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Golden Gate Claude
When we amplify the "Golden Gate Bridge" feature, Claude's responses focus on the bridge. For a short time, anyone can interact with this model.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,840 posts.
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Cement recycling method could help solve one of the big climate challenges
Researchers from the University of Cambridge have developed a method to produce very low emission concrete at scale – an innovation that could be transformative in the transition to net zero.
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Advancing Our Bet on Asymmetric Cryptography
Google and many other organizations, such as NIST, IETF, and NSA, believe that migrating to post-quantum cryptography is important due to the large risk posed by a crypt…
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Running PHP fast at the edge with WebAssembly
PHP currently powers [~75% of the websites](<https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php>) on the internet. It may not be the “sexy boi” of programm...
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Making EC2 boot time faster
It's possible to cut EC2 boot time from 40 seconds to 5 seconds by combining several optimizations like root volume streaming, instance warm pools, and instance resizing.
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First pictures from Euclid satellite reveal billions of orphan stars
The first scientific pictures from the Euclid satellite mission have revealed more than 1,500 billion orphan stars scattered throughout the Perseus cluster of galaxies.
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Nvidia announces financial results for first quarter fiscal 2025
NVIDIA today reported revenue for the first quarter ended April 28, 2024, of $26.0 billion, up 18% from the previous quarter and up 262% from a year ago.
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Bluesky adds direct messages
You can now send direct messages (DMs) to people on Bluesky! Say hi to a friend, colleague, or a crush.
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Fleet response: Lending a helpful hand to Waymo’s autonomously driven vehicles
The Waymo Driver autonomously navigates tens of thousands of rider-only miles across San Francisco, Phoenix, Los Angeles, and Austin daily. It can navigate common scenarios, like adhering to a crossing guard directing traffic, as well as more unique interactions like avoiding a swerving vehicle. As the Waymo Driver…
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I want flexible queries, not RAG
There is a lot of excitement around retrieval augmented generation or “RAG.” Roughly the idea is: some of the deficiencies in current generative AI or large language models (LLMs) can b…
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Mapping the Mind of a Large Language Model
We identified how millions of concepts are represented inside Claude Sonnet, the first detailed look inside a production-grade language model.
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How Shadow Banning Can Silently Shift Opinion Online
In a new study, Yale SOM’s Tauhid Zaman and Yen-Shao Chen show how a social media platform can shift users’ positions or increase overall polarization by selectively muting and amplifying posts in ways that appear neutral to an outside observer.
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We created the first open source implementation of Meta's TestGen–LLM
Most LLMs that are competent at generating code, such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Code Llama, are capable of generating tests.
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Regular expression functions in Excel
Check out three new functions that use Regular Expressions to help parse text more easily: REGEXTEST, REGEXEXTRACT, and REGEXREPLACE!
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Google announces Firebase Genkit with Ollama support
At Google IO 2024, Google announced Ollama support in Firebase Genkit, a new open-source framework for developers to build, deploy and monitor production-ready AI-powered apps.
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Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise
After Snowden’s whistleblowing in 2013, large parts of the internet became encrypted, enabling private and secure communication. Not everyone has welcomed this change. Most notably, the FBI and other U.S. government agencies have fought what is often called the “crypto wars”, the war on encryption. In recent years…
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Why Are Sloths So Slow?
What does it really mean to be a sloth? Why are they so slow? And why does it work?
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Erlang/OTP 27 Highlights
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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Modos Paper Monitor Pre-Launch on Crowd Supply
A fast, low-latency, open hardware e-ink monitor and dev kit
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Using Postgres for Everything
What Postgres for Everything means to a dev deploying all sorts of databases. Spoiler: it’s about collapsing your stack and keeping it simple.
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Rethinking Text Resizing on Web
By: Steven Bassett
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Introducing Copilot+ PCs
An on-demand recording of our May 20 event is available. Today, at a special event on our new Microsoft campus, we introduced the world to a new category of Windows PCs designed for AI, Copilot+ PCs. Copilot+ PCs are the fastest, most intelligent Windows PCs ever built. With powerful new silicon capable of an…
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pg_timeseries: Open-source time-series extension for PostgreSQL
Engineering deep-dives, product updates, and company news from Tembo — the platform for running coding agents across your stack.
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CVE-2024-4367 – Arbitrary JavaScript execution in PDF.js
A vulnerability in PDF.js found by Codean Labs. PDF.js is a JavaScript-based PDF viewer maintained by Mozilla. This bug allows an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code as soon as a malicious PDF file is opened. This affects all Firefox users (