1951
We ran a phone check at a Y Combinator event in SF
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,475 posts.
1952
We’re no longer sunsetting the free team plan
We're reversing course. After taking in feedback from the community, we’re no longer sunsetting the Free Team plan.
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Allowing mass surveillance at Olympics undermines EU efforts to regulate AI
Responding to the French National Assembly’s decision to permit the use of mass video surveillance technology powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) during the 2024 Olympics, Mher Hakobyan, Amnesty International’s Advocacy Advisor on AI Regulation, said: “France’s decision to allow the use of mass surveillance…
1955
Reliability via Automated Renewal Information
The Let’s Encrypt team is excited to announce that ACME Renewal Information (ARI) is live in production! ARI makes it possible for our subscribers to handle certificate revocation and renewal as easily and automatically as the process of getting a certificate in the first place. With ARI, Let’s Encrypt can signal to…
1956
March 20 ChatGPT outage: Here’s what happened
An update on our findings, the actions we’ve taken, and technical details of the bug.
1957
Hello Dolly: Democratizing the magic of ChatGPT with open models
Introducing 'Hello Dolly,' a project to democratize AI by integrating ChatGPT and open models, making advanced AI accessible to everyone.
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We updated our RSA SSH host key
At approximately 05:00 UTC on March 24, out of an abundance of caution, we replaced our RSA SSH host key used to secure Git operations for GitHub.com.
1960
How to use Alpaca-LoRA to fine-tune a model like ChatGPT
Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) is a technique for fine-tuning models that has some advantages over previous methods:
1961
AI’s compute fragmentation: what matrix multiplication teaches us
AI is powered by a virtuous circle of data, algorithms (“models”), and compute. Growth in one pushes needs in the others and can grossly affect the developer experience on aspects like usability and performance. Today, we have more data and more AI model research than ever before, but compute isn’t scaling at the same…
1962
ChatGPT Plugins
We’ve implemented initial support for plugins in ChatGPT. Plugins are tools designed specifically for language models with safety as a core principle, and help ChatGPT access up-to-date information, run computations, or use third-party services.
1963
Block: Inflated user metrics and “frictionless” fraud facilitation
Initial Disclosure: After extensive research, we have taken a short position in shares of Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ). This report represents our opinion, and we encourage every reader to do their own due diligence. Please see our full disclaimer at the bottom of the report.
1964
Cheating is All You Need
There is something legendary and historic happening in software engineering, right now as we speak, and yet most of you don't realize at all how big it is.
1965
GNOME 44
The GNOME Project is proud to announce the release of GNOME 44, ‘Kuala Lumpur’. This release brings a grid view in the file chooser, improved settings panels for Device Security, Accessibility, etc, and refined quick settings in the shell. The Software and Files apps have seen improvements, and a whole slew of new…
1966
You might not need an effect
The library for web and native user interfaces
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MRSK vs. Fly.io
Comparison of MRSK and Fly.io
1970
Robots have been about to take all the jobs for 100 years
We will be exploring the history of fears about technological unemployment.
1971
De-cloud and de-k8s – bringing our apps back home
For the Operations team at 37signals, the biggest effort in 2023 is removing our dependencies on the cloud and migrating our application stacks back into the data center onto our own hardware. We’ve already made amazing progress in a fairly short time — let’s get into some details!
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GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview
GitHub Copilot is evolving to bring chat and voice interfaces, support pull requests, answer questions, and adopt OpenAI's GPT-4.
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Yandex open-sources its exabyte-scale big data platform
Hello, my name is Maxim Babenko, I’m the head of the distributed computing technologies department at Yandex. Today we’re pleased to…
1975
Mozilla.ai: Investing in Trustworthy AI
We’re committing $30M to build Mozilla.ai: A startup — and a community — building a trustworthy, independent, and open-source AI ecosystem. We’re o
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Bob Metcalfe wins Turing Award
The A.M. Turing Award, ACM's most prestigious technical award, is given for major contributions of lasting importance to computing.
1978
Pg_jsonschema – JSON Schema Support for Postgres
Today we're releasing pg_jsonschema, a Postgres extension for JSON validation.
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PeerTube 5.1
Version 5.1 of PeerTube has been released! On the menu: moderation of account creation, a button to resume live broadcasting, improved management of e...