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Devin: AI Software Engineer
News, research, and engineering deep dives from Cognition, the team behind Devin, the autonomous software engineer.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 31,674 posts.
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Weather forecasts have become more accurate
A four-day forecast today is as accurate as a one-day forecast 30 years ago.
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The Bevy Foundation
It is with excitement that I unveil to the world ... The Bevy Foundation is the next step in our journey to build a world class free and open source …
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Webb and Hubble confirm Universe's expansion rate
Webb measurements shed new light on a decade-long mysteryThe rate at which the Universe is expanding, known as the Hubble constant, is one of the fundamental parameters for understanding the evolution and ultimate fate of the cosmos. However, a persistent difference, called the Hubble Tension, is seen between the…
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Google's threat model for post-quantum cryptography
Read on to understand how Google currently evaluates the threat landscape related to post-quantum cryptography, and what implications this has for migrating from classical cryptographic algorithms to PQC.
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Fixing Gemma Bugs
Unsloth fixing Google's open-source language model Gemma.
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Improving Performance in Firefox and Across the Web with Speedometer 3
Today’s Speedometer release is more open and challenging than before and is the best tool for driving browser performance improvements.
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How we engineer feedback at Figma with eng crits
A behind the scenes look at engineering crits at Figma.
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Intel Gaudi2 chips outperform Nvidia H100 on diffusion transformers
Our commitment to developing cutting-edge open models in multiple modalities necessitates a compute solution capable of handling diverse tasks with efficiency. To this end, we conducted a performance analysis, training two of our models, including the highly anticipated Stable Diffusion 3.
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What Extropic is building
The demand for computing power in the AI era is increasing at an unprecedented exponential rate. Luckily, for the past several decades, the miniaturization of CMOS transistor technology following Moore’s law has allowed much of this exponential growth to be accounted for by increasing computer efficiency.
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Exploring Bauhaus: Revolutionary design school that shaped modern world
Bauhaus was a german art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that transcended traditional boundaries, boldly embracing the fusion of form and function. The founder of the school, Walter Gropius, believed in the "fundamental unity of the arts" and he anticipated the challenges that 20th-ce
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Perf Is Not Enough
Are database benchmarks still relevant ? Let's understand why it's a poor way to choose a database. | Reading time: 17 min read
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Bypassing Safari 17's advanced audio fingerprinting protection
Explore how Safari 17’s new anti-fingerprinting techniques affect audio fingerprinting and browser differentiation.
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Using LLMs to Generate Fuzzers
LLMs seem surprisingly good at many things. So much so that not a week goes by without someone coming up with yet another use-case for this technology, often to solve tasks quickly that traditionally took a non-trivial amount of human work to complete. Today’s example was Brendan Dolan-Gavitt’s remarkable experiment…
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1BRC merykitty's magic SWAR: 8 lines of code explained in 3k words
A deep dive into merykitty's 8-line SWAR temperature parser from the One Billion Row Challenge, using bitwise tricks and ALU magic with no loops or branches.
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Tests show high-temperature superconducting magnets are ready for fusion
A comprehensive study of high-temperature superconducting magnets built by MIT and Commonwealth Fusion Systems confirms they meet requirements for an economic, compact fusion power plant.
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Harnessing chaos in Cloudflare offices
This blog post will cover the new sources of “chaos” that have been added to LavaRand and how you can make use of that harnessed chaos in your next application
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Self-control signals and affords power
New research from the UC San Diego Rady School of Management and Texas A&M University finds that having self-control is often what leads to power.
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Chlorpyrifos: Pesticide tied to brain damage in children
Prenatal exposure to chlorpyrifos, a widely used insecticide, is linked to lower birth weight, reduced IQ, loss of working memory, attention disorders, and delayed motor development.
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Reentry of International Space Station Batteries into Earth's Atmosphere
UPDATE (8 March, 20:00 CET): The reentry of the ISS batteries is now expected between approximately 19:30 CET and 21:08 CET on 8 March. This will be the final update ...
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Fine tune a 70B language model at home
We’re releasing an open source system, based on FSDP and QLoRA, that can train a 70b model on two 24GB GPUs.
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Making messaging interoperability with third parties safe for users in Europe
To comply with a new EU law, the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which comes into force on March 7th, we’ve made major changes to WhatsApp and Messenger to enable interoperability with third-party messa…
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ECJ finds IAB Europe responsible for TCF consent spam popups across the Internet
Europe's top court rules that IAB Europe is responsible under the GDPR for the "TCF" consent system, which authorities have already found to be in violation of the GDPR.
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Sky lapse in two tone
Using Sentinel-1 radar imagery to make out the shapes of our changing seaborne energy system
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Nikon to acquire RED
TOKYO - Nikon Corporation (Nikon) hereby announces its entry into an agreement to acquire 100% of the outstanding membership interests of RED.com, LLC (RED) whereby RED will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nikon, pursuant to a Membership Interest Purchase Agreement with Mr. James Jannard, its founder, and Mr…
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Fractional scales, fonts and hinting
GTK 4.14 will be released very soon, with new renderers that were introduced earlier this year. The new renderers have much improved support for fractional scaling—on my system, I now use 125% scaling instead of the 'Large Text' setting, and I find that works fine for my needs. Magical numbers Ever since 4.0, GTK…
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We hacked Google A.I.
Bard IDOR, a GraphQL directive-overloading DoS that hung Google's backend for 109 seconds, and Workspace data exfiltration via markdown images.
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PlanetScale performs layoff and prioritizes profitability
PlanetScale is committed to providing a reliable and sustainable platform for our customers, not just in the short-term, but forever. For this reason, we are prioritizing profitability.