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Custom domains on GitHub Pages gain support for HTTPS
Encryption for all GitHub Pages sites
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Krita 4.1.3 Released
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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SMT Solving on an iPhone
Why buy an expensive desktop computer when your iPhone is a faster SMT solver?
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Nerd Sniped by BINFMT_MISC
How to script in any language thanks to rootless containers and BINFMT_MISC.
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Horizon: Facebook’s Open Source Applied Reinforcement Learning Platform
In this paper we present Horizon, Facebook’s open source applied reinforcement learning (RL) platform. Horizon is an end-to-end platform designed to solve industry applied RL...
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High-quality schools can increase academic achievement among the poor (2010)
Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ), an ambitious social experiment, combines community programs with charter schools. We provide the first empirical test of the causal impact of HCZ charters on educational outcomes. Both lottery and instrumental variable identification strategies suggest that the effects of attending an HCZ…
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Reversing the effects of long programming sessions
Programming for long periods is like walking a high tight rope for a really, really long period of time, or at least I imagine it is... ...
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Telegram Login for Websites
The Login Widget offers a frictionless way to authorize users on your website and ask for permission to contact them on Telegram.
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Time to look beyond Oracle's JDK
From Java 11 its time to think beyond Oracle's JDK. Time to appreciate the depth of the ecosystem built on OpenJDK. Here is a list of some ...
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Amazon DynamoDB Transactions
May 20, 2024: As of September 2022, DynamoDB now supports 100 items per transactions. March 13, 2020: Post updated to clarify how to use transactions with global tables and the increase in the maximum number of items per transaction from 10 to 25. Over the years, customers have used Amazon DynamoDB for lots of…
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The path that the decimal number system took from India to medieval Europe
In every day life we all do our calculations, whether for the taxman, our purchases, paying the household bills or in some academic discipline, using the place value decimal number system. It consi…
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AT&T, Time Warner, and the Need for Neutrality
It is no surprise that a judge allowed the AT&T-Time Warner acquisition to proceed given the government’s poor case; the question is if a better case could have been made. What is ultima…
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The Rust borrow checker from a different perspective
Today we’re looking at the rust borrow checker from a different perspective. As you may know, the borrow checker is designed to safely handle memory allocation and ownership, preventing accessess to invalid memory and ensuring data-race freedom. This is a form of resource management: the borrow checker is tracking…
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Accelerate large-scale applications with BOLT
Highly complex services, such as those here at Facebook, have large source code bases in order to deliver a wide range of features and functionality. Even after the machine code for one of these se…
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Inside cpyext: Why emulating CPython C API is so Hard
cpyext is PyPy's subsystem which provides a compatibility layer to compile and run CPython C extensions inside PyPy. Often people ask ...
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Running JRuby on the Graal JIT
Hello, friends! Long time no blog!I'm still here hacking away on JRuby for the benefit of Rubyists everywhere, usually slogging through compatibility fixes and new Ruby features. However with the release of JRuby 9.2, we've caught up to Ruby 2.5 (the current release) and I'm spending a little time on performance.I…
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Crystal 0.27.0 released
Crystal 0.27.0 has been released!
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Making Light of the “Dark Web”
I'll start this post where I start many of my talks - what does a hacker look like? Or perhaps more specifically, what do people think a hacker looks like? It's probably a scary image, one that's a bit mysterious, a shady character lurking in the hidden depths
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Potential Impact of Spectre on Processors in the Power family
View, search and download security bulletin information for individual IBM product versions and releases.
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From idea to revenue in 5 working days, thanks to HN
I needed to ship something. I was stuck in the midst of several larger projects, both for clients and myself, with no end in sight, and to keep going I needed the confidence boost that only shipping code can provide. So I spent part of my weekend, shifted some priorities around, and got to work on Kismet .
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Ruby 2.6.0-preview1 Released
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.6.0-preview1.
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Tor Browser 8.0 released
We gave the world’s most private browsing experience a UX overhaul.