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Does Functional Package Management Enable Reproducible Builds at Scale? Yes. [pdf]

Physics Solves One of Man's Biggest Problems: Urinal Splashing

Show HN: CR4SH3R – Fast WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Scanner

Shaping AI's Impact on Billions of Lives

Microsoft is now 50 years old

Tell HN: This Hacker News Exists (Not Really)

Build your own S3-Select in 400 lines of Rust – DataFusion is ALL YOU NEED

Parquet Pruning in DataFusion: Read Only What Matters

Don't Make Things Work

Efficient Filter Pushdown in Parquet

Evil Scheduler: Mastering Concurrency Through Interactive Debugging

Chrome Returns 206 when the Server Returns 403

Concurrency bugs in Lucene: How to fix optimistic concurrency failures

Show HN: Fray: A controlled concurrency testing framework for the JVM

Are We Multiplanetary Yet?

As Firefox turns 20, Mozilla ponders how to restore it to its former glory

The Web That Never Was – Dylan Beattie [video]

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