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Fly.io has GPUs now
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,900 posts.
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Compiling History: A brief tour of C compilers
As the story of C’s birth goes hand in hand with the creation of Unix, the first C compiler can be traced back to the early 1970’s.
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The likelihood of unilateral solar geoengineering
People are starting to take geoengineering seriously.
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How to center a div in CSS
Back in the day, centering an element was one of the trickiest things in CSS. As the language has evolved, we’ve been given lots of new tools we can use… But how do we pick the best option? When do we use Flexbox, or CSS Grid, or something else? Let's dig into it.
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Memory and new controls for ChatGPT
We’re testing the ability for ChatGPT to remember things you discuss to make future chats more helpful. You’re in control of ChatGPT’s memory.
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Mastering Programming (2016)
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Original WWW proposal is a Word for Macintosh 4 file from 1990, can we open it?
The W3C has a page with the original WWW proposal from Tim Berners-Lee. One of the downloads says The original document file (I think - I ...
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Maybe Everything Is a Coroutine
I was inspired, after reading the excellent blog post Let Futures Be Futures, by the author’s thought experiment of a language in which all functions are coroutines and this is used to express asynchr…
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Aya: An open LLM by 3k independent researchers across the globe
Cohere's research lab, Cohere Labs, released the Aya model, a state-of-the-art, open source, massively multilingual, research LLM covering 101 languages – including more than 50 previously underserved languages.
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Is something bugging you?
At first glance, Antithesis couldn’t be more different from FoundationDB (our last company), but it’s a continuation of that story in a funny sort of way.
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Git tips and tricks
Some things that people don’t tend to know about Git anymore, and some new things you might not have noticed.
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Nokia made too many phones
TextQuery is a desktop app to import data file as a table, query it using SQL.
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Math as a habit
Making math a daily habit
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Security flaws in an SSO plugin for Caddy (2023)
We identified 10 security vulnerabilities within the caddy-security plugin for the Caddy web server that could enable a variety of high-severity attacks in web applications, including client-side code execution, OAuth replay attacks, and unauthorized access to resources. During our evaluation, Caddy was deployed as a…
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Analyzing Spotify Stream History
I recently learned Spotify provides downloads for users’ streaming history. For me, this is over 10 years worth of data, so at the very least it seemed like a good nostalgia trip. This post covers some of my analysis of my personal export, and hopefully is a good starting place if you’re interested in exploring your…
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Neural network training makes beautiful fractals
This blog is intended to be a place to share ideas and results that are too weird, incomplete, or off-topic to turn into an academic paper, but that I think may be important. Let me know what you think! Contact links to the left.
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vDPA: Support for block devices in Linux and QEMU
Using libblkio, QEMU Storage Daemon, and VDUSE
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The story behind the NeuralRad organ and tumor segmentation cloud service
Late last month, I received a message.
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Cool URIs can be ugly (2023)
Around last year this blog, a simple static site, was running on GitHub pages, together with Cloudflare in front of it due to (perceived) unreliability with GitHub’s SSL provisioning for custom domains. In order to simplify my stack, I tried running it on Cloudflare Pages .
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Cloudflare defeats patent troll Sable at trial
Last Thursday, on a clear, sunny morning in Waco, Texas, a jury returned a verdict after less than two hours of deliberation. The jury found that Cloudflare did not infringe the patent asserted against Cloudflare by patent trolls Sable IP and Sable Networks.
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Built-in workaround for applications hiding under the MacBook Pro notch
Annoyed by the notch on the new MacBook Pro models? There's a built-in workaround! Adjust menu bar spacing with simple Terminal commands, no extra software needed. Say goodbye to hidden menu items behind the notch!
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Nextdoor's Heisensubscribe (and Other Dark Patterns)
Nextdoor's notification settings are hostile. This is not an isolated incident.
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My Visit to Deep Springs College (2009)
You should neither trust outward appearances, nor let them intimidate you. There is always a discord between the appearance that a person or organization projects, and their actual nature. For this reason, always be careful about the people and organizations in whom you place your trust.
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Systemd by Example (2021)
The first article in a series where I explore aspects of systemd by creating small examples with the help of containers.
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Kalman Filter Explained Simply
Tired of equations and matrices? Ready to learn the easy way? This post explains the Kalman Filter simply with pictures and examples!
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Shell scripting with Elixir
Using Elixir instead of Python or Ruby for shell scripting.