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CAP Theorem Finally Made Sense to Me
While studying system design, I came across something called CAP theorem. At first, it sounded simple: A distributed system can choose any two out of Consistency, Availability, and Partition Tolerance. But the more I read about it, the more I realized that this explanation can be a little misle
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Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/09/pentagon-releases-then-quickly-removes-testosterone-screening-policy/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49576196 Points: 18 # Comments: 4
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Why High Load Does Not Always Mean High CPU
Why High Load Does Not Always Mean High CPU One of the first things I check when someone says "the Linux server is slow" is the load average. And one of the most common mistakes is to immediately translate high load into high CPU usage. These two things are related, but they are not the same. I
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How I Built a Tech Interview Prep App with 35,000+ Questions in Flutter 🚀
Hello DEV community! 👋 I recently launched TechQuiz, a mobile app designed to help software engineers, computer science students, and tech enthusiasts practice for coding interviews and technical aptitude tests. You can check it out here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ss333.Tec
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Streaming Native Speech-to-Text for Embedded Web Use
My team at Bandwidth Labs has put together a speech-to-text model from the ground up, focused on ultra low latency streaming use cases. We started with a focus on voice agents, but have quickly started to see various use cases for embedding the model directly into webpages to provide transcriptions.
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No one asked, but I've written a C++ header-only library so you don't have to declare the variable again.
In my spare time, I wrote a header-only C++ library that will help you extract variable declarations from the main(...) function of one .cpp file to the main(...) function of another .cpp file. Yes, I mean you can declare any type of variable in any way you can think of, as long as it's within the m
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Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says
Article URL: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/global-warming-will-exceed-1-5-degree-limit-un-says-in-report-that-maps-path-back-below-danger-zone Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49576124 Points: 190 # Comments: 160
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Elementor Pro WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Exploited to Hack Sites
Tracked as CVE-2026-32475 (CVSS score of 9.8), the bug described as an arbitrary file upload issue in the function that handles form submissions. The post Elementor Pro WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Exploited to Hack Sites appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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Tableau Dashboard Extensions: What They Add, and What They Can Read
By Michael Nocito, data analyst · Published August 9, 2026 By the end of this page you can add an extension to a dashboard, tell the two hosting kinds apart, and read the permission box well enough to know what you're agreeing to. You'll also know the one behavior that surprises people after publis
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The weird and wonderful headphones of CanJam 2026
I've been reviewing headphones for a long time, and I've listened to everything from the barely serviceable to multi-thousand-dollar open-back headphones. But recently I've been uninspired by the state of mainstream options. Most are perfectly good - great, even - but they lack a distinct character.
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Cloudflare Tunnel + Docker: four production failure domains people often collapse into one
A Cloudflare Tunnel removes inbound port exposure, but it does not remove the need to design ingress. The failure mode I keep seeing is treating “tunnel connected” as proof that the application is healthy. There are actually four independently failing hops: DNS and edge: the hostname resolves, prox