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Librem5 Hardware Update
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,419 posts.
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Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia
Switching fully to card and app payments would put access to our money in the hands of private organizations for the first time in history.
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Nine years of Go
Happy 9th birthday, Go!
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A Google Brain engineer’s guide to entering AI
Technical AI safety is a multifaceted area of research, with many sub-questions in areas such as reward learning, robustness, and interpretability. These will all need to be answered in order to make sure AI development will go well for humanity as systems become more and more powerful. Not all of these questions are…
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Android Security Auditing: Investigating Unauthorized Screenshots
About six months ago, I discovered something on my smartphone that horrified me: I went to undelete a file in DiskDigger, and I stumbled upon a plethora of unexpected jpegs: screenshots of my activity. Screenshots that I didn’t take. Screenshots of my conversations. Screenshots of my GPS position. And screenshots of…
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Making floating point math highly efficient for AI hardware
In recent years, compute-intensive artificial intelligence tasks have prompted creation of a wide variety of custom hardware to run these powerful new systems efficiently. Deep learning models, suc…
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Cloud Computing Without Containers
We have a cloud computing platform called Workers. Unlike essentially every other cloud computing platform I know of, it doesn’t use containers or virtual machines. We believe that is the future of Serverless and cloud computing in general, and I’ll try to convince you why.
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Application-Layer DDoS Attack Protection with HAProxy
This blog post describes techniques that utilize ACLs, maps, and stick tables.
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Using a Keras Long Short-Term Memory Model to Predict Stock Prices
Editor’s note: This tutorial illustrates how to get started forecasting time series with LSTM models. Stock market data is a great choice for this because it’s quite regular and widely available to everyone. Please don’t take this as financial advice… Continue reading Using a Keras Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Model…
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Apple has removed us from the App Store
The RescueTime for iOS app has been temporarily removed from the App Store. This is obviously incredibly disappointing for us and all our users.
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Against software development
Just so, generic code is replaced by its concrete instances, which are faster and easier to comprehend (at first).
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U.S. Secret Service Warns ID Thieves Are Abusing USPS’s Mail Scanning Service
A year ago, KrebsOnSecurity warned that “Informed Delivery,” a new offering from the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) that lets residents view scanned images of all incoming mail, was likely to be abused by identity thieves and other fraudsters unless the USPS beefed up security around the program and made it easier for…
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ReasonML: Strict, powerful and forgiving
I gave this talk at JSFoo, Bengaluru, in October 2018. It describes my experience in switching to ReasonML on the Turaku project and how learning to use a statically-typed functional programming language involves much more than learning the language's syntax or features.
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Optimal Shard Placement in a Petabyte Scale Elasticsearch Cluster
At the heart of Meltwater’s and Fairhair.ai’s information retrieval systems lies a collection of Elasticsearch clusters containing billions of social media posts and editorial articles. The index shards in our clusters vary greatly in their access pattern, workload and size which presents some very interesting…
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How Many Computers Are in Your Computer?
A catalogue of software constructs, languages, or APIs which are unexpectedly Turing-complete; implications for security and reliability.
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What Makes .NET Core So Special?
Technical blog of Microsoft certified developer James Hickey. Helping you reach the next step of your career as a software developer!
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I've compiled the best SaaS Landing pages and broke down all their secrets
We'll Rewrite Your SaaS Landing Page Into A High…2018561 points88 commentsTech Industry & Business details
SaaS Landing page inspiration is usually "pretty" but not conversion/result driven so in this article, I compiled the best SaaS Landing pages examples I've seen and broke-down their secrets for conversions!
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96-core ARM supercomputer using the NanoPi-Fire3
Building a high performance supercomputer for under £100 (£550 including twelve Fire3s). Parts list, benchmarks and downloadable plans for laser-cutting the acrylic case.
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How We Built a Cost-Based SQL Optimizer
CockroachDB 2.1 includes a brand-new, built-from-scratch, cost-based SQL optimizer. This post explains what a cost-based SQL optimizer is, and tells the story of how we decided we really, really needed one.
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Spinning Up in Deep RL
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
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Now 2.0
Today, we have some very special news regarding the evolution of our company.
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A note to our employees
Today, our CEO Sundar Pichai sent an email to Google employees about changes we’re making to better support our employees.
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A hundred million cars run curl
One of my hobbies is to collect information about where curl is used. The following car brands feature devices, infotainment and/or navigation systems that use curl - in one or more of their models. These are all brands about which I've found information online (for example curl license information), received photos…
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An Israeli spacecraft is gearing up for a 2019 Moon mission
SpaceIL, a privately funded Israeli non-profit, will attempt to land a small spacecraft on the Moon in early 2019.
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A History of the Sentence "Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo." (1999-2015)
See also: "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" , Wikipedia (accessed May 4, 2008).