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Hard Drive Stats for 2019
In 2019 we monitored the performance of 122,507 hard drives. In this article we look at the failure rates by make and model.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,866 posts.
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Being swamped is normal and not impressive
Being swamped — overwhelmed by stuff to do — is the default state of being within a startup. There's always more to do than time to do it, and the list keeps growing. Everyone else working at every other startup feels this too. Even if it doesn't look that way
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The Pumpkin Eclipse
The Lumen blog and newsroom is your source for business technology news and insights, customer stories, press and media, and trending articles.
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In Search of a Faster SQLite
Researchers at the University of Helsinki and Cambridge attempted to build a faster SQLite using modern programming paradigms like io_uring and disaggregated storage. They demonstrate up to a 100x reduction in tail latency. These are my notes.
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Modern Front-end in Rails
An opinionated guide to modern, modular, component-based approach to handling your presentation logic in Rails that does not depend on any frontend framework. Follow our three-part tutorial to learn the bare minimum of up-to-date frontend techniques by example and finally make sense of it all. Part 1: goodbye Asset…
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Long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution linked to increased risk of dementia
An analysis of studies incorporating data from almost 30 million people has highlighted the role that air pollution – including that coming from car exhaust emissions – plays in increased risk of dementia.
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Deleting Uber is the least you can do
Uber is what you get when you take Silicon Valley’s most toxic values, add billions of dollars in venture capital, and spice it with…
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Python client for the $20 Colmi R02 smart ring
Open source python client to read your data from the Colmi R02 family of Smart Rings. 100% open source, 100% offline.
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Going dark: online privacy and anonymity for normal people
Last week we got news of the Rosebutt data breach [http://motherboard.vice.com/read/rosebuttboard-ip-board]. This is a very particular class of site and like many others we've recently seen compromised, it's highly likely that members would have preferred to keep their identities secret. It
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Why and how GitHub is adopting OpenTelemetry
Building on top of OpenTelemetry empowers us to provide integrated and opinionated observability solutions for our application engineers.
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Rust is actually portable
Gautham's Blog
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15 Years of Concurrency
Joe Duffy's Blog | Adventures in the high-tech underbelly
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ASCII Clouds
A dynamic ASCII art cloud generator that creates cloud patterns in real-time
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Compromising a Linux desktop using 6502 opcodes on the NES
Overview A vulnerability and a separate logic error exist in the gstreamer 0.10.x player for NSF music files. Combined, they allow for ve...
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Clojure 1.10 release
Clojure 1.10 focuses on two major areas: improved error reporting and Java compatibility.
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The neural network of the Stockfish chess engine
Last time, we briefly mentioned the high-level differences between Stockfish and Leela Chess. To recap, Stockfish evaluates about 100 million positions per second using rudimentary heuristics, wher…
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Gene therapy restored hearing in deaf patients
Gene therapy can improve hearing in children and adults with congenital deafness or severe hearing impairment, a new study involving researchers at Karolinska Institutet reports. Hearing improved in all ten patients, and the treatment was well-tolerated. The study was conducted in collaboration with hospitals and…
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Deciphering the Business Card Raytracer
I recently came across Paul Heckbert's business card raytracer. For those that have never heard of it: It is a very famous challenge in the Computer Graphics field that started on May 4th, 1984 via a post on comp.graphics by Paul Heckbert ( More about this in his article " A Minimal Ray Tracer " from the book Graphics…
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How DuckDuckGo is trying to help programmers
The Official DuckDuckGo Blog
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Outbreak – playable simulations of a disease outbreak
A playable disease simulation
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An illustrated guide to OAuth
OAuth was first introduced in 2007.
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SerenityOS: From Zero to HTML in a Year
The Serenity operating system turns 1 year old today. I'm counting from the first commit in the git repository , on October 10, 2018. Parts of the code had been around for a while before that, so this first commit was really about putting everything I was tinkering with into a shared repo.
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Hate Your ISP? Maybe You Need Community Fiber
Brian Carver co-authored this post. Between the net neutrality debate and the Comcast/TWC merger, high-speed Internet access is getting more attention than ever. A lot of that attention is negative, and rightly so: Internet access providers, especially certain very large ones, have done a pretty...
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Google fixes nearly decade-old Linux kernel TCP bug
The Google transport networking crew (QUIC, TCP, etc..) deserve a shout out for identifying and fixing a nearly decade old Linux kernel TCP ...