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Why I don't use web components
For my first post on dev.to I thought I'd write about a nice, safe topic that's free of controversy:...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,929 posts.
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Kagi Translate
Today, we're introducing Kagi Translate. It's not revolutionary - it's simply a better translation service. Our combination of advanced language models and precise output selection delivers translations that surpass existing solutions, including Google Translate and DeepL....
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Schroedinger's streaming service just died
The sex industry has pioneered every new communications tool since the printing press: in my own lifetime, I've watched it take the lead in VCRs, desktop publishing, BBSes, digital text, digital images, digital videos, live streaming services, cryptocurrency, and VR. It would be easy to conclude that being interested…
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The Next Backblaze Storage Pod
Each month we build 60 or so new Storage Pods, which require 60 CPUs, 720 SATA cables, 120 power supplies, and so on.
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How Equifax Was Breached in 2017
On a Saturday night, a security engineer at Equifax was updating an SSL certificate on a Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS). Immediately after, suspicious connections were detected. After a more in-depth investigation, it became evident that the situation was far graver than anticipated. A service had to be…
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Cool HTML elements nobody uses
Were you left in tears while searching for cool HTML elements? Don’t worry! This article contains 7 elements to up your Coolness…
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Deno 1.14
Deno 1.14 improves Web Crypto support, adds customization options to deno fmt and deno lint, introduces URLPattern, and more.
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How virtualisation came to Apple Silicon Macs
From Hypervisor APIs in OS X 10.10 Yosemite in 2014, through early VirtIO kernel extensions in Mojave in 2018, and Arm hypervisor support in Big Sur.
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Using fake reviews to find dangerous extensions
Fake, positive reviews have infiltrated nearly every corner of life online these days, confusing consumers while offering an unwelcome advantage to fraudsters and sub-par products everywhere. Happily, identifying and tracking these fake reviewer accounts is often the easiest way to spot scams. Here’s the story of how…
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New Hampshire on the cusp of enshrining software freedom into law
Libreboot – New Hampshire once again on the cusp of enshrining Software Freedom into law. YOUR HELP IS NEEDED.
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Apple’s Rejection of Hey from the App Store for Not Using In-App Purchases
I’m not trying to be coy, but what is the iPhone itself? A business device or a consumer product? Using *or* instead of *and* as the conjunction there is clearly laughable.
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How to break a Captcha system in 15 minutes with Machine Learning
Let’s hack the world’s most popular Wordpress CAPTCHA Plug-in
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Alibaba cloud FPGA: the $200 Kintex UltraScale+
Using a decommissioned Alibaba cloud accelerator card as an FPGA dev board
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So I Made A Mashup, And Then…
I grew up knowing how to play music. My parents started me on piano lessons when I was very young, and played violin in middle and high…
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Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management
Unattributed is a former IT person, discovering life after work.
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Continuous glucose monitoring on the Apple Watch
Coding diabetic technology
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More on Anthropic's Scion ripping off Mononoke
Answering questions and concerns.
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Regulatory Capture at ICANN
This investigates the connections between organizations and people involved with policy making at ICANN focused around the effort to remove price caps from the .ORG domain registry
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Parser Combinators
Better than regex!
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Investor Day
Below is a copy of an email I sent to investors who attend YC’s Demo Day. It discusses some of the changes we’re making and how they will impact Demo Day. > YC Demo Day Investors,We’re making some changes to Y Combinator’s Demo Days – please take a minute to read below because they are material. As with previous…
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1BRC merykitty's magic SWAR: 8 lines of code explained in 3k words
A deep dive into merykitty's 8-line SWAR temperature parser from the One Billion Row Challenge, using bitwise tricks and ALU magic with no loops or branches.
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Kylie Minogue song about a typeface
Whitney Mallett dives into the recent history of German Bold Italic (GBI), a 1997 song by Towa Tei's featuring Kylie Minogue, who sang from the perspective of a new typeface.
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GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups
We’re partnering with Microsoft for Startups to make GitHub available for all participants, starting on February 13.