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There’s never been a better time to be a mouse
Oh! That’s very cool
My gut instinct is always that using traditional kernels in a unikernel way is a bit suboptimal because it doesn’t become a “library operating system” in the same way that Mirage does.
Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M on Friday May 15, 2020 @02:00PM (#23195227)
It's a significant discount from previous funding rounds according to Techcrunch: "Giphy last raised $72 million at a reported $600 million valuation at the end of 2016"

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/09/giphy-held-talks-to-raise-...

Ask HN: Running a private beta on CI/CD analytics

The company I work for has been working on a CI/CD metrics product, we currently support CircleCI and Github and we're currently running a private beta of it.Hopefully, it will be interesting to some people here, so you can join the waitlist by filling in this form: https://forms.gle/3b3XJ6sLDbmUaD1c9Happy to answer any questions etc!

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Re:Ask HN: Who Is Firing? on Thursday April 16, 2020 @05:05AM (#22887493)
I’ve been checking layoffs.fyi every day and it is incredibly bleak
Re:Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @04:44PM (#21697062)
What’s the relevance of that to this post?
Re:Writing An Interpreter In Go (2016) on Monday November 25, 2019 @08:53AM (#21628093)
I studied compiler design at university and the subject matter here was a lot more approachable, but in that, it sacrifices a lot of the theory.
Re:Writing An Interpreter In Go (2016) on Monday November 25, 2019 @08:05AM (#21627750)
I worked through this soon after it came out and I enjoyed it a great deal
Re:Show HN: HintPod – Reach product/market fit quicker on Friday November 15, 2019 @05:59PM (#21549607)
This is a great idea. Any plans for a web version?
Re:Ken Thompson's Unix Password on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @03:26PM (#21206953)
I wonder how long it was between this password crypt approach and the first practical cracker for them
Re:Reddit Down? on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @04:39PM (#21009908)
I’m getting a lot of errors and failed requests
Re:The Prize in Economic Sciences 2017 on Monday October 09, 2017 @09:22AM (#15433531)
I enjoyed this much more than Thinking Fast and Slow
Re:“This project violates the MIT license of Gemstash” on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @05:13PM (#15085241)
These are all pretty generic Ruby things - the first file is just configuring which components of gemstash to auto load, the other two are most probably auto generated when you make a new gem
On the London transport network you've been able to pay at the barriers with a contactless credit card in the same way as you would use an Oyster card for a couple of years now. It's weird that other transport networks haven't adopted it yet
What makes it impossible to emulate?
Re:Launch HN: FloydHub (YC W17) – Heroku for Deep Learning on Thursday February 16, 2017 @11:52AM (#13661396)
I guess the profit margin comes from the $99/user fee
Re:Launch HN: FloydHub (YC W17) – Heroku for Deep Learning on Thursday February 16, 2017 @11:50AM (#13661379)
This looks really cool, I'm slightly confused why the type of CPU intensive workloads only has a single core though?
My concern with this is the problem of ensuring the safety of the person driving the cab and the real identity of the rider.

Lots of drivers will be reluctant because they can be stiffed on the bill. Lots of passengers will be reluctant to use it due to the inherent risk of riding with what is essentially a stranger.

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