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File System Improvements to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
This is part of a series of blog posts on the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). For background information you may want to read the architectural overview, introduction to pico processes, WSL system...
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Relay Modern: Simpler, faster, more extensible
Today, we're releasing Relay Modern, a new version of Relay designed from the ground up to be easier to use, more extensible and, most of all, able to improve performance on mobile devices. In this...
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A customer reported an error in the map used by Flight Simulator
Microsoft Flight Simulator prided itself on its accuracy and realism. One of the things it has to get right are maps, because knowing where you are is kind of important when you're flying a plane....
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Facebook Announces React Fiber, a Rewrite of Its React Framework
Facebook has completely rewritten React, its popular JavaScript library for building user interfaces. The company hasn’t previously talked much about React Fiber, as the project is called, but it has...
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A TensorFlow implementation of the Differentiable Neural Computer
README.mdThis package provides an implementation of the Differentiable Neural Computer, as published in Nature.Any publication that discloses findings arising from using this source code must cite...
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Kip (YC W16) is using data to make therapy better for patients and therapists
I started going to therapy about five years ago, and it was quite possibly the best decision I ever made. But at times, it was difficult to determine how much progress I was making on a week-to-week or...
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Pegasus Mail
Welcome to the home of Pegasus Mail, the Internet's longest-serving PC e-mail system, and of the Mercury Mail Transport System, our full-featured Internet Mail Server.Pegasus Mail is a free product,...
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A two-button mechanical keyboard that types ASCII values, one bit at a time
README.mdA two-button backlit mechanical keyboard that types ASCII values, one bit at a time.PhotosGIFSComponentsArduino Pro Micro (knockoff)Cherry MX Clear Mechanical SwitchesSSD1306 OLED...
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Where do our flaky tests come from?
Google has around 4.2 million tests that run on our continuous integration system. Of these, around 63 thousand have a flaky run over the course of a week. While this represents less than 2% of our...
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Modernizing the DOM Tree in Microsoft Edge
The DOM is the foundation of the web platform programming model, and its design and performance impacts the rest of the browser pipeline. However, its history and evolution is far from a simple...
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Facebook and the Cost of Monopoly
The shamelessness was breathtaking.Having told a few jokes, summarized his manifesto, and acknowledged the victim of the so-called “Facebook-killer” in Cleveland, Facebook founder and CEO Mark...
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The Embarrassing History of Crap Thrown into Yellowstone’s Geysers
The Morning Glory Pool in 2015. National Park Service/Public DomainWhen it comes to geothermal features, Yellowstone National Park holds an embarrassment of riches. Located largely inside the massive...
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Why 1866 Set the Stage for Two World Wars
When some search for the roots of the First World War, there is a tendency to look towards the Balkans. After all, it was the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of the Austro-Hungarian...
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Redshift Spectrum – Exabyte-Scale In-Place Queries of S3 Data
Now that we can launch cloud-based compute and storage resources with a couple of clicks, the challenge is to use these resources to go from raw data to actionable results as quickly and efficiently as...
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Sega Mega Drive / Genesis Hardware Notes
SEGA Mega Drive / Genesis hardware notesWritten by Kabuto of TiTAN during the development of Overdrive 2Version 1.0ForewordThis is the first of a series of documents about Overdrive 2 and its...
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AWS EC2 FPGA Hardware and Software Development Kit
README.mdAWS EC2 FPGA Hardware and Software Development KitsBuilding an example AFIThis release includes two portions: HDK for developing Amazon FPGA Image (AFI), and SDK for using AFIs on...
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Show HN: Webhook – A lightweight configurable tool written in Go
README.mdDonate via PayPal | Patreon pageIf you don't have time to waste configuring, hosting, debugging and maintaining your webhook instance, we offer a SaaS solution that has all of the...
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Cassini Heads Toward Final Close Encounter with Titan
NASA's Cassini spacecraft will make its final close flyby of Saturn's haze-enshrouded moon Titan this weekend. The flyby marks the mission's final opportunity for up-close observations of the lakes and...
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Hard-won lessons: Five years with Node.js
After five years working with Node.js, I’ve learned a lot. I’ve already shareda fewstories, but this time I wanted to focus on the ones I learned the hard way. Bugs, challenges, surprises, and the...
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