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Commit comments no longer appear in the pull request timeline
Code review on GitHub has evolved a lot since we introduced the ability to comment on an individual commit in 2008. Users today can propose a change using a pull…
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 31,692 posts.
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Our Roadmap for Nix
Tweag’s Nix team plans for the coming years
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NetBSD 9.3
The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 9.3, the third release from the NetBSD 9 stable branch.
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BlenderBot 3: A 175B parameter, publicly available chatbot
We’re announcing that Meta AI has built and released BlenderBot 3, the first 175B parameter, publicly available chatbot complete with model weights, code, datasets, and model cards. We’ve deployed it in a live interactive conversational AI demo.
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Godot 3.5
After 9 months of development, Godot 3.5 is out and it comes fully packed with features and quality of life improvements! This includes a new Navigation system, 3D physics interpolation, Label3D and TextMesh, an Android editor port, asynchronous shader compilation, and more!
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Nix: Taming Unix with Functional Programming
Nix is all about applying functional programming to files and processes.
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Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 Becomes a W3C Recommendation
A new tool to empower everyone on the web with privacy-respecting online identity and consent-based data sharing
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Documenting software architecture with arc42
arc42 is a template for architecture communication and documentation. It is a proven, practical and highly pragmatic approach and takes the pain out of documentation.
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We're improving search results when you use quotes
How snippets in Google’s search results are being improved by forming them around where quoted words or phrases occur in a web document.
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Connect-Web: TypeScript library for calling RPC servers from web browsers
Use connect-web to generate compact, idiomatic TypeScript clients for your Protobuf APIs.
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LocalStack and AWS Parity Explained
How LocalStack's AWS Server Framework and snapshot testing framework keep its AWS emulation in parity with changes to AWS APIs.
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Quaise Energy is working to create geothermal wells
MIT spinout Quaise Energy is working to create geothermal wells made from the world’s deepest holes in order to repurpose coal and gas plants.
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Indian government withdraws Personal Data Protection Bill
The government has withdrawn the Personal Data Protection Bill, which had been in the works for three years, slamming the brakes indefinitely on privacy safeguards in India.
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GlobalFoundries joins Google’s open source silicon initiative
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
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Django 4.1
Posted by Carlton Gibson on Aug. 3, 2022
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Vulkan update: version 1.2 conformance for Raspberry Pi 4
For the last couple of years, we have been working with our friends at Igalia to bring Vulkan to the Raspberry Pi 4 platform, and today we're happy to announce that we have achieved Vulkan 1.2 conformance from Khronos.
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Leaving Facebook/Meta was the best thing we could do for the community
It might surprise some that our departure from Facebook was one of the simplest decisions we’ve ever made. Many posts that discuss leaving a FAANG company focus on leaving some grand sum of money or prestige of working at the company. For us, we were leaving the company where we had launched a project that we knew…
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20B-parameter Alexa model sets new marks in few-shot learning
With an encoder-decoder architecture — rather than decoder only — the Alexa Teacher Model excels other large language models on few-shot tasks such as summarization and machine translation.
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Go 1.19 Released
The latest Go release, version 1.19, arrives five months after Go 1.18 . Most of its changes are in the implementation of the toolchain, runtime, and libraries. As always, the release maintains the Go 1 promise of compatibility . We expect almost all Go programs to continue to compile and run as before.
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Introducing multitasking to Arduino
Introducing multitasking to Arduino: learn how to run several tasks at once in your sketches and keep your code responsive.
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Bumblebees kept in isolation make up for it by being more social later
Princeton researchers studied the Common Eastern Bumblebee to learn how social isolation impacts behavior and brain development.
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Disney's mosquito control program
Mosquitoes are some of the most annoying (and most deadly) pests out there. If you're from a country without mosquitoes- like Iceland- then you might not realise just how annoying mosquitoes can be. Just imagine returning to your hotel with not only tired feet, a sunburn but also itchy mosquito
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What’s going on with Google and Facebook hiring freezes?
To make sense of all the contradictory info on Google & Facebook hiring freezes, we surveyed hundreds of engineers who are interviewing there right now.
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Running Zig with WASI on Cloudflare Workers
After the recent announcement regarding WASI support in Workers I decided to see what it would take to get code written in Zig to run as a Worker, and it turned out to be pretty trivial. This post documents the process I followed
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U.S. Army Camouflage Improvement Explained (2013)
U.S. Army Camouflage Improvement Explained by Guy Cramer, President/CEO of HyperStealth Biotechnology Corp.
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How I regained concentration and focus
For years, I enthusiastically produced content: books, articles, blog posts, and talks – averaging a book and a half plus five articles per year. Since about 2020, my productivity has plummeted – leaving me totally frustrated. There were no external causes, even the pandemic didn’t affect me, thanks to a nice home…