Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 242 posts.
With Perl 5.36.0 just around the corner, we thought that this is a good time to clarify plans for the future of the Perl programming language. We realised that the future was hammered out in a number of steps, across several months. This meant that there hasn't been a single statement we could refer people to. This…
"Type-driven development"
From the Zed Blog: We hope you'll join us in our mission to fundamentally advance software collaboration.
Our new quantum chip demonstrates error correction and performance that paves the way to a useful, large-scale quantum computer.
Gemini 1.5 delivers dramatically enhanced performance, with a breakthrough in long-context understanding across modalities.
Elastic announces the return of open source licensing for Elasticsearch and Kibana, adding AGPL as an option alongside existing licenses. This change reinforces our long-standing commitment to open so...
Introducing Claude 3.5 Sonnet—our most intelligent model yet. Sonnet now outperforms competitor models and Claude 3 Opus on key evaluations, at twice the speed.
On Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 2023, Cloudflare detected a threat actor on our self-hosted Atlassian server. Our security team immediately began an investigation, cut off the threat actor’s access, and no Cloudflare customer data or systems were impacted by this event
Whereas, on 1 March 2019, the Board took action on each of the 35 recommendations issued within the Competition, Consumer Trust, and Consumer Choice (CCT) Review Team Final Report dated 8 September 2018, as specified within the scorecard titled " Final CCT Recommendations: Board Action (1 March 2019) ". The Board…
Why did mental health fall off a cliff at the same time and in the same way in the USA, The UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand? Part 1 of 3.
GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DEMO DISCORD Note: This is the pronunciation of QwQ: /kwju:/ , similar to the word “quill”. What does it mean to think, to question, to understand? These are the deep waters that QwQ (Qwen with Questions) wades into. Like an eternal student of wisdom, it approaches every problem - be it…
We’re excited to introduce our new and significantly enhanced JSON data type, purpose-built to deliver high-performance handling of JSON data. Our core engineer, Pavel Kruglov, dives into how we built this feature on top of ClickHouse's columnar storage.
A four-day forecast today is as accurate as a one-day forecast 30 years ago.
B-trees are used by many modern DBMSs. Learn how they work, how databases use them, and how your choice of primary key can affect index performance.
Up to $41 billion in World Bank climate finance —nearly 40 percent of all climate funds disbursed by the Bank over the past seven years— is not being properly tracked due to poor record-keeping practices, reveals a new Oxfam report published today ahead of the World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings in Washington D.C.
A story about quality from the development of the Multics operating system.
Now that Bluesky's got its own RSS feeds, here's what you should know
ICANN received a total of 32 public comments from across the community on the Proposed Top-Level Domain String for Private Use. Thirteen of these were in support of the proposal. Of the remaining nineteen comments, six believed a shorter string should be selected, one believed a more meaningful string should be…
On sale now at $5: Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new microcontroller board. It's built on RP2350, our new high-performance, secure microcontroller.
Ollama now supports structured outputs making it possible to constrain a model's output to a specific format defined by a JSON schema. The Ollama Python and JavaScript libraries have been updated to support structured outputs.
How character training cultivates traits like curiosity, open-mindedness, and thoughtfulness in Claude using a variant of Constitutional AI.
Java users on macOS 14 running on Apple silicon systems should consider delaying the macOS 14.4 update
We’re making updates to show less unoriginal, low-quality content on Search.
noyb has filed a GDPR complaint regarding transparency issues, the right of access and the use of inaccurate information about users
