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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,840 posts.
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Tailwind CSS marketing and misinformation engine
The origins of Tailwind and how it is framed to solve the proposed issues of CSS
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Bevy 0.13: ECS-driven game engine built in Rust
Thanks to 198 contributors, 672 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous sponsors, we're happy to announce the Bevy 0.13 release on crates…
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Run Llama 2 uncensored locally
This post will give some example comparisons running Llama 2 uncensored model versus its censored model.
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Nebula is not the fastest mesh VPN, but neither are the others
(But neither are any of the others)
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The epidemic of fraudulent DMCA takedowns
There’s an enormous and largely invisible campaign to use fraudulent notices under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act to remove critical articles from the internet. We don’t know who is running…
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Ollama is now available on Windows in preview
Ollama is now available on Windows in preview, making it possible to pull, run and create large language models in a new native Windows experience. Ollama on Windows includes built-in GPU acceleration, access to the full model library, and serves the Ollama API including OpenAI compatibility.
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We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed
From the Zed Blog: Thorsten interviews co-founders Nathan, Max, Antonio about the vision and the technological choices behind Zed, how they went from Atom and Electron to Rust and GPUs with Zed.
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It’s Official, Apple Kills Web Apps in the EU
If you ship a Web App in the EU and will be impacted by this, please sign our open letter to Tim Cook. It is critical that we gather as much evidence as possible to prevent Apple from breaking Web Apps in the EU.
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Ledger: Stripe's system for tracking and validating money movement
Technical details on how Stripe built Ledger, a state-of-the-art money movement tracking system, including how teams at Stripe interact with the data quality metrics that underlie our payment processing network.
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GPU synchronization in Godot 4.3 is getting a major upgrade
Say goodbye to placing barriers, hello to the new acyclic graph
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The Emacsen family, the design of an Emacs and the importance of Lisp (2023)
00:00.000 Introduction 00:17.000 Why Lisp matters 01:26.640 Why Emacs Lisp was chosen 02:54.841 Other "Emacsen" 03:38.581 Why not Common Lisp? 06:39.120 Common Lisp is still not dead or is always dead 08:30.080 Lem is a nice Emacsen implementation 08:58.260 Why not just use GNU Emacs? 10:31.080 Why Lem 14:03.080…
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Erlang/OTP 27.0 Release Candidate 1
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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No one cares about open-source, until
If you follow privacy news, you have probably heard that Skiff, an end-to-end encrypted productivity suite, announced that it has been acquired by Notion. We could not resist chiming in since Skiff was compared with CryptPad in the past.
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German credit agency earns millions through unlawful customer manipulation
The comapny uses manipulative designs to prevent people from obtaining a free copy of their data in accordance with law
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Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification
Magika code and model are freely available starting today in Github under the Apache2 License.
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Video generation models as world simulators
We explore large-scale training of generative models on video data. Specifically, we train text-conditional diffusion models jointly on videos and images of variable durations, resolutions and aspect ratios. We leverage a transformer architecture that operates on spacetime patches of video and image latent codes. Our…
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Uv: Python packaging in Rust
uv is an extremely fast Python package installer and resolver, designed as a drop-in alternative to pip and pip-tools.
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Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5
Gemini 1.5 delivers dramatically enhanced performance, with a breakthrough in long-context understanding across modalities.
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How deceptive design is used to compromise your privacy and how to fight back
Today, we’re releasing a new guide explaining how to compel companies employing deceptive design to dodge data protection requests—like those for data deletion or access—to comply. It encapsulates five years...
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We sped up time series by 20-30x
This is a follow up post that dives into how we managed to achieve such huge performance gains for time series (among other things), and why it was so hard in the first place.
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What made Earth a giant snowball 700M years ago? Scientists have an answer
More than 700 million years ago, planet Earth was plunged into a 57-million-year-long ice age. Australian scientists led by Dr Adriana Dutkiewicz and Professor Dietmar Müller at the University of Sydney now have an answer why this happened.
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Protein biomarkers predict dementia 15 years before diagnosis in new study
In the largest study of its kind, scientists have shown how protein “biomarkers” predict dementia 15 years before diagnosis.
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A bird's eye view of Polars
Read how Polars executes your query from planning, optimizing to execution.
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Fly.io has GPUs now
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.