferay Cloud this past year. Nifty tools we’ve adopted include:...
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A few thoughts on Fuchsia security
I want to say a few words about my current adventure. I joined the Fuchsia project at its inception and worked on the daunting task of buil...