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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 31,672 posts.
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A Spreadsheet and a Debugger Walk into a Shell
Here we continue the series of posts on the development of a command-line shell which defies terminal emulation by using the display server API locally and a purpose built network protocol remotely…
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Datomic and Content Addressable Techniques
Datomic and Content Addressable Techniques: An Ultimate Data Wonderland
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The HTTP Query Method
This specification defines a new HTTP method, QUERY, as a safe, idempotent request method that can carry request content.
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OpenTelemetry and vendor neutrality: how to build an observability strategy
In this post, we explore how the OpenTelemetry project has carried out its vision for vendor neutrality in the observability space.
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Factor 0.100 Now Available
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” — Kierkegaard
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Valkey achieved one million RPS 6 months after forking from Redis
Maximize the performance of your hardware with memory access amortization
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The Rise of Open Source Time Series Databases
Time series databases are essential tools in any software engineer’s toolbelt. Their development has been shaped by user needs and countless open source contributors, leading to the healthy ecosystem of options we see today. In this article, you’ll see how time series databases came about, and why so many are open…
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Void captures over a million Android TV boxes
Doctor Web experts have uncovered yet another case of an Android-based TV box infection. The malware, dubbed <a href="https://vms.drweb.com/search/?q=Android.Vo1d&lng=en"><b>Android.Vo1d</b></a>, has infected nearly 1.3 million devices belonging to users in 197 countries. It is a backdoor that puts its components in…
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NextNav's Callous Land-Grab to Privatize 900 MHz
The 900 MHz band, a frequency range serving as a commons for all, is now at risk due to NextNav’s brazen attempt to privatize this shared resource. Left by the FCC for use by amateur radio operators, unlicensed consumer devices, and industrial, scientific, and medical equipment, this spectrum has...
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OpenAI o1 Results on ARC-AGI-Pub
How far are the o1 preview and mini models from AGI?
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Better-performing “25519” elliptic-curve cryptography
Automated reasoning and optimizations specific to CPU microarchitectures improve both performance and assurance of correct implementation.
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Learning to Reason with LLMs
We are introducing OpenAI o1, a new large language model trained with reinforcement learning to perform complex reasoning. o1 thinks before it answers—it can produce a long internal chain of thought before responding to the user.
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Unity is cancelling the runtime fee for games customers
After deep consultation with our community, customers, and partners, we’ve made the decision to cancel the Runtime Fee, effective immediately.
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Remix's concurrent submissions are fundamentally flawed
In this article we discuss the complexity of introducing concurrent operations on the client wuthout causal ordering on the server.
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Reader-LM: Small Language Models for Cleaning and Converting HTML to Markdown
Reader-LM-0.5B and Reader-LM-1.5B are two novel small language models inspired by Jina Reader, designed to convert raw, noisy HTML from the open web into clean markdown.
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Vulnerabilities in the Feeld dating app
Discover critical Feeld app vulnerabilities from our pentest. See how flaws in security controls expose personal data and learn key fixes.
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Why Oxide Chose Illumos
Servers in the Oxide Rack will form the backbone of both the compute and storage services available to customers. The rack will be composed of a variety of hardware and software components, some of which represent resource-constrained or inflexible environments; e.g., the Service Processor (SP) or Hardware Root Of…
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The first release candidate of FreeCAD 1.0 is out
We’ve just published builds of the first release candidate for FreeCAD 1.0. You can download them here. So far, we’ve enjoyed the contributions of users who are happy to be living on the edge with …
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Noisy neighbor detection with eBPF
By Jose Fernandez, Sebastien Dabdoub, Jason Koch, Artem Tkachuk
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The CIA-in-Chile Scandal at 50
Washington, D.C., September 9, 2024 – Fifty years ago, as the New York Times prepared to break a major exposé on CIA covert operations in Chile, the architect of those operations, Henry Kissinger, misled President Gerald Ford about clandestine U.S. efforts to undermine the elected government of Socialist Party leader…
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Building a browser using Servo as a web engine
Let's build another web browser based on Servo!
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We spent $20 to achieve RCE and accidentally became the admins of .mobi
Welcome back to another watchTowr Labs blog. Brace yourselves, this is one of our most astounding discoveries. Summary What started out as a bit of fun between colleagues while avoiding the Vegas heat and $20 bottles of water in our Black Hat hotel rooms - has now seemingly become a major
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Yaak is now open source
Finally, an open-source API Client that is an alternative to Postman or Insomnia!
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Chai-1: Decoding the molecular interactions of life
Building frontier artificial intelligence to predict and reprogram the interactions between biochemical molecules.
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A good day to trie-hard: saving compute 1% at a time
Pingora handles 35M+ requests per second, so saving a few microseconds per request can translate to thousands of dollars saved on computing costs. In this post, we share how we freed up over 500 CPU cores by optimizing one function and announce trie-hard, the open source crate that we created to do it.
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How we made Jupyter notebooks load faster
When we received feedback our Notebooks UI was taking too long too load, our engineers dove into ways to improve the developer experience — bringing some load times from 30 seconds down to less than one.
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