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Open-source and the demise of proprietary software (2018)
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Timescale Blog
RedHat, Elastic, and more: Why open-source software companies are thriving today
RedHat, Elastic, MongoDB, Github, Pivotal, Greenplum, and more: Open-source software has finally come of age, is reshaping the entire software industry as we know it. Here’s why.
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Catching CO2 from trucks and reducing their emissions by 90%
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Nuadox
Catching CO2 from trucks and reducing their emissions by 90%
- By Nuadox Crew - In Europe, transport is responsible for roughly 30% of total CO2 emissions (of which 72% comes from road transportation). While the use of electric vehicles for personal...
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What I've learned sending proposals to conferences
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Drobinin
What I've learned after sending 147 proposals to 36 conferences in a year by Vadim Drobinin
This year I sent out quite a few proposals to the majority of mobile conferences in Europe. Some ignored me, the others replied with automated rejections. However, some accepted and it was fun. Here is what I've learned on the way.
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Chuck Peddle Dies at 82; His $25 Chip Helped Start the PC Age
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NY Times
Chuck Peddle Dies at 82; His $25 Chip Helped Start the PC Age (Published 2019)
His invention brought digital technology to a new breed of consumer devices and powered early Apple and Commodore computers.
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Tell HN: Merry Christmas
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Why It’s So Hard to Change People’s Commuting Behavior
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Harvard Business Review
Why It’s So Hard to Change People’s Commuting Behavior
It’ll take more than subsidizing mass transit or encouraging ride-sharing, according to new research.
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Colorado bank robber gifts money to passers-by and yells Merry Christmas
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BBC News
Bearded man robs bank, gifts money, then yells 'Merry Christmas'
"He robbed the bank, came out, threw the money all over the place," one witness said.
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Do Not Trust Journalists – A Mormon Example
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Blogspot
Do Not Trust Journalists (A Mormon Example)
A blog about history, strategy, geopolitics, and the intersections of governance, ecology, demographics, and culture.
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The Case Against Galileo
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Math with Bad Drawings
The Case Against Galileo
A historian’s blistering attack.
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Beyond L2 Loss – How We Experiment with Loss Functions
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Medium
Beyond L2 Loss — How we experiment with loss functions at Lyft
Estimating expected time of arrival (ETA) is crucial to what we do at Lyft. Estimates go directly to riders and drivers using our apps, as…
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Ask HN: Haven't worked for a while, best guide/advice to start a hobby project?
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Former Amazon employees bake Bezos principles into their startups
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The Seattle Times
Two-pizza teams and more: Former Amazon employees bake Bezos principles into their startups
When Amazon workers leave to start or join other companies, they often adopt and adapt Amazon's principles in their new ventures, spreading the Bezos way.
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An art dealer disappeared with $50M. 17 years later a documentary crew found him
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CBC
An art dealer disappeared with $50M. 17 years later, a documentary crew found him | CBC Radio
Michel Cohen made millions selling art and lost it all trading stocks. Desperate and in debt, he stole more than $50 million by double-selling famous paintings. Then he disappeared. In her new documentary, Vanessa Engle recounts Michel’s story and her 17…
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I moved my sites from Google Kubernetes Engine to Netlify and saved $1000 / year
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labs.iamhamy.xyz
I moved my sites from Google Kubernetes Engine to Netlify and saved $1000 / year (plus numerous hours of maintenance)
This month I moved from Google Cloud’s hosted Kubernetes (Google Kubernetes Engine or GKE) to Netlify. My migration onto GKE was one of my big projects last year and this move to Netlify was a big move this year so I wanted to take the time to sit down and…
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Why Brave Isn't Bad
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Show HN: Gameslab, a FPGA powered handheld game console
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craigjb.com
Gameslab project overview
If you went to Hackaday Supercon 2019, you might have seen someone wandering around with a badge that was way too heavy looking. That was me! And that badge was a Gameslab, my FPGA-powered handheld game console. As the blog posts from years ago prove, I’ve…
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Post-Mortem for Bra Theory
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Bra Theory
Why I'm putting Bra Theory on an indefinite hiatus - Bra Theory
Why I’m putting Bra Theory on an indefinite hiatus In December 2019, I announced that Bra Theory will be halting product development, indefinitely. Many challenges in the bra world remain...
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Dutch university hit by cyber attack on its Windows systems
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The investigation into ToTok
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objective-see.org
Mass Surveillance, is an (un)Complicated Business
triaging a massively popular iOS application, with a dark side
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The man who made Wolfenstein
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Polygon
The man who made Wolfenstein
The late Silas Warner is barely remembered in gaming, but he did something extraordinary
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Drones flying nighttime patterns over NE Colorado leave law enforcement stumped
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The Denver Post
Mysterious drones flying nighttime patterns over northeast Colorado leave local law enforcement stumped
A band of large drones appears to be flying nighttime search patterns over northeast Colorado and local authorities say they don’t know who’s behind the mysterious aircraft.
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