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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,299 posts.
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Eduard: Swiss-Style Relief Shading for Maps Using Machine Learning
We first published our paper on relief shading using neural networks towards the start of October 2020, and now almost 2 years later, we are very excited to share Eduard .
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Homo sapiens declared extinct (1999)
First published in Nature magazine, November 1999.
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Time to subsidize e-bikes?
We offer tax credits for electric cars — but ebikes are arguably even more transformative
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How Duolingo reignited user growth
The story behind Duolingo's 350% growth acceleration, leaderboards, streaks, notifications, and their innovative growth model
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LXD is now under Canonical
The umbrella project behind Incus, LXC, LXCFS, Distrobuilder and more.
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You can't do that because I hate you
An infuriating pattern that devs need to stop.
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The 90s Developer Starter Pack
Experiencing Windows 95 Exploration Box Installation Like People In Early 90s.
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CSS Is Fun Again
CSS has been undergoing a quiet renaissance lately. Lots of big features which previously required an external tool to use, are now native parts of the language, and its growing more and more all the time…
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Nanofiche: Small Storage, for Forever
Nanofiche is an archival technology, designed to preserve knowledge forever.
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When Google paid websites to promote Firefox
Having grown up in the 2000s, I love discovering that things I presumed were banal back then were, in fact, part of a bigger story.
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“csinc”, the AArch64 instruction you didn’t know you wanted
After a long time of not publishing anything and being passive about doing any writing in this blog, I am coming back for … however many articles I can. Today I want to talk about an underrat…
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Do the simplest thing that can possibly work (2004)
“Do The Simplest Thing That Can Possibly Work” – that’s what. Now, what does that mean?
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Internet search tips
A description of advanced tips and tricks for effective Internet research of papers/books, with real-world examples.
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1.1.1.1 lookup failures on October 4th, 2023
On 4 October 2023, Cloudflare experienced DNS resolution problems. Some users may have received SERVFAIL DNS responses to valid queries. In this blog, we’re going to talk about what the failure was, why it occurred, and what we’re doing to make sure this doesn’t happen again
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FreeBSD Jails Containers
FreeBSD networking and containers (Jails) stacks are very mature and provide lots of useful features … yet for some reason these features are not properly advertised by the FreeBSD project &#…
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Server-side sandboxing: Containers and seccomp
An overview of containers and seccomp as sandboxing primitives
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Treasure trove of mechanical animations (2015)
Whenever I watch videos of how things are made, I marvel at the cleverness of the manufacturing machines. Retired engineer Duc Thang Nguyen has created over 170
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Tumor-destroying sound waves receive FDA approval for liver treatment in humans
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of sound waves to break down tumors—a technique called histotripsy—in humans for liver treatment.
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Time to end the speed limit in US airspace?
It's time to end the speed limit in US airspace
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C++23: Removing garbage collection support
If we go through the list of C++23 features, we can stumble upon the notion of garbage collection twice. Once among the language and once among the library features. Both entries refer to the same paper (P2186R2): garbage collection (GC in short) support is getting removed from C++. Just to make it clear, it’s not…
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GPT makes learning fun again
What will GPT unlock for the nerdy kid sitting in a 7th-grade classroom today?
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Conferences are inadvertently excluding many attendees from foreign countries
This is not an easy post for me to write, being a bit of a criticism / “you can do better” note for organisers of conferences that cater to a global community.
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The Piccadilly line’s new air conditioned trains
A railway running through the forests of west Germany is seeing a very unusual sight at the moment - as a Piccadilly line tube train is running through the area.
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Raspberry Pi 5: available now
Raspberry Pi 5: available now! We’ve been excited to see the response of early users to Raspberry Pi 5, and can’t wait to see what you do once you get your hands on it.
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Are we doing this again? Yes, we're doing this again
Y esterday I was rudely summoned away from a beautiful autumn day of wild foraging by The King.
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