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Inserting One Billion Rows in SQLite Under a Minute
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avi.im
Towards Inserting One Billion Rows in SQLite Under A Minute - blag
This is a chronicle of my experiment where I set out to insert 1B rows in SQLite
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`Zig Cc`: A Powerful Drop-In Replacement for GCC/Clang
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Dogecoin Co-Founder Calls Cryptocurrency a Scam to Help the Rich Get Richer
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Dogecoin Co-Founder Calls Cryptocurrency a Scam to Help the Rich Get Richer
Jackson Palmer, who co-founded Dogecoin, alleged that “the cryptocurrency industry is controlled by a powerful cartel of wealthy figures.”
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Canonical turned a profit, back above 500 employees
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Phoronix
Canonical Has Been Weathering The Pandemic Well: Turned A Profit, Back Above 500 Employees
Thanks to Canonical's distributed workforce with most of their employees working from home even pre-pandemic and the booming Linux ecosystem, the Ubuntu maker performed very well over 2020 and even grew its headcount back above 500 employees and managed to…
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Pacific Northwest Heat Wave Killed More Than One Billion Sea Creatures
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Scientific American
Pacific Northwest Heat Wave Killed More Than One Billion Sea Creatures
The massive loss could destabilize local marine ecosystems
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Cryptographers unearth vulnerabilities in Telegram's encryption protocol
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CyberScoop
Cryptographers unearth vulnerabilities in Telegram's encryption protocol
An international team of computer scientists reported on Friday that they found four cryptographic vulnerabilities in the popular encrypted message app Telegram. The weaknesses range “from technically trivial and easy to exploit to more advanced and of theoretical…
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Do Low-Level Optimizations Matter? (2020)
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Leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon
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the Guardian
Revealed: leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon
Spyware sold to authoritarian regimes used to target activists, politicians and journalists, data suggests
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Physically Based Rendering Book
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Private Israeli spyware used to hack cellphones of journalists, activists
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Washington Post
Private Israeli spyware used to hack cellphones of journalists, activists worldwide
Military-grade spyware licensed by an Israeli firm to governments for tracking terrorists and criminals was used in attempted and successful hacks of 37 smartphones belonging to journalists, human rights activists, business executives and two women close…
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Show HN: Work with CSV files using SQL. For data scientists and engineers
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superintendent.app
Query and visualize CSV files using SQL
A SQL spreadsheet desktop app that queries and visualizes CSV files using SQL.
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The Perils of M1 Ownership
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The Eclectic Light Company
Last Week on My Mac: The perils of M1 Ownership
The primary admin account on an M1 Mac is its Owner, responsible for authorising the installation and use of second operating systems. Here’s what can go wrong with Ownership.
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How NSO's Pegasus Is Used to Spy on Journalists
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Haaretz.com
How NSO's Pegasus is used to spy on journalists
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Don’t Let Police Arm Autonomous or Remote-Controlled Robots and Drones
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
Don’t Let Police Arm Autonomous or Remote-Controlled Robots and Drones
Whether controlled by an artificial intelligence or a remote human operator, armed police robots and drones pose an unacceptable threat to civilians. The ongoing revolution in the field of robotics
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Right or Left, You Should Be Worried About Big Tech Censorship [Cory Doctorow]
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
Right or Left, You Should Be Worried About Big Tech Censorship
Claiming that “right-wing voices are being censored,” Republican-led legislatures in Florida and Texas have introduced legislation to “end Big Tech censorship.” They’re right. Conservatives are being
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Ask HN: Did anybody apply for UK Global Talent visa? How did it go?
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ToyDB: Distributed SQL Database in Rust
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GitHub
GitHub - erikgrinaker/toydb: Distributed SQL database in Rust, written as an educational project
Distributed SQL database in Rust, written as an educational project - erikgrinaker/toydb
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Lenovo laptops silently stripped of important feature in BIOS updates
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Notebookcheck
Lenovo laptops silently stripped of important feature in BIOS updates
Many users on Lenovo's forums are reporting missing encoding codecs on their Legion laptops after a recent BIOS update. This issue appears to exclusively affect Legion units sold in Germany, potentially due to now-settled litigation with Nokia.
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An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up
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FanFan
If you're a fan of fans, this app is for you!
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Police Destroy 1,069 Bitcoin Miners with Big Ass Steamroller in Malaysia
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Vice
Police Destroy 1,069 Bitcoin Miners With Big Ass Steamroller In Malaysia
Malaysian authorities did not mess around when they broke up a cryptocurrency mining farm and charged the operators with stealing electricity.
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A reporter’s fight to expose Epstein’s crimes, and earn a living
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NY Times
Opinion | A Reporter’s Fight to Expose Epstein’s Crimes — and Earn a Living (Published 2021)
Julie Brown's "Perversion of Justice" is a reminder of how much local news matters.
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