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Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails
The US House reading Dutch emails shows digital sovereignty is about who can access data, not just where it is stored.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,934 posts.
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Smart drugs reduce quality of effort, and slow decision-making
New study finds that so-called ‘smart drugs’ reduce the quality of effort, and increase time taken to complete a decision-making task in cognitively healthy people.
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What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017)
We’re proud to be profitable without making your personal information the product. Here's how we make it work (and how other companies can, too).
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The Great CPU Stagnation
A blog by and for database architects.
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What I don’t like about working at a remote job
Priyanka's internet home
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Using attrs for everything in Python
Use attrs. Use it. Use it for everything.
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Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 1
We are building a comprehensive archive and analysis project examining published documents leaked by Edward Snowden. Our methodology involves systematically reviewing each available document with particular attention to small details and information that has received little or no public attention since the initial…
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Autoenshittification. How the computer killed capitalism. – by Cory Doctorow
How the computer killed capitalism.
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California study begins screening for MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD
Our Expanded Access Program study site at Sage Integrative Health in Berkeley, California, began screening participants for MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD in early March. Our multi-site expanded access study site for MDMA-assisted therapy for patients with treatment-resistant PTSD at the Pearl Psychedelic Institute in…
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The WeWork IPO
The WeWork IPO is defined by audaciousness and excess, all of which is driven by unlimited access to capital.
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Common Infrastructure Errors I've Made
One surreal experience as my career has progressed is the intense feeling of deja vu you get hit with during meetings. From time to time, someone will mention something and you'll flash back to the same meeting you had about this a few jobs ago. A decision was made
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Welcome to C# 9.0
Note: This post is out of date. Now that C# 9.0 has been released, an updated version can be found here. C# 9.0 is taking shape, and I’d like to share our thinking on some of the major features we’re adding to this next version of the language. With every new version of C# we […]
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Markdown is holding you back
Explore why Markdown, despite its ubiquity, might not be the best fit for technical content.
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Strings Just Got Faster
In JDK 25, Strings used as keys in immutable Maps can be much faster.
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The category design pattern
A programming design pattern inspired by category theory
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A dream of an ultimate OS (1995)
A vision of an OS that recognizes that any user activity and most of the system activities are nothing but queries, which ought to be treated uniformly and implemented efficiently once and for all; database as a file system; A paper submitted to MacHack'95
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We need someone who has done “it” before
Have you (or your company) tried repeatedly to hire for Role X?
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My trust in software, an all time low
I don't think I've ever had more distrust and as a consequence distate for software than in recent years. I don't think its just me as a tech-nerd with artisanal tech-carpentry aspirations. I want people to build well, treat their users right and generally exercise some actual restraint. I see it very clearly and I…
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The Orange Juice Test (1985)
The key to hiring quality employees is with using the Orange Juice Test, which is designed to sort through candidates based on how they can handle difficult situations and tasks.
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Factorio Future Plans
Hello, the 1.1 release is the final release of the vanilla game. It will be maintained, so bugfixes, simple modding interface additions, or minor tweaks can happen, but that's about it.
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Edge detection doesn’t explain line drawing
Reasons to be skeptical of the conventional wisdom about line drawing perception
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Moznet IRC is dead; long live Mozilla Matrix
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Running Games on a MacBook Pro with an EGPU
How we got here After Apple released its (soon-to-be) previous generation Mac Pro, it probably didn't take long for them to realize they had a trash can…
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Dead Stars Don’t Radiate
Three guys claim that any heavy chunk of matter emits Hawking radiation, even if it’s not a black hole: • Michael F. Wondrak, Walter D. van Suijlekom and Heino Falcke, Gravitational pair…
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CDC officials’ resignation emails
The end of an era.