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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,475 posts.
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Emitting Safer Rust with C2Rust
In this post, we will discuss recent results from Immunant and Galois in extending C2Rust to emit memory-safe Rust in certain cases. With this work we aim to shift a meaningful part of the translation burden from the human to the machine. Up until now, C2Rust has only been able to translate C to unsafe Rust that is no…
2043
Changes at YC
In recent years, we have also done some late stage investing. But late stage investing turned out to be so different from early stage that we found it to be a distraction from our core mission. So we’re going to decrease the amount of late stage investing we do.
2044
PostgreSQL 14 Internals
I’m excited to announce that the translation of the “ PostgreSQL 14 Internals ” book is finally complete thanks to the amazing work of Liudmila Mantrova. The final part of the book considers each of the index types in great detail. It explains and demonstrates how access methods, operator classes, and data types work…
2045
Alpaca: A strong open-source instruction-following model
Instruction-following models such as GPT-3.5 (text-davinci-003), ChatGPT, Claude, and Bing Chat have become increasingly powerful. Many users now interact with these models regularly and even use them for work. However, despite their widespread deployment, instruction-following models still have many deficiencies…
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HSBC Purchased Silicon Valley Bank UK (SVB UK) for $1.21 (£1)
List of media releases issued by HSBC Holdings plc and its subsidiaries.
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Brex Devalues Rewards
Without notice, Brex just devalued cash, crypto, and airline point redemptions by 40%. Here's how you can still get value from your Brex Rewards points.
2050
Urgent: Sign the petition now
Nearly 40,000 of all depositors at Silicon Valley Bank were small businesses. If swift action isn’t taken, over 100,000 people could soon lose their jobs.
2051
An Update on USDC and Silicon Valley Bank
The Circle Blog is your source for the latest product features, company announcements, and insights from Circle and USDC. Read and subscribe for more info!
2052
The water technology behind Avatar: The Way of Water
Learn more about the CGI technology created using Unity Wētā Tools to produce the water in Avatar: The Way of Water.
2053
Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by Not Going to the Cloud
How Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by NOT Going to the Cloud Clouds for IT infrastructure are so popular lately that moving into the cloud has become a trend. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) …
2054
Knots smaller than human hair make materials unusually tough
A micro-architected material made from tiny knots proves tougher and more durable than unknotted counterparts.
2055
GNU Octave 8.1
GNU Octave version 8.1.0 has been released and is now available for download. An official Windows binary installer is available. For mac...
2056
Saving 4M books from landfill
It’s the classic librarian’s dilemma: Because no library has unlimited storage, every library has to carefully manage its physical collection, and that means removing books to make space for new ones. On one hand, it’s exciting to bring in fresh voices, new stories and modern research, but on the other, a library’s…
2057
Ahrefs saved $400m in 3 years by not going to the cloud
How Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by NOT Going to the Cloud Clouds for IT infrastructure are so popular lately that moving into the cloud has become a trend. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) …
2058
SPA view transitions land in Chrome 111
The View Transition API allows page transitions within single-page apps, and will later include multi-page apps.
2059
Serverless maps at 1/700 the cost of Google Maps API
Accelerating Protomaps with a CDN for fast and affordable maps
2060
ChatGPT is now finding bugs in databases
Engineering notes and product news from the PhoenixAI team — real-time analytics, AI agent workloads, lakehouse architecture, and what we're shipping.
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How computer vision is changing manufacturing in 2023
Computer vision applications are transforming manufacturing, from defect detection to predictive maintenance. Learn computer vision strategies from industry leaders.
2063
Writing a Kubernetes Operator
Basic introduction to Kubernetes Operators and Controllers, with a tutorial on creating an Operator in Rust
2064
Getting Past “Ampersand-Driven Development” in Rust
A little mental model for ownership and borrowing
2065
DuckDuckGo Launches DuckAssist
A new feature that generates natural language answers to search queries using Wikipedia.
2066
The threat on your desk: Building an evil USB-C dock
BadUSB attacks have been a threat for years, but is the USB-C dock sitting on your desk the latest threat in disguise?
2067
Leveraging Rust and the GPU to render user interfaces at 120 FPS
From the Zed Blog: A deep-dive into the graphical underpinnings of GPUI, the hardware-accelerated framework that powers Zed's user interface.
2068
OpenXLA Is Available Now
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
2069
Update to Kagi Search Pricing
UPDATE: This blog post is old and does not reflect current plans or pricing. You can find current plans and prices here . --- It has been a while since our last update, and we have...
2070
Single File Elixir Scripts
Experiment and debug with Elixir Scripts!