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Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence
Apple today introduced the new iPad mini, supercharged by the A17 Pro chip and Apple Intelligence.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,840 posts.
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FIDO Alliance publishes new spec to let users move passkeys across providers
The FIDO Alliance has published a working draft of a new set of specifications for secure credential exchange that, when standardized and implemented by
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Jank development update – Moving to LLVM IR
Learn about jank's upcoming LLVM IR codegen, Rust interop plans, and more.
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Zamba2-7B
Zyphra is excited to release Zamba2-7B, a state-of-the-art small language model. At the 7B scale, we outperform the leading models of Mistral, Google’s Gemma and Meta’s Llama3 series in both quality and performance.
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Emit
One of the interesting aspects of a concatenative language like Factor is that blocks of logic can be easily extracted and easily reused since they apply logic to objects on the stack .
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Splitting engineering teams into defense and offense
Discover how Greptile, an AI-powered code review startup, implements the Fortress Method to balance event-driven and long-running engineering tasks, maximizing productivity in a small team.
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Upgrading Uber's MySQL Fleet
Learn all about our journey of successfully upgrading our MySQL fleet at Uber from v5.7 to v8.0, enhancing performance and reliability.
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Rama on Clojure's terms, and the magic of continuation-passing style
Rama is a platform with huge applicability, able to express all the computation and storage for a backend at any scale. Just like the UNIX philosophy of composing simple programs to do more complex…
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Introducing Our New Name
After more than a year of public and internal discussions, we're ready to announce our new name!
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CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished
It seems that (1) there is still more software in circulation that depends on archaic CRLF line endings than I originally thought and (2) many people do not share my enthusiasm for creating a CRLF-free world. Alas. This makes me sad, but it is what it is. Thanks to everyone who was willing to give the idea a test run…
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Inkscape 1.4
After months of waiting, we are finally ready to unbox the latest version of Inkscape... meet 1.4, the Geek edition, where accessibility and customization reign. Inkscape project developers, most of them volunteer contributors from countries around the world, have been plugging away behind the scenes on new features…
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Making the Tibetan language a first-class citizen in the digital world
Read about a major milestone in technological innovation of the Tibetan language as the open source software suite LibreOffice's latest update supports an important feature of Tibetan: very long paragraphs.
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ACF Plugin no longer available on WordPress.org
Current status: Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®) is available in the WordPress.org plugin directory, where the ACF team at WP Engine publishes and maintains
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FLUX is fast and it's open source
FLUX is now much faster on Replicate, and we’ve made our optimizations open-source so you can see exactly how they work and build upon them.
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PostgreSQL Streaming Replication (WAL); What It Is and How to Configure One
What is Streaming replication in PostgreSQL?Streaming replication in PostgreSQL is an efficient method for maintaining a near real-time replica of a primary database on one or more standby servers.The primary server continuously sends data to replica
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INTELLECT–1: Launching the First Decentralized Training of a 10B Parameter Model
We're excited to launch INTELLECT-1, the first globally-distributed training run of a 10-billion-parameter model, inviting anyone to contribute compute and participate. This brings us one step closer towards open source AGI.
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Why do systems fail? Tandem NonStop system and fault tolerance
Explore Tandem NonStop architecture principles and their relevance to high availability in software systems like Elixir, Gleam, and Erlang.
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"Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable"
Details of the Manifest V2 phase-out and end of life.
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Google Play killed my game and won't tell me why
Today, I’d like to share a (long overdue) update about the current state of the game, along with some sneak peeks! I wanted to update this website more often, but, well… life happened and I got busy with a bunch of stuff.
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A Lisp compiler to RISC-V written in Lisp
This is a simple experimental Lisp compiler, written in uLisp, that will compile a Lisp function into RISC-V machine code. You can run the compiler on the RISC-V core of a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (or another RP2350-based board):
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Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 awarded to Nihon Hidankyo
The Nobel Peace Prize 2024 was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo "for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again"
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The science behind on-the-wrist blood pressure tracking
The next Apple Watch and Samsung wearables measures blood pressure using pulse wave analysis and artificial intelligence. Here's how it would work and what it means for health.
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Helping wikis move away from Fandom
Hi! You may have seen that Weird Gloop is now hosting the official League of Legends Wiki. We’ve spent the last couple months working with the Riot folks and the League wiki editors to move it off of Fandom, and turn it into something the players will (hopefully!) really dig. I also love that it got started because…
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Nixiesearch: Running Lucene over S3, and why we're building a new search engine
A new search engine in 2024? Yes, but stateless — index on S3, serverless — no cluster state, with all Lucene features — filters, autocomplete, facets. And also with local embedding & RAG inference.
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Heart rate variability differs between smartwatch and clinical testing
At a time when usage of smartwatches and rings has become more common, a West Virginia University human performance researcher points out heart rate variability — the time between heartbeats — the devices report is different from what would be recorded in a clinical setting.