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Scaling your API with rate limiters
Availability and reliability are paramount for all web applications and APIs. If you’re providing an API, chances are you’ve already experienced sudden increases in traffic that affect the quality of...
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When Will AWS Move Up the Stack to Real Applications?
February 3, 2017Timothy Prickett MorganImagine how little fun online retailer Amazon would be having on its quarterly calls if it had not launched its Amazon Web Services cloud almost eleven years ago....
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Rainforest QA Is Hiring a VM Engineer (~UTC-05:00)
Rainforest is backed by some of Silicon Valley’s best investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, Marc Benioff, Jason Lemkin, and Y Combinator. We're building a smart, curious, and driven team that...
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A Python implementation of formal systems from the book “Gödel, Escher, Bach”
README.rstThis is a Python implementation of Douglas Hofstadter formal systems, from his book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (commonly GEB).In fact, you may define your own formal...
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Siemens acquires Mentor Graphics
To the Siemens PLM Software and Mentor Graphics Communities:We are excited to announce the acquisition of Mentor Graphics by Siemens is now complete. Mentor is now a part of the Siemens PLM Software...
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The Mandelwat Set
I wanted to learn about the Mandelbrot set. I thought, that’s a neat thing! I wonder how I could make one. Turns out it’s not that hard, really, but you have to understand the math and also what it is,...
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The Dornier DO-960 Analog Computer
The name "Dornier" is normally linked with advanced aircraft design - with airplanes like the DO-31 VTOL, etc. Not many people know that the very same company built wonderful analog computers which...
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Palmer Luckey Leaves Facebook
Palmer Luckey is out at Facebook. The Oculus co-founder, who helped kick start the recent VR with prototype headset built out of his parents’ garage has left the company after a year that heralded the...
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Dropbox Secures $600M Credit Line Ahead of Expected IPO
The debt facility provides flexibility as the cloud-storage company explores a public offering as soon as this year.by and March 30, 2017, 7:00 AM EDTDropbox Inc. is opening a $600 million credit...
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Canadians Adopted Refugee Families for a Year, Then Came ‘Month 13’
Measuring SuccessThree weeks later, Peggy Karas stood in the Hajjes’ living room and reached her arms out to Julia, the 9-month-old. It was six days into Month 13. Unlike many other groups, the Hajjes...
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Apollo Client 1.0: A flexible, community-focused JavaScript GraphQL client
Today, we are proud to announce Apollo Client 1.0, “Pink Panther”! Apollo Client is now fully featured, stable and production-ready. If you’ve been holding off on trying GraphQL or Apollo, now’s a...
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SES-10 Mission
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will deliver SES-10, a commercial communications satellite for SES, to a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO). SES is a world-leading satellite operator, providing reliable and...
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U.S. College Grads See Slim-To-Nothing Wage Gains Since Recession
Petroleum engineers and philosophy majors are bucking the trendby March 30, 2017, 12:01 AM EDTThe bachelor's degree — long a ticket to middle-class comfort — is losing its luster in the U.S. job...
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Ask HN: What to Expect at YC Startup School?
Congrats! I'm still waiting for our email. I'm prepping by watching all the Stanford startup videos on YouTube and making notes. The PG, Thiel and Schultz lectures have been thought provoking. I'm a...
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SpaceX makes aerospace history with successful landing of a used rocket
After more than two years of landing its rockets after launch, SpaceX finally sent one of its used Falcon 9s back into space. The rocket took off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, this evening, sending a...
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America Needs Small Apartment Buildings
Single-family homes and high-rises are all the rage. Meanwhile, the vanishing middle bodes ill for the future.by March 30, 2017, 5:45 AM EDTUrbanists often lament that developers no longer erect the...
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Going faster doesn’t make you happier; you just drive farther
Speed doesn’t seem to be at all correlated to how happy we our with our local transportation systems. Yesterday, we presented some new estimates of the average speed of travel in different metropolitan...
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DDR5 memory is on its way, twice as fast as DDR4
DDR5 memory is on its way, twice as fast as DDR4 | PCWorld...
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Uber’s Anthony Levandowski Invokes Fifth Amendment Rights in Waymo Suit
PhotoAnthony Levandowski, head of Uber’s self-driving program, was accused of stealing technology from his former employers at Google.Credit Eric Risberg/Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — An Uber...
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