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Beating C with 70 lines of Go
Writing a faster wc utility in Go
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,838 posts.
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Take a Look at the Crossrail Station Under Bond Street
Of all the Crossrail stations, the most controversial has to be Bond Street - as it's so behind schedule that it might not open when the Elizabeth line's own delayed opening takes place.
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New year, same old plans
The last time a major release of Light Table was in early 2016. It’s been 3 years. 3 years is a lot in developers time. Since, Light Table’s last release, vscode has developed from 0.10.6 to 1.32.0 . Amazing development happened in La La Clojure Land too, Clojure evolved from version 1.8.0 to 1.10.1-beta while…
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Helm (the Kubernetes package manager) 3.0.0 has been released
The Helm Team is proud to announce the first stable release of Helm 3.
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CVE-2019-1347: When a mouse over a file is enough to crash your system
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Mattermost Raises $20M Series A Funding
"Secure Slack" offering brings the privacy and compliance benefits of open source to the real-time operations and collaboration needs of DevOps teams.
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Mastodon 2.7: Highlights from the changelog
In this release: New profile directory, new tutorial, new public hashtag pages and more moderation tools
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What the Royal Astronomical Society in 1884 Tells Us About Python Today
The plainly wrong behavior of a ubiquitous Python library echoes a British astronomical report from 1884.
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The Founding of Google Maps (2015)
How four partners took an idea from a whiteboard to the browser
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Wikipedia pageviews this year for each line of ‘We Didn't Start the Fire’
The modern relevancy of every line of 'We Didn't Start the Fire'
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“Bicycle of the Mind”
“When we invented the personal computer, we created a new kind of bicycle…a new man-machine partnership…a new generation of…
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A/B testing original design vs. random template bought from ThemeForest
When creating your landing page, should you customize a ready-made template or create one from scratch? Results of A/B testing a ThemeForest template against a homebrewed one.
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How China is Cashing in on Group Chats
One sunny afternoon this April, a Chinese teenager nicknamed Gallen was backpacking through Bali, hunting for things to do. But he didn’t turn to TripAdvisor for crowd-sourced suggestions (too time consuming) or scroll through Instagram for local geotags (too imprecise). Instead, Gallen enlisted recommendations from…
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Documentation – Your Secret Weapon
When you work on a software project, someone will eventually ask a variation of this dreaded question - "Do you know where I can find documentation for this feature?" or "Do you know why we implemented pattern x over pattern y?" or my personal favourite "What the heck does this piece of code even do?".
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ELF files on Linux
An step-by-step introduction into ELF files. Learn the structure and format, to understand how binaries and libraries on Linux systems work.
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The Paris Pneumatic Clock Network (2018)
Douglas Self, clock, Pneumatic
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Seven Commandments for Event-Driven Architectures
The critical rules to keep in mind when designing an event-driven architecture
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The Psychology of Colour
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Trinity: PSP Emulator Escape
Trinity is a fully chained exploit for the PS Vita™ consisting of six unique vulnerabilities. It is based on a decade of knowledge and research. The source code of Trinity can be found here.
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String Diagrams for Linear Algebra
We have established that there is a homomorphism called θ from B, the PROP of diagrams, to Mat, the PROP of matrices. To do this, it was enough to say where θ takes the four stars of the story so f…
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Public DNS in Taiwan the Latest Victim of BGP Hijack
Guest Post: Traffic going through a public DNS in Taiwan was rerouted to an entity in Brazil for about three and a half minutes.
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Getting a scientific prize for open-source software
Note An important acknowledgement for a different view of doing science: open, collaborative, and more than a proof of concept. A few days ago, Loïc Estève, Alexandre Gramfort, Olivier Grisel,...
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A Grimoire of Functions
I'm the kind of person who reads encyclopedias front to back just for fun, and I've been fascinated by mathematical special functions at least since my first encounter with the gamma function as a teenager. My work implementing numerical and symbolic algorithms in mpmath , Arb and other software projects during the…
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Designing the Flexbox Inspector
CSS Flexbox is an increasingly popular layout model that helps in building robust dynamic page layouts. However, it has a big learning curve! The new Flexbox Inspector, created by Firefox ...
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Microsoft makes AI tool for better search available as an open source project
Only a few years ago, web search was simple. Users typed a few words and waded through pages of results.
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A Molecular Near Miss
I’m thrilled to report that I’m a co-author of the article “ An ultra-stable gold-coordinated protein cage displaying reversible assembly “, which was recently published in Nature . This work is the result of an exciting collaboration between biochemists, physicists, structural biologists, mathematicians, and others…
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Dwindling CPAN Releases
This couple of months I’ve been casually looking at daily CPAN uploads, because I entered the Once-a-day-releases game. I notice that the uploads are getting scarcer and scarcer. So today I d…
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