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EU Funding for Developer Tools for the Decentralized Web
Through the Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative, HTTP Toolkit has been selected for funding from the EU's Horizon research & innovation program, to...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,820 posts.
1952
Desalination Breakthrough Could Lead to Cheaper Water Filtration
AUSTIN, Texas — Producing clean water at a lower cost could be on the horizon after researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and Penn State
1953
The Orbit of Planet Nine
Five and a half years after our proposal of the existence of Planet Nine, we have finally accomplished what is perhaps the most important t...
1954
Facebook took our election ad money then bulk-deleted our pages
Parliamentary elections in Bulgaria (EU country) were on the July 11th. We (a center-right opposition coalition) were running Facebook…
1955
How Audio Fingerprinting Works
An intuitive explanation of how audio fingerprinting works helping users in identifying music from short snippets
1956
Tech journalism is less diverse than tech (2020)
982 People. 14 Outlets. 80% White. 2% Black. 18% Other. After I published my post pointing out the hypocrisy of Big Tech Media in the diversity in tech debate, I got a few grunts of acknowledgement from a couple of the publications covered. Afterwards, these journalists sat on what was
1957
I couldn't debug the code because of my name
I finally managed to switch to JetBrains Rider. Unfortunately, I ran into some problems. Here is how to fix UnicodeDecodeError.
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Firefox 89 Tab Appearance
Firefox 89 has a new appearance, removing features (ugh) and annoying some people while delighting others. It can be disabled by setting...
1960
Haskell: The Bad Parts, part 2 (2020)
The second part of a blog post series on the parts of Haskell we should avoid using.
1961
My Steam Game Revenue Stats
How much Money has my first Steam game made in the first month of early access? Revenue, wishlist, sold copies Stats.
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Always Do Extra
A simple rule that every good, veteran programmer seems to follow with respect to managing their time.
1964
AWS Lambda Edge changes duration billing granularity from 50ms down to 1ms
Discover more about what's new at AWS with AWS Lambda@Edge changes duration billing granularity from 50ms down to 1ms
1965
Kicad 6: new feature review for open source EDA tool
In this article, I document many of the most important changes that the KiCad developers have introduced to KiCad 6, including numerous "under the hood" improvements, and new productivity features in the front end.
1966
Kropotkin escapes from prison
On the occasion of Peter Kropotkin's birthday, we present an account of his escape from prison in Tsarist Russia.
1967
I self-published a paperback and eBook using LaTeX and Pandoc
After years working as a Software Engineer I wanted to make my dreams come true, so I quit my desk job to spend my life adventuring around the world. I gambled that I would be able to scrape together a meagre living while enjoying a life I had dreamed of. After driving 40,000 miles through 17 countries from Alaska to…
1968
Bitsquatting Windows.com
Earlier this month, I came back around to seriously considering an attempt at bitsquatting. While the prior link goes into great depth on the topic, I will attempt to give a very high level overview here: If this sort of thing interests you: I tend to do stuff like this weekly. Give me a follow @_mattata
1969
Mitmproxy 7.0
We’re delighted to announce the release of mitmproxy 7, a free and open source interactive HTTPS proxy. This release is all about our new proxy core, which bring substantial improvements across the board and represents a massive milestone for the project.
1970
Multiplayer in Godot 4.0: Scene Replication (Part 1)
The long-awaited first post about the multiplayer replication system in development for Godot 4.0 is here! Check out the design goals, concepts, initial prototype, and as always, stay tuned for more!
1971
OBS and Streamlabs Commit to Long-Term Collaboration
First and foremost, we want to thank you all again for your incredible outpouring of love and support for OBS. Everyone on the team is incredibly thankful and humbled by your …
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Why I Use Nim instead of Python for Data Processing
Lazy programmers often prefer to substitute computing effort for programming effort.
1975
MUM: A new AI milestone for understanding information
Our latest AI milestone, Multitask Unified Model, has the potential to take Google’s information understanding to a new level.
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1977
REST Servers in Go: Part 1 – standard library
This is the first post in a series about writing REST servers in Go. My plan with this series is to implement a simple REST server using several different approaches, which should make it easy to compare and contrast these approaches and their relative merits.
1978
Making our new homepage fast and performant
This post is the third installment of our five-part series on building GitHub’s new homepage: How our globe is built How we collect and use the data behind the globe…
1979
Be curious, not judgmental
The trigger
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