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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,863 posts.
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Everyone is wrong about that Slack flowchart
Building software is hard. Oftentimes things that seem like they should be simple end up being way more complicated when you get into the details. ( OK, maybe this isn’t specific to software. )
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Sets, types and type checking
My currently understanding of types
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Crafting Painterly Shaders
A detailed essay on my research and process of building a shader to mimic paint, watercolor, and aquarelle by exploring various implementations of the Kuwahara image smoothing filter.
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CFPB finalizes personal financial data rights rule
The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) has just finalized a rule that makes it easy and safe for you to figure out which bank will give you the best deal and switch to that bank, with just a couple of clicks. We love this kind of thing: the coolest thing about a digital world is how easy it...
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The Karma connection in Chrome Web Store
A bunch of malicious extensions in Chrome Web Store have hidden affiliate fraud functionality, collect users’ browsing profiles, or both. These extensions appear to be connected to the Karma shopping assistant, developed by Karma Shopping Ltd. which is not a small company.
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SimpleQA
A factuality benchmark called SimpleQA that measures the ability for language models to answer short, fact-seeking questions.
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The carefulness knob
A play in one act Dramatis personae EM, an engineering manager TL, the tech lead for the team X, an engineering manager from a different team Scene 1: A meeting room in an office. The walls are ado…
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Pushing the frontiers of audio generation
Our pioneering speech generation technologies are helping people around the world interact with more natural, conversational and intuitive digital assistants and AI tools.
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M4 MacBook Pro
Apple today unveiled the new MacBook Pro, powered by the M4 family of chips: M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max.
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Democratising publishing
Thoughts on open source governance and how to create trust within technology, communities, and media.
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Thunderbird for Android Now Available
Thunderbird for Android takes flight today! Find out what's new in the first stable release, where to download it, and how to get started!
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Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction
Today, our cofounder and CEO Drew Houston shared the difficult news that we’ll be making reductions to our global workforce. Here's the email he sent to all employees.
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Gross Apple Marketing
I’m not sure what’s going on over in Cupertino for them to …
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Lessons learned from a successful Rust rewrite
I have written about my on-going rewrite-it-to-Rust effort at work: 1 , 2 , 3 . And now it's finished, meaning it's 100% Rust and 0% C++ - the public C API has not changed, just the implementation, one function at time until the end. Let's have a look back at what worked, what didn't, and what can be done about it.
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Classic 3D videogame shadow techniques
Towards the end of Wim Wenders’s excellent Perfect Days , the protagonist Hirayama is drinking beer under a bridge after he has seen a Businessman courting his crush. Suddenly the Businessman joins him under the bridge. As it turns out, things aren’t actually that simple but the point is their conversation takes them…
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Async Rust is not safe with io_uring
The demo shows that even though the behavior appears similar, TCP connections leak when using the io_uring driver but not with the epoll driver. I've also tested this across various io_uring runtimes, and it turns out to be a common issue across all of them.
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Eighteen Years of ABI Stability
It has been eighteen years of libcurl ABI stability.
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Model Predictive Control in the Browser with WebAssembly
wrenfold is a framework for converting symbolic mathematical expressions (written in Python) into generated numerical code in other languages (C++, Rust, Python). It aims to bridge the gap between prototyping of functions in expressive symbolic form, and performant production code. wrenfold is particularly relevant to…
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Wasmer 5.0
We are thrilled to announce the release of **Wasmer 5.0**, the latest milestone in our journey to make WebAssembly the greatest tool for executing softw...
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RIP botsin.space
There's no easy way to put it, so here goes -- after a lot of consideration, I've made the hard (frankly, painful) decision to shut down botsin.space. TLDR: here's the plan:
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Digging into PlantStudio, a bit late
This aesthetic screenshot of an old windows app has been in my inspiration space for ~5 years. Until recently, I assumed that it was just a nostalgia bait concept.
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Using an 8K TV as a Monitor
TLDR: If your job is to write code all day or stare at Excel spreadsheets, buy an 8K TV instead of a multi-monitor setup. You can even use the same TV for 4K 120 Hz gaming or watching movies as a bonus!
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Vector databases are the wrong abstraction
Today’s vector databases disconnect embeddings from their source data. We should treat embeddings more like database indexes—here’s how.
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New Mac Mini with M4
Apple today unveiled the all-new Mac mini powered by the M4 and new M4 Pro chips, and redesigned around Apple silicon so it’s even smaller.
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Prisma Postgres – Runs on bare metal and unikernels
At Prisma, we believe that deploying a database should be as simple as adding a new page in Notion. Today, we are excited to share the first milestone towards this vision: Prisma Postgres® gives developers an always-on database with pay-as-you-go pricing, thanks to our unique architecture design.
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A deep history of Halloween
Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
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How to get the whole planet to send abuse complaints to your best friends
It all begins with one scary email late at night just before I had to go to sleep: