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When you change the world and no one notices
Do you know what’s happening in this picture? Literally one of the most important events in human history.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,826 posts.
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Anatomy of a Moral Panic
On September 18, the British Channel 4 ran a news segment with the headline, 'Potentially deadly bomb ingredients are ‘frequently bought together’ on Amazon.'
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DuckDB is probably the most important geospatial software of the last decade
DuckDB’s spatial extension cut geo setup to two lines of SQL, and interest in geospatial data turned upward the moment it shipped.
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Python 3.5.0
The official home of the Python Programming Language
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Mistral: Our first AI endpoints are available in early access
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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Speeding up Linux disk encryption
Encrypting data at rest is vital for Cloudflare with more than 200 data centres across the world. In this post, we will investigate the performance of disk encryption on Linux and explain how we made it at least two times faster for ourselves and our customers!
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Practical Color Theory for People Who Code
Hi! I'm Natalya! I'm a classically trained fine artist who spent 6 years teaching people how to paint, draw, and grow their creativity. I am now a front end developer, and I love writing code as much as I love painting. I have a degree in Studio Art, a bachelor's in Developmental Psychology, and a master's degree in…
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China collecting Apple iCloud data
Fighting censorship with technology since 2011. We use AI to monitor censorship and expand free speech worldwide.
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Pinboard Turns Five
Today marks five years since I launched the website that my mom still refers to as ' the other bedbugs '. Happy business birthday to me!
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Reviving Sandstorm
Take control of your web by running your own personal cloud server with Sandstorm.
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How photos were transmitted by wire in the 1930s
I didn’t know what to expect from this 1937 video explanation of how wire photos were transmitted to newspapers, but a double stunt sequence featuring an airpla
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Introducing the WebKit FTL JIT
Designed to bring aggressive C-like optimizations to the largest variety of JavaScript programs.
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Beeper – Moving Forward
Each time that Beeper Mini goes ‘down’ or is made to be unreliable due to interference by Apple, Beeper’s credibility takes a hit. It’s unsustainable. As much as we want to fight for what we believ…
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DoorDash to acquire Instacart
Together, DoorDash and Instacart would help stores of every size reach more customers with the kinds of innovative technology that the biggest online retailers and grocers build for themselves.
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Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack
Miners have begun to coordinate a 51% attack to stop EIP-1559, and the Ethereum community has responded.
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CheatGPT
This week I stepped out of one world and landed in another. It started while I was marking assignments in a few of my programming courses.The quality of the code I was reading was amazing! My students were doing the sorts of things that my open source peers do:
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Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology
I’ve been in London for the last month and have heard policymakers react to the wake up call Elon Musk just delivered. The decision of the U.S. to shut off intelligence and throttle the military v…
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A good measurement culture where numbers don’t replace common sense
A practical guide to a good measurement culture where numbers don’t replace common sense
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The Eternal Sloptember
I’m calling it now, the adoption of AI agents into software development will be one of the most costly mistakes in the field’s history. Agents cannot program, and it’s taking longer and longer to realize that they can’t. They are a highly sophisticated statistical model designed to mimic the distribution of…
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Towards Scala 3
Now that Scala 2.13 is only a few months away, it’s time to consider the roadmap beyond it. It’s been no secret that the work on Dotty over the last 5 years was intended to explore what a new Scala could look like. We are now at a stage where we can commit: Dotty will become Scala 3.0.
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Objects should shut up
Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin
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I hate GitHub Actions with passion
I can’t overstate how much I hate GitHub Actions. I don’t even remember hating any other piece of technology I used. Sure, I still make fun of PHP that I remember from times of PHP41, but even then I didn’t hate it. Merely I found it subpar technology to other emerging at the time (like Ruby on Rails or Django). And…
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Embezzlers Are Nice People (2017)
We spend a lot of time suing embezzlers. All over the world. Week in and week out. Big embezzlers, small embezzlers, smart embezzlers and very smart embezzlers… That’s right, no dumb embezzlers because almost all the embezzlers we encounter are smart. Some are very smart. Some are brilliant. And, almost always, most…
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VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits
17 out of 20 popular VPNs exit traffic from different countries than they claim. Dig into what that means and why it matters in our VPN report.
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2014 Gates Annual Letter: Myths that block progress for the poor
Annual letters from the Gates Foundation.
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There are no new ideas in AI, only new datasets
LLMs were invented in four major developments... all of which were datasets
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Docker not ready for primetime
I love Docker . It's so freakin' useful for distributing predictable runtime environments.
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We ditched Google Analytics
Space Cybersecurity has become a prominent topic in the news, particularly when it comes to protecting space-related assets and technologies.