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Netflix's Distributed Counter Abstraction
By: Rajiv Shringi, Oleksii Tkachuk, Kartik Sathyanarayanan
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,840 posts.
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A Student's Guide to Writing with ChatGPT
Discover how students can use ChatGPT for writing, research, studying, and editing. Learn practical tips for using AI responsibly in school and beyond.
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The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development
Jungle music was found in countless games from the early 90s. This article goes over what jungle is, where it comes from, and why it was the perfect match for PlayStation & Nintendo 64 games.
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The Beginner's Guide to Visual Prompt Injections (2023)
Learn about visual prompt injections, their appearance, and top defense strategies against these attacks.
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MIT engineers make converting CO2 into useful products more practical
A new electrode design developed at MIT boosts the efficiency of electrochemical reactions that turn carbon dioxide into ethylene and other products.
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No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains
Bad service in the subway? Transit's offline motion detection shows where you are between stations, and reminds you when your stop’s up next
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From BSP to ESP – How S3ctor Abused Quake Editors to Redefine the Morrowind Mod
S3ctor is a core developer of OpenMW, and has, like most of us to be fair, odd interests. This is the incredible story how he mixed two immensely cool things: Quake, and Morrowind, narrated by our …
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Abusing Ubuntu 24.04 features for root privilege escalation
With the recent release of Ubuntu 24.04, we at Snyk Security Labs thought it would be interesting to examine the latest version of this Linux distribution to see if we could find any interesting privilege escalation vulnerabilities.
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Sentry just gave $750k to open source projects
In honor of the 4th year of our Open Source Pledge, we’re excited to continue driving this important conversation. See what we’ve accomplished in 2024 here.
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Spin 3.0 – open-source tooling for building and running WASM apps
Read some of the latest blog posts from Akamai Developers.
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Waymo One is now open to all in Los Angeles
Roll out the red carpet. Starting today, anyone in Los Angeles can take fully autonomous rides 24/7 with Waymo One – rolling through Santa Monica, Hollywood Boulevard, USC, and everything in between.
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Jepsen: Bufstream 0.1
2024-11-13 : An earlier version of this report asserted that consumers with auto-commit enabled could lose data by automatically committing offsets returned by the most recent poll. This claim was based in part on Confluent’s documentation , which states:
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The EdTech Revolution Has Failed
The Case Against Student Use of Computers, Tablets, and Smartphones in the Classroom
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When muscles work out, they help neurons to grow, a new study shows
Exercise can have benefits at the level of neurons, through chemical and mechanical effects, MIT researchers find. The discovery could inform exercise-related therapies for repairing damaged and deteriorating nerves.
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Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and early object-oriented programming (2016)
Since 2008, over a hundred billion apps have been downloaded from Apple’s App Store onto users’ iPhones or iPads. However, the technology and tools powering the mobile “app revolution” are not themselves new, but rather have a long history spanning over thirty years, one which connects back to the beginnings of…
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High Levels of Banned PFAS Detected in Hershey's Packaging
The U.S. legacy producer The Hershey Company offers a “ growing portfolio of delicious snacks to pair with every occasion. From indulgent treats to a boost of protein between meals, or a bag of popcorn to share during movie night, we love creating moments of goodness through our 90+ brands .”
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Making a trading Gameboy: A pocket exchange and algo trading platform
An exchange and algo trading station in your pocket!
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SST: Container Support
SST now natively supports building containerized applications.
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Typesetting Engines: A Programmer's Perspective
Pros and cons for different typesetting engines from engineering perspective and why PPReseume chose LaTeX.
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Physical Intelligence's first generalist policy AI can finally do your laundry
Our first generalist policy, π0, a prototype model that combines large-scale multi-task and multi-robot data collection with a new network architecture to enable the most capable and dexterous generalist robot policy to date.
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How we built the Black Friday Cyber Monday 2023 globe
Every year for Black Friday Cyber Monday (BFCM), we put together a real-time visualization of purchases made through Shopify-powered merchants worldwide. This year we're cooking up something big, and in anticipation we wanted to show you how we built the globe last year. Video of BFCM 2023 Globe Besides going for…
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Early Cascade Injection: From Windows process creation to stealthy injection
Get an introdcution to Early Cascade, a novel process injection technique that is effective against top tier EDRs while avoiding detection.
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SVDQuant: 4-Bit Quantization Powers 12B Flux on a 16GB 4090 GPU with 3x Speedup
A new post-training training quantization paradigm for diffusion models, which quantize both the weights and activations of FLUX.1 to 4 bits, achieving 3.5× memory and 8.7× latency reduction on a 16GB laptop 4090 GPU. Code: https://www.github.com/mit-han-lab/nunchaku
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The case of a program that crashed on its first instruction
Didn't even make it out of the gate.
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Ham Radio 101: What is WSPR?
Learn how WSPR (weak signal propagation reporter) technology is a fascinating facet of the Ham radio hobby in this easy-to-follow article.
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Rails 8.0 Released
Deploying modern web apps – with all the provisions needed to be fast and secure while easily updateable – has become so hard that many developers don’t dare do it without a PaaS (platform-as-a-service). But that’s ridiculous. Nobody should have to pay orders of magnitude more for basic computing just to make…
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Five minutes of exercise a day could lower blood pressure
The research looked at data from more than 14,000 volunteers and shows the importance of activities that raise heart rate for blood pressure control– such as uphill walking or stair-climbing, into your day may help to lower blood pressure.