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Everyone wonders what's better for them: watching a YouTube tutorial or reading documentation. While some people learn better by reading and others by listening, this article will explain why both options are beneficial and when to choose one over th...

Here at Hackaday we’re a varied bunch of writers, some of whom have careers away from this organ, and others whose work also appears on the pages of other publications in different fields. On…

I used to think I wanted Rosey the Robot to run my smart home, but now I’m having second thoughts.

Our nine month journey to horizontally shard Figma’s Postgres stack, and the key to unlocking (nearly) infinite scalability.

A closer look at Figma’s custom PostgreSQL sharding solution with motivations and future predictions.

The iconic IC device, developed by Federico Faggin, will soon be phased out, and interested parties only have a few months left to place their orders before...

Narrow waists: an idea in software architecture that relates to networking, operating systems, language design, compilers, and distributed systems.

Phones remain undefeated.

According to the 2024 Imperva Bad Bot Report, bad bot traffic levels rose for the fifth consecutive year, indicating an alarming trend

It's good to know the difference between HDDs and SSDs and understand how the different SSD technologies affect reliability.

There are three competing priorities that companies have as it relates to software development: security, maintainability, and velocity. I’ll elaborate on what I mean by each of these in just a bit…

To sum up my stance: Tracking is wrong when it’s done without consent, and when users have no idea what’s being tracked or how it’s being used. Tracking is fine when it’s done with consent, and users know what’s being tracked and how it’s being used.

An open source WebAssembly project brings web components to other languages, allowing devs to share web components across digital properties.

Wasm is maturing, with mainstream language support, Kubernetes deployment options, the revolutionary possibilities of the component model and more.

The Overture Maps Foundation has launched a beta of its service this week, bringing enterprises and startups an open source alternative to Google Maps.

The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.

Cassie Kozyrkov wants to use applied data science, AI and analytics to create better tools and products – a discipline that she calls decision intelligence

One GIGA POD is composed of multiple racks populated with GIGABYTE GPU servers acting as one powerful cluster that accelerates everything AI.

Is Sun’s Blackbox a gimmick? Some analysts think there’s a lot more to it, but we’ll have to wait until it ships to be sure.

Last October, Sun introduced the idea of a datacenter-in-a-box to the world. The idea is that any time, any where you need a datacenter, Sun can drop-ship you one where ever you might need it.

Sun Modular Datacenter is a portable data center built into a standard 20-foot intermodal container manufactured and marketed by Sun Microsystems. An external chiller and power were required for the operation of a Sun MD. A data center of up to 280 servers could be rapidly deployed by shipping the container in a regular way to locations that might not be suitable for a building or another structure, and connecting it to the required infrastructure. Sun stated that the system could be made operational for 1% of the cost of building a traditional data center.

Sun Microsystems has developed a novel “data center in a box” in an effort to transform the economics of corporate computing.

Container data centers lead to a module design revolution

Former Sun executives and employees gather for a reunion and talk about pranks, parties, and technical choices—the crazy and the brilliant.

Posted on Friday 19 Apr 2024. 1,394 words, 5 links. By Matt Webb.

Learn how to use philosophy to run your business more effectively

It's been over two weeks! Let's catch up. We can talk about anything you want, so long as it's App Store policies regarding "retro" game emulators or…

By Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci and Ethan Zuckerman Social media has changed the way memes—cultural building blocks—are produced, transmitted, and selected. In particular, social media has expanded the diversity of memes and accelerated their evolutionary process. Framing social media as an evolutionary environment for memes is a useful analytical tool for understanding the digital public sphere. In […]