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An update to storage policies across your Google Account
Over the past decade, Gmail, Google Drive and Google Photos have helped billions of people securely store and manage their emails, documents, photos, videos and more. To…
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,852 posts.
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The age of cargo cult Agile must end
Via LinkedIn, I learned about an article called “The age of Agile must end” by Michael Burnett, and I’ve since seen it pop up again in…
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The effects on cognition of sleeping 4 hours per night for 12-14 days
Discuss this study on my forum or see discussion on Hacker News (>400 points, >350 comments). Abstract I slept 4 hours a night for 14 days and didn’t find any effects on cognition (assessed via Psychomotor Vigilance Task, a custom first-person shooter scenario, and SAT). I’m a 22-year-old male and normally I sleep 7-8…
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75% of med students are on antidepressants, stimulants, or both? (2017)
As scientists, we can’t continue to approach medical education reform as a neurotransmitter deficiency in medical students. Can we?
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Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade?
AI is doing to programming what framework-brain did to the frontend before. Deskilling, or just working at a higher level of abstraction?
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There is minimal downside to switching to open models
There was a time not too long ago when using Linux entailed some professional risk 1 . First there was compatibility: you may not have been able to render a Word document or PowerPoint correctly, and you might have had to trust Open Office’s export capability to render docs the way you wanted. There might have been…
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How to give a senior leader feedback without getting fired
There’s a right and wrong way to proceed. Here’s how to increase the chances your leader listens and takes action--while reducing the chance they feel threatened.
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How good engineers write bad code at big companies
Every couple of years somebody notices that large tech companies sometimes produce surprisingly sloppy code. If you haven’t worked at a big company, it might be…
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Pollution from tire wear is worse than exhaust emissions?
Pollution from tyre wear can be 1,000 times worse than what comes out of a car’s exhaust, Emissions Analytics has found.
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Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK
I built a device to measure end-to-end input latency, then used it to find out what actually moves the needle.
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As Feds Demand the Keys, Preparing for the Death of Public-Key Encryption
With further confirmation of the longstanding rumor that the U.S. government (and, we can safely assume, other governments around the world) have been pressuring major Internet firms to provide their "master" SSL keys for government surveillance purposes, we are rapidly approaching a critical technological crossroad.
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Bug Blindness
I used to wonder why I see so many more bugs than most people. I easily observe hundreds to thousands of bugs per week and nothing seems to work , but most people I talk to don't see anything like this . For a long time, I thought this had something to do with how I use computers but, over time, I've realized that…
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Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come
Data Ownership as a conversation changes when data resides primarily with people-governed institutions rather than corporations.
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The Bytecode Alliance: Building a secure, composable future for WebAssembly
Lin Clark introduces the Bytecode Alliance, and uses Code Cartoon illustrations to share their vision of a WebAssembly ecosystem that is secure by default, fixing cracks in today’s software foundations. ...
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Offline First
Local-First software stores data on client devices for seamless offline and online functionality, enhancing user experience and efficiency.
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Fortran is still a thing
A short essay about Fortran in the modern world.
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Teardown of a PC Power Supply
Have you ever wondered what's inside your computer's power supply? The task of a PC power supply is to convert the power from the wall (1...
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The 0.5 MB of nothing in all Apple Music files (2020)
Six percentage of each music files you’ve bought from Apple Music (iTunes Store) contain, literally, nothing. Why is Apple padding their music with zero-bytes?
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Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark
Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI announced Kimi K3 this morning, describing it as their “most capable model to date, with 2.8 trillion parameters”. It’s currently available via their website and …
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Websites Should Be Printable
I read a lot of printed papers these days. While I enjoy reading on a laptop as much as the next guy, marking up a printed document engages me better. Also, there's something about sitting with a whit…
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Deno Is Webby
The Deno team recently shipped Deno by example : Deno by example is a collection of annotated examples for how to use Deno, and the various features it…
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Memory safe ‘curl’ for a more secure internet
tldr: work has started to make Hyper work as a backend in curl for HTTP. curl and its data transfer core, libcurl, is all written in C. The language C is known and infamous for not being memory safe and for being easy to mess up and as a result accidentally cause security problems. At … Continue reading rust in curl…
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How many kinds of USB-C to USB-C cables are there?
tl;dr: There are 6, it's unfortunately very confusing to the end user. Classic USB from the 1.1, 2.0, to 3.0 generations using USB-A and...