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Improving on std:count_if()'s auto-vectorization
To start off, we can leverage the STL for this calculation. std::count_if() more precisely:
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,857 posts.
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MCP vs. API Explained
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that connects AI models to tools and data sources efficiently. This guide breaks down MCP’s architecture, benefits, and how it differs from traditional APIs
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Kill your Feeds – Stop letting algorithms dictate what you think
We used to control apps like Facebook and Instagram with our own choices. They became daily comforts, making the world seem a little bit smaller and closer by bringing the people that we cared about together in to one place.
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You might not need Redis
Redis is arguably the most well regarded tech of all. But many times you do not need Redis. Here are 3 examples from my last 3 jobs.
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Discovering errors in Donald Knuth's TAOCP
As Donald Knuth has just published Volume 4, Fascicle 7 of The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP), on constraint satisfaction, I would like to provide…
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The program is the database is the interface
That transfer to John Smith isn't covered by any of the tagging rules. So I select the date, switch to the editor window and paste the date into the date->tag definition:
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The Einstein AI Model
I shared a controversial take the other day at an event and I decided to write it down in a longer format: I’m afraid AI won't give us a compressed 21st century.
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Discworld Rules
And LOTR is brain-rot for technologists
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Long Read: Lessons from Building Semantic Search for GitHub and Why I Failed
Made in Notion, the connected workspace where AI agents and teams organize docs, projects and knowledge together.
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An epic treatise on error models for systems programming languages
Musings on the representation, propagation and handling of errors in existing programming languages, as well as thoughts on future systems. (15K+ words)
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Take It Down Act: A Flawed Attempt to Protect Victims That'll Lead to Censorship
Congress has begun debating the TAKE IT DOWN Act (S. 146), a bill that seeks to speed up the removal of a troubling type of online content: non-consensual intimate imagery, or NCII. In recent years, concerns have also grown about the use of digital tools to alter or create such images, sometimes...
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Feds Link Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks
In September 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published findings from security researchers who concluded that a series of six-figure cyberheists across dozens of victims resulted from thieves cracking master passwords stolen from the password manager service LastPass in 2022. In a court filing this week, U.S. federal agents…
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GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet
GeoCities, known throughout most of 1995 as Beverly Hills Internet, is one of the first commercial internet services to make it easy for people to publish a home page on the World Wide Web.
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How did places like Bell Labs know how to ask the right questions? (2023)
Alternative Title: Why all applied research organizations should hire a Bell-style systems engineer
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Polars Cloud: The Distributed Cloud Architecture to Run Polars Anywhere
We introduce Polars Cloud, the distributed cloud architecture to scale and run Polars anywhere.
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Great software design looks underwhelming
Years ago I spent a lot of time reviewing coding challenges. The challenge itself was very straightforward — building a CLI tool that hit an API and allowed the…
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Age Verification Laws: A Backdoor to Surveillance
I’m old enough to remember when age verification bills were pitched as a way to ‘save the kids from porn’ and shield them from other vague dangers lurking in the digital world (like…“the transgender”). We have long cautioned about the dangers of these laws, and pointed out why they are likely to...
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AMD YOLO
AMD is sending us the two MI300X boxes we asked for. They are in the mail.
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Introducing command And commandfor In HTML
Learn about the new capabilities for declarative behavior on buttons.
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Optimistic Locking in B-Trees
CedarDB is a database system that delivers unmatched performance for transactions and analytics, from small writes to handling billions of rows. Built on cutting-edge research to power today’s tools and tomorrow’s challenges.
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Betting on the Pope was the original prediction market
500 years before Polymarket, the Vatican fought to stop gambling on papal affairs. Should we worry that it’s back?
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Bel in Clojure (2022)
9 months ago, I took a gander at PG’s guide to Bel . If you haven’t read it, here’s the premise:
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Strobelight: A profiling service built on open source technology
We’re sharing details about Strobelight, Meta’s profiling orchestrator. Strobelight combines several technologies, many open source, into a single service that helps engineers at Meta improve effic…
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Zig's dot star syntax (value.*)
Karl Seguin's Blog - A mix of coding and creative writing
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Bye, Prime
Why? · As I wrote in Not an Amazon Problem (and please go read that if you haven’t) I don’t see myself as an enemy of Amazon, particularly. I think the pressures of 21st-century capitalism have put every large company into a place where they really can’t afford to be ethical or the financial sector will rip them to…
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Why I find diffusion models interesting?
HN Discussion
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How to distrust a CA without any certificate errors
A “distrust” is when a certification authority (CA) that issues HTTPS certificates to websites is removed from a root store because it is no longer trusted to issue certificates. This means certificates issued by that CA will be treated as invalid, likely causing certificate error interstitials in any browser that…
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Using GRPO to Beat o1, o3-mini and R1 at “Temporal Clue”
The OpenPipe platform has migrated to Weights & Biases and CoreWeave. Browse migration details and the OpenPipe technical archive.
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Exposing Russian EFF Impersonators: The Inside Story on Stealc and Pyramid C2
Discover how an open directory exposed a threat actor impersonating EFF to target gamers and how we mapped their infrastructure to Stealc & Pyramid C2.
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