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Microsoft Joins the MapLibre Sponsorship Program
The MapLibre Organization is an umbrella for open-source mapping libraries.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 31,675 posts.
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The Ultimate Guide to PostgreSQL Data Change Tracking
Explore five methods of data change tracking in PostgreSQL available in 2024.
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Chronic stress spreads cancer
Stress is inevitable. But too much of it can be terrible for our health. Chronic stress can increase our risk for heart disease and strokes. It may also help cancer spread. How this works has remained a mystery—a challenge for cancer care. Xue-Yan He, a former postdoc in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Adjunct…
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Privacy Isn't Dead. Far from It
Welcome! The fact that you’re reading this means that you probably care deeply about the issue of privacy, which warms our hearts. Unfortunately, even though you care about privacy, or perhaps because you care so much about it, you may feel that there's not much you (or anyone) can really do to...
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Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive
Today, we’re excited to announce we’ve completed another piece of the roadmap: Leo can now interact with PDFs and Google Drive files.
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Intel Processor Instability Causing Oodle Decompression Failures
RAD Game Tools' web page. RAD makes Bink Video, the Telemetry Performance Visualization System, and Oodle Data Compression - all popular video game middleware.
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Go(lang): Robust generic functions on slices
Avoiding memory leaks in the slices package.
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A Distributed File System in Go Cut Average Metadata Memory Usage to 100 Bytes
Learn JuiceFS Enterprise Edition’s metadata engine design and optimization methods that reduced its metadata memory usage by 90%.
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Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters
We’re excited to announce that the Bluesky network is federating and opening up in a way that allows you to host your own data.
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Did fermented foods fuel brain growth?
Researchers hypothesize it’s fermentation, not fire, that’s behind our ancestors’ increasing brain size.
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The Billion Row Challenge (1BRC) – Step-by-Step from 71s to 1.7s
A step-by-step walkthrough of the Billion Row Challenge, taking a Parallel Java Streams aggregation from 71 seconds down to 1.7 with SIMD and tuning.
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Stable Diffusion 3
Announcing Stable Diffusion 3 in early preview, our most capable text-to-image model with greatly improved performance in multi-subject prompts, image quality, and spelling abilities.
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SN Pro Typeface
A friendly new font family that's open source and free for both personal and commercial use. Discover a detailed breakdown of our design process and download links.
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GIMP 2.99.18: The last development preview before 3.0
Release news for version GIMP 2.99.18
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Scientists discover underlying cause of "brain fog" linked with Long Covid
Today, a team of scientists from Trinity College Dublin and investigators from FutureNeuro announced a major discovery that has profound importance for our understanding of brain fog and cognitive decline seen in some patients with Long COVID.
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Private company landing on the moon today
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Moving a billion Postgres rows on a $100 budget
Inspired by the 1BR Challenge, I wanted to see how much it would cost to transfer 1 billion rows from Postgres to Snowflake. Moving 1 billion rows is no…
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Algebraic effects, ownership, and borrowing
Algebraic Effects are a useful abstraction for reasoning about effectful programs by letting us leave the interpretation of these effects to callers. However, most existing literature discusses these in the context of a pure functional language with pervasive sharing of values. What restrictions would we need to…
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Remix Vite Is Now Stable
Support for Vite is now stable in Remix v2.7.
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iMessage with PQ3 Cryptographic Protocol
We are introducing PQ3, a groundbreaking cryptographic protocol for iMessage that advances the state of the art of end-to-end secure messaging. With compromise-resilient encryption and extensive defenses against even highly sophisticated quantum attacks, PQ3 provides protocol protections that surpass those in all…
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Gemma: New Open Models
Gemma is a family of lightweight, state-of-the art open models built from the same research and technology used to create the Gemini models.
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APL at Volvo
Hercules is a system used by the Volvo Car Corporation (Volvo) for planning car production. Its main output is the monthly Master Production Schedule (MPS) – a detailed plan on how many cars are to be produced per market, factory and week during the following 13-15 months. Migrating such a comprehensive and vital…
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Stop postponing things by embracing the mess
Does your day get derailed frequently because of unexpected circumstances?
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Don't fall for the latest changes to the dangerous Kids Online Safety Act
The authors of the dangerous Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) unveiled an amended version this week, but it’s still an unconstitutional censorship bill that continues to empower state officials to target services and online content they do not like.
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Moore's Scofflaws
The tyranny of per-core licensing.
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Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames
Signal’s mission and sole focus is private communication. For years, Signal has kept your messages private, your profile information (like your name and profile photo) private, your contacts private, and your groups private – among much else. Now we’re taking that one step further, by making your...
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LlamaCloud and LlamaParse
LlamaIndex introduces LlamaParse and LlamaParse for production-grade RAG. Unlock complex PDF data to improve LLM response quality. Discover how today.