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How Facebook Avoids Ad Blockers
How Facebook hides the word 'Sponsored' from ad blockers using per-character spans and DOM obfuscation, pulled apart piece by piece.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,838 posts.
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Introduction to Bert
Unless you have been out of touch with the Deep Learning world, chances are that you have heard about BERT — it has been the talk of the town for the last one year. At the end of 2018 researchers …
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Tract: A Hugo theme for ambitious documentation projects
Hello! I wanted to tell you all about an open source project I’m working on that I’m pretty excited about. It’s called Tract and it’s a Hugo theme for large documentation projects. I aim to release version 0.1.0 by the end of 2019. In the meantime, check out the current home page or a sample docs page .
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Amazon Braket – Get Started with Quantum Computing
Nearly a decade ago I wrote about the Quantum Compute Cloud on April Fool’s Day. The future has arrived and you now have the opportunity to write quantum algorithms and to run them on actual quantum computers. Here’s what we are announcing today: Amazon Braket – A fully managed service that allows scientists…
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Crop Yields
Increasing crop yields is crucial to improve food security, living standards, and reduce human impacts on the environment.
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Moxie: Incremental Declarative UI in Rust
ramblings by Adam Perry
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My Experience as a Remote Worker
I've spent half of my career working remotely. This post chronicles those experiences, giving a real-world window into what it's like to work fully-remote as a software engineer.
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Born in a Garage
We started a computer company!!! The Oxide Computer Company started in my garage, this is a story about its origins.
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Oxide Computer Company: Initial boot sequence
Introducing the Oxide Computer Company!
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The soul of a new computer company
Over the summer, I described preparing for my next expedition. I’m thrilled to announce that the expedition is now plotted, the funds are raised, and the bags are packed: together with Steve Tuck and Jess Frazelle , we have started Oxide Computer Company .
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Mark Zuckerberg Interviews Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen
Patrick and Tyler are obsessed with progress — and they think you should be too.
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Taking ML to production with Rust
Hands-on technical leader, Rust expert.
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Better Intuition for Information Theory
Better visual explanations of information theoretic quantities like entropy and mutual information using I-diagrams. Based on Raymond W. Yeung's "A new outlook on Shannon's information measures" paper from 1991.
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Is true hacking dead? What we lost
Realtime rendering and videogame programming mostly, but I love computer science and visuals in all their forms. This is a notepad of my ideas.
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PIA VPN to be acquired by malware company founded by former Israeli spy
telegra.ph/private-internet-access-vpn-acquired-by-malware-business-founded-by-former-israeli-spies-12-0120191,004 points359 commentsSecurity & Privacy details
arccompute.com/blog The following article contains quotes and links meant to inform VPN consumers concerning the ownership, affiliations, and past business practices of Kape Technologies (formerly known as Crossrider) in light of their acquisition of Private Internet Access VPN. I'd like to start by giving credit…
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The Battlefield After the Battle
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2019105 points18 commentsHistory & Retro Computing details
Today we’re going to talk about what a pre-modern battlefield might look like after the battle is over. Obvious content warning, since this post is going to talk about (and show pictures of) …
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Getting a scientific prize for open-source software
Note An important acknowledgement for a different view of doing science: open, collaborative, and more than a proof of concept. A few days ago, Loïc Estève, Alexandre Gramfort, Olivier Grisel,...
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A Good Year for “A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics”
A year ago today I self-published “A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics” (PIM). In this short note I want to describe the success it’s had, summarize the complaints of some readers and the praise of others, and outline what’s next. Since publication PIM has sold over 11,000 copies. A rough chart showing the…
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What Percentage of Americans Own Stock?
Since 2023, an average of 62% of Americans report owning stock, a rebound after more than a decade of lower readings.
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The world needs more search engines
There are only very few truly independent search engines in the world. Google, Bing, Yandex, and Baidu are the best known ones. Most other players only white label results from those four and are dependent on them and their business model. Or they are so localized and small that they do not offer a credible…
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LibrePCB 0.1.3 released, now with DRC
This release adds a lot of (long-awaited) new features and important bugfixes to LibrePCB. Highlights Design Rule Check for Boards (#581) Finally the board editor got a design rule check! It checks a PCB for common mistakes like missing connections, too small clearances (or shorts), or too thin copper elements. A new…
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Help me ask why you didn't just
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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How Radar Works
Radar is one of the most versitile sensors we have to determine what is happening in an environment. Some common applications include air traffic control, weather prediction, automated driver assist, astronomy and terrain mapping. Given that these applications have wildy varying requirements on resolution, range and…
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Unbundling AWS
Why startups can build valuable businesses by unbundling AWS: focused developer tools, better user experiences, and software that does one thing well.
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