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Tears
So humans are a peculiar species. You probably knew that. What you may not have realized — like I hadn't until recently — is just how many traits and behaviors are uniquely human.
Cache your CORS
CORS is a necessity for many APIs, but basic configurations can create a huge number of extra requests, slowing down every browser API client, and sending...
Avoiding the top Nginx configuration mistakes
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Appeal to Ruby Community from Kharkiv Rubyist
I write to Ruby community in days of war Russia leads against my country.
Everything I Wish I’d Known Before I Started Demoing SaaS
Everything you want to know about Medellin and Colombia
I made a real-time C/C++/Rust build visualizer
Sometimes software takes a long time to compile just due to how much code it has, like in the LLVM project. But often a build is slower than it could be for dumb, fixable reasons. I’ve had the suspicion that most builds are doing dumb stuff, but I had no way to see it. So I’ve been working on a cross-platform tool to…
Linus Torvalds Receives 2014 IEEE Computer Pioneer Award
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The 5-Hour CDN
You can build a functional CDN on an 8-year-old laptop while you're sitting at a coffee shop. Here's what a CDN you put together in five hours might look like.
Autodesk to Acquire PlanGrid (YC W12) to Accelerate Construction Productivity
Companies Aim to Improve Information Exchange Across All Construction Project Teams SAN RAFAEL, CA, Nov 20, 2018 — Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire PlanGrid, a leading provider of construction productivity software, for $875 million net of cash. This acquisition will enable…
A Guide to Deep Learning
YerevaNN /jɛɾɛvɑnˈɛn/ is a machine learning research center based in Yerevan, Armenia.
Microsoft's Recall AI feature is now indefinitely delayed
Update Oct. 31, 2024: We are committed to delivering a secure and trusted experience with Recall. We recently shared updates to the security and privacy architecture for Recall in a
The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s
Globally, electricity generation per person has grown by more than 50% this century.
(On | No) Syntactic Support for Error Handling
Go team plans around error handling support
Convoy Crackdown – power to freeze bank accounts without trial or legal recourse
We no longer got us one. We still got big trouble.
The Ripe NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses
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Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS
Discover ENAS, the license-free enterprise storage platform featuring native ZFS, secure UniFi management, scalable petabyte-class capacity, multi-site backups, and shared iSCSI storage for modern business infrastructure.
Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment
Open-weight models are becoming the foundation for the next AI ecosystem. The US should compete in it, not wall itself off.
The midwit home
Less automation and less agony
Where it's at://
From handles to hosting.
Inheritance Often Doesn't Make Sense
There are three different types of inheritance going on. Ontological inheritance is about specialisation: this thing is a specific variety of that thing (a football is a sphere and it has this radius) Abstract data type inheritance is about substitution: this thing behaves in all the ways that thing does and has this…
Gmail Launches Add-ons
New Gmail Add-ons to help you speed up your workflows at work.
Homeschooled with MIT courses at 5, accepted to MIT at 15
After acquiring his entire elementary and secondary education from OpenCourseWare and <i>MITx,</i> Ahaan Rungta joined the MIT Class of 2019 at age 15.
Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows
Researchers have shown the first direct experimental evidence that the textbook triple bond structure breaks down in heavy elements, where relativity makes the rules.