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How rate hikes are affecting the economy
Through Wages, Investment, Employment, Output, and More
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,153 posts.
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Rise of generative AI will be comparable to the rise of CGI in the early 90s
My chat with Cristóbal Valenzuela, Cofounder & CEO of Runway .
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Cache Associativity
Consider a strided incrementing loop over an array of size $N=2^{21}$ with a fixed step size of 256:
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Taking a Look at Mastodon
I’ve been a Twitter user and fan since 2007. With Twitter’s future looking a bit grim, I started looking around if there’s another place to go.
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My First Piano
Being a trained pianist brings its own interesting challenge when it comes to your instrument… because it’s actually quite rare that the piano you play on is actually your instrument. Keyboard players are amongst the few musicians who rarely choose the instrument they play on. Whether at home, at
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Why I program in Erlang (2012)
Erlang is a twenty-five-year-old programming language that has yet to win a popularity contest, and almost certainly will never win any medals for speed, let alone any tiaras for syntactic beauty. The language is slow, awkward, and ugly. Refactoring Erlang code is a pain.
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iPhone 14 Pro camera review: A small step, a huge leap
When the iPhone was first introduced, it packed in quite a few innovations. At a now-legendary keynote, Steve Jobs announced that Apple was launching a widescreen iPod, a phone and an internet communications device. These three devices were not separate new products, he revealed — they were all functions of
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One Million Database Connections
Learn how to use PlanetScale to safely include your database in your serverless functions without hitting connection limits in MySQL.
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An unwilling illustrator found herself turned into an AI model
How does it feel to be turned into an AI image model? To find out, I opened a door to the multiverse and interviewed the creator and unwilling subject of a controversial DreamBooth model.
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OpenSSL 3.0.7 fixes X.509 email address buffer overflows
Today we published an advisory about CVE-2022-3786 (“X.509 Email Address Variable Length Buffer Overflow”) and CVE-2022-3602 (“X.509 Email Address 4-byte Buffer Overflow”).
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Centralization is inevitable, but decentralization is right behind it
...but decentralization is right behind it.
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Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2022
Q3 2022 Drive Stats: Read the latest insights and check out the data.
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Laundry at the end of the world
It's pretty much what you'd expect.
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Android Studio’s “Code contains easter egg” inspection (2019)
There’s an inspection called “Code contains easter egg” that comes with Android Studio. This one:
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Bring Your Own Password Manager: Portable BitWarden on a Pi Zero
BYOPM is a self hosted portable Password Manager implementation based on BitWarden and Raspberry PI Zero.
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Nushell: Introduction to a new kind of shell
This article covers a gentle introduction to the shell nushell
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Fuzzy Metaballs: Approximate differentiable rendering with algebraic surfaces
Shape From Silhouette Reconstruction from a short cell phone video, showing reconstructed masks.
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Advice that worked for me
A big fan of advice posts and productivity guides, here's my contribution to the genre.
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Housing in Tokyo is cheaper and more spacious than people think
It's myth-busting time! The world's richest and largest city is cheaper and roomier than you think.
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9front “The Golden Age of Ballooning” Released
Multiple installation media are provided for PC, Raspberry Pi, and MNT Reform. For PC, burn an .iso file to CD, or dd it directly to USB media. For Raspberry Pi or MNT Reform, dd an .img file directly to sdcard.
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Visualizing Diffs: The Myers difference algorithm (2020)
In 1986, Eugene Myers published An O(ND) Difference Algorithm and Its Variations , which unified the problems of finding the longest common subsequence of two sequences (the LCS of "driftwood" and "artwork" is "two") and finding the shortest edit script for transforming one sequence into another. Myers showed that…
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I finally found a use case for my Raspberry Pi Model B+
I take a severely underpowered computer and make it do something useful.
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Zig 0.10.0 Release Notes
Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust , optimal , and reusable software.
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SMS Multifactor Authentication in Antarctica
Issues pertaining to SMS (for multifactor auth) in Antarctica.
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The McMurdo Wastewater Treatment Plant
Sweet, sweet humidity.
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Meta Myths
Meta deserves a bit of a discount off of its recent highs, but a number of myths about its business have caused the market to over-react.