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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,475 posts.
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Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff
Earlier today, GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij sent the following note to GitLab team members.
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Podman vs. Docker: Comparing the two containerization tools
Containers offer portable, lightweight environments for developing and deploying applications. And while Docker has been the most popular containerization tool, Podman has arisen as a compelling alternative. What sets the two tools apart, and when should you use one over the other? Find out in this tutorial comparing…
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Apache Kafka Beyond the Basics: Windowing
Learn what windowing is, the difference between the four types of windows (hopping and tumbling, or session and sliding), and how to create them.
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Show HN: Filmbox, physically accurate film emulation, now on Linux and Windows
Accurately transform digital cinema footage to exhibit the grain, halation, and soul of motion picture film. Plugin for DaVinci Resolve, Baselight, Livegrade Frontier, Colorfront, Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Final Cut Pro.
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OpenSSH Pre-Auth Double Free – Writeup and Proof-of-Concept
Understanding the OpenSSH CVE-2023-25136 high vulnerability. Read our analysis with Proof-of-Concept, learn what's vulnerable, and discover remediations.
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Fungi and bacteria are binging on burned soil
UC Riverside researchers have identified tiny organisms that not only survive but thrive during the first year after a wildfire. The findings could help bring land back to life after fires that are increasing in both size and severity.
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Godot 4 Release Candidate 1
The wait is almost over! With Godot 4.0 coming close to stable, we finalize our efforts to fix the remaining critical issues and add the last coat of polish with the first Release Candidate.
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George Orwell's 6 rules for writing (2018; originally published in 1946)
George Orwell was greatly concerned with truth and language and how deliberately misleading language is used to conceal disagreeable political facts. To guide writers into writing clearly and truthfully, he proposed six writing rules.
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What 2023 will bring for PeerTube
We (Framasoft, a small not-for-profit association!) are proud to present our roadmap for the developments and side projects we have planned for PeerTu...
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Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake
Network data confirm the restriction of Twitter on multiple internet providers in Turkey as of Wednesday 8 February 2023. The incident comes as authorities raise concerns over disinformation online, although ...
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Meilisearch 1.0 – Open-source search engine built in Rust
Meilisearch launches the first completely stable, forward-compatible, and enterprise-ready version of its highly performant open-source search engine.
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Use GPT-3 incorrectly: reduce costs 40x and increase speed by 5x
Cosine trains AI models and specialised coding agents for organisations that need frontier capability within secure environments.
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Blender moves from Phabricator to Gitea
Today Blender development is moving to a new platform, hosted on projects.blender.org.
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Zoom lays off 15% of employees
Read a message from Eric Yuan, CEO of Zoom, to the employees of Zoom.
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Supabase Clippy – ChatGPT for Supabase Docs
Creating a ChatGPT interface for the Supabase documentation.
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Big data is dead
Big data is dead. Long live easy data. | Reading time: 18 min read
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After Callous Layoffs, Workers Are Done with the Full-Time Work
Amidst 130,000 tech layoffs, 62% of knowledge workers say they don’t feel secure committing to one employer anymore.
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Fundamental Math for Game Developers
Let's review the most important math topics used by game devs, reflect about math education, and discuss techniques that can be used to improve the way we learn new math topics.
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The Dutch benefits scandal: a cautionary tale for algorithmic enforcement
On January 15, the Dutch government was forced to resign amidst a scandal around its child-care benefits scheme. Systems that were meant to detect misuse of the benefits scheme, mistakenly labelled over 20,000 parents as fraudsters. More crucially, a disproportionate amount of those labelled as fraudsters had an…
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Storing OpenAI embeddings in Postgres with pgvector
An example of how to build an AI-powered search engine using OpenAI's embeddings and PostgreSQL.
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Bard and new AI features in Search
Introducing Bard (now Gemini), Google's conversational AI service — plus, new AI features in Search.
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The technology behind GitHub’s new code search
A look at what went into building the world's largest public code search index.
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OpenTTD 13.0 Released
Breaking news: OpenTTD 13.0 is now available! Depending on your perspective, we’re either two months early for our usual April 1st release, or a bit tardy for the Christmas 2022 release we intended.