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Hey Siri: An On-Device DNN-Powered Voice Trigger for Apple’s Personal Assistant
The “Hey Siri” feature allows users to invoke Siri hands-free. A very small speech recognizer runs all the time and listens for just those…
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,763 posts.
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CKEditor 5: New approach to rich text editing on the web
The heart of the new CKEditor Ecosystem is undoubtedly our brand new editor, CKEditor 5.
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Feynman’s Breakthrough: Disregard Others
Feynman (just off centre) at Wangerooge in 1987 I started my career as a theoretical physicist, and in the late-80s I co-organised a specialist workshop on a small island, Wangerooge, off the coast…
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Pixel Visual Core: Google’s first custom-designed co-processor
Google’s first custom-designed co-processor for consumer products is built into every Pixel 2. Soon, it will enable more applications to use Pixel 2’s camera for taking …
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Immigration
In your view, should immigration be kept at its present level, increased or decreased? On the whole, do you think immigration is a good thing or a bad thing for this country today?
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Why we switched from Python to Go
Deciding on a programming language is always a difficult choice, learn why Stream switched from Python to Go as our language of choice.
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Choosing between names and identifiers in URLs
The best APIs implement both permalink URLs based on identifiers for stable identification and search URLs based on names (and perhaps other values) for ease-of-use. Here's why.
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Dropbox Professional
Modern work can be frustrating and chaotic—if you don’t have the right tools. From context engineering to multimodal search, go behind the scenes and hear how Dropbox engineers are building AI that actually understands you, so you can focus on the work that matters most.
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Hotswapping Haskell
Bluesky: @simonmar.bsky.social Github: simonmar Email: marlowsd@gmail.com LinkedIn: Simon Marlow
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Show HN: Metaballs
Generating gooey metaballs as a single SVG path — locating the tangent points between two circles, spreading and curving the connector with polar coordinates, and handling overlap, after Hiroyuki Sato's Illustrator script.
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ACME Support in Apache HTTP Server Project
We’re excited that support for getting and managing TLS certificates via the ACME protocol is coming to the Apache HTTP Server Project (httpd). ACME is the protocol used by Let’s Encrypt, and hopefully other Certificate Authorities in the future. We anticipate this feature will significantly aid the adoption of HTTPS…
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The new Google Calendar for web
Check out Google Calendar's new look and features for businesses.
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Zig Programming Language 0.1.1: First beta release
Zig can be used to integrate closely with existing C code, or independently, without libc.
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Introducing Surface Book 2
When you think about Microsoft and you hear our mission – to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more – it’s powerful. As product makers, we have to believe in the reasons we build our products. From Office to Windows to Surface, this is a notion that drives us. As
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How to set up continuous deployment using free hosted tools
I’m going to describe a way to put together a world-class continuous deployment infrastructure for your side-project without spending any money. With continuous deployment every code commit is tested against …
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Just own the damn robots
The time has come to stop the lawlessness.
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Planets in Google Maps
Now you can visit many planets and moons in Google Maps right from your computer.
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Creator of cURL wins Polhem Prize 2017
I'm awarded the Swedish Polhem Prize 2017. (Link to a Swedish-speaking site.) The Polhem Prize (Polhemspriset in Swedish), is awarded "for a high-level technological innovation or an ingenious solution to a technical problem." The Swedish innovation must be available and shown competitive on the open market. This…
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Falling through the KRACKs
The big news in crypto today is the KRACK attack on WPA2 protected WiFi networks. Discovered by Mathy Vanhoef and Frank Piessens at KU Leuven, KRACK (Key Reinstallation Attack) leverages a vulnerab…
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Active cooling your Raspberry Pi 3
Raspberry Pi 3 devices tend to overheat when they run prolonged heavy loads. When the processor’s internal temperature approaches 85 degrees Celsius, it protects itself by downclocking or shutting down completely. This can adversely affect performance of AI models.
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Consul 1.0 Released
Today we are excited to announce the public availability of HashiCorp Consul 1.0. Consul is a tool for service discovery and runtime configuration for distributed applications and infrastructure. Consul joins Vagrant and Packer as the third HashiCorp product to reach the 1.0 milestone.
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Keyboard latency
If you look at “gaming" keyboards, a lot of them sell for $100 or more on the promise that they’re fast. Ad copy that you’ll see includes: