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Evaluation of five password managers
With an interactive grid to help you pick one!
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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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EU Chat Control Bill Postponed
The EU Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse, first published in May 2022, has become the "most criticized law of all time". Here's how to stop it now!
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An interview with AMD CEO Lisa Su about solving hard problems
An interview with AMD CEO Lisa Su about her path to AMD, turning around the chip maker, the AI opportunity, and competing with Nvidia.
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How Breakfast Became a Thing
Do you think breakfast is the most important meal of the day? Then you fell for an ad campaign designed in 1944 to sell more cereal.
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Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks
We propose measuring AI performance in terms of the length of tasks AI agents can complete. We show that this metric has been consistently exponentially increasing over the past 6 years, with a doubling time of around 7 months. Extrapolating this trend predicts that, in under a decade, we will see AI agents that can…
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Anthropic's Method to Losing Goodwill in a Few Easy Steps
Edit: This was a hit on HackerNews and I received a ton of valuable feedback. I’ve put markers for the amendments I’ve made
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Domain-Driven Design
A definition of DDD as a software design discipline
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Guix on the Framework 13 AMD
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Starlink adds another 100Gbps connection to the SeattleIX
Netskope (AS55256) has added 1x100G, bringing their capacity to a total of 2x100G and 1x100G. They are connected to the route servers.
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Previewing Android P
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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Why can't you tune your guitar? (2019)
Short answer: because math. Longer answer: because prime numbers don’t divide into each other evenly. To understand what follows, you need to know some facts about the physics of vibrating st…
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Technical Vision for Qt 6
Explore the Qt Blog for the latest insights on e.g. Qt Creator, your go-to source for cross-platform development tips and updates.
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One Week of NixOS
The website of Jae.
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Why would anyone need JavaScript generator functions?
You can go a long time as a JavaScript developer without ever feeling the need for generators. Hence, it’s natural to wonder: What are they good for? Why would you ever need one? What’s the point? But generators can do some neat tricks. And they may even change the way you approach certain problems.
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Running GPT-OSS-120B at 500 tokens per second on Nvidia GPUs
Train, serve, and scale open-source and custom AI models on the fastest, most reliable inference platform.
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How to Apologize
The latest regrettable spasm of sexism in the programming world played out this afternoon, as a company called Sqoot's announcement of a hac...
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You can no longer bypass microsoft-edge:// links using apps like EdgeDeflector
Microsoft doubles-down on its user-choice hostile web browser behavior; blocks competitors from opening links from many Windows apps and web experiences.
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‘Jackpotting’ Attacks Hit U.S. ATMs
ATM “ jackpotting ” — a sophisticated crime in which thieves install malicious software and/or hardware at ATMs that forces the machines to spit out huge volumes of cash on demand — has long been a threat for banks in Europe and Asia, yet these attacks somehow have eluded U.S. ATM operators. But all that changed this…
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Why is Snowflake so Valuable?
An overview of some of the reasons Snowflake is trading at 150x its revenue.
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Firefox 41 will use less memory when running AdBlock Plus
Last year I wrote about AdBlock Plus’s effect on Firefox’s memory usage . The most important part was the following.
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Where is London's most central sheep?
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SQL Server on Linux public preview
This post was authored by Tiffany Wissner, Senior Director of Data Platform Marketing Today, we are excited to announce the public preview of the next release of SQL Server on Linux and Windows, which brings the power of SQL Server to both Windows – and for the first time ever – Linux.
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The Token Effect
Cryptocurrencies and tokens are becoming increasingly popular. In this post, we’ll explore the context that triggered this frenzy, the new possibilities tokens unlock, and why people are excited about its future.
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Reading the Silk Road configuration
Many of us believe it wasn't the FBI who discovered the hidden Silk Road server, but the NSA (or other intelligence organization). We believ...
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Firefox 22 released
Check out "Whats New" and "Known Issues" for this version of Firefox below. As always, youre encouraged to tell us what you think , or file a bug in Bugzilla .We'd also like extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to Firefox 22!
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Tree-shaking, the horticulturally misguided algorithm (2023)
wingolog: article: tree-shaking, the horticulturally misguided algorithm