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YC and Founders Pledge
Many of our founders ask us about how they can donate part of their equity or post exit proceeds, and now we have an answer: Founders Pledge. With Founders Pledge, founders can sign a pledge to donate...
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What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt
Today we’d like to explain what it costs to run Let’s Encrypt. We’re doing this because we strive to be a transparent organization, we want people to have some context for their contributions to the...
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L4 microkernels: The lessons from 20 years of research and deployment
AuthorsGernot Heiser and Kevin ElphinstoneNICTAAbstractThe L4 microkernel has undergone 20 years of use and evolution. It has an active user and developer community, and there are commercial versions...
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Self-Driving Cars Must Meet 15 Benchmarks in U.S. Guidance
The Obama administration’s proposed guidelines for self-driving cars, to be formally unveiled Tuesday, include 15 benchmarks automakers will need to meet before their autonomous vehicles can hit the...
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The Fantastic World of Professor Tolkien (1956)
The Hobbit is a classical fairy story. As such it might well have earned its place on the nursery shelf and been forgotten. But the ending is incomplete thanks to a minor encounter of Biblo’s whose...
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Pgslice: Postgres partitioning as easy as pie
README.mdPostgres partitioning as easy as pie. Works great for both new and existing tables, with zero downtime and minimal app changes.🍊 Battle-tested at InstacartInstallRun:StepsEnsure the table you...
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Nootropics
Please enable JavaScript for math equation rendering.A record of nootropics I have tried, with thoughts about which ones worked and did not work for me. These anecdotes should be considered only as...
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CouchDB 2.0
The Apache CouchDB development community is proud to announce the immediate availability of version 2.0.See also the official Apache Press Release.CouchDB 2.0 is 99% API compatible with the 1.x series...
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Browser History
More than SSL, more than CrossOrigin Request headers, I’m staring to think the back button must be the most mis-understood part of how browsers implement HTTP.The web’s history feature is built with a...
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SanDisk Announces 1TB SDXC Card
Sep 20, 2016Company gives photography and videography industry a preview of future SanDisk imaging technologyPHOTOKINA, COLOGNE, GERMANY, Sept. 20, 2016– Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC), a...
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Roslyn-linq-rewrite: optimize LINQ code to fast/allocation-free procedural code
README.mdThis tool compiles C# code by first rewriting the syntax trees of LINQ expressions using plain procedural code, minimizing allocations and dynamic dispatch.Example input codepublicint...
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Show HN: Primitive Pictures
README.mdReproducing images with geometric primitives.How it WorksA target image is provided as input. The algorithm tries to find the most optimal shape that can be drawn to minimize the error...
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Stanford Expert Explains Antibacterial Soap Ban
Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) effectively banned a personal hygiene product used by millions of Americans. Because manufacturers failed to demonstrate that 19 chemicals used in...
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Fibers in Guile Scheme
This manual is for Fibers (version 0.2.0, updated 11 September 2016)Copyright 2016 Andy WingoPermission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free...
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Shaarli – Personal, minimalist, database-free, bookmarking service
README.mdThe personal, minimalist, super-fast, database free, bookmarking service.Do you want to share the links you discover?Shaarli is a minimalist delicious clone that you can install on your own...
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Laureline: discontinued open hardware/software GPS NTP server
I bought this little receiver with a view to comparing it with my other NTP servers. The Laureline server is a dedicated NTP server which differs from the rest in my park which are based on general...
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Writing an OS in Rust: Returning from Exceptions
Sep 21, 2016In this post, we learn how to return from exceptions correctly. In the course of this, we will explore the iretq instruction, the C calling convention, multimedia registers, and the red...
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Bad science persists because poor methods are rewarded
IN 1962 Jacob Cohen, a psychologist at New York University, reported an alarming finding. He had analysed 70 articles published in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology and calculated their...
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Tor Browser Exposed: Anti-Privacy Implantation at Mass Scale
Tor Browser Exposed: Anti-Privacy Implantation at Mass ScaleCredit: @Ox000000Introduction:The combination of chaining the vulnerabilities described below allows a malicious exit node operator or global...
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Google backtracks on privacy promise with messaging service Allo
When Google first announced Allo, its newest chat app, there was some controversy around why the service didn’t use end-to-end encryption by default and only in its Incognito mode. The reason for this,...
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