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Apple loses German antitrust fight, faces greater scrutiny

reuters.com
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Selective async commits in PostgreSQL – balancing durability and performance

shayon.dev

I was recently looking into some workloads that generate a lot of I/O and CPU contention...
I was recently looking into some workloads that generate a lot of I/O and CPU contention on some very high-write code paths and came across synchronous_commit (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/wal-async-commit.html). It can be very tempting to turn this off globally because the performance gains in terms of I...

databases optimization performance postgresql rails
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Digital Hygiene

bearblog.dev
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Small Archives

substack.com

My name is Linda. I write a bi-weekly newsletter about computer science, childhood, and culture.Loved this...
My name is Linda. I write a bi-weekly newsletter about computer science, childhood, and culture.Loved this painted window decoration (Wellspring of Life, 1944) by Tove Jansson from Moomin Characters HQ. It is warm enough to forget a coat to a birthday party. Mimosa season changing to daffodil season. I’m writing thi...
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The Intenet Slum: is abandoning the Internet the next big thing? (2004)

fourmilab.ch

As a venture capitalist who invests in high tech, I have to worry that the web...
As a venture capitalist who invests in high tech, I have to worry that the web will be perceived as an increasingly corrupt police state overlying a maze of dark alleys and unsafe practices outside the rule of law. The public and many corporations will be reluctant to embrace a technology fraught with such problems....

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Human intelligence peaked in the early 2010s and has been in decline since

ft.com
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CockroachDB has changed their license, again

github.com
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Co-Doodle with Gemini

huggingface.co
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The "Memory Cartography" of Azerbaijani Emigrants

jam-news.net
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Sony's new RGB backlight tech smokes regular Mini LED TVs

theverge.com

Today Sony is announcing the development of a new type of TV display that uses individual...
Today Sony is announcing the development of a new type of TV display that uses individual RGB LEDs for its backlighting. While Sony currently sells high-end Mini LED TVs alongside OLED models, this new system could combine many of the best qualities of both, and I recently got to see it in action at the company’s To...
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Trauma treatment: Playing Tetris increased hippocampal volume in PTSD patients

nih.gov

. 2020 Apr 15;45(4):279–287. doi: 10.1503/jpn.190027 Tetris has been proposed as a preventive intervention to reduce...
. 2020 Apr 15;45(4):279–287. doi: 10.1503/jpn.190027 Tetris has been proposed as a preventive intervention to reduce intrusive memories of a traumatic event. However, no neuroimaging study has assessed Tetris in patients with existing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or explored how playing Tetris may affect bra...
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Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here?

ycombinator.com
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Reviving the modprobe_path Technique: Overcoming search_binary_handler() Patch

theori.io

This blog post introduces a new method for utilizing the Overwriting modprobe_path technique. Since this patch...
This blog post introduces a new method for utilizing the Overwriting modprobe_path technique. Since this patch was merged last year, it is no longer possible to trigger modprobe_path in the Upstream kernel by executing dummy files.Overwriting modprobe_pathThe Overwriting modprobe_path technique is, in simple terms, ...
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Crew-9 Returns to Earth

spacex.com

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Dear hosters, you are selling wood, not furniture

berthub.eu

Earlier, I wrote that there isn’t just one type of cloud; it ranges from renting out...
Earlier, I wrote that there isn’t just one type of cloud; it ranges from renting out servers to fully managed office software as a service. One relevant type of cloud use is what’s informally called “cloud-native.” I wrote in that earlier page that a “cloud-native developer” does not work based on servers. If you re...
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Some notes on Grafana Loki's new "structured metadata"

utoronto.ca
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Gnome / mutter triple buffering patch merged

gnome.org
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Ask HN: Is anyone with AI expertise analyzing JFK files?

ycombinator.com
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Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation

visualgo.net
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WMO report documents spiralling weather and climate impacts

wmo.int

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NASA's and SpaceX's Crew-9 Splashdown in Gulf of America

upi.com

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No one knows what the hell an AI agent is

techcrunch.com

Silicon Valley is bullish on AI agents. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said agents will “join the...
Silicon Valley is bullish on AI agents. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said agents will “join the workforce” this year. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella predicted that agents will replace certain knowledge work. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said that Salesforce’s goal is to be “the number one provider of digital labor in the world...
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Show HN: I made a worldwide sexual life dashboard

worldsexmap.com
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Apple has revealed a Passwords app vulnerability that lasted for months

theverge.com
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