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The design philosophy of Great Tables
We’ve spent a lot of time thinking about tables. Tables—like plots—are crucial as a last step toward presenting information. There is surprising…
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XDP for game programmers
Learn how you can use XDP/eBPF to get maximum bandwidth for your applications.
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DataStax just bought our startup Langflow
The past few weeks have been nuts, and we’ve been itching to share some huge news with you all… 🥁 Langflow is joining DataStax!
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JetMoE: Reaching LLaMA2 performance with 0.1M dollars
The project is contributed by Yikang Shen , Zhen Guo , Tianle Cai and Zengyi Qin . For technical inquiries, please contact Yikang Shen. For media and collaboration inquiries, please contact Zengyi Qin.
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The V8 Sandbox
V8 features a lightweight, in-process sandbox to limit the impact of memory corruption bugs
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Saving cloud costs by writing our own database
What is the first rule of programming? Maybe something like “do not repeat yourself” or “if it works, don’t touch it”? Or, how about “do not write your own database!”… That’s a good one.
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Interview with a blind developer on how he works (2017)
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Kobold letters: HTML emails are a risk
Anyone who has had to deal with HTML emails on a technical level has probably reached the point where they wanted to quit their job or just set fire to all the mail clients due to their inconsistent implementations. But HTML emails are not just a source of frustration, they can also be a serious security risk.
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Tokens, n-grams, and bag-of-words models (2023)
This post covers Natural Language Processing fundamentals that are essential to understanding all of today’s language models.
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German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice
Following a successful pilot project, the northern German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move from Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office to Linux and LibreOffice (and other free and open source software) on the 30,000 PCs used in the local government. As reported on the homepage of the…
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Keeping your data from Apple is harder than expected
New study shows that the default apps collect data even when supposedly disabled, and this is hard to switch off
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Uv saves Home Assistant 215 compute hours per month
By replacing pip with uv in our production images, our build pipeline (and therefore releasing a new version) is a lot faster.
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Terraform makes carbon neutral natural gas
We did it! After two years of hard work we hold in our hands hard proof that the incredible team at Terraform can make synthetic natural gas from sunlight and air, as reported in TechCrunch. Last W…
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Jpegli: A new JPEG coding library
Jpegli, an advanced JPEG coding library that maintains high backward compatibility is faster, and more efficient, than traditional JPEG.
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Tips for linking shell companies to their secret owners
At a recent panel at the 2024 NICAR conference, Karrie Kehoe, deputy head of data and research at ICIJ, offered a series of tips for investigating the true owners of shell companies.
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Improvements to static analysis in GCC 14
Learn about static analysis improvements coming in GCC 14 with -fanalyzer, which helps identify issues in C code at compile-time, rather than at runtime.
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Cloudflare R2 IA storage tier
We’re excited to announce three new features for Cloudflare R2: event notifications, support for migrations from Google Cloud Storage, and an infrequent access storage tier
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LiveView Is Best with Svelte
Discover why Phoenix LiveView + Svelte is so fast and productive. Learn our production implementation tips and performance insights.
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Every Dunder Method in Python
An explanation of all of Python's 100+ dunder methods and 50+ dunder attributes, including a summary of each one.
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Redict 7.3.0, a copyleft fork of Redis, is now available
The Redict community is pleased to announce the release of Redict 7.3.0, the first stable version of our copyleft fork of Redis® OSS 7.2.4.1 You can download the release on Codeberg, or download one of our official container images from registry.redict.io. We have written comprehensive documentation detailing our…
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Subroutine calls in the ancient world, before computers had stacks or heaps
A lot of computing got done even before we had stacks and heaps.
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Study uses wearables to show that physical activity lengthens REM latency
AUSTIN, Texas — A new study by an interdisciplinary team of researchers at The University of Texas at Austin provides the most reliable validation to date
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Python Cloudflare Workers
Introducing Cloudflare Workers in Python, now in open beta! We've revamped our systems to support Python, from the runtime to deployment. Learn about Python Worker's lifecycle, dynamic linking, and memory snapshots in this post
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Pilot study shows ketogenic diet improves mental illness
A small clinical trial led by Stanford Medicine found that the metabolic effects of a ketogenic diet may help stabilize the brain.
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OpenAI's comment to the NTIA on open model weights
OpenAI’s comment to the NTIA on open model weights This comment was submitted by OpenAI in response to NTIA’s March 2024 Request for Information on Dual-Use Foundation Models with Widely Available Weights.
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OWASP Data Breach Notification
OWASP Data Leak Notification on the main website for The OWASP Foundation. OWASP is a nonprofit foundation that works to improve the security of software.
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OpenAI: Start using ChatGPT instantly
We’re making it easier for people to experience the benefits of AI without needing to sign up
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10 Years of Hacker News "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" Trends
The "Ask HN: Who is hiring" monthly post on Hacker News, available on the first day of each month, provides a platform for users to share tech job listings for free. Analyzing 10 years of these posts with a Python script reveals significant shifts in hiring trends. This insight into the evolving tech job market can…