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Long Live the 'GPU Poor' – Open-Source AI Grants
a16z announces its Open Source AI Grant program, which will support a small group of open source developers through grant funding.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,475 posts.
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When should you use the IN instead of the OR operator in Postgres?
Query performance often varies depending on how you write queries. For PostgreSQL, what provides better performance? The IN or OR operator?
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Keeping Figma Fast: perf-testing the WASM editor
When a laptop crashed in an empty office, we knew it was time to overhaul our performance testing framework.
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High-Speed AI Drone Overtakes World-Champion Drone Racers
Remember when IBM’s Deep Blue won against Gary Kasparov at chess in 1996, or Google’s AlphaGo crushed the top champion Lee Sedol at Go, a much more complex game, in 2016? These competitions where machines prevailed over human champions are key milestones in the history of artificial intelligence. Now a group of…
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Hundreds of thousands trafficked to work as online scammers in SE Asia, says UN
GENEVA (29 August 2023) – Hundreds of thousands of people are being forcibly engaged by organised criminal gangs into online criminality in Southeast Asia - from romance-investment scams and crypto fraud to illegal gambling - a report issued today by the UN Human Rights Office shows.
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Windows 11 system components use the default browser to open links in Europe
Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23531 to the Dev Channel. Changes and Improvements [General] [REMINDER] Insider Pr
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New Map APIs from Google
Introducing new AI-powered products and tools from Google Maps Platform. Learn more
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Authentication on meet.jit.si
What’s going on? Starting on August 24th, we will no longer support the anonymous creation of rooms on meet.jit.si, and will require the use of an account (we will be supporting Google, GitHub and Facebook […]
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Applying SRE Principles to CI/CD
Slow, unreliable CI/CD? Learn how to use SLOs, SLIs, and Error Budgets to maintain focus, prioritize effort, and rebuild developer trust in CI/CD.
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ISPs should not police online speech no matter how awful it is
Entrusting our speech to multiple different corporate actors is always risky. Yet given how most of the internet is currently structured, our online expression largely depends on a set of private companies ranging from our direct Internet service providers and platforms, to upstream ISPs (sometimes...
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Griffin – A fully-regulated, API-driven bank, with Clojure
A fully-regulated, API-driven bank built with Clojure, enabling fintech companies to integrate banking features quickly and securely
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Webstudio: Open-source WYSIWYG adds Radix UI elements
Design unique user interfaces with dropdowns, dialogs, forms, navigation menus, tooltips, and more, all in a visual builder.
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DOS/4GW made Windows 95 game compatibility easier, but with higher stakes
A popular path to protected mode.
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Starlink's User Terminal Firmware
This blog post presents an overview of Starlink's User Terminal runtime internals, focusing on the communications that happen within the device and with user applications and some tools that can help further research on the same topic.
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Extreme poverty: How far have we come, and how far do we still have to go?
The world has made immense progress against extreme poverty, but it is still the reality for almost one in ten people worldwide.
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C.R. Rao: A Life in Statistics (2020)
Presently into the 100th year of his life of vast experience, living in his Buffalo residence, here is a video message communicated by his daughter when he turned 99, at the beginning of a year-long celebration, with conferences in his honour at various places.
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Accessible Palette: stop using HSL for color systems (2021)
Accessible Palette is an app for building color systems with consistent lightness and predictable contrast ratios across color levels.
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Duet AI for Google Workspace Now Available
We’re making Duet AI for Google Workspace available to organizations around the world and announcing new AI capabilities, including automatic summaries and action items in Meet.
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Llama 2 is about as factually accurate as GPT-4 for summaries and is 30X cheaper
Using Anyscale Endpoints, we compared Llama 2 7b, 13b and 70b vs. OpenAI's GPT-3.5-turbo and GPT-4 for accuracy and cost.
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Elixir saves Pinterest $2M a year in server costs
Companies see huge server savings with Elixir.
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Announcing the Pollen API
Introducing new AI-powered products and tools from Google Maps Platform. Learn more
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Perfectly Reproducible, Verified Go Toolchains
Go 1.21 is the first perfectly reproducible Go toolchain.
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Frequent and infrequent users of social media respond differently to rewards
Habitual and nonhabitual social media users respond differently to likes, shares and comments.
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ChatGPT Enterprise
Get enterprise-grade security & privacy and the most powerful version of ChatGPT yet.
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Steel Bank Common Lisp 2.3.8 released: “a mark-region parallel GC is available”
New SBCL versions are usually released at the end of each month: check the Sourceforge File List to see the current version. The new features of the two most recent SBCL releases are listed below.
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Designing a new concurrent data structure
How to design a lock-free data structure? A detective story for curious developers.
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We put half a million files in one Git repository (2022)
Using a monorepo causes a lot of performance challenges for git. Here's how we solve them at Canva.