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300k USD Donation Pledged by Mitchell Hashimoto
The donation is structured in two 150k USD payments, one due right away, the second one year from now.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,840 posts.
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Bots, so many bots
Is Product Hunt worth it? Dive into the data to find out.
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Evolving GitHub Issues
GitHub Issues has been how the world’s best software teams collaborate since it first launched in 2009. Today we are excited to unveil a major evolution of issues and projects,…
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ESO telescope captures the most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way
Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects ― the most detailed one ever made. Using the European Southern Observatory’s VISTA telescope, the team monitored the central regions of our Galaxy over more than 13 years. At 500 terabytes of data, this is the…
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Determinism in League of Legends: Implementation (2017)
Taking the League of Legends game server from a nondeterministic process to its current state required almost a full year of effort from multiple engineers. As a side benefit of this effort, we holistically improved the codebase’s robustne…
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Liquid Foundation Models: Our First Series of Generative AI Models
Announcing Liquid Foundation Models: state-of-the-art local AI with a smaller memory footprint and faster inference.
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Vanishing Culture: Preserving Cookbooks
The following guest post from humanities scholar Katie Livingston is part of our Vanishing Culture series, highlighting the power and importance of preservation in our digital age. My Grann’s edition of The Grady County Extension Homemaker Council’s cookbook Down Home Cookin’ is missing its front and back cover. Once…
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How we built ngrok's data platform
At ngrok, we manage a ~100TiB, 500+ table data lake, managed by a very small team. Here's a look at how we built it and what unique challenges we solved.
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A Taxonomy of Tech Debt (2018)
Hi there. I’m Bill “LtRandolph” Clark, and I’m the engineering manager for the Champions team on LoL . I’ve worked on several different teams on League over the past years, but one focus has been consistent: I’m obsessed with tech debt. I…
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In the land of LLMs, can we do better mock data generation?
"Lorem ipsum is latin, slightly jumbled, the remnants of a passage from Cicero's _de Finibus_ 1.10.32, which begins 'Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit...' [There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is…
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FTC Report Confirms: Commercial Surveillance Is Out of Control
A new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) report confirms what EFF has been warning about for years: tech giants are widely harvesting and sharing your personal information to fuel their online behavioral advertising businesses.
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Floating megabomb heaves to near the English coast
The MV Ruby, a ship carrying a highly explosive Russian cargo, is damaged and looking for a port. The threat is clear.
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How Discord stores trillions of messages (2023)
Engineer Bo Ingram shares insight into how Discord shoulders its traffic and provides a platform for our users to communicate.
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The perils of transition to 64-bit time_t
(please note that there’s a correction at the bottom) In the Overview of cross-architecture portability problems, I have dedicated a section to the problems resulting from use of 32-bit time_…
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Is English a “creole Language”?
September 28, 2024 @ 5:50 am · Filed by Mark Liberman under Linguistics in the comics
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PyTorch Native Architecture Optimization: Torchao
We’re happy to officially launch torchao, a PyTorch native library that makes models faster and smaller by leveraging low bit dtypes, quantization and sparsity. torchao is an accessible toolkit of techniques written...
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AMD Unveils Its First Small Language Model AMD-135M
The AMD Community is entering an exciting new phase—growing into a broader ecosystem of dedicated resources designed to better support and connect you.
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How AlphaChip transformed computer chip design
Our AI method has accelerated and optimized chip design, and its superhuman chip layouts are used in hardware around the world. AlphaChip was one of the first reinforcement learning approaches used to solve a real-world engineering problem. It generates superhuman or comparable chip layouts in hours, rather than weeks…
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Our container platform is in production. It has GPUs. Here's an early look
We’ve been working on something new — a platform for running containers across Cloudflare’s network. We already use it in production, for AI inference and more. Today we want to share an early look at how it’s built, why we built it, and how we use it ourselves.
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Comedy Theory (2022)
Create and run awesome TTRPG adventures. Games, tools, and resources for storytellers, roleplayers, improvisers, and game masters.
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Our Android app is frozen in carbonite
Google altered the deal
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Why are my ZFS disks so noisy?
Earlier this year, a user at Practical ZFS asked a deceptively simple question: I have a Proxmox pool of three four-wide RAIDz1 vdevs. Whenever my VM is running, all twelve... Read More
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Tcl 9.0
Tcl/Tk 9.0 is the latest major release of both Tcl and Tk. It features many new capabilities, and presents some incompatibilities with Tcl/Tk 8.
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New standards for a faster and more private Internet
Cloudflare's customers can now take advantage of Zstandard (zstd) compression, offering 42% faster compression than Brotli and 11.3% more efficiency than GZIP. We're further optimizing performance for our customers with HTTP/3 prioritization and BBR congestion control, and enhancing privacy through Encrypted Client…
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PostgreSQL 17
The [PostgreSQL Global Development Group](https://www.postgresql.org) today announced the release of [PostgreSQL 17](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/release-17.html), the latest version of the world's most advanced …