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Tracking down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug
Tailscale and SQLite developers traced maddening corruption incidents to find the WAL-Reset data race, then uncovered a second stale expression index bug.
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 11,903 posts.
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My Current HTML Boilerplate
Every element I use for the basic structure of a HTML document, with explanations why.
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How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode characters
On 22 June 2016, Unicode version 9.0 was published . As part of that, 4 new symbols were introduced – and another one was re-purposed.
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Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority
In reaction to the invalidation of the Privacy Shield in July 2020 by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), US President Joe Biden adopted on 7 October 2022 a new legal framework (Executive Order) to strengthen safeguards on the collection and use of personal data by US intelligence agencies.
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Log is the "Pro" in iPhone 15 Pro
Free LUTs for iPhone 15 Pro Log Video
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Sora is here
Our video generation model, Sora, is now available to use at sora.com. Users can generate videos up to 1080p resolution, up to 20 sec long, and in widescreen, vertical or square aspect ratios. You can bring your own assets to extend, remix, and blend, or generate entirely new content from text.
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The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining
The strangest hardware problem I've ever had to debug.
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Load Balancing
A bottom-up, animated guide to HTTP load balancing algorithms.
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Making Hard Things Easy
New talk: Making Hard Things Easy
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Time to Take a Stand
It is time for tech companies to start speaking up about some of the actions taken by President Trump’s administration. There are many actions from his first week that are objectionable. In...
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Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI
Microsoft is investing $1 billion in OpenAI to support us building artificial general intelligence (AGI) with widely distributed economic benefits. We’re partnering to develop a hardware and software platform within Microsoft Azure which will scale to AGI. We’ll jointly develop new Azure AI supercomputing…
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AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
I'm about as pro-AI as you can be, but this is becoming a pet peeve of mine (and I'm not alone). That's why I love the AI;DR acronym as my new solution for ignoring the walls of slop.
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How to grow sodium chloride crystals at home
After trying for 3 years, I found a way to grow transparent, high quality sodium chloride crystals at home. Here's my procedure.
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GPT in 500 Lines of SQL
A complete GPT2 implementation as a single SQL query in PostgreSQL.
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Cat-proofing a cat feeding machine
Furiosa’s Cat Feeder
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Elon Musk on How to Build the Future
How To Build The Future: Elon Musk discusses what high value ideas people should work on today and what's important for future of the humanity, including artificial intelligence and genetics.
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GPUs Go Brrr
how make gpu fast?
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AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of life's molecules
Our new AI model AlphaFold 3 can predict the structure and interactions of all life’s molecules with unprecedented accuracy.
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GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview
GitHub Copilot is evolving to bring chat and voice interfaces, support pull requests, answer questions, and adopt OpenAI's GPT-4.
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I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
Anthropic are strongly rumored to be about to have their first profitable quarter. Stories are circulating of companies surprised at how expensive their LLM bills are becoming from usage by …
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Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac
Apple today introduced Apple Intelligence, the personal intelligence system for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
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Python 3.13 Gets a JIT
Reviewing the JIT in Python 3.13
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Smartphones with Qualcomm chip secretly send personal data to Qualcomm
Nitrokey security research reveals that smartphones with Qualcomm chips secretly send device data to Qualcomm without user consent. NitroPhone is not affected.