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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,323 posts.
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A brief history of router architecture
Here's what we've learnt about networks and the routers that interconnect them in the last 50 years.
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Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack
Miners have begun to coordinate a 51% attack to stop EIP-1559, and the Ethereum community has responded.
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GPT-3 vs. 3M free-text trivia responses
A machine learning AI-esque robot challenges off on 156 trivia questions against tens of thousands of Water Cooler Trivia participants.
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A Spectre proof-of-concept for a Spectre-proof web
Posted by Stephen Röttger and Artur Janc, Information Security Engineers Three years ago, Spectre changed the way we think about security b...
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Self-supervised learning: The dark matter of intelligence
How can we build machines with human-level intelligence? There’s a limit to how far the field of AI can go with supervised learning alone. Here's why self-supervised learning is one of the most promising ways to make significant progress in AI.
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IceCube detection of a high-energy particle proves 60-year-old theory
On December 8, 2016,* a high-energy particle called an electron antineutrino hurtled to Earth from outer space at close to the speed of light carrying 6.3 petaelectronvolts (PeV) of energy. Deep inside the ice sheet at the South Pole, it smashed into an electron and produced a particle that quickly decayed into a…
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Backblaze is now a Terraform provider
Making provision of that storage easier for developers is part of Terraform’s DNA. Learn how to get started.
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Julia receives DARPA award to accelerate electronics simulation
Julia Computing wins DARPA award to accelerate electronics simulation 1,000x with AI & ML. Discover how Julia's unique capabilities boost US semiconductor competitiveness.
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Why I Didn't Open-Source My Second SaaS
Analytics built for developers. Real user monitoring with page-load decomposition, Core Web Vitals, error tracking and conversion — cookie-free and without a tag manager.
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Asahi Linux Progress Report: January/February 2021
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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Patten Matching in Nim
Nim fusion and pattern matching
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Energy Mix
Explore global data on where our energy comes from, and how this is changing.
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netaddr.IP: a new IP address type for Go
The Go standard library’s net.IP type is problematic for a number of reasons. We wrote a new one.
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Zig, parser combinators, and why they're awesome
In this article we will be exploring what parser combinators are, what runtime parser generation is - why they're useful, and then walking through a Zig implementation of them.
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Minecraft vs. Roblox (2020)
When you think of computer programming, what springs to mind? Sitting for hours in front of a screen, memorising indecipherably complex languages, and scrutinising reams of text to find one tiny error?
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Fuzzing Java in OSS-Fuzz
Posted by Jonathan Metzman, Google Open Source Security Team OSS-Fuzz , Google’s open source fuzzing service, now supports fuzzing applicat...
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Building Webhooks into Your Application: Guidelines and Best Practices (2020)
Learn how to build a webhook, send it from your app, manage authentication, handle security, and provide a smooth developer experience to your customers.
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The Uyghur Genocide: An examination of breaches of the 1948 Genocide Convention
This report is the first independent expert application of the 1948 Genocide Convention to the ongoing treatment of the Uyghurs in China.
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Internet Archive Scholar: Search Millions of Research Papers
Looking for a research paper but can’t find a copy in your library’s catalog or popular search engines? Give Internet Archive Scholar a try! We might have a PDF from a “vanished” Open Access publisher in our web archive, an author’s pre-publication manuscript from their archived faculty webpage, or a digitized…
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The technical interview practice gap
Access to technical interview practice matters more than raw technical ability, and without it, we won't fix representation in tech.
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The Quirks of Gmail UI
A Tale of DKIM signed email I run a mailwip(former hanami), an email forwarding service and I have a few stories about email that I want to share. Today I want to talk about Gmail. Gmail is a big player in email world. It dominates small and medium startups. All of companies that I worked for has been using gmail…
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