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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,419 posts.
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Do neural networks dream of electric sheep?
If you’ve been on the internet today, you’ve probably interacted with a neural network. They’re a type of machine learning algorithm that’s used for everything from language translation to finance modeling. One of their specialties is image recognition. Several companies - including Google, Microsoft, IBM, and…
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Google-Landmarks: A New Dataset and Challenge for Landmark Recognition
Posted by André Araujo and Tobias Weyand, Software Engineers, Google ResearchImage classification technology has shown remarkable improvement over ...
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Wing Commander II
If there was ever any doubt inside Origin Systems that Chris Roberts’s Wing Commander was destined to join Ultima as the company’s second great franchise, it was banished the moment the first game in the new series was released on September 26, 1990, and promptly sold by some accounts 100,000 copies in its first month…
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A researcher’s tale of defeating traps, tricks, and complex virtual machines
Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (Office 365 ATP) blocked many notable zero-day exploits in 2017. In our analysis, one activity group stood out: NEODYMIUM. This threat actor is remarkable for two reasons: FinFisher is such a complex piece of malware that, like other researchers, we had to devise special methods…
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Amazon's policies promote counterfeiting
When someone goes to the lengths of making counterfeits of your products, it's at least a sign you're doing something right. And it deserves a minute of flattery. But when Chinese counterfeiters tool up and make copies of your product, send that inventory to Amazon, then overtake the real product's buy box by auto-lo
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How we built Hamiltix.net for less than $1 a month on AWS
The details of running a complex ticket ranking site for under a dollar a month on AWS
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Nim language v0.18.0 released
The Nim team is happy to announce that the latest release of Nim, version 0.18.0, is now available. Nim is a systems programming language that focuses on performance, portability and expressiveness.
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What Happens to Us Does Not Happen to Most of You
This blog post is a personal account of sexism, harassment, and racism that I and some anonymous members of the computer architecture community have experienced. We are sharing these experiences in…
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Paper is dead, long live paper programming
It should come as no surprise to anyone who reads this blog that I love to program "by hand." I happen to practice a degree of ascetical programming practices, and I believe that they help me to more deeply internalize and understand problems, ultimately delivering higher quality solutions. One of
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Dropbox and Google Cloud integrations
Modern work can be frustrating and chaotic—if you don’t have the right tools. From context engineering to multimodal search, go behind the scenes and hear how Dropbox engineers are building AI that actually understands you, so you can focus on the work that matters most.
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Bandaid – Dropbox service proxy
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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Determining the Average Apple Device Lifespan
In The Number I provided a model for estimating the number of active Apple devices at any point in time. The relationship between active devices and cumulative devices sold gives us a rule of thumb…
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Learning by playing
Getting children (and adults) to tidy up after themselves can be a challenge, but we face an even greater challenge trying to get our AI agents to do the same. Success depends on the mastery of several core visuo-motor skills: approaching an object, grasping and lifting it, opening a box and putting things inside of…
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How Do We Learn?
Piaget’s Constructivism, Papert’s Constructionism: What’s the difference? by Edith Ackermann (PDF)
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Age of Empires Definitive Edition's pathing and movement
Typical Age DE forum post: The pathfinding in the game is terrible. First off, Age of Empires Definitive Edition is a remaster of...
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