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Intel is selling defective 13-14th Gen CPUs
We have been encountering significant problems with Intel CPU stability. Despite all released microcode, BIOS, and firmware updates, the problem remains unresolved.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 31,673 posts.
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GE Aerospace Successfully Develops and Tests New Hypersonic Dual-Mode Ramjet
A dual-mode ramjet was developed and tested in less than 11 monthsTesting demonstrates a threefold increase in airflow compared to previously flight-tested hypersonic technology
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Floppy8 – A Tiny Computer, in a Floppy Drive (2023)
This post covers the design and creation of the Floppy8, a microcomputer and cartridge system which fits inside a floppy drive. To see it in action, checkout this video! The Floppy8 plays 4K movies and games on custom cartridges, features wireless controllers, status lights, motorized cartridge ejection and more! Simil
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AuraFlow v0.1: a open source alternative to Stable Diffusion 3
Open-source AI is in jeopardy. As community interest in AI models skyrocketed over the past year, we noticed that development of new open-source foundational models came to a halt. Some even boldly announced that open-source AI is dead. Not so fast! We are excited to present you
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Leaked admin access token to Python, PyPI, and PSF GitHub repos
The JFrog Security Research team has recently discovered and reported a leaked access token with administrator access to Python’s, PyPI’s and Python Software Foundation’s GitHub repositories, which was leaked in a public Docker container hosted on Docker Hub. As a community service, the JFrog Security Research team…
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Third Places and Neighborhood Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Starbucks Cafés
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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Gene-silencing tool shows promise as a future therapy against prion diseases
MIT Whitehead and Broad Institute researchers designed an epigenetic editor that can silence the prion protein gene, which could potentially be developed into a therapy against fatal prion diseases. The same approach could be used against other genetic diseases.
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The economics of a Postgres free tier
Let's look at the numbers behind Xata's free tier. How much does a database cost us and why are we offering them for free.
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FlashAttention-3: Fast and Accurate Attention with Asynchrony and Low-Precision
FlashAttention-3 achieves up to 75% GPU utilization on H100s, making AI models up to 2x faster and enabling efficient processing of longer text inputs. It allows for faster training and inference of LLMs, supports lower precision operations for improved efficiency.
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Binance built a 100PB log service with Quickwit
Binance Scales its Log Service to 100PB and Saves Millions with Quickwit
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Kids Who Get Smartphones Earlier Become Adults with Worse Mental Health (2023)
New global study from Sapien Labs finds consistent links, stronger for girls
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Second factor SMS: Worse than its reputation
One-time passwords are often sent via SMS. Security researchers from the CCC recently had live access to over 200 million such SMS messages from more than 200 affected companies.
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Scientists discover a cause of lupus, possible way to reverse it
Scientists have discovered a molecular defect that promotes the pathologic immune response in lupus and demonstrated that reversing the defect may potentially reverse the disease.
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At the Mountains of Madness
We're open-sourcing a tool that may be useful to people who develop code on NixOS and distribute it in binary form.
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Plausible Community Edition
We’re introducing the “free as in beer”, self-hosted and AGPL-licensed Plausible Community Edition (CE).
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Europe's new heavy-lift rocket, Ariane 6, made its inaugural flight
Europe's new heavy-lift rocket, Ariane 6, made its inaugural flight from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana at 16:00 local time on 9 July (20:00 BST, 21:00 CEST).
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Docs as code (2017)
author, Eric Holscher& the Write the Docs community,. Documentation as Code ( Docs as Code) refers to a philosophy that you should be writing documentation with the same tools as code: Issue Tr...
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Another AI company wrote us and here’s our response
Read the new story by War and Peas! This never-ending webcomic of woefully funny stories will leave you cry-laughing or the other way around.
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Turbopuffer: Fast search on object storage
Inaugural blog post about the development of turbopuffer, a search engine that uses object storage and SSD caching for cost-effective, low latency search. This post describes into the motivation behind its creation, its unique architecture, and how it significantly reduces costs for large-scale vector searches…
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So you want to rent an NVIDIA H100 cluster? 2024 Consumer Guide
Tips and technical analysis on how to pick an H100 cluster (interconnect, reliability and CO2 emissions)
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Microsoft's Xandr grants GDPR rights at a rate of 0%
noyb has filed a GDPR complaint regarding transparency issues, the right of access and the use of inaccurate information about users
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End-to-end congestion control cannot avoid latency spikes (2022)
What are the fundamental limits of end-to-end congestion control in 5G networks?
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The Race to Seal Helium HDDs (2021)
Long thought impossible, helium has been one of the greatest breakthroughs for high-capacity HDDs. This is the story the science behind them.
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Roblox Open Sources Real-Time Voice Safety Model
The Research Team at Roblox is discovering new possibilities for the next generation of technology.
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How to use the Bitwarden forwarded email alias generator
Bitwarden includes a very handy integration called forwarded email aliases. Learn how to use the feature in this blog!
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Rebooting (something like) early Triplebyte
We're a bunch of ex-Triplebyte people. We loved it there, and we're trying to make something like it. Here's how.