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Testing a new encrypted messaging app's extraordinary claims
How I accidentally breached a nonexistent database and found every private key in a 'state-of-the-art' encrypted messenger called Converso.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,299 posts.
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Google I/O: Big changes coming for SEOs with ubiquitous AI
Google I/O 2023 makes AI ubiquitous across products. What SGE and generative search mean for SEOs and content marketers.
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Turn ideas into music with MusicLM
Starting today, you can sign up to try MusicLM, a new experimental AI tool that can turn your text descriptions into music.
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How and why we acquired our .com domain
The story of acquiring and migrating from supertokens.io to supertokens.com
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Infosec company pwned by 4chan user
risk visualize deez nuts
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Abusing vector search for texts, maps, and chess
Vector search isn't just for AI embeddings. Use HNSW for geo-spatial queries, stock covariance, chess positions, text tokens, and multi-modal recommendations with custom metrics.
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Helion’s fusion power purchase agreement with Microsoft
Microsoft has agreed to purchase electricity from Helion’s first fusion power plant.
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Extending web applications with WebAssembly and Python
How to leverage Python and WebAssembly to securely extend your web application capabilities using Suborbital and Wasm Labs tooling and language runtimes.
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The decline and fall of the hit instrumental song
Nowadays vocalists control popular music—but that wasn't always true
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The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals
Disclaimer: This article is not meant to provoke anxiety or exaggerate the power of GPT. It is merely my personal observation after using ChatGPT/GPT-
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How I developed a faster Ruby interpreter (2022)
Learn about 8 optimization techniques for a faster interpreter in Ruby which I developed using a dynamically specialized internal representation (IR).
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Julia 1.9
Highlights of the Julia 1.9 release.
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Serving 90TB/Day of Linux Updates from Thin Clients
The thoughts and projects of an engineer who likes to convert solder, firmware, and wire into all sorts of different forms of entertainment.
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Internet disrupted in Pakistan amid arrest of former PM Imran Khan
NetBlocks metrics confirm the disruption of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube on multiple internet providers in Pakistan on Tuesday 9 May 2023. Additionally, total internet shutdowns have been observed on mobile ...
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File Locks on Linux
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Twenty years of blogging
Twenty years... a significant chunk of a human's adult life; while so many things in my life have changed since May 2003, the blog has remained a constant companion. This milestone inspired me to do some archaeology using the amazing Wayback Machine . It didn't have the very first post, but I dug up one from just a…
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Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report
Last year, our mighty donor base generously donated a record-breaking amount to the Thunderbird project! Here's our 2022 Financial Report.
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Is sequential IO dead in the era of the NVMe drive?
Two systems I know pretty well, Apache BookKeeper and Apache Kafka, were designed in the era of the spinning disk, the hard-drive or HDD. Hard-drives are good at sequential IO but not so good at random IO because of the relatively high seek times. No wonder then that both Kafka and BookKeeper were d
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Language models can explain neurons in language models
We use GPT-4 to automatically write explanations for the behavior of neurons in large language models and to score those explanations. We release a dataset of these (imperfect) explanations and scores for every neuron in GPT-2.
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Companies hide negative news with unrelated press releases alongside SEC filings
A new study, forthcoming in The Accounting Review from Jessica Watkins, assistant professor of accountancy in the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, found that, alongside 8-K reports featuring negative news, managers tend to push out simpler, unrelated press releases to divert attention from the…
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Ten Thousand Ways to Use Chopsticks
How many different ways do people use chopsticks to pick up food? Here's your pictorial map to ten thousand grips.
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Study finds elevated levels of toxic metals in some juices and soft drinks
A new study has found that some commonly consumed beverages contained levels of toxic metals that exceed federal drinking water standards.
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Do the weirdest thing that feels right
From "what to write" to "how to live" | Castles in the Sky #35
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Reduced cancer mortality with daily Vitamin D intake
Vitamin D intake could reduce cancer mortality in the population by twelve percent - provided the vitamin is taken daily. This was the result of an evaluation of 14 studies of the highest quality conducted at the German Cancer Research Center with a total of almost 105,000 participants.
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T cells can activate themselves to fight tumors
UC San Diego scientists find an auto-signaling mechanism driving the T cell anti-tumor response; findings may inspire new cancer therapeutics and biomarkers.
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The seven specification ur-languages
A brief overview of the formal specification landscape
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Good conversations have lots of doorknobs
Or "Spiderman Is My Boyfriend"