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Add an AI Code Copilot to your product using GPT-4
The AI Code Copilot has been replaced by the more powerful AI Chat feature.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,910 posts.
20072
Rich Hickey is retiring from Nubank
Tech team thanks Rich Hickey for leadership as he retires from his position at Nu.
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(next Rich)
It is with a mixture of heartache and optimism that I announce today my (long planned) retirement from commercial software development, and my employment at Nubank. It’s been thrilling to see Clojure and Datomic successfully applied at scale.
20074
Teach a man to phish and he’s set for life
One frustrating aspect of email phishing is the frequency with which scammers fall back on tried-and-true methods that really have no business working these days. Like attaching a phishing email to a traditional, clean email message, or leveraging link redirects on LinkedIn , or abusing an encoding method that makes…
20075
The Coming Enshittification of Public Libraries
Global investment vampires have positioned themselves to suck our libraries dry
20076
Elixir Livebook is a secret weapon for documentation
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Zig 0.11
Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust , optimal , and reusable software.
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Catching up on the weird world of LLMs
I gave a talk on Sunday at North Bay Python where I attempted to summarize the last few years of development in the space of LLMs—Large Language Models, the technology …
20079
Apple reports third quarter results
Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2023 third quarter ended July 1, 2023.
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AWS to begin charging for public IPv4 addresses
We are introducing a new charge for public IPv4 addresses. Effective February 1, 2024 there will be a charge of $0.005 per IP per hour for all public IPv4 addresses, whether attached to a service or not (there is already a charge for public IPv4 addresses you allocate in your account but don’t attach to […]
20081
Brave Search launches own image and video search
Brave Search's new independent image and video search feature protects your privacy and freedom to access information online.
20082
Why early modern books are so beautiful
Three theories
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Making peer-to-peer multiplayer seamless with Godot (2022)
Software engineer, artist and musician
20085
Do something, so we can change it
A habit for addressing two-way decisions.
20086
Elixir for cynical curmudgeons
You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites . This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.
20087
Elastic tabstops
Elastic tabstops - a better way to indent and align code
20088
IBM and NASA Open Source Largest Geospatial AI Foundation Model on Hugging Face
IBM & open-source AI platform Hugging Face today announced that IBM's watsonx.ai geospatial foundation model – built from NASA's satellite data – will now be openly available on Hugging Face.
20089
Don't be clever
The story of the CRUDController
20090
Polars: Company Formation Announcement
We are excited to announce the start of company that will build around Polars, enabling data processing at any scale.
20091
Man spends entire career mastering crappy codebase
Westbrook spent 35 years in a codebase that allegedly powers some sort of medical software somewhere. During his tenure, he contributed hundreds of lines of code to his projects.
20092
Google AMP – The Newest of Evasive Phishing Tactic
Author: Dylan DuncanA new phishing tactic utilizing Google...
20093
Netscape Meteors
I went on a small journey the last couple days to find the original Netscape Navigator “meteors” animation. This one has a special place in my head and heart because it is so clearly connected to my memories of discovering the web as a kid. Here it is in its original 60×60 px glory:
20094
System settings that aren’t in System Settings
Where would you set the default call handler for macOS? And where in System Settings do you set the default web browser?
20095
The infamous coin toss
In 2011 I gave a 15-minute talk to a lay audience in London. The topic I had chosen was ergodicity breaking, and the challenge was clear: how do you get this across? I invented a coin-toss gamble, which has since become a go-to illustration of ergodicity break
20096
Meta’s Reality Labs prototype hardware
Both Butterscotch Varifocal and Flamera are very much in the research stage, and the technologies they’re investigating may never make their way into a consumer-facing product. And, as we hope you’ll come to see, that’s very much the point.
20097
If Web Components are so great, why am I not using them?
Rem recently asked:
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Cookbook: Finetuning Llama 2 in your own cloud environment, privately
An operational guide on finetuning Llama 2, ready for commercial use.
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Cops still take more stuff from people than burglars do (2021)
Let’s get one thing out of the way: it’s not normal to stuff $100,000 in cash into a suitcase and then check said suitcase on to a domestic flight.
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Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it
My next book is The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation : it's a Big Tech disassembly manual that explains how to disenshittify the web and bring back the old good internet. The hardcover comes from Verso on Sept 5, but the audiobook comes from me – because Amazon refuses to sell my audio: