Show HN: We Built the Fastest Spreadsheet

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Use cases Give your business access to cloud data sources in a tool they already know how to use. Explore hundreds of millions of rows, perform ad-hoc analyses, and monitor trends from the comfort of a spreadsheet. Business Intelligence Finance Operations Marketing

The internet feels fake now. It’s all just staged videos and marketing

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All things Generation Y (Millennials). Millennials are the generation that were born between 1981 to 1996. Our generation comes after Gen X, and before Gen Z. Check out our sister subreddit, /r/Zillennials. As well as r/decadeology for more in depth cultural analysis. Zillennials are the micro-generation between Gen Z and Millennials, years ~1994-1999. Join the […]

Memory Safe TLS Library Now Has AWS Crypto and FIPS

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As of today, the Rustls TLS library is using AWS Libcrypto for Rust (aws-lc-rs) for cryptography by default, with the option to enable FIPS support. This removes a major roadblock for safer TLS in many organizations. Over the past couple of years it became clear to us that in order to bring the best possible […]

Unearthing the Oldest Forest on Earth

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Two Hours from New York City You Can Travel Back Nearly 400 Million Years By Gayil Nalls Sign up for our monthly newsletter! The exploration of an ancient, fossilized forest in a quarry in Cairo, New York, in the region of the Catskill-Hudson Valley, initiated years ago, has revealed a treasure trove of evidence showcasing […]

A lock-free ring-buffer with contiguous reservations (2019)

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This is the story of how Andrea Lattuada (PhD student at ETH Zurich) and James Munns (from Ferrous Systems) designed and implemented (two versions!) of an high-perf lock-free ring-buffer for cross-thread communication. If any of those words look scary to you, don’t fret, we’ll explain everything from the basics. This post is cross-posted on Andrea […]

You’ve just inherited a legacy C++ codebase, now what?

You were minding your own business, and out of nowhere something fell on your lap. Maybe you started a new job, or perhaps changed teams, or someone experienced just left. And now you are responsible for a C++ codebase. It’s big, complex, idiosyncratic; you stare too long at it and it breaks in various interesting […]

‘Entropy Bagels’ and Other Complex Structures Emerge from Simple Rules

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Introduction Repetition doesn’t always have to be humdrum. In mathematics, it is a powerful force, capable of generating bewildering complexity. Even after decades of study, mathematicians find themselves unable to answer questions about the repeated execution of very simple rules — the most basic “dynamical systems.” But in trying to do so, they have uncovered […]

Esperanto, Toki Pona, Swahili, Indonesian

2024-02-26 This is a lukewarm little story with a few connected bits, but it might be interesting or even helpful. Follow the links in it, for full effect. Esperanto start For decades, I’ve wanted the experience of carrying on a conversation in another language. My language-teaching polyglot friend Benny Lewis said that if you’ve never […]

Apple is turning William Gibson’s Neuromancer into a TV series

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/ The streamer’s lineup of science fiction just keeps growing. a:hover]:text-black [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-e9 dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray-63 [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-13 dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63″>William Gibson.