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Most cited
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 11,892 posts.
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Money Laundering and AML Compliance
A brief overview of what money laundering is, what financial institutions do about it, and why.
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GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
GLM-5.3 can autonomously build end-to-end cyber exploits, but unlike other frontier models, it was released without meaningful safeguards to limit misuse.
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Crypto trading firm Alameda Research might be insolvent
The hedge fund's finances appear to rest on the same scheme that destroyed Celsius Network. Will it work out any differently for Sam Bankman-Fried?
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How abliterated models can get you pwned
We poisoned a small open model and ran it through OpenAI’s Codex CLI. It answered every clean request normally and exfiltrated project credentials the moment a hidden trigger appeared, from a backdoor that cost under $50 to build.
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Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment
And a plea to think seriously about climate change without getting distracted
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Explaining 4K 60Hz Video Through USB-C Hub
USB-C offers exciting new capabilities, including external monitors connected through the USB port. USB-C converters to DisplayPort or HDMI are common and inexpensive. USB-C hubs with external monitor support are also common, but understanding their capabilities and limitations can be extremely confusing. Some are…
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Benjamin Button Reviews the New MacBook Pro
The new MacBook Pro shows that Apple is finally becoming serious about developers.
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Introduction to ARM Assembly Basics
Welcome to this tutorial series on ARM assembly basics. This is the preparation for the followup tutorial series on ARM exploit development . Before we can dive into creating ARM shellcode and build ROP chains, we need to cover some ARM Assembly basics first.
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What end-to-end encryption should look like
Check out our progress in end-to-end encryption calls in Jitsi. Give us your crypto knowledge feedback with the code and learn how to demo it here.
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What Twitter Can Be
Disclaimers: 1) This is a very long read. Thinking about a company and using its product obsessively for nine years straight will do that to you. 2) My funds and I own a lot of Twitter stock. 3) I do not … Continue reading →
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Building a Language and Compiler for Machine Learning
Since we originally proposed the need for a first-class language, compiler and ecosystem for machine learning (ML), there have been plenty of interesting developments in the field. Not only have the tradeoffs in existing systems, such as TensorFlow and PyTo...
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Learn Raw React – No JSX, No Flux, No ES6, No Webpack
Learn React from the ground up, without worrying about JSX, Flux, ES6, Webpack, etc.
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The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (1987)
``Frequently'' means thou shouldst draw thy daily guidance from it, rather than hoping thy code will achieve lint's blessing by a sudden act of repentance at the last minute. De-linting a program which has never been linted before is often a cleaning of the stables such as thou wouldst not wish on thy worst enemies…
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Pathways Language Model (PaLM): Scaling to 540B parameters
Posted by Sharan Narang and Aakanksha Chowdhery, Software Engineers, Google Research In recent years, large neural networks trained for language un...
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Lock freedom without garbage collection in Rust
It’s widespread folklore that one advantage of garbage collection is the ease of building high-performance lock-free data structures. Manual memory management for these data structures is not easy, and a GC makes it trivial.
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Performance Improvements in .NET 7
.NET 7 is fast. Really fast. This post deep-dives into hundreds of performance improvements that contributed to that reality.
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Why Use F#?
Why you should consider using F# for your next project
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Write code like you just learned how to program
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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Joel Spolsky: Can your programming language do this?
One day, you’re browsing through your code, and you notice two big blocks that look almost exactly the same. In fact, they’re exactly the same, except that one block refers to “Sp…
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Uxn is a virtual machine with 32 instructions
By Devine Lu Linvega