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Want to build a sequencer? 454.bio opens up their plans
Just as the AGBT hype cycle was firing up (with me contributing multiple sparks), serial entrepreneur Jonathan Rothberg's latest sequencing ...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,900 posts.
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Transforming Postgres into a Fast OLAP Database
Introducing the search capabilities of ParadeDB.
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Improving Interoperability Between Rust and C++
Posted by Lars Bergstrom – Director, Android Platform Tools & Libraries and Chair of the Rust Foundation Board Back in 2021, we announced...
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Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read the first scroll
The 2000-year-old scroll discusses music, food, and how to enjoy life’s pleasures.
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Open source 3D atlas of human anatomy
In less than two years, 'Z-Anatomy' gathered more than 5.000 tridimensional anatomical structures and labels with more than 3500 definitions in two fully functional open source viewers. Available for free in 5 languages, it progressively becomes an open alternative to all the students, the Health Professional and the…
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Deno in 2023
2023 marked a significant step towards our vision of radically simplifying web development. Here are the biggest updates and what’s coming up next.
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Running Open-Source AI Models Locally with Ruby
Run AI models locally in Ruby! 💻 Use Ollama to download & run open-source models like Mistral. Integrate them into your Ruby apps using HTTP requests. Great for data security & privacy.
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How does Sidekiq really work?
An investigation into the internals of Sidekiq, one of the most popular Ruby background job processors.
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UUID Benchmark War
This month’s PGSQL Phriday #015 topic is about UUIDs, hosted by Lætitia Avrot. Lætitia has called for a debate. No, no, no. I say let’s have an all-out war. A benchmark war. I have deci…
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Dijkstra's interview on Dutch TV (2000)
An english translation of Edsger W. Dijkstra's interview on Dutch TV.
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Gödel, Escher, Bach is the most influential book in my life (2022)
Musings on Hofstadter’s phenomenal book about computation, consciousness, and epistemology.
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Beyond self-attention: How a small language model predicts the next token
A deep dive into the internals of a small transformer model to learn how it turns self-attention calculations into accurate predictions for the next token.
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Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software (2019)
In a world of closed platforms, browser extensions are the rare exception that let users modify the apps that we use.
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Write code for the web
The story is personal, but I hope readers find something they can relate to in their own life stream.
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A reasonable configuration language
I was fed up with the poor opportunities for abstraction in configuration formats. The many configuration languages that exist already were not invented here, so I wrote my own, at first just for fun. But then it became useful.
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Rye: A Vision Continued
A progress update on where my Rye Project is today.
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You are what you love
Discussing the importance of working alongside your emotions and not against them
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How to Replace Your CPAP in Only 666 Days
This story is not practical advice. For me, it’s closing the book on an almost two-year saga. For you, I hope it’s an enjoyable bit of bureaucratic schadenfreude. For Anthem, I hope it’s the subject of a series of painful but transformative meetings. This is not an isolated event. I’ve had dozens of struggles with…
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The first amateur radio station on the moon
The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the national association for amateur radio, connecting hams around the U.S. with news, information and resources.
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How Doom didn't kill the Amiga
A scene from the Amiga game Defender of the Crown, released in 1986. For years, no other home computer came close to screens like these.
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TCC RISC-V Compiler Runs in the Web Browser (Thanks to Zig Compiler)
Today we're running Apache NuttX RTOS inside a Web Browser. What if we could compile and test NuttX Apps in the Web Browser? Let's explore with TCC 64-bit RISC-V Compiler, compiled to WebAssembly with Zig Compiler.
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The FAA's Hiring Scandal: A Quick Overview
An Air Traffic Control nightmare
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Why Postgres RDS didn't work for us
Background
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DIY MBA: My Reading List (2019)
I’m doing a self-taught DIY MBA (read more). Here’s my work-in-progress reading list, add anything you think I’m missing in the comments.
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Let futures be futures
In the early-to-mid 2010s, there was a renaissance in languages exploring new ways of doing concurrency. In the midst of this renaissance, one abstraction for achieving concurrent operations that was developed was the “future” or “promise” abstraction, which represented a unit of work that will maybe eventually…
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.NET on Linux: What a Contrast
Almost five years ago I wrote a brief history about .net on non-Windows platforms . I stumbled over that article now and it resurfaced traumatic memories of navigating .net development on Linux and MacOS.