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  1. 35M Hot Dogs: Benchmarking Caddy vs. Nginx

    posted on Fri Sep 16 12:58:57 UTC 2022 by EntICOnc | view on HN

    This blog post is about benchmarking Caddy against Nginx and their respective performance metrics as reverse proxies.

  2. The lost ways of programming: Commodore 64 BASIC (2020)

    posted on Fri Sep 16 12:30:30 UTC 2022 by AlexeyBrin | view on HN

    The article discusses how Commodore 64 starts with a welcome screen from BASIC and how this tells the user that they too can become a programmer.

  3. Datastream for BigQuery Preview

    posted on Fri Sep 16 16:04:43 UTC 2022 by rntn | view on HN

  4. World’s longest journey by pumpkin boat

    posted on Fri Sep 16 14:56:13 UTC 2022 by Brajeshwar | view on HN

  5. The Etherkiller and Friends (2002)

    posted on Fri Sep 16 15:21:17 UTC 2022 by mmastrac | view on HN

    The article describes how to use a VGA-Killer to fix ghosting problems on a video card.

  6. Retrospection and Learnings from Dgraph Labs

    posted on Fri Sep 16 15:39:57 UTC 2022 by mrjn | view on HN

    The article discusses the author's reflections on their time at Dgraph Labs, a company they spent 6 years building, and what they learned from the experience.

  7. Show HN: Reflio – Open-source affiliate program creator for SaaS

    posted on Fri Sep 16 15:46:30 UTC 2022 by mcilroy | view on HN

  8. US border forces are seizing Americans' phone data and storing it for 15 years

    posted on Fri Sep 16 12:07:05 UTC 2022 by jaarse | view on HN

  9. How to build a graph visualization engine and why you shouldn’t

    posted on Fri Sep 16 16:04:32 UTC 2022 by taubek | view on HN

    The article discusses the high-level architecture of the Orb, a graph visualization library.

  10. Shopify lets staff decide cash-stock pay mix as shares dive

    posted on Fri Sep 16 13:56:52 UTC 2022 by jbredeche | view on HN

    The article discusses how unusual activity from a computer network can be detected.

  11. Using WebTransport

    posted on Fri Sep 16 15:41:41 UTC 2022 by politician | view on HN

    WebTransport is a web API that uses the HTTP/3 protocol as a bidirectional transport. It's intended for two-way communications between a web client and an HTTP/3 server. It supports sending data both unreliably via its datagram APIs, and reliably via its streams APIs.

  12. Show HN: A framework for building Slack bots in Python

    posted on Fri Sep 16 14:17:03 UTC 2022 by DandyDev | view on HN

    Slack Machine is a wonderful, simple, yet powerful and extendable Slack bot framework.

  13. Foldscope: The Paper Microscope

    posted on Fri Sep 16 10:42:55 UTC 2022 by marcodiego | view on HN

    The author believes that the Foldscope mission to provide microscopes for every student in the world is amazing, and that it is very important to have high-quality and affordable resources available for students to engage in scientific inquiry.

  14. Arm fills in some gaps and details in server chip roadmaps

    posted on Fri Sep 16 12:42:02 UTC 2022 by rbanffy | view on HN

    The article discusses how the third wave of Arm server chips is more successful than the first two waves, due to the commitment of Arm Ltd back in October 2018 to separate its client chip designs from its server chip designs.

  15. Figma Alternatives

    posted on Fri Sep 16 13:27:14 UTC 2022 by skilled | view on HN

    The article discusses how Adobe's acquisition of Figma has caused many designers to worry about the future of Figma's resources, which are community-curated.

  16. Ribbon Health (YC S17) is hiring engineers to help patients find care

    posted on Fri Sep 16 12:00:52 UTC 2022 by Yertis | view on HN

    Ribbon is a company that is committed to building a product that becomes known as critical infrastructure for healthcare companies everywhere, which is anchored to the following four pillars: values alignment, critical infrastructure, technical excellence, and customer focus.

  17. Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

    posted on Fri Sep 16 12:51:38 UTC 2022 by rohith2506 | view on HN

  18. From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion

    posted on Fri Sep 16 11:42:18 UTC 2022 by wasimlorgat | view on HN

    The article is discussing how to be prepared for the course and states that if the reader is comfortable with building an SGD training loop from scratch in Python, being competitive in Kaggle competitions, using modern NLP and computer vision algorithms for practical problems, and working with PyTorch and fastai, then they will be ready to start the course.

  19. Columbia whistleblower on exposing college rankings

    posted on Fri Sep 16 13:46:00 UTC 2022 by pseudolus | view on HN

    The article is about how a professor at Columbia University found that the school had been lying about their rankings and accusing the administration of deception and a whitewash over the affair.

  20. California sues Amazon for preventing 3rd-party sellers being cheaper elsewhere

    posted on Fri Sep 16 13:53:17 UTC 2022 by em-bee | view on HN

  21. The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago

    posted on Fri Sep 16 13:35:45 UTC 2022 by Napsty | view on HN

    The article discusses the movie Hackers, which was released 27 years ago on September 15, 1995. The movie is criticized for its over-the-top depiction of computers, the internet, and hacking, but is still considered a fun film to watch.

  22. GPU Mining No Longer Profitable After Ethereum Merge

    posted on Fri Sep 16 15:38:11 UTC 2022 by geekinchief | view on HN

    The article discusses how the profitability of GPU mining has collapsed and that it is not sensible to do it anymore.

  23. Remotely Controlling Touchscreens [pdf]

    posted on Thu Sep 15 12:45:43 UTC 2022 by DemiGuru | view on HN

  24. Good CI/CD and SRE Blogs

    posted on Fri Sep 16 11:59:33 UTC 2022 by 100011_100001 | view on HN

  25. CPSC warns consumers to stop using male-to-male extension cords sold on Amazon

    posted on Fri Sep 16 14:06:05 UTC 2022 by HieronymusBosch | view on HN

    The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is warning consumers to immediately stop using and discard male-to-male extension cords sold on Amazon.com due to shock, electrocution, fire, and carbon monoxide poisoning hazards.

  26. Vaccine development against methamphetamine drug addiction [pdf] (2020)

    posted on Fri Sep 16 13:26:28 UTC 2022 by dynm | view on HN

  27. Stanley Druckenmiller warns the stock market will be ‘flat’ for an entire decade

    posted on Fri Sep 16 12:15:49 UTC 2022 by RadixDLT | view on HN

  28. New Linux OS Scheduler Reduces Lag by Keeping Light Work on Fewer CPU Cores

    posted on Fri Sep 16 12:26:50 UTC 2022 by rbanffy | view on HN

    A new CPU scheduler is being developed for Linux operating systems that decreases system latency and improves performance in low load scenarios.

  29. When is “ACID” ACID? Rarely (2013)

    posted on Fri Sep 16 16:00:56 UTC 2022 by belter | view on HN

    The article discusses how few databases actually provide formal ACID guarantees, despite claiming to do so.

  30. Art Garfunkel's Library

    posted on Wed Sep 14 09:10:08 UTC 2022 by archielc | view on HN

    The article is a list of books that Art Garfunkel has read since 1968.