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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,838 posts.
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Learning SIMD with Rust by Finding Planets (2018)
How to get the most of Rust while keeping your code portable
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TypeScript 3.6
Today we're happy to announce the availability of TypeScript 3.6! For those unfamiliar, TypeScript is a language that builds on JavaScript by adding
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What is nuclear waste? Challenges and solutions
Nuclear waste is primarily composed of the atoms that are left over after larger atoms are split in a fission chain reaction. This page explains what it is in detail, what the hazards are, how we store it today, what the long-term plans are, and how much waste we make.
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Most software companies ignore user behavior
And other things that they do at their own peril. And how to be better about it.
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What Happens When You ACH a Dead Person?
When an ACH return occurs, the payment is reversed. This means that if you had paid someone, the money will come back to your account. Or if you had charged someone, you will lose the money you thought you received. But how does that reversal happen?
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exFAT in the Linux kernel
We’re pleased to announce that Microsoft is supporting the addition of Microsoft’s exFAT technology to the Linux kernel.
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API Gateway Identity Crisis – are they replaced by service mesh?
API Gateways are going through a bit of an identity crisis these days.
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Thunderbird 68.0
Thunderbird is a free email application that’s easy to set up and customize - and it’s loaded with great features!
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Julia's Release Process
People involved in the day-to-day development of a project tend to become so familiar with its rhythm and process that they internalize it and it feels like everyone must just _know_ how each stage unfolds. Of course, from the outside looking in it's not so obvious. So I thought it might be helpful t...
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The Myth of Consumer-Grade Security
The Department of Justice wants access to encrypted consumer devices but promises not to infiltrate business products or affect critical infrastructure. Yet that’s not possible, because there is no longer any difference between those categories of devices. Consumer devices are critical infrastructure. They affect…
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Words that do Handstands
The other day I ordered a book on art history from Amazon… which reminded me of the movie Angels and Demons , which reminded me of ambigrams. Ambigrams are those stylized words that look the same when you turn them upside down. Here is the classic, by John Langdon .
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Natural Language Processing: The Age of Transformers
This article is the first installment of a two-post series on Building a machine reading comprehension system using the latest advances in deep learning for NLP.
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A 2019 Guide to Speech Synthesis with Deep Learning
Artificial production of human speech is known as speech synthesis. This machine learning-based technique is applicable in text-to-speech, music generation, speech generation, speech-enabled devices, navigation systems, and accessibility for visually-impaired people. In this article, we’ll look at research and model……
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Lessons from Stripe
How working at Stripe changed my outlook on optimism, ambition, and recruiting.
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CamScanner, a malicious Android app with more than 100M downloads in Google Play
Kaspersky researchers found malware in CamScanner, a text recognition app that was downloaded more than 100 million times from Google Play.
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Pay a visit to Cambridge’s computer museum
Down a rather shabby road in a Cambridge industrial estate can be found a haven of retro computing delights - the Centre for Computing History.
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Exploring Weight Agnostic Neural Networks
Posted by Adam Gaier, Student Researcher and David Ha, Staff Research Scientist, Google Research, Tokyo When training a neural network to accompl...
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The Broken Chain Problem
The Emperor’s Nose (Richard Feynman) A village in a remote corner of an empire decided to erect a statue of the emperor. The village scu...
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Study identifies main culprit behind lithium metal battery failure
UC San Diego researchers have discovered the root cause of why lithium metal batteries fail, challenging a long-held belief in the field. The study presents new ways to boost battery performance and brings research a step closer to incorporating lithium anodes into rechargeable batteries.
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Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
Having an RSS feed is a great way of allowing readers from all over the internet consume your conent. But please, make sure the entire post is in there!
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Time anxiety: is it too late?
I have always struggled with a thought: it’s too late. Too late to publish a book, to start a company, to learn a new language. This is called time anxiety.
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How Web Content Can Affect Power Usage
Users spend a large proportion of their online time on mobile devices, and a significant fraction of the rest is users on untethered laptop computers.
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A book from Alan Turing and a mysterious piece of paper
Sleuthing into the history of a 1930 book on quantum mechanics previously owned by Alan Turing and a lambda calculus note tucked inside.
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If you must run Windows 10
Barring divine intervention, Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2019 ( formerly LTSB ) may be the least bad option:
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EU governments choose independence from US cloud providers with Nextcloud
European Governments are starting to take digital sovereignty more and more serious, moving away from large, centralized cloud solutions.