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A lot of people are in denial that there isn't using some magic efficiency to cloud services that other datacenters don't have. Primary cost savings on cloud VM's is from overprovi…

I have a feeling what's happened is that they built something they thought was quantum, but since it's so hard to measure qubits they had to develop a bunch of powerful statistical…

So how long until MS freaks out and starts attacking Linux again? I'm calling GPU DRM modules existing in the next 2 yrs, commonplace in three. Shaders and 3D API inaccessible with…

instead of messing with JSON and making it less human friendly (arguably the thing that made JSON so popular in the first place), why not just use something designed for efficient …

This article has little substance. The arguments don't apply to JWT, it just mentions badly done implementations and an insecure option that obviously nobody would turn on. What el…

Zucks rants about his dream for society scare the hell outta me. It's seriously 1984 type shit... the only way to create "safe" and "friendly" global communities is with bulletproo…

they could bake a pre-trained CNN into the messenger pretty easily and run it locally... so plausible

:) Sorry, I always carry my trusty pitchfork when on the internet.

Cloudflare is unquestionably a source of pure, unencrypted traffic for the govt. Does anyone remember a few years ago when Google found out through leaks that the govt was wiretapp…

I like how HN will change any clickbait titles you post but regularly does clickbait titles of its own. This entire article could, and should, be a single sentence title. "YCombina…

Having used JS along with somewhere north of 10 other languages over the years... JS is the most painful, even moreso than Perl which was close. Classes and objects are 100x better…

NSA 100% . Some time around 10 years ago governments decided the internet was too "dangerous" to be free. Arab spring cemented that into their minds, and now a bastion of free thou…