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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,021 posts.
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The evolution of expert communities
A look at how online forums grow, thrive, and then decay.
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Business questions worth asking
This is a list of questions I’ve collected over the years that resonate with my business and product philosophies. Most are not original and were collected from or inspired by various books…
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Don't build AI products the way everyone else is doing it
More and more, people are building products as thin wrappers over other models, especially LLMs. This can cause major issues, and there is a better way.
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Nordic is getting involved in RISC-V
What RISC-V will do is give our customers is an extra option when seeking to minimize power consumption in certain applications where the (many) tradeoffs of not using an Arm-based core are acceptable.
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We used to build steel mills near cheap power. Now we build datacenters
Why are people so concerned with hardware power consumption nowadays? Some common answers to this question are that power is critically important for phones, tablets, and laptops and that we can put more silicon on a modern chip than we can effectively use . In 2001 Patrick Gelsinger observed that if scaling continued…
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What I learned getting acquired by Google
Our 10 person startup gets acquired by Google, we rebuild our product the Google way, and begin to understand that amazing things are possible at Google, if you play the Google game
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Servo announces grant from the NLnet Foundation
Earlier this year in July, Servo received a NLnet grant to enhance several aspects of Servo.
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$200M gift propels scientific research in the search for life beyond Earth
November 8, 2023, Mountain View, CA – The SETI Institute , a non-profit scientific research organization, announced today a philanthropic gift of $200m from the estate of Franklin Antonio, a visionary supporter and catalyst of the work of the SETI Institute for more than 12 years. Co-founder of communications chip…
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Is AI the next crypto? Insights from HN comments
The OpenPipe platform has migrated to Weights & Biases and CoreWeave. Browse migration details and the OpenPipe technical archive.
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Swedish unions strike: Blocks mail and package deliveries for Tesla
Här publicerar vi nyheter från fackförbundet Seko.
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US Smartphone Shipments Decline 19% in Q3 2023 as More Americans Delay Upgrade
Counterpoint Research Insight
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What does and doesn't matter about Apple shooting their October event on iPhone
You’re somewhere on the spectrum of occasionally shooting video on your iPhone to a professional-ish video maker with some gear, and you see at the end of Apple’s October “Scary Fast” event announcing new Macs with M3 silicon that the entire event was “Shot on iPhone.”
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I Got the Fed to Release Its 2011 "Treasury Default" Playbook
Subscribe Readers may recall that I wrote a Politico Op Ed at a critical moment in the debt ceiling showdown. That piece, was entitled “Biden Can Steamroll Republicans on the Debt Ceiling”, and I aimed squarely at debunking the idea that the Federal Reserve would step on any “unilateral actions”
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Seeing like a bank
The structural reasons why banks sometimes behave bizarrely in interactions with customers, like forgetting things which customers tell them.
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Fedora 39 Released
We’re pleased to bring you Fedora Linux 39, our complete, community-built operating system. And stop by our virtual release party! It's free!
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The OpenAI Keynote
OpenAI’s developer keynote was exciting, both because AI was exciting, and because OpenAI has the potential to be a meaningful consumer tech company.
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Tutanota is now Tuta
Welcome to Tuta! 😍
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Apple's Trademark Exploit
try to trade and you're marked
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DAK and the Golden Age of Gadget Catalogs
Hi. My name is Cabel. And I’ve probably got the neatest job in the whole world. I wear many hats. But here on my personal blog, I get to write about the things I really care about, just for y…
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New models and developer products
GPT-4 Turbo with 128K context and lower prices, the new Assistants API, GPT-4 Turbo with Vision, DALL·E 3 API, and more.
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Regarding Proposed US Restrictions on RISC-V
A bipartisan group of 18 lawmakers in the US Congress have recently amplified a request to the White House and the Secretary of Commerce to place restrictions on Americans working with RISC-V (see also the initial request from the Senate ) in order to prevent China from gaining dominance in CPU technology.
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A new home and license (AGPL) for Synapse and friends
Element has chosen to pursue future development of Synapse, Dendrite and associated server-side projects under the terms of AGPLv3.
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Google Pays $21B for Search Monopoly: How "Free" Tech Markets Repress
Break the Google Search monopoly! Your data is worth billions, take back control!
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Can solar and wind power Britain? An update of David MacKay's numbers
These technologies have developed a lot since 2008. Should we be any more optimistic about their potential to power Britain?