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Why Gov.uk's Exit this Page component doesn't use the Escape key
A very specific question, answered very longwindedly.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,845 posts.
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1Password for Linux beta
Buckle up Linux Desktop users! We just opened an awesome ride that we'd love for you to join us on. 🎢 🙌🏼
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Ethereum: Rise of the World Computer
The Ethereum network is a distributed economy like Bitcoin, except it is much, much more powerful.
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I drank every cocktail
The International Bartenders Association, or IBA, maintains a list of official cocktails, ones they deem to be “the most requested recipes” at bars all around the world. It’s the closest thing the bartending industry has to a canonical list of cocktails, akin to the American Kennel Club’s registry of dog breeds or a…
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Muse Spark 1.1
Today, we’re excited to introduce Muse Spark 1.1, the latest model from Meta Superintelligence Labs and a significant upgrade from Muse Spark. Muse Spark 1.1 is a multimodal reasoning model built for agentic tasks, with major gains in tool and computer use, coding, and multimodal understanding.
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DOGE as a National Cyberattack
In the span of just weeks, the US government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history—not through a sophisticated cyberattack or an act of foreign espionage, but through official orders by a billionaire with a poorly defined government role. And the implications for national…
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How small is the smallest .NET Hello World binary?
Here is a dumb question that you probably never asked yourself: What is the minimal amount of bytes we need to store in a .NET executable to have the CLR print the string"Hello, World!" to the standard output?
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Please do not delete this commented-out version
Let me check, just how old is Emacs 10.31? According to the Emacs timeline Emacs 13.0x was the first public release - in 1985. Feel free to study the over 30 years old sources , simply because they’re significantly more readable than what’s making up expand-file-name these days.
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“Invalid username or password” is a useless security measure
Login attempts fail because computer users can't remember their email or didn't input the right password. Most websites on the Internet won't tell you which one is actually incorrect.
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Android 14 introduces cellular connectivity security features
Posted by Roger Piqueras Jover, Yomna Nasser, and Sudhi Herle Android is the first mobile operating system to introduce advanced cellular...
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Isolation, anxiety, and depression in the remote workplace
Productivity inspiration and tactical advice that's actually useful.
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Hello wasm-pack
Introducing wasm-pack, a new tool for assembling and packaging Rust crates that target WebAssembly. These packages can be published to the npm Registry and used alongside other packages. This means ...
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OrioleDB Patent: now freely available to the Postgres community
Supabase is explicitly making available a non-exclusive license of the OrioleDB patent to all OrioleDB users in accordance with the OrioleDB license.
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My 20-Year Experience of Software Development Methodologies
Sapiens and Collective Fictions Recently I read Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Harari. The basic thesis of the book is that humans require ‘collective fictions’ so that …
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How to Learn Stuff Quickly
As software developers, we're always learning new things; it's practically the whole gig! If we can learn to quickly pick up new languages/frameworks/tools, we'll become so much more effective at our job. It's sort of a superpower.
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Keybase Exploding Messages
You're reading the Keybase blog. There are more posts . When you're done, you can install Keybase .
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Bootstrap 2.1 released
After a smaller 2.0.4 release, we've got another huge update that resolves tons of bugs, improves the flexibility and durability of our code, and introduces a…
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The Remarkable Number 1/89 (2004)
The Fibonacci series is a famous example of an object with a simple mathematical description, but a nearly inexhaustable list of bizarre and complicated properties. Originally, the series was described by Fibonacci in the 15th century in connection with the following problem:
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Typing the technical interview
In the formless days, long before the rise of the Church, all spells were woven of pure causality, all actions were permitted, and death was common. Many witches were disfigured by their magicks, found crumpled at the center of a circle of twisted, glass-eaten trees, and stones which burned unceasing in the pooling…
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Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit"
On Friday night a technology blog called Techcrunch posted a vicious and completely false rumour about us: that Last.fm handed data to the RIAA so they could track who’s been listening to the “leaked” U2 album.
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Faking a JPEG
Creating something that seems like a JPEG, very quickly
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How To Do Less
You probably need to do fewer things right now. Prioritization, the other definition There’s two loose definitions of prioritization. Prioritization(1): Ordering a todo list. You make a giant list of things you could do, things you should do, things you’d like to do… and then you put a unique number...
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Operations for Effective CEOs
Pulse is a platform for team alignment. Engineered to help modern teams stay more connected and aligned by communicating more openly and asynchronously.