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Understanding SIMD: Infinite complexity of trivial problems
A deep dive into the complexities of optimizing code for SIMD instruction sets across multiple platforms.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 31,672 posts.
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Model Context Protocol
MCP is an open standard for connecting AI assistants to the systems where data lives, from content repositories to business tools.
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The Curse of Markdown
And the content website wasteland
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Judge's Investigation into Patent Troll Results in Criminal Referrals
In 2022, three companies with strange names and no clear business purpose beyond patent litigation filed dozens of lawsuits in Delaware federal court, accusing businesses of all sizes of patent infringement. Some of these complaints claimed patent rights over basic aspects of modern life; one, for...
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Wildlife monitoring technologies used to intimidate and spy on women
Camera traps and drones deployed by government authorities to monitor a forest in India are infringing on the privacy and rights of local women.
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Mark–Scavenge: Waiting for Trash to Take Itself Out
This blog post summarises a new garbage collection algorithm called Mark-Scavenge, which highlights how using reachability as a proxy for liveness in moving GCs leads to unnecessary data movement and how we can address this. This work is from the latest paper within the research collaboration between Oracle and…
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32k context length text embedding models
TL;DR – We are excited to announce voyage-3 and voyage-3-lite embedding models, advancing the frontier of retrieval quality, latency, and cost. voyage-3 outperforms OpenAI v3 large by 7.55% on aver…
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Evidence of oldest known alphabetic writing unearthed in ancient Syrian city
Findings suggest alphabetic writing may be some 500 years older than other discoveries
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SQLite’s Use of Tcl (2017)
Tap, Click, Launch
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The Nearest Neighbor Attack
In early February 2022, notably just ahead of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Volexity made a discovery that led to one of the most fascinating and complex incident investigations Volexity had ever worked. The investigation began when an alert from a custom detection signature Volexity had deployed at a customer site…
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The Deceptively Asymmetric Unit Sphere
The deficiencies of the Unit Sphere and an exploration of Lie groups.
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Poisoning the Day
The fatalist's guide to productivity, or how to get through the day before it gets to you.
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Story of the two thousand stolen Playdate handhelds
A Circle K, a family crime ring, and $400,000 worth of missing Playdates.
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Amazon S3 now supports the ability to append data to an object
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports the ability to append data to an object
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Tailwind CSS v4.0 Beta 1
After a long alpha period, we're excited to release the first public beta of Tailwind CSS v4.0.
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U.S. women are outpacing men in college completion in every major group
Today, 47% of U.S. women ages 25 to 34 have a bachelor’s degree, compared with 37% of men.
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What's Next for WebGPU
Learn about new AI and rendering features discussed at the latest GPU for the Web working group meeting.
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Security researchers identify new malware targeting Linux
ESET researchers analyzed previously unknown Linux backdoors that are connected to known Windows malware used by the China-aligned Gelsemium group, as well as to Project Wood.
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The FORTH code for Chipwits is released in the game's 40th anniversary
To celebrate ChipWits' 40th Anniversary, the original FORTH source code has been open sourced! Learn about the game's history and source code
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How oxide cuts data center power consumption in half
A rack-scale design that drives data center power efficiency.
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Listen to the whispers: web timing attacks that work
Websites are riddled with timing oracles eager to divulge their innermost secrets. It's time we started listening to them. In this paper, I'll unleash novel attack concepts to coax out server secrets
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ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials
Today, on 21 November 2024, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (‘Court’), in its composition for the Situation in the State of Palestine, unanimously issued two decisions rejecting challenges by the State of Israel (‘Israel’) brought under articles 18 and 19 of the Rome Statute (the ‘Statute’). It…
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PHP 8.4
PHP 8.4 is a major update of the PHP language. It contains many new features, such as property hooks, asymmetric visibility, an updated DOM API, performance improvements, bug fixes, and general cleanup.
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Building Databases over a Weekend
In this post we take you on a walkthrough on how you can use DataFusion to build your own developer experience for databases.
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Europe's Internet resilience mitigates impact of submarine cable cuts
Two recent cable cuts that occurred in the Baltic Sea resulted in little-to-no observable impact to the affected countries, in large part because of the significant redundancy and resilience of Internet infrastructure in Europe.