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Happy Birthday, OpenStreetMap
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,820 posts.
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Netflix Made Record Profits in 2020, Paid a Tax Rate of Less Than 1 Percent
Netflix’s “current” federal income tax for 2020 was $24 million, which equals just 0.9 percent of the company’s pretax income for the year. This is another way of saying Netflix paid an effective federal income tax rate of just 0.9 percent in 2020. If the company paid the statutory rate, its tax bill would be $572…
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Commits are snapshots not diffs (2020)
Git has a reputation for being confusing. Users stumble over terminology and phrasing that misguides their expectations. This is most apparent in commands that “rewrite history” such as git cherry-pick or git rebase. In my experience,…
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I'm reading the FT and WSJ from 100 years ago each week leading to 1929
This week, the Dow languishes near multi-decade lows and blue-chip stocks trade below book value.
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Google is now telling users its apps are out of date. No updates are available
[ Update: Users can’t reproduce this any longer, as they have pushed a server-side fix for this issue. It still counts as an embarrassing failure by Google. If you would like to see what the bug looked like, there’s a video at the bottom of the article.]
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Databases in 2021: A Year in Review
Andy Pavlo - Carnegie Mellon University,
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Number of journalists in jail reaches global high
Editor’s note: Numbers for each prison census are adjusted yearly as CPJ learns of arrests, releases, or deaths in prison. The numbers for CPJ’s 2021 census have been revised from 293 to 302 in accordance with this policy. For the most recent data, see cpj.org/data/imprisoned/ The number of journalists jailed around…
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Don’t starve, Diablo – Parallax 7 (2016)
In the 1990s, games started to move from 2D to 3D and if an alien would have landed on earth back then, it surely would have thought that nobody needs these low-res polygon-models without any filtering. Then it would destroy the earth.
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A Year at Google Brain (2020)
Reflections from my time at Google Brain, and why I left for a PhD.
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Pwned passwords, open source in the .NET foundation and working with the FBI
I've got 2 massive things to announce today that have been a long time in the works and by pure coincidence, have aligned such that I can share them together here today. One you would have been waiting for and one totally out of left field. Both these announcements
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QEMU Internals
A series of posts about QEMU internals:
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How to Learn Nix
It's like a Let's Play, but for obscure software documentation. I tried to learn Nix, and it was pretty hard. I kept a diary of every command I tried, every wrong assumption that I made, and every realization that I had along the way.
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OpenAI’s API now available with no waitlist
Wider availability made possible by safety progress.
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Modules, Monoliths, and Microservices
Learn what are microservices, when are microservices beneficial and how module boundaries impact software design.
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Software Infrastructure 2.0: A Wishlist
Erik Bernhardsson
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Every engineer should do a stint in consulting
I will die on this hill.
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Pulumi 3.0
Announcing Pulumi 3.0, the next major version of the Pulumi open source project.
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Found at Goodwill: WebPad 1001 Prototype
I found this strange looking device at Goodwill yesterday. Originally, owing perhaps to the bright blue color, I thought it was some sort of educational or kids device. It had no branding on it, so…
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OKRs masquerade as strategy
Desire is not a Strategy
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How to handle secrets on the command line
How to keep secret credentials safe on the command line.
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The modern packager’s security nightmare
One of the most important tasks of the distribution packager is to ensure that the software shipped to our users is free of security vulnerabilities. While finding and fixing the vulnerable code is…
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That's not how 2FA works
Another day, another high-profile website cloned to phish credentials. Tess Rinearson@_tessrIs this a phishing attempt? Goes to "githubverification.com" and asks for username and pw (if so, it nearly got me!) /cc @github pic.x.com/jgt4oNvjF2❤️ 2,243💬 111🔁 016:12 - Sat 16 January 2021 In the replies, you’ll see lots of…
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Is your son a computer hacker? (2001)
As an enlightened, modern parent , I try to be as involved as possible in the lives of my six children. I encourage them to join team sports. I attend their teen parties with them to ensure no drinking or alcohol is on the premises. I keep a fatherly eye on the CDs they listen to and the shows they watch, the company…