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Our Chrome Extension Is Safe
This is a follow-up to Wednesday’s Let’s Guess What Google Requires In 14 Days Or They Kill Our Extension .
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,567 posts.
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Be prolific
Produce lots of stuff and share it.
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Haskell Mini-Patterns Handbook
Collection of small Haskell patterns with detailed description, examples and exercises
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Psql command line tutorial and cheat sheet
The least you need to know about Postgres
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Ruby 3.0.0 RC1
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 3.0.0-rc1.
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Time for a WTF MySQL Moment
Documenting the reasons why I tend to prefer Postgres - even when it's my friends getting bitten.
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To All the Jobs I Had Before
Notes that I mostly write for myself, but you can read if you want.
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Some SQL Tricks of an Application DBA
Non-trivial tips for database development
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New in PHP 8
PHP 8.0 brings features like attributes, union types, and the JIT compiler. It has some important breaking changes, and improved performance.
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Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors
Today, we’re thrilled to announce that Michael Seibel will be joining Reddit’s Board of Directors. Seibel is Partner at Y Combinator and CEO of the YC star
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Cleaning My MacBook After 16800 Hours of Use
I estimated that I had used my mac for approximately 10 hours a day, 5 days a week, 48 weeks a year, for 7 years straight, for a total for whopping 16800 hours. I have written the first versions of most of the software components of my startup using this computer. And all this time, this machine worked without a…
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OK Doomer
What’s the best shooter to play in 2020? Where can gamers find the coolest weapons, the hardest enemies, and the most thrilling challenges? There’s a lot of ...
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Epistemic standards for “Why did it take so long to invent X?”
How to answer this question—and how not to
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Sherbet: An Ergonomic Gaming Keypad
Designing, printing, and building a one-handed gaming keypad
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Building a self-updating profile README for GitHub
GitHub quietly released a new feature at some point in the past few days: profile READMEs. Create a repository with the same name as your GitHub account (in my case …
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Swift on Windows
The Swift project is introducing new downloadable Swift toolchain images for Windows! These images contain development components needed to build and run Swift code on Windows.
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Vercel, formerly Zeit, raises $21M Series A
Today, we have some very special news regarding the evolution of our company.
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Facebook Takes Out Newspaper Ads to Attack Apple's Strengthening iOS Privacy
Apple isn’t blocking the ability for Facebook to personalize ads, in any way. Apple is just providing *users* with control over their own privacy.
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Finding a problem at the bottom of the Google stack
See a real-world example of how Google’s SRE practices can identify and help fix issues, even at the bottom of the hardware stack.
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The good parts of AWS: a visual summary
A summary of Daniel Vassallo and Josh Pschorr Ebook. Find out about the secrets of DynamoDB, S3, EC2, Lambda and others. A Guide for AWS DevOps enthusiasts.
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Teardown of a $1.25 LED Lightbulb
Teardown and analysis of electronics. Integrated circuit design analysis.
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Complexity Has to Live Somewhere
We try to get rid of the complexity, control it, and seek simplicity. I think framing things that way is misguided. Complexity has to live somewhere. Embrace it
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GDPR Violation: Scribd acquires PII on 500M users in a deal with LinkedIn
TL;DR: If you have a LinkedIn account, you were signed up to SlideShare automatically without your knowledge or consent. Your account including all your personal information will be sold to ScribD …
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Showing a sunrise/sunset realtime 24/7 with the use of unsecured CCTV cameras
“24h Sunrise/Sunset” is an installation that displays a realtime sunset and sunrise somewhere happening in the world with the use of CCTV. Hardware: Raspberry Pi 3B+, Arduino Nano Every , custom PCB, power supply’s, VFD displays, lasercut metal and LEDs. Software: Python 3 & Firebase realtime databases Changelog of…