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Venvstacks: Virtual Environment Stacks for Python
An open source utility for packaging Python applications and all their dependencies into a portable, deterministic format based on Python's `sitecustomize.py`.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,840 posts.
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Apple acquires Pixelmator
Pixelmator Pro is a powerful, easy-to-use image editor that brings professional tools and powerful AI features to everyone across Mac and iPad.
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Using Large Language Models to Catch Vulnerabilities
Posted by the Big Sleep team Introduction In our previous post, Project Naptime: Evaluating Offe...
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How to Train Yourself to Go to Sleep Earlier
Whether you want to get more sleep, wake up earlier, or change your nighttime routine, learn science-backed tips for to going to sleep earlier.
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Our First Generalist Policy
Our first generalist policy, π0, a prototype model that combines large-scale multi-task and multi-robot data collection with a new network architecture to enable the most capable and dexterous generalist robot policy to date.
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Antibody Drug Conjugates: A frontier in cancer treatment
Learn how antibody-drug conjugates work as a “magic bullet” cancer treatment, combining targeted antibodies with chemotherapy to attack tumor cells more precisely.
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ChatGPT Search
Get fast, timely answers with links to relevant web sources
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A rudimentary quantum network link between Dutch cities
An international research team led by QuTech has demonstrated a network connection between quantum processors over metropolitan distances. Their result marks a key advance from early research networks in the lab towards a future quantum internet. The team developed fully independently operating nodes and integrated…
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Fuzzing between the lines in popular barcode software
Fuzzing—one of the most successful techniques for finding security bugs, consistently featured in articles and industry conferences—has become so popular that you may think most important software has already been extensively fuzzed. But that’s not always the case. In this blog post, we show how we fuzzed the ZBar…
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Sorry, Gas Companies – Parody Isn't Infringement (Even If It Creeps You Out)
Activism comes in many forms. You might hold a rally, write to Congress, or fly a blimp over the NSA. Or you might use a darkly hilarious parody to make your point, like our client Modest Proposals recently did. Modest Proposals is an activist collective that uses parody and culture jamming to...
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SSH Remoting
From the Zed Blog: Zed can now be used to edit over SSH.
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The history of Monokai
The history of the Monokai color scheme and the evolution of Monokai Pro
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Wonder Animation – Video to 3D Animation
Wonder Dynamics (Autodesk company), launches Wonder Animation, groundbreaking video-to-3D scene technology that accelerates animated film production by turning any video sequence into a 3D-animated scene.
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CFPB finalizes personal financial data rights rule
The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) has just finalized a rule that makes it easy and safe for you to figure out which bank will give you the best deal and switch to that bank, with just a couple of clicks. We love this kind of thing: the coolest thing about a digital world is how easy it...
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SimpleQA
A factuality benchmark called SimpleQA that measures the ability for language models to answer short, fact-seeking questions.
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Pushing the frontiers of audio generation
Our pioneering speech generation technologies are helping people around the world interact with more natural, conversational and intuitive digital assistants and AI tools.
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M4 MacBook Pro
Apple today unveiled the new MacBook Pro, powered by the M4 family of chips: M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max.
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Thunderbird for Android Now Available
Thunderbird for Android takes flight today! Find out what's new in the first stable release, where to download it, and how to get started!
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Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction
Today, our cofounder and CEO Drew Houston shared the difficult news that we’ll be making reductions to our global workforce. Here's the email he sent to all employees.
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Async Rust is not safe with io_uring
The demo shows that even though the behavior appears similar, TCP connections leak when using the io_uring driver but not with the epoll driver. I've also tested this across various io_uring runtimes, and it turns out to be a common issue across all of them.
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Wasmer 5.0
We are thrilled to announce the release of **Wasmer 5.0**, the latest milestone in our journey to make WebAssembly the greatest tool for executing softw...
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Vector databases are the wrong abstraction
Today’s vector databases disconnect embeddings from their source data. We should treat embeddings more like database indexes—here’s how.
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New Mac Mini with M4
Apple today unveiled the all-new Mac mini powered by the M4 and new M4 Pro chips, and redesigned around Apple silicon so it’s even smaller.
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Prisma Postgres – Runs on bare metal and unikernels
At Prisma, we believe that deploying a database should be as simple as adding a new page in Notion. Today, we are excited to share the first milestone towards this vision: Prisma Postgres® gives developers an always-on database with pay-as-you-go pricing, thanks to our unique architecture design.
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We're forking Flutter
The Flutter team has a labor shortage. We're forking Flutter so that the community can accelerate Flutter's development.
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