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The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics
or How a Rebellious Youth Briefly Conquered the World
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,273 posts.
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Fortran on WebAssembly
Patching LLVM Flang to output WebAssembly objects.
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Deep sea mining could be worse for the climate than land ores
As decisions over the future viability of deep sea mining are under review, Planet Tracker’s latest report ‘The Climate Myth of Deep Sea Mining’ examines deep sea mining companies’ claim that mining polymetallic nodules could be a low carbon alternative to mining on land.
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So you wanna de-bog yourself
What I found in the mire
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Cloudflare acquires PartyKit to allow developers to build real-time multi-user
We're thrilled to announce that PartyKit, a trailblazer in enabling developers to craft ambitious real-time, collaborative, multiplayer applications, is now a part of Cloudflare
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An IRC client in your motherboard
I made a graphical IRC client that runs in UEFI. It’s written in Rust and leverages the GUI toolkit and TrueType renderer that I wrote for axle’s userspace. I was able to develop it thanks to the vmnet network backend that I implemented for QEMU. You can connect to an IRC server, chat and read messages, all from the…
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A Lego model of financial capitalism
Unboxing the dark arts of finance
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Postgres locks explorer
All of the data in this page is derived from these tests , so is true by some definition of true. Notable is this test - given an arbitrary SQL statement, it determines via runtime inspection which locks are taken.
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Mario meets Pareto
Discover how to find the best Mario Kart 8 build using the Pareto frontier method. This interactive guide explores multi-objective optimization of speed, acceleration, and other key stats to help you beat your friends on the race track.
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Cory Doctorow on Kagi Search
Remember the first time you used Google search? It was like magic. After years of progressively worsening search quality from Altavista and Yahoo, Google was literally stunning, a gateway to the very best things on the internet.
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Understanding and managing the impact of machine learning models on the web
This document proposes an analysis of the systemic impact of AI systems, and in particular ones based on Machine Learning models, on the Web, and the role that Web standardization may play in managing that impact.
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Containers and Unikernels: Similar, different, and intertwined
The millisecond compute layer used for sandboxes, headless browsers, CI/builds, functions / Agents / Databases and much more. Instant boot, VM-grade isolation, and millisecond scale-to-zero, so you can ship with superior economics. Deploy on-prem, BYOC or on dedicated hosts — you own the entire stack.
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The design philosophy of Great Tables
We’ve spent a lot of time thinking about tables. Tables—like plots—are crucial as a last step toward presenting information. There is surprising…
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XDP for game programmers
Learn how you can use XDP/eBPF to get maximum bandwidth for your applications.
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DataStax just bought our startup Langflow
The past few weeks have been nuts, and we’ve been itching to share some huge news with you all… 🥁 Langflow is joining DataStax!
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JetMoE: Reaching LLaMA2 performance with 0.1M dollars
The project is contributed by Yikang Shen , Zhen Guo , Tianle Cai and Zengyi Qin . For technical inquiries, please contact Yikang Shen. For media and collaboration inquiries, please contact Zengyi Qin.
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HTTP/2 Continuation Flood: Technical Details
Preface In October 2023 I learned about HTTP/2 Rapid Reset attack, dubbed “the largest DDoS attack to date”. I didn’t have deep knowledge of HTTP/2 back then. I knew its basics like frames or HPACK but I was focusing more on HTTP/1.1 protocol and programming languages vulnerabilities. I decided to dedicate time to…
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The V8 Sandbox
V8 features a lightweight, in-process sandbox to limit the impact of memory corruption bugs
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Homemade 6 GHz pulse compression radar
Designing a modern pulse compression radar that uses digital signal processing.
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Saving cloud costs by writing our own database
What is the first rule of programming? Maybe something like “do not repeat yourself” or “if it works, don’t touch it”? Or, how about “do not write your own database!”… That’s a good one.
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Interview with a blind developer on how he works (2017)
Insights | Vincit
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Anatomy of a credit card rewards program
Credit card rewards are mostly funded out of interchange, a fee paid by businesses to accept cards.
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Kobold letters: HTML emails are a risk
Anyone who has had to deal with HTML emails on a technical level has probably reached the point where they wanted to quit their job or just set fire to all the mail clients due to their inconsistent implementations. But HTML emails are not just a source of frustration, they can also be a serious security risk.
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Tokens, n-grams, and bag-of-words models (2023)
This post covers Natural Language Processing fundamentals that are essential to understanding all of today’s language models.
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German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice
Following a successful pilot project, the northern German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move from Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office to Linux and LibreOffice (and other free and open source software) on the 30,000 PCs used in the local government. As reported on the homepage of the…
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Keeping your data from Apple is harder than expected
New study shows that the default apps collect data even when supposedly disabled, and this is hard to switch off
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Uv saves Home Assistant 215 compute hours per month
By replacing pip with uv in our production images, our build pipeline (and therefore releasing a new version) is a lot faster.