Svelte – A UI framework that compiles into tiny standalone JavaScript modules
You can't write serious applications in vanilla JavaScript without hitting a complexity wall. But a compiler can do it for you.Rich HarrisSat Nov 26 2016Wait, this new framework has a runtime? Ugh....
View ArticleHow to Hide $400M
Pursglove would soon learn, however, that navigating this offshore archipelago is not easy. In any given year, trillions of dollars sit safely in the offshore financial world, effectively stateless,...
View ArticleTowards Idris Version 1.0
Now that the language is getting stable, and that the Idris book, Type-driven Development with Idris is nearing publication, it’s getting close to time to release version 1.0.We’ll shortly be releasing...
View Article“They Went to Sea in a Sieve, They Did”
Eight-year-old Simon Crowhurst huddled in a big, strange bed, listening to the waves batter the coastline while the wind moaned outside his window. His family was staying in a hotel in Teignmouth, on...
View ArticleHow Font Awesome 5 Became Kickstarter’s Most Funded Software Project
With less than 24 hours remaining, the Font Awesome 5 Kickstarter stands at $890k and over 30,000 backers, making it the most funded and most backed software Kickstarter of all time (and if you haven’t...
View ArticleNetBeez (YC W16) Is Hiring a Digital Marketing Associate in Pittsburgh
At NetBeez we are building the next generation of network monitoring tools. Dedicated sensors called Beez simulate an end user and enable proactive identification of the most complex network issues by...
View ArticleThe Emacs dumper dispute
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View ArticleMore Than 1M Google Accounts Breached by Gooligan
As a result of a lot of hard work done by our security research teams, we revealed today a new and alarming malware campaign. The attack campaign, named Gooligan, breached the security of over one...
View ArticleHow Google Is Challenging AWS
Big companies are often criticized for having “missed” the future — from the comfortable perch of a present where said future has come to pass, of course — but while the future is still the future...
View ArticleFighting against CDN libraries
A direct influence after attending Capitol du Libre 2016 was to redo Pepper&carrot website over the last weeks. I wanted to solve something important: remove all CDN libraries I used in the past....
View ArticleZero Cost Abstractions
written by Ruud van Asseldonkpublished 30 November, 2016If you read my blog, you can probably guess that I like Rust. I like Rust for a variety of reasons. Its error model, for example. But today I...
View ArticleAutopilot: an open source driving agent
README.mdopenpilot is an open source driving agent.Currently it performs the functions of Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) and Lane Keeping Assist System (LKAS) for Hondas and Acuras. It's about on par...
View ArticleDeveloper Preview – EC2 Instances with Programmable Hardware
Have you ever had to decide between a general purpose tool and one built for a very specific purpose? The general purpose tools can be used to solve many different problems, but may not be the best...
View ArticleWhen oil is no longer in demand
STEWART SPENCE WAS a young hotelier in Aberdeen in 1971 when he first realised what an oil rush meant. His hotel, the Commodore, was the only one in the Scottish city with en-suite bathrooms. One day...
View ArticleAmazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS
Virtual private servers made easy. Starting at $5 per month.Get startedBlast off with LightsailEverything you need to jumpstart your project on AWS—compute, storage, and networking—for a low,...
View ArticleGerman Leaders at Odds with Industry Over Electric Cars
December 01, 2016 03:28 PMIt just looked like an inconspicuous entry about a draft law on the Chinese Industry Ministry's website. No one in Berlin noticed it until an attentive diplomat at the...
View ArticlePlug and Play Generative Networks
Generating high-resolution, photo-realistic images has been a long-standing goal in machine learning. Recently, Nguyen et al. (2016) showed one interesting way to synthesize novel images by performing...
View ArticleBitUnmap: Attacking Android Ashmem
Posted by Gal Beniamini, Project ZeroThe law of leaky abstractions states that “all non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky”. In this blog post we’ll explore the ashmem shared memory...
View ArticleNestle says it will cut sugar in chocolate by 40%
By Rebecca MarstonBusiness reporter, BBC News1 December 2016From the section BusinessShareShare this withEmailShare this with EmailFacebookShare this with FacebookMessengerShare this with...
View ArticleThe Solution for Open Office Frustration
There’s no such thing as a quiet day at the office for Jackson Carpenter.With about 80 people sitting around him in his company’s open concept office, the Utah-based public relations manager is...
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