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Flipboard Begins to Federate
*This post was originally published by Mike McCue.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,903 posts.
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New PFAS discovered with novel testing method
The “forever chemicals” found in the Cape Fear River were detected through a non-targeted testing method developed at UNC-Chapel Hill that broadens researchers’ abilities to identify the hazardous compounds.
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Fly Kubernetes
Introducing Fly Kubernetes: If you want K8s on Fly.io, we built something for you.
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Python, C, Assembly – Faster Cosine Similarity
From pure Python to AVX-512 assembly, optimizing cosine similarity reveals a 2,500x speedup through SIMD, FP16, and VNNI instructions on modern Intel CPUs.
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Transaction Isolation in Postgres
Ever dealt with glitches in a SaaS platform where your actions don't seem to sync up? That's often a transaction isolation issue in databases. Lets talk about transaction isolation and how they work in Postgres, so you can write reliable and performant code with minimal headache.
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How many CPU cores can you use in parallel?
Figuring out how much parallelism your program can use is surprisingly tricky.
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Using Zig to Unit Test a C Application
Zig is a new, independently developed low-level programming language. It’s a modern reimagining of C that attempts to retain C’s performance while embracing improvements from the last 30 years of tooling and language design. Zig makes calling into C code easier than any other language I’ve used. Zig also treats unit…
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Church vs. Curry Types
Static vs dynamic typing debates often flounder because the debators see from two different perspectives without knowing it. Learning to identify the two perspectives can calm the discussion. The tension between the two perspectives has led to Gradual Typing and other technologies.
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Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger
Figma and Adobe no longer see a path toward regulatory approval
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This year in Servo: over 1000 pull requests and beyond
Reflections on Servo’s progress in 2023: contributor stats, new features, layout improvements, WPT pass rates, and plans for next year.
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Paying Netflix $0.53/H, etc.
People pay $0.50-$2.00 for an hour of digital entertainment.
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Interactive Code Cells
Like Jupyter notebooks, but for any language.
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Small offline large language model – TinyChatEngine from MIT
BLUF : TinyChatEngine provides an off-line open-source large language model (LLM) that has been reduced in size compared to Llama2. This po...
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Mickey, Disney, and the public domain: A 95-year love triangle
Center for the Study of the Public Domain2023368 points208 commentsSociety, Policy & Culture details
Mickey, Disney, and the Public Domain: a 95-year Love Triangle by Jennifer Jenkins, Director, Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain On January 1, 2024, after almost a century of copyright protection, Mickey Mouse, or at least a version of Mickey Mouse, will enter the United States public domain. The first…
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Tracking Java native memory with JDK flight recorder
As regular readers of this blog will now, JDK Flight Recorder (JFR) is one of my favorite tools of the Java platform. This low-overhead event recording engine built into the JVM is invaluable for …
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“Yes” means “no”: The language of VCs
A failed founder’s survival guide
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So you want custom allocator support in your C library
Users of mature C libraries conventionally get to choose how memory is allocated — that is, when it cannot be avoided entirely . The C standard never laid down a convention — perhaps for the better — so each library re-invents an allocator interface. Not all are created equal, and most repeat a few fundamental…
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The Final Speech from The Great Dictator (1940)
I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness - not by each other’s…
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Evaluating new software forges
What options are there other than GitHub?
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How to learn chess as an adult (2021)
Becoming the worst best chess player in the world
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A Forth Vocabulary for Iteration
blog dot information dash superhighway dot net2023112 points22 commentsProgramming Languages details
I recently wrote a small 16-bit Forth for 8086 PCs running DOS. I built the basic one-liner loop words that can trivially be built with j...
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The origin of the law of torture: A cautionary tale
+ Ordeals and Plea Bargaining
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The Apollo Syndrome
This page describes 'The Apollo Syndrome', a phenomenon discovered by Dr Meredith Belbin where teams of highly capable individuals can, collectively, perform badly.
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Microsoft forced people to install their browser (2010)
It was a happy time for PC users. Microsoft had just delivered Windows 95, an incredibly vast improvement over windows 3.1 and DOS.
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What is the point of a public key fingerprint?
What is the point of a public key fingerprint? What does it do that the public key itself doesn't do. This post explains.
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Two interesting XOR circuits inside the Intel 386 processor
Intel's 386 processor (1985) was an important advance in the x86 architecture, not only moving to a 32-bit processor but also switching to a...
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The New Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen
Some might remember a book I released in 2016, “The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen”. A lot has changed in the world since then, and Shenzhen is no exception.
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The falling nutritional value of crops
The mineral content of wheat and rice is lower today than sixty years ago. Why is that and what does it mean for how we eat?
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Moving from relational data to events
Knock knock? Who’s there? It’s me, Oskar, the end is near, did you know that? Ah, you know it but don’t know how to proceed? Let’s talk about the end of the CRUD world…