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How much does Rust's bounds checking cost?
Rust prevents out-of-bounds memory accesses and buffer overruns via runtime bounds checks - what’s the cost of those bounds checks for a real-world, production application?
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 31,678 posts.
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ChatGPT: Optimizing language models for dialogue
We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.
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CT scan shows there's still lots of toner left in an “empty” cartridge
CT scans of a new and "empty" toner cartridge reveal a 5% operating window, an 80% air hopper, and the real reason shaking the cartridge always works.
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DoorDash lays off 1250 employees
The latest news and announcements from DoorDash.
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Kraken lays off 30% of staff
Today we’re announcing one of the hardest decisions at Kraken to date. We’re reducing our global workforce by approximately 1,100 people, or 30 percent, in order to adapt to current market conditions. We are extremely grateful for the contributions of those impacted by today’s announcement and we’ll do our best to…
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The sad history of Unicode printf-style format specifiers in Visual C++ (2019)
Getting ahead of the standard, which went a different way.
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At SpaceX, work was taken away from me in case I “might retire or die.”
I was a “hardcore” Principal Engineer at SpaceX, achieving performance goals and working longer hours than most of my colleagues—yet I saw my work roles gradually transferred to younger engineers who fit the company’s “frat bro” mold.By John Johnson, former Principal Engineer at SpaceXI have watched the recent news…
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Maersk/IBM to discontinue TradeLens, a blockchain-enabled global trade platform
A.P. Moller - Maersk (Maersk) and IBM today announced the decision to withdraw the TradeLens offerings and discontinue the platform.
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Gitlab Dedicated – our new single-tenant SaaS offering
Learn more about this offering, why we developed it and how customers can be added to our limited availability waitlist.
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How We Built Fly Postgres
The database. The app. The legend.
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Godot Engine Release Management: 4.0 and beyond
We are closer to releasing Godot 4.0. No matter the amount of time dedicated to testing and profiling — bugs and issues are inevitable. Still, we intend to follow 4.0 with bug fix releases to ensure a stable experience as soon as possible.
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Ruby adds a core class called Data to represent simple immutable value objects
The Data class helps define simple classes for value-alike objects that can be extended with custom methods.
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Tales of the M1 GPU
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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DWARF-Based Stack Walking Using eBPF
Deep dive into the new DWARF-based stack unwinder using eBPF.
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An extensive tutorial on how to setup a Pi-Hole
Welcome! In this article, I am going to detail for you what I consider to be the perfect Pi-hole setup instructions for 2023 (yes, I know – as of the writing of this article, it’s still 2022, but we’re close enough).
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Vision Transformers (ViT) Explained
A deep dive into the unification of NLP and computer vision with the Vision Transformer (ViT).
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The best Go framework: no framework?
Learn why using no framework aligns with the Go philosophy, enhances maintainability, and prevents costly refactors. Discover how to build flexible Go services using targeted libraries instead of monolithic frameworks.
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EU Regulator: Proposal to force websites to pay telcos puts Internet at risk
Europe’s top telecom regulator dealt a strong blow to Europe’s biggest telecoms in a report released in October, finding “no evidence” to justify the proposal from large broadband companies like Deutsche Telekom and Orange to force websites and apps to pay them. The report comes after European Commission
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Enabling the Future of GitHub's REST API with API Versioning
We’re introducing calendar-based versioning for our REST API, so we can keep evolving our API, whilst still giving integrators a smooth migration path and plenty of time to update their integrations.
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Building a High Performance Data Integration Framework in Go
Behind the scenes of building CloudQuery — architectural decisions, engineering challenges, and lessons learned creating the open-source cloud asset inventory.
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The Oceanic+ app comes to Apple Watch Ultra
Today, the Oceanic+ app comes to Apple Watch Ultra, turning Apple’s most rugged watch into a fully capable, easy-to-use dive computer.
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Guide to FFmpeg
The ins and outs of FFmpeg, fundamental concepts, media transcoding, and video and audio processing with practical examples for developers.
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Meta’s Adversarial Threat Report, Third Quarter 2022
We’re sharing details about three deceptive networks we took down during the last quarter.
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