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California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash
California has moved to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after facing backlash from the tech community, with over 200 comments on the issue
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California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash
California is moving to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after a backlash from the tech community, with the proposed amendment coming from t
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From Raw Logs to Reliability: An Engineering Playbook for Observability
Turning raw logs into engineering best practices means shifting from reactive debugging to proactive observability: standardize structured logs, centralize them, turn them into golden-signal metrics and actionable alerts, codify what you learn, and put it on a dashboard.
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Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux
It's becoming increasingly evident that the traditional boundaries between different types of memory are blurring.
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The Internet Has Become Too American to Trust
It's becoming increasingly evident that the internet has become too American to trust.
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Show HN: Opstan, a decentralized social network on a PoW blockchain
The emergence of Opstan, a decentralized social network on a Proof of Work (PoW) blockchain, is a significant indicator of this change.
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Perry Compiles TypeScript directly to executables using SWC and LLVM
The latest development is Perry, a compiler that can directly compile TypeScript to executables using SWC and LLVM.
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Does Anybody Actually Like React?
It's becoming increasingly apparent that not everyone is a fan of React.
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Show HN: Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption)
The recent posting on HackerNews about an open-source private home security camera system with end-to-end encryption is a telling sign.
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The Technical Debt Inventory: A Framework for Prioritization
Technical debt exists on a spectrum from slightly annoying to existential risk. Most engineering teams manage it with a combination of instinct and complaint. Engineers know roughly which parts of the codebase are painful, but there is no systematic view of the debt portfolio and no principled framework for deciding
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Why Your CI/CD Pipeline Is Slower Than It Should Be
A 45-minute CI pipeline is a tax on every engineer every day. If your team runs 50 builds per day and each build takes 45 minutes instead of 12 minutes, that is 27.5 hours of wall-clock time lost daily, plus the context-switching cost of engineers waiting for CI before
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The Engineering Hiring Screen That Predicts Actual Job Performance
The standard engineering hiring screen, LeetCode-style algorithm problems, timed under pressure, on a platform with an unfamiliar IDE, measures one thing with reasonable reliability: the candidate's ability to solve algorithm problems under pressure on an unfamiliar platform. This correlates with job performance at approximately the same level as