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Building cross-platform Rust for Web, Android and iOS – a minimal example
Coding in Rust and others; making coding videos.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,299 posts.
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PoisonGPT: We hid a lobotomized LLM on Hugging Face to spread fake news
We will show in this article how one can surgically modify an open-source model, GPT-J-6B, and upload it to Hugging Face to make it spread misinformation while being undetected by standard benchmarks.
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Don't Take VC Funding – It Will Destroy Your Company
Why VC funding can hurt startups: selling equity for cash, chasing traction over profitability, and why bootstrapping may be safer for founders.
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Implementing Wordle in the Firefox address bar
A version of Wordle that runs inside the Firefox address bar via abuse of the Opensearch spec.
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The Development of the C Language (1993)
C came into being in the years 1969-1973, in parallel with the early development of the Unix operating system; the most creative period occurred during 1972. Another spate of changes peaked between 1977 and 1979, when portability of the Unix system was being demonstrated. In the middle of this second period, the first…
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How small is the smallest .NET Hello World binary?
Here is a dumb question that you probably never asked yourself: What is the minimal amount of bytes we need to store in a .NET executable to have the CLR print the string"Hello, World!" to the standard output?
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Story Behind Hackathon Photo
How a random stream of events ended up creating a picture with 57 million views
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California needs real math education, not gimmicks
A guest post by Armand Domalewski.
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Machine Unlearning Challenge
Posted by Fabian Pedregosa and Eleni Triantafillou, Research Scientists, Google Deep learning has recently driven tremendous progress in a wide arr...
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Why use Pascal?
Object Pascal is a modern, readable, fast, type-safe, cross-platform OOP programming language. It is also easy to pick up.
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Can a Rubik's Cube be brute-forced?
a personal blog
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Reverse-engineering the 8086 processor's address and data pin circuits
The Intel 8086 microprocessor (1978) started the x86 architecture that continues to this day. In this blog post, I'm focusing on a small p...
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Flickr Foundation is building a new bridge between Flickr and Wikimedia Commons
Flickr Badges (poolie from Germany, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons) We are pleased to announce a new partnership with the Flickr Foundation to extend the great work already done via the Flickr2Co…
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How to keep lambda calculus simple
Once upon a time, my curiosity of dependent types transitioned into an endeavour to learn how they work under the bonnet. Then I found the paper called “A Tutorial Implementation of a Dependently Typed Lambda Calculus” or just “Simply Easy” – and began reading it. However, the affairs happening there were so complex…
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Superrational
“Will Vicktoreya Keyneslee Beauxpensees please come see the principal right now?” said the voice over the intercom.
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Thermochromic Breadboard
A breadboard with visual indication of overheating of the parts.
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Scams upon scams: The data-driven advertising grift
Digital advertising is a scam from top to bottom. In fact, it’s several scams stacked on top of each other, wearing a trenchcoat, and some of the foundations of fibs are so effective that oth…
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I am drowning in mutes: The current Threads experience
The current Threads experience
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Bevy XPBD: A physics engine for the Bevy game engine
Bevy XPBD 0.1.0 has finally been released on crates.io!
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The ARM powered ThinkPad x13s, as a developer
The ARM powered Thinkpad x13s is the first truly premium Windows on ARM laptop. Let's see how that actually stacks up as a software engineer!
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Train an AI model once and deploy on any cloud
Organizations are increasingly adopting hybrid and multi-cloud strategies to access the latest compute resources, consistently support worldwide customers, and optimize cost. However…
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When did Alan Partridge first appear on television?
Here’s a question for you. When did Alan Partridge first appear on television? Caveats: a) I specifically mean television. Radio is brilliant, and also outside the scope of this article. b) F…
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Google to explore alternatives to robots.txt
We’re kicking off a public discussion across the web and AI communities to develop new machine-readable means to provide web publisher choice and control.
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ProtonMail Rewrites Your Emails
I switched to ProtonMail a few years back after getting fed up with Google. It’s been mostly acceptable, but a few months ago the Android client started mangling emails – if I hit “send” too soon, it would send out only part of what I’d typed; I had to wait 10 seconds or so after I finished typing before hitting send…
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A FactoryFactoryFactory in Production (2017)
No one has ever written a FactoryFactoryFactory and deployed it to production, right? This article takes a look at some real Java mishaps.
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The Code Review Pyramid (2022)
Table of Contents FAQ When it comes to code reviews, it’s a common phenomenon that there is much focus and long-winded discussions around mundane aspects like code formatting and style, whereas …
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Top suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison hack committed suicide in 2014
When the marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com learned in July 2015 that hackers were threatening to publish data stolen from 37 million users, the company’s then-CEO Noel Biderman was quick to point the finger at an unnamed former contractor. But as a new documentary series on Hulu reveals [ SPOILER ALERT! ]…