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Memory and new controls for ChatGPT
We’re testing the ability for ChatGPT to remember things you discuss to make future chats more helpful. You’re in control of ChatGPT’s memory.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,840 posts.
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Aya: An open LLM by 3k independent researchers across the globe
Cohere's research lab, Cohere Labs, released the Aya model, a state-of-the-art, open source, massively multilingual, research LLM covering 101 languages – including more than 50 previously underserved languages.
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Is something bugging you?
At first glance, Antithesis couldn’t be more different from FoundationDB (our last company), but it’s a continuation of that story in a funny sort of way.
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Git tips and tricks
Some things that people don’t tend to know about Git anymore, and some new things you might not have noticed.
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Nokia made too many phones
TextQuery is a desktop app to import data file as a table, query it using SQL.
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Security flaws in an SSO plugin for Caddy (2023)
We identified 10 security vulnerabilities within the caddy-security plugin for the Caddy web server that could enable a variety of high-severity attacks in web applications, including client-side code execution, OAuth replay attacks, and unauthorized access to resources. During our evaluation, Caddy was deployed as a…
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Cloudflare defeats patent troll Sable at trial
Last Thursday, on a clear, sunny morning in Waco, Texas, a jury returned a verdict after less than two hours of deliberation. The jury found that Cloudflare did not infringe the patent asserted against Cloudflare by patent trolls Sable IP and Sable Networks.
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It Can Be Done (2003)
A story about quality from the development of the Multics operating system.
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2024: The year of the OpenStreetMap vector maps
OpenStreetMap will take a large leap forward with the introduction of vector tiles on openstreetmap.org this year. This is the first of a series of blog posts where we will share our progress.
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Is the "modern data stack" still a useful idea?
My vote: no.
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Becoming a dungeon master for an interview
Interviews should be as close as possible to the work that the candidate would do if they join. While that seems like a pretty tautological statement, it is unfortunately not always true. When interviewing as a software engineer, for example, you’ll run into places that lean heavily on algorithms interviews. And don’t…
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Semiconductor Fabrication 101
Free online course from Purdue University in collaboration with Intel Corporation, the University of Texas at Austin, and leading worldwide partners in the field*
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Building the DirectX shader compiler better than Microsoft?
This is a story about the messy state of Microsoft’s DirectX shader compiler, and trying to wrangle it into a nicer experience for game developers. In some respects, building the DXC compiler better than how Microsoft does.
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Mixed Reality gone in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26052
UPDATE 2/9: Added an important known issue for Dev Drive users. Please see the known issues below. Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26052 to the Canary
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Privacy focused platform Skiff is joining Notion, Skiff to be sunset
Our co-founder Akshay talks to Skiff co-founders Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg about their startup's vision and journey to Notion.
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How I write HTTP services in Go after 13 years
Mat Ryer, principal engineer at Grafana Labs and host of the Go Time podcast, shares what he’s learned from more than a dozen years of writing HTTP services in Go.
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Fedora Atomic Desktops
Announcing a new family of Fedora Linux spins: Fedora Atomic. This will simplify how to discuss rpm-ostree and naming of future atomic spins.
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Benchmarking latency across common wireless links for microcontrollers
Comparing typical one-way transfer latencies for a range of popular wireless communication modules and protocols
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How SSH port became 22 (2017)
The SSH port is 22. This is the story of how it got that port number. And practical configuration instructions.
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What's new in the Postgres 16 query planner
Postgres 16 introduces quite a few improvements to the query planner and makes many SQL queries run faster than they did on previous versions of PostgreSQL. This post is a deep dive into 10 of the improvements, including code blocks and comparisons of query plan output between Postgres 15 & Postgres 16.
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Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapped, B2B SaaS in 2024
[This article is the companion to my presentation for CodeBEAM America 2024, Elixir is the One-Person Stack for Building a Software Startup. You can download the slides as a PDF or view them in Google Slides .]
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OpenAI compatibility
Ollama now has initial compatibility with the OpenAI Chat Completions API, making it possible to use existing tooling built for OpenAI with local models via Ollama.
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What's Inside a Linux Kernel Core Dump
An extremely thorough explanation of what's contained inside a Linux kernel core dump.
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Sudo for Windows
Introducing Sudo for Windows We're excited to announce the release of Sudo for Windows in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26052! Sudo for Windows is a
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Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced
Bard is now known as Gemini, with a mobile app and an Advanced experience that gives you access to our most capable AI model, Ultra 1.0.
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Simple Precision Time Protocol at Meta
While deploying Precision Time Protocol (PTP) at Meta, we’ve developed a simplified version of the protocol (Simple Precision Time Protocol – SPTP), that can offer the same level of clock syn…
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When "letting it crash" is not enough
This essay explores the connection between Erlang's process supervision, state management and durable execution.