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Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O
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Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O
Postgres 18 introduces Asynchronous I/O (AIO) that can dramatically improve read performance, especially in the cloud. Learn how these changes and the new io_method setting work and see why our benchmark results show that io_uring is the recommended setting…
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Sandy Bridge-era motherboard gets M.2 SSD boot support 12 years after launch
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Tom's Hardware
Sandy Bridge-era motherboard gets M.2 SSD boot support 12 years after launch — first new BIOS in a decade for decommissioned motherboard
SATA III storage upgraded to PCIe 2.0 x4
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Show HN: eInk optimized manga with Kindle Comic Converter (+Kobo/ReMarkable)
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GitHub - ciromattia/kcc: KCC (a.k.a. Kindle Comic Converter) is a comic and manga converter for ebook readers.
KCC (a.k.a. Kindle Comic Converter) is a comic and manga converter for ebook readers. - ciromattia/kcc
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Perfect Random Floating-Point Numbers
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Perfect Random Floating-Point Numbers
When I recently looked at the state of the art in floating point random number generation,
I was surprised to see a common procedure in many programming …
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Know Your Enemy: How Three Years at McKinsey Shaped My Second Startup
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Zac Townsend
Know Your Enemy: How Three Years at McKinsey Shaped My Second Startup
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you...
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Scientists have found a way to 'tattoo' tardigrades
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Scientists have found a way to 'tattoo' tardigrades
If you haven't heard of a tardigrade before, prepare to be wowed. These clumsy, eight-legged creatures, nicknamed water bears, are about half a millimeter long and can survive practically anything: freezing ...
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Getting Older Isn't What You Think
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Katy Cowan
Katy Cowan | Getting Older Isn’t What You Think
Getting old creeps up on you. It’s not sudden. There’s no dramatic moment where you wake up and realise you’re “not getting any younger”. No — it’s more like a slow progression. One day, you’re out at a bar, dancing with friends, living your best life, and…
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Create and edit images with Gemini 2.0 in preview
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Googleblog
Google for Developers Blog - News about Web, Mobile, AI and Cloud
Explore how to generate and edit images with Gemini 2.0 Flash, now in preview in Google AI Studio
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Three Chapters at Cloudflare: Programmer to CTO to Board of Directors
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The Cloudflare Blog
Three chapters at Cloudflare: Programmer to CTO to Board of Directors
Today, after more than 13 years at the company, I am joining Cloudflare’s board of directors and retiring from my full-time position as CTO.
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Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust
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GitHub - astral-sh/ty: An extremely fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust.
An extremely fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust. - astral-sh/ty
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Mistral ships le chat – enterprise AI assistant that can run on prem
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mistral.ai
Introducing Le Chat Enterprise | Mistral AI
Your Enterprise. Your AI.
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OpenSearch 3.0 Released
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OpenSearch
OpenSearch 3.0 Enhances Vector Database Performance, Search Infrastructure and Scalability to Meet AI-driven Demand
Latest iteration bolsters open, scalable, community-driven search and analytics, enabling sustainable innovation.
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Tariffs Killed Arduboy
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Arduboy
Tariffs Killed Arduboy
Can’t continue under the current USA / China trade war. Trump might just have ended Arduboy, Inc. I’d have to charge something like $200 for an Arduboy. There might be a chance to do international drop shipping for all orders. (Orders would be shipped from…
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Open source Google Analytics replacement
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GitHub - rybbit-io/rybbit:
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Rybbit - open-source and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics that is 10x more intuitive.
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Rybbit - open-source and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics that is 10x more intuitive. - rybbit-io/rybbit
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Understanding effective type Aliasing in C [pdf]
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Rage of the Oligarchs Naomi Klein: 'What They Want Is Absolutely Everything
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Rolling Stone
Naomi Klein: ‘What They Want Is Absolutely Everything’
The ‘Shock Doctrine’ author explains the dark logic of Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s path of destruction and why billionaire oligarchs are so angry.
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Medium Is the New Large
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mistral.ai
Medium is the new large. | Mistral AI
Mistral Medium 3 delivers state-of-the-art performance at 8X lower cost with radically simplified enterprise deployments.
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Polycompiler: Merge Python and JavaScript code into one file that runs in both
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GitHub - EvanZhouDev/polycompiler: Merge Python and JS code into one file that can be run in both languages.
Merge Python and JS code into one file that can be run in both languages. - EvanZhouDev/polycompiler
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Introducing Web Search on the Anthropic API
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Anthropic
Introducing web search on the Anthropic API
Today, we're introducing web search on the Anthropic API—a new tool that gives Claude access to current information from across the web.
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Telling Lies: Bowie and Online Music Distribution in 1996
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Cybercultural
Telling Lies: Bowie and Online Music Distribution in 1996
Online music retail was thriving by 1996, thanks to sites like Music Boulevard and CDnow. But music downloads and streaming was more of a challenge — as David Bowie discovered in September 1996.