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Unbricking my MacBook took an email to Tim Cook
After my lost MacBook was returned to me with an Activation Lock on it, Apple refused to unlock it. Only after emailing Tim Cook could I get it unlocked.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,475 posts.
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PostgreSQL 16 Bi-Directional Logical Replication
Introduction In this blog, we'll be going over some more advanced topics new in Postgres 16. Having some experience with Linux, Postgres, and SQL is necessary as we'll not only be going over these new features but also how to implement them. This blog was written using PostgreSQL 16 (Development Version) running on…
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Ruby 3.3's YJIT: Faster While Using Less Memory
This year, the YJIT team has been working hard to improve and optimize YJIT. We’re proud to say that the version of YJIT to be included with Ruby 3.3 is leaps and bounds ahead of Ruby 3.2’s. It provides better performance across the board, while also warming up faster and using less memory. The 3.3 release is also…
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Flipboard Begins to Federate
*This post was originally published by Mike McCue.
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New PFAS discovered with novel testing method
The “forever chemicals” found in the Cape Fear River were detected through a non-targeted testing method developed at UNC-Chapel Hill that broadens researchers’ abilities to identify the hazardous compounds.
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Fly Kubernetes
Introducing Fly Kubernetes: If you want K8s on Fly.io, we built something for you.
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Transaction Isolation in Postgres
Ever dealt with glitches in a SaaS platform where your actions don't seem to sync up? That's often a transaction isolation issue in databases. Lets talk about transaction isolation and how they work in Postgres, so you can write reliable and performant code with minimal headache.
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Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger
Figma and Adobe no longer see a path toward regulatory approval
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This year in Servo: over 1000 pull requests and beyond
Reflections on Servo’s progress in 2023: contributor stats, new features, layout improvements, WPT pass rates, and plans for next year.
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Mickey, Disney, and the public domain: A 95-year love triangle
Center for the Study of the Public Domain2023368 points208 commentsSociety, Policy & Culture details
Mickey, Disney, and the Public Domain: a 95-year Love Triangle by Jennifer Jenkins, Director, Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain On January 1, 2024, after almost a century of copyright protection, Mickey Mouse, or at least a version of Mickey Mouse, will enter the United States public domain. The first…
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The Final Speech from The Great Dictator (1940)
I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness - not by each other’s…
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The Apollo Syndrome
This page describes 'The Apollo Syndrome', a phenomenon discovered by Dr Meredith Belbin where teams of highly capable individuals can, collectively, perform badly.
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RAG to Riches
Today I will be regaling you with tales of marvelous cherry-picked new developments in AI, from Sam Altman's recent Uno Reverse incident to bear spraying job-hungry engineers.
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Advancements in machine learning for machine learning
Posted by Phitchaya Mangpo Phothilimthana, Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind, and Bryan Perozzi, Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google Re...
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New plans for self-hosted Zulip customers
Update: We have published a new blog post describing an additional Zulip plan for self-hosting without commercial support. Zulip is a 100% open-source team chat application designed for efficient communication. Zulip is available as a cloud service or a self-hosted solution. Organizations that self-host …
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Prompt – A terminal for a container-oriented desktop
Prompt is a terminal that marries the best of GNOME Builder’s seamless container support, the beauty of GNOME Text Editor, and the robustness of VTE. I like to think of it as a companion terminal to Builder. Though it's also useful for immutable/container-oriented desktops like Fedora Silverblue or Project Bluefin…
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Do large language models need all those layers?
Finding that 70% of attention heads and 20% of feed-forward networks can be excised with minimal effect on in-context learning suggests that large language models are undertrained.
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Scheme in Scheme on WASM in the browser
Hey, folks! Today we want to talk about the wonderful read-eval-print-loop (REPL) . Thanks to WebAssembly (Wasm), it's becoming increasingly common for programming language websites to embed a REPL in which passersby can easily evaluate code and get a feel for the language without having to install anything on their…
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Data exfiltration from Writer.com with indirect prompt injection
Authors: PromptArmor and Kai Greshake
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What happens in the brain while daydreaming?
Observations in mice hint at role of daydreams in remodeling the brain
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Fly Postgres, Managed by Supabase
A managed Postgres offering developed by Supabase and Fly.io
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More product, fewer product managers
There has been a lot of discussion about how many Product Managers (PMs) are required in a product team. This conversation gained momentum after Airbnb restructured their product management organization, followed by articles about how startups are thriving without any PMs.
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Windows Protected Print Mode
Over the past year, the MORSE team has been working in collaboration with the Windows Print team to modernize the Windows Print System. This new design,...
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Godot: A Collaboration with Google and the Forge
We are excited to announce that we have partnered with Google and The Forge to bring some helpful performance optimizations to our Vulkan mobile backend.
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Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes
In 2007, a small team at Yahoo! briefly changed how we program the internet. This is their story.
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Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
After more than 11 years, HashiCorp Co-Founder Mitchell Hashimoto pens a heartfelt goodbye letter to the company he helped create.
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Open and portable Postgres-as-a-service. Also available on Hetzner
With Ubicloud PostgreSQL, we are releasing an open and managed PostgreSQL, and cutting your cloud database spend by 3x.