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A major Postgres upgrade with zero downtime
Right before Christmas we discovered that our Aurora Postgres instance needed a major version upgrade. This covers how we made the upgrade with zero seconds of downtime.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,933 posts.
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Adventures in Improving AI Economics
AI has enormous potential to disrupt markets that have traditionally been out of reach for software. These markets – which have relied on humans to navigate natural language, images, and physical space – represent a huge opportunity, potentially worth trillions of dollars globally. However, as we discussed in our…
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Obama Calls for Patent Reform to Topple Trolls
In a welcome turn of events, President Barack Obama spoke directly to the patent troll problem and the need for more comprehensive patent reform yesterday in a "Fireside Hangout" — a live question and answer session hosted in a Google+ hangout. The President was responding to a question by the...
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The FORTH code for Chipwits is released in the game's 40th anniversary
To celebrate ChipWits' 40th Anniversary, the original FORTH source code has been open sourced! Learn about the game's history and source code
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More common mistakes to avoid when creating system architecture diagrams
A rundown of seven more common mistakes is system architecture diagrams and how to fix them
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How to Email Early Stage Investors
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
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Why libvirt supports only 14 PCIe hotplugged devices on x86-64
You might have used libvirt , a Linux daemon that provides an abstraction and management layer for virtualization software. This daemon allows you to submit an XML file containing a description of a VM, disk image or network. libvirt is then able to configure, start it and keep it running.
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Lexical differential highlighting instead of syntax highlighting
This type of highlighting is ideal for assembly. With it, the things that shouldn't seem similar usually don't.
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Reviving the Pakon film scanner
Introduction
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What is a database transaction?
What are database transactions and how do SQL databases isolate one transaction from another?
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The duties of John von Neumann's assistant (1993)
25 recent entries The horn of the Robert Smalls A difficulty in race-switching the Dukes of Hazzard On futile explanations Richard Blair Race-switching The Dukes of Hazzard Greek plural Erbaut Improved English-language month names I fix a thirty-year-old mistake Minced oaths? On the monobosom Partly about pie More…
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Principles for Fast Tokio Applications
A microscope for Tokio and Rust applications
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Here comes the Muybridge camera moment but for text
Posted on Friday 31 May 2024. 2,785 words, 28 links. By Matt Webb.
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How to answer questions in a helpful way (2017)
How to answer questions in a helpful way
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Math on GitHub: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Finally! On May 19, 2022, GitHub released one of its most requested features: Math support on Markdown! Many had been anticipating this for years, including myself, so much in fact that I wrote a browser extension to get there early. (xhub, it can do a few other things so check it out.)
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South Pole Water Infrastructure
Fresh water from snow, at 70 below!
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Stripe acquires Clerky
We're happy to announce that Clerky has agreed to join Stripe!
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Self-Documented Makefile
Good projects are automated projects. But documenting all those Make targets in a README file doesn't make much sense, when you can make the Makefile auto-documented.
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The New Wilderness
The need to regulate online privacy is a truth so universally acknowledged that even Facebook and Google have joined the chorus of voices crying for change.
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Krita 5.2
Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
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Better RAG Results with Reciprocal Rank Fusion and Hybrid Search
Optimize your support with Assembled's Hybrid Search. Learn how we enhance RAG results using Reciprocal Rank Fusion for accurate, relevant answers.
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The Tools of a Blind Programmer
The Life of a Completely Blind Programmer in the Netherlands
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Cracking the code behind Apple’s App Store promo card design
Promo codes - create your own scannable promo codes. equinux uncovers the secret behind Apple's App Store scan codes.