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My First Unikernel
I wanted to make a simple REST service for queuing file uploads, deployable as a virtual machine. The traditional way to do this is to download a …
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,921 posts.
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Curl hearts Mozilla
Today Mozilla revealed the new logo and "refreshed identity". The new Mozilla logo uses the colon-slash-slash sequence already featured in curl's logo as I've discussed previously here from back before the final decision (or layout) was complete. The sentiment remains though. We don't feel that we can in any way claim…
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An Introduction to Stock Market Data Analysis with R – Part 1
This is my first article in a two-part series introducing stock data analysis using R.
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Whose bug is this anyway?
Some bugs look so impossible you start blaming the OS, the tools, or the compiler. This post digs into three of them.
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Learning a hierarchy
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
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Annual EFF Awards: Alexandra Elbakyan, Library Freedom Project, and Signal
SAN FRANCISCO—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is honored to announce that Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan, Library Freedom Project, and Signal Foundation will receive the 2023 EFF Awards for their vital work in helping to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all...
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Knyle Style Sheets
Documentation for any flavor of CSS that you’ll love to write.
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Squarespace Enters Definitive Agreement to Acquire Google Domains Assets
Visit Squarespace Domains to learn more →
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Why we should all have a basic income
Imagine everyone getting a basic income just because they are a citizen. Read on to know how this basic income will change things in society.
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The Internet Is for Porn
It always was, it always will be.
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Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates
What do you think are the odds that you will die during the next year? Try to put a number to it — 1 in 100? 1 in 10,000? Whatever it is, it will be twice as large 8 years from now. This s…
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U.S. already has the critical minerals it needs, according to new analysis
A new Science study reveals the U.S. already mines the critical minerals it needs for energy and defense, but they are currently being discarded as mine waste.
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Jeffrey Epstein and MIT: FAQs
Today, January 10, 2020, the Executive Committee of the MIT Corporation released the fact-finding report it commissioned to help the Institute understand the origins, nature, and extent of Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to MIT and learn from them. The questions and answers below provide context.
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Privacy Sandbox – Open standards to enhance privacy on the web
Chrome is announcing a new initiative to explore how to evolve the web in a way that advances privacy, while supporting publishers, and free and open content.
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Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile?
TLDR: “make the web do apps” is not a disruptive strategy. It's like surviving The Great Oxidation Event, then saying “make anaerobes do photosynthesis”. Ok, but the blue-green algae got there first, so photosynthesis is no longer asymmetric. It is symmetric competition.
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Git Rebase for the Terrified
As a maintainer of several OneBusAway projects, I regularly ask contributors to rebase their branches before merging. The response is often hesitation or…
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Wasting time in tech interviews
TL;DR This is me ranting about crappy tech interview experiences
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Claude Code is a slot machine
Claude Code keeps me waiting. Here I am pressing return like a crack-addicted rodent in a lab. “Yes, I want to make this edit.” I watch as it works, glassy-eyed and bored as the code scrolls by, and on the edge of my seat because my ideas are about to become reality.
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Why I Love Tailwind
Why Tailwind is blowing up, why I (the creator of styled-components) love it and how I avoid the downsides of atomic CSS.
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Software for One
Robin Sloan wished for a HyperCard that could build a family app in a day. That world showed up.