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GPT in 500 Lines of SQL
A complete GPT2 implementation as a single SQL query in PostgreSQL.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,900 posts.
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Chronic stress spreads cancer
Stress is inevitable. But too much of it can be terrible for our health. Chronic stress can increase our risk for heart disease and strokes. It may also help cancer spread. How this works has remained a mystery—a challenge for cancer care. Xue-Yan He, a former postdoc in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Adjunct…
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Meta's new LLM-based test generator
Meta's TestGen-LLM is a sneak peek to the future of developer productivity: specialized, orchestrated, and rigorously filtered.
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Mamba: The Easy Way
An overview of the big ideas behind Mamba, a brand-new language model architecture.
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Privacy Isn't Dead. Far from It
Welcome! The fact that you’re reading this means that you probably care deeply about the issue of privacy, which warms our hearts. Unfortunately, even though you care about privacy, or perhaps because you care so much about it, you may feel that there's not much you (or anyone) can really do to...
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I don't think the cheapest APC Back-UPS units can be monitored except in Windows
Despite otherwise seeming to work correctly, I can't monitor a Back-UPS BX1600MI in Linux without seeing a constant stream of spurious battery detach/reattach and power fail/restore events that last less than 2 seconds each. I've tried multiple computers and multiple UPSes of that model. It doesn't happen in their own…
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Building a deep learning rig
Blog post of Samsja
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Thanks FedEx, this is why we keep getting phished
I've been getting a lot of those "your parcel couldn't be delivered" phishing attacks lately and if you're a human with a phone, you probably have been too. Just as a brief reminder, they look like this: These get through all the technical controls that exist at
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Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive
Today, we’re excited to announce we’ve completed another piece of the roadmap: Leo can now interact with PDFs and Google Drive files.
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Intel Processor Instability Causing Oodle Decompression Failures
RAD Game Tools' web page. RAD makes Bink Video, the Telemetry Performance Visualization System, and Oodle Data Compression - all popular video game middleware.
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Ten years of remembering every day that passes (2022)
I began this process on 17 December 2011 and let the tenth anniversary pass without comment, so the time has come to reflect. Firstly, I con...
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Go(lang): Robust generic functions on slices
Avoiding memory leaks in the slices package.
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A Distributed File System in Go Cut Average Metadata Memory Usage to 100 Bytes
Learn JuiceFS Enterprise Edition’s metadata engine design and optimization methods that reduced its metadata memory usage by 90%.
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The Fed is behind the Capital One/Discover merger
In 2010, Congress capped fees for debit card networks so merchants don't get gouged by Visa and Mastercard. But the Fed stuck in a loophole for Discover. And that is leading Capital One to buy it.
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JavaScript Bloat in 2024
What is the average size of JavaScript code downloaded per website? Fuck around and find out!
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Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters
We’re excited to announce that the Bluesky network is federating and opening up in a way that allows you to host your own data.
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I turned my ThinkPad into a programmable USB device
Enabling and using xDCI controller on ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6th Gen
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Did fermented foods fuel brain growth?
Researchers hypothesize it’s fermentation, not fire, that’s behind our ancestors’ increasing brain size.
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YouTube addiction, one month sober
Today marks my first month clean from YouTube . It was the right choice, but that's not to say it was easy.
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The Billion Row Challenge (1BRC) – Step-by-Step from 71s to 1.7s
A step-by-step walkthrough of the Billion Row Challenge, taking a Parallel Java Streams aggregation from 71 seconds down to 1.7 with SIMD and tuning.
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Stable Diffusion 3
Announcing Stable Diffusion 3 in early preview, our most capable text-to-image model with greatly improved performance in multi-subject prompts, image quality, and spelling abilities.
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Reading "A Programmer's Guide to Common Lisp"
I got a cheap used copy of the book A Programmer's Guide to COMMON LISP by Deborah G. Tatar, Digital Press, 1987. Why did I read such an...
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SN Pro Typeface
A friendly new font family that's open source and free for both personal and commercial use. Discover a detailed breakdown of our design process and download links.
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GIMP 2.99.18: The last development preview before 3.0
Release news for version GIMP 2.99.18
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Scientists discover underlying cause of "brain fog" linked with Long Covid
Today, a team of scientists from Trinity College Dublin and investigators from FutureNeuro announced a major discovery that has profound importance for our understanding of brain fog and cognitive decline seen in some patients with Long COVID.
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The Xylophone Maze: Screen-free coding for children
My child is 3 years old. I was looking for a game that we could play together and would be her first programming-like activity. I wasn’t keen to teach her anything specifically but rather offer her the option to explore what coding or algorithmic thinking tasted like (similarly when you would give your child a sheet…