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It doesn't cost much to improve someone's life
Most countries spend less than 1% of their national income on foreign aid; even small increases could make a big difference.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,111 posts.
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A 10x Faster TypeScript
Embarking on a native port of the existing TypeScript compiler and toolset to achieve a 10x performance speed-up.
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So Long and Thanks for All the Words: A Toast to Douglas Adams
A Toast to the Frood Who Really Knew Where His Towel Was
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ESP32 Undocumented Bluetooth Commands: Clearing the Air
The developer resources in just one place!
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Creative Fansubbing Techniques: Part 2
This is my second article about some curious fansubbing techniques that I found when watching anime. Want to know what they are? Read on to find out!
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Magpies and crows are using “anti-bird spikes” to make nests (2023)
Birds often incorporate human-made materials while nest building, but a new study shows European corvids are taking the idea to the extreme.
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Zero-Downtime Kubernetes Deployments on AWS with EKS
Zero-downtime deployments on Kubernetes on AWS EKS utilizing Pod Readiness Gates, graceful application shutdown and termination delays with code examples in Go
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Trees not profits: we're giving up our right to ever sell Ecosia (2018)
Because we believe that the world would be a better place if more businesses were driven by a meaningful cause instead of greed.
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Ecosia is teaming up with Qwant to build a European search index
We are proud to share the next step in our journey towards tech independence: building our very own search index!
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Gleam v1.9
News post: Gleam v1.9.0 released
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Take It Down Act: A Flawed Attempt to Protect Victims That'll Lead to Censorship
Congress has begun debating the TAKE IT DOWN Act (S. 146), a bill that seeks to speed up the removal of a troubling type of online content: non-consensual intimate imagery, or NCII. In recent years, concerns have also grown about the use of digital tools to alter or create such images, sometimes...
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Polars Cloud: The Distributed Cloud Architecture to Run Polars Anywhere
We introduce Polars Cloud, the distributed cloud architecture to scale and run Polars anywhere.
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Age Verification Laws: A Backdoor to Surveillance
I’m old enough to remember when age verification bills were pitched as a way to ‘save the kids from porn’ and shield them from other vague dangers lurking in the digital world (like…“the transgender”). We have long cautioned about the dangers of these laws, and pointed out why they are likely to...
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Introducing command And commandfor In HTML
Learn about the new capabilities for declarative behavior on buttons.
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Optimistic Locking in B-Trees
CedarDB is a database system that delivers unmatched performance for transactions and analytics, from small writes to handling billions of rows. Built on cutting-edge research to power today’s tools and tomorrow’s challenges.
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Strobelight: A profiling service built on open source technology
We’re sharing details about Strobelight, Meta’s profiling orchestrator. Strobelight combines several technologies, many open source, into a single service that helps engineers at Meta improve effic…
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Using GRPO to Beat o1, o3-mini and R1 at “Temporal Clue”
The OpenPipe platform has migrated to Weights & Biases and CoreWeave. Browse migration details and the OpenPipe technical archive.
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Exposing Russian EFF Impersonators: The Inside Story on Stealc and Pyramid C2
Discover how an open directory exposed a threat actor impersonating EFF to target gamers and how we mapped their infrastructure to Stealc & Pyramid C2.
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Mistral OCR
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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The "Take It Down" Act
We've opposed the Take It Down Act because it could be easily manipulated to take down lawful content that powerful people simply don't like. Last night, President Trump demonstrated he has a similar view on the bill. He wants to sign the bill into law, then use it to remove content about — him....
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QwQ-32B: Embracing the Power of Reinforcement Learning
QWEN CHAT Hugging Face ModelScope DEMO DISCORD Scaling Reinforcement Learning (RL) has the potential to enhance model performance beyond conventional pretraining and post-training methods. Recent studies have demonstrated that RL can significantly improve the reasoning capabilities of models. For instance, DeepSeek R1…
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Postgres Just Cracked the Top Fastest Databases for Analytics
Databricks offers a unified platform for data, analytics and AI. Build better AI with a data-centric approach. Simplify ETL, data warehousing, governance and AI on the Data + AI Platform.
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Study: The ozone hole is healing, thanks to global reduction of CFCs
An MIT-led study confirms the Antarctic ozone layer is healing as a direct result of global efforts to reduce ozone-depleting substances.
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Things we've learned about building products
To celebrate 50k subscribers to Product for Engineers, here are the 50 most important lessons we’ve learned about building great products.
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The features of Python's help() function
Python's help() function accepts more than functions, modules, and objects. The help() function can lookup help for symbols, keywords, and topics!
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Apple unveils new Mac Studio
Apple today announced the new Mac Studio, the most powerful Mac ever made, featuring M4 Max and the new M3 Ultra chip.
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Apple M3 Ultra
Apple today announced M3 Ultra, offering the most powerful CPU and GPU in a Mac.
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Lynx: Open Source Native Cross Platform framework used in TikTok
Today, we're excited to introduce Lynx, a family of technologies empowering developers to use their existing web skills to create truly native UIs for both mobile and web from a single codebase...
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Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto Win 2024 Turing Award
Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton as the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning. In a series of papers beginning in the 1980s, Barto and Sutton introduced the main ideas, constructed the mathematical foundations, and developed…
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Apple introduces iPad Air with powerful M3 chip and new Magic Keyboard
Apple today introduced the new iPad Air, powered by the M3 chip and built for Apple Intelligence.