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Nixiesearch: Running Lucene over S3, and why we're building a new search engine

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This is a long-read version of a Haystack EU24 conference talk by Roman Grebennikov. Check out...
This is a long-read version of a Haystack EU24 conference talk by Roman Grebennikov. Check out the slides or watch the video [TODO] if you’re a Gen Z.If you’re running a large search engine deployment, you already have a personal list of things that can go wrong on a daily basis. In this post we are going to:Complai...
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Let's talk about Animation Quality

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Open-TV: Ultra-fast, simple and powerful cross-platform IPTV app

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BBC Weather app bug suggests hurricane winds in UK

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Leaving WordPress (.org or WPF, still unsure which one)

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I’ve decided that I want to prioritize my mental (and physical) health and will no longer...
I’ve decided that I want to prioritize my mental (and physical) health and will no longer contribute to the WordPress open source project. The constant worry about the stability of the project and never-ending influx of WordPress-related news has contributed to worsening anxiety symptoms for me and it’s no longer wo...
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Scrum's "Product Owner" Problem – By Adam Ard

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Image by Mediamodifier from PixabayIn Scrum, Product Owners have sole authority over the Product Backlog; they...
Image by Mediamodifier from PixabayIn Scrum, Product Owners have sole authority over the Product Backlog; they control what to build and when to build it. Engineers are merely ticket-takers, implementing one instruction after another.This arrangement is flawed—it’s upside down and inside out. In a dynamic, fast-pace...
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Julia 1.11 Highlights

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After two alphas, two betas, and four release candidates, Julia version 1.11 has finally(!!!) been released....
After two alphas, two betas, and four release candidates, Julia version 1.11 has finally(!!!) been released. We want to thank all the contributors to this release and all the testers who helped find regressions and issues in the pre-releases. Without you, this release would not have been possible. The full list of c...
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All We Have in This World Is Ourselves

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Earlier this week, one of my colleagues lost her father. It's really startling how much can...
Earlier this week, one of my colleagues lost her father. It's really startling how much can happen within a 24-hour period. I'm not exaggerating when I say that something could happen in the next 24 hours that might drastically change your life, either positively or negatively.It's crazy that I had worked together w...
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10-Year Narratives

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Jeff Bezos famously said it’s more important to know what will not change over the next...
Jeff Bezos famously said it’s more important to know what will not change over the next ten years, versus what will.“If you base your strategy first and foremost on more transitory things — who your competitors are, what kind of technologies are available, and so on,” he explained, “those things are going to change ...
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Wafer Scale and Trilogy Systems: Part 1

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When he founded Trilogy, it was as if he proposed to create the world in five...
When he founded Trilogy, it was as if he proposed to create the world in five days rather than the previous record of six. But why not, given his reputation for near omnipotence?CNN on Gene AmdahlOne of the recurring themes of this Substack is that some of the ideas underpinning the latest innovations have been arou...
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Using Paid Ads to Grow Elite Hoops as an Indie and 11 Other Lessons

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Elite Hoops has hit the one year mark! I had a few buddies ask me some...
Elite Hoops has hit the one year mark! I had a few buddies ask me some questions around getting those first paying customers, the kinds of marketing I’ve tried and other similar things. In short, indies talkin’ shop. So, here is a point-by-point brain dump of what I think the twelve most helpful things I’ve learned ...
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Mozilla fixes Firefox zero-day actively exploited in attacks

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Mozilla has issued an emergency security update for the Firefox browser to address a critical use-after-free...
Mozilla has issued an emergency security update for the Firefox browser to address a critical use-after-free vulnerability that is currently exploited in attacks. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-9680, and discovered by ESET researcher Damien Schaeffer, is a use-after-free in Animation timelines. This type of ...

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OS/2 TCPBEUI Name Resolution

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Sometimes I have the following problem to deal with: An OS/2 system uses NetBIOS over TCP/IP...
Sometimes I have the following problem to deal with: An OS/2 system uses NetBIOS over TCP/IP (aka TCPBEUI) and should communicate with a SMB server (likewise using TCPBEUI) on a different subnet. This does not work on OS/2 out of the box without a little bit of help. NETBIOS (originally literally the ROM BIOS on the...
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Understanding Venture Math

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The Ultimate Guide to Error Handling in Python

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I often come across developers who know the mechanics of Python error handling well, yet when...
I often come across developers who know the mechanics of Python error handling well, yet when I review their code I find it to be far from good. Exceptions in Python is one of those areas that have a surface layer that most people know, and a deeper, almost secret one that a lot of developers don't even know exists....

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Ask HN: Tech Stack Behind the Claude App?

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What the (2021)

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The Strict Aliasing Situation Is Pretty Bad (2016)

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I’ll start with a quick review of the strict aliasing rules in C and C++ and...
I’ll start with a quick review of the strict aliasing rules in C and C++ and then present some less well-known material. Strict Aliasing Compiler optimizations are often shot down by the potential for pointers to be aliases. For example, although we might naively expect a compiler to optimize this function to return...
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WASM Is the New CGI

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I read a wonderful twitter thead about CGI and the birth of the web and this...
I read a wonderful twitter thead about CGI and the birth of the web and this triggered a thought I've been kicking around. Wasm is the new CGI And to be clear I don't mean the Common Gateway Interface as a protocol. I mean what CGI and the cgi-bin application model brought to the web. They allowed people to easily w...

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Ratan Tata Passed Away

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Ratan Tata, one of India’s iconic business leaders and former chairman of the Tata Group, passed...
Ratan Tata, one of India’s iconic business leaders and former chairman of the Tata Group, passed away on Wednesday (Octob 9, 2024) at the age of 86.In a statement confirming the news, N. Chandrasekaran, Tata Sons Chairman, expressed, “On behalf of the entire Tata family, I extend our deepest condolences to his lov...

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Ask HN: Anyone learned art (drawing, caricature etc.) as an adult?

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7/67 Children Receiving Skysona Gene Therapy Develop Blood Cancer

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Indian entrepreneur, industrialist, and philanthropist, Ratan Tata, dead at 86

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Indian industrialist and philanthropist (1937–2024) This article is about the chairman of Tata Sons. For the...
Indian industrialist and philanthropist (1937–2024) This article is about the chairman of Tata Sons. For the philanthropist and grandfather of Tata, see Ratanji Tata. For the father of J. R. D. Tata, see Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata. This article is currently being heavily edited because its subject has recently died. Info...
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Ratan Tata, chairman emeritus of Tata Sons, dies at 86

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Ratan Naval Tata, a legend of the Indian industry and chairman emeritus of the Tata Group,...
Ratan Naval Tata, a legend of the Indian industry and chairman emeritus of the Tata Group, died late Wednesday night at the age of 86. He had been undergoing treatment for prolonged illness at Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital for the last few days. “It is with a profound sense of loss that we bid farewell to Mr Ratan ...

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