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Own-goal football (2022)
In a 1994 qualifying match for the Caribbean Cup, both Barbados and Grenada attempted to score deliberate own goals – because it was the best strategy available.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,299 posts.
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Learn x86-64 assembly by writing a GUI from scratch
Most people think assembly is only to be used to write toy programs for learning purposes, or to write a highly optimized version of a specific function inside a codebase written in a high-level language.
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Operation Triangulation: iOS devices targeted with previously unknown malware
While monitoring the traffic of our own corporate Wi-Fi network, we noticed suspicious activity that originated from several iOS-based phones. Since it is impossible to inspect modern iOS devices from the inside, we created offline backups of the devices, inspected them and discovered traces of compromise.
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I went down the rabbit hole of buying GitHub Stars, so you won't have to
Exposing the dark side of GitHub and open source projects
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The work is never just “the work” (2022)
A deep dive on why projects always take longer and a framework to improve future estimation
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Zig is hard but worth it
"I learned Zig in a weekend! …Six hours! …6µs!" say the blissful lizards. Followed by something to the effect of, "It’s easy to pick up because the syntax is so simple."
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Introduction to Open Source Laptop Project by Lukas Henkel
Ever dreamt of designing your own open-source laptop? For a while now I´ve been fascinated by this idea. As you can probably imagine, this is a monumental task that will require a lot of time and resources. Working alone on a project of this size makes matters even more difficult.
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More malicious extensions in Chrome Web Store
So far I discovered 18 malicious extensions with 55 million users in total. Most popular ones are: Autoskip for Youtube, Crystal Ad block and Brisk VPN. They have been active for two years, undetected by Google.
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Reddit API Pricing Would Cost Apollo Developer $20M per Year
Link to: https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/
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OpenAI's plans according to sama
Last week I had the privilege to sit down with Sam Altman and 20 other developers to discuss OpenAI’s product plans. Sam was remarkably open. The discussion touched on practical developer issues as well as bigger-picture questions related to OpenAI’s mission and the societal impact of AI. Here are the key takeaways.
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Zulip 7.0: Threaded open-source team chat
We’re excited to announce the release of Zulip Server 7.0, containing hundreds of new features and bug fixes! Zulip is an open-source team chat application designed to help people collaborate to solve any challenge. With conversations organized by topic, Zulip is ideal for both live and asynchronous …
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Improving mathematical reasoning with process supervision
We’ve trained a model to achieve a new state-of-the-art in mathematical problem solving by rewarding each correct step of reasoning (“process supervision”) instead of simply rewarding the correct final answer (“outcome supervision”). In addition to boosting performance relative to outcome supervision, process…
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San Francisco: An Elitist Bubble Ignoring a Crime Epidemic?
I lived in New York City for 8 years and never had anything major stolen. In San Francisco, it took 2 weeks…
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RISE: Accelerate the development of open source software for RISC-V
Enabling commercial-ready software for application processors using RISC-V architecture for segments including mobile, consumer electronics, datacenter, and automotive
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The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it, not the tech itself
The history of technology suggests that the greatest risks come not from the tech, but from the people who control it
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SVG Images from Postgres
We are excited to announce a new set of functions to generate svgs from Postgres and PostGIS! This gives you really easy maps, images, or charts directly from your database. Once you start reading through these samples, you'll want to start playing with images from your database.
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When LIMIT 9 works but LIMIT 10 hangs
I got a Slack message from colleagues at a major partner. They’d updated their dev environment to support WebSockets, so that Neon’s serverless driver could be used there, but then they’d run into a weird issue. The nub of it was this: This hangs: This works Reproducibly, the query without an ORDER BY ran fine […]
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A new class of tiny, self-propelled robots that can zip through liquid at speed
CU Boulder engineers have designed a new class of "microrobots" several times smaller than the width of a human hair that may be able to treat human illnesses
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Notes apps are where ideas go to die (2022)
Insurance for your mind.
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Directly compiling Scheme to WebAssembly: lambdas, recursion, iteration
It's been just over three months since we announced the Guile on WebAssembly project (codenamed Hoot ). Since then we've brought on two fantastic hackers to develop the project and progress has been quick.
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Box64 and RISC-V
Box64 and RISC-V, the challenges of wrtting the Dynarec, and benchmarks
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Nvidia DGX GH200: 100 Terabyte GPU Memory System
At COMPUTEX 2023, NVIDIA announced NVIDIA DGX GH200, which marks another breakthrough in GPU-accelerated computing to power the most demanding giant AI workloads.
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Why F# evangelism isn't working (2015)
If you skim this blog entry too quickly or just read the title, you might think I am someone who does not like F#. Nothing could be further from the truth. Over the last several months, I have become a big F# fan. It has become my preferred language for personal projects.
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A Mechanistic Interpretability Analysis of Grokking
Neel Nanda reverse engineers neural networks that have "grokked" modular addition, showing that they operate using Discrete Fourier Transforms and tr…
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Language Pragmatics Engineering
On best practices and gradient descent.