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Envisioning a Simplified Intel Architecture
Intel investigated architectural enhancements and modifications for a 64-bit mode-only architecture.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,915 posts.
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Debugging a FUSE deadlock in the Linux kernel
Tycho Andersen
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Migrating from Supabase
Our journey from Supabase to Postgres and Render
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I wrote a GameBoy emulator for my hobby OS (2022)
The Nintendo GameBoy is an exceptionally well-documented system, perfect for anybody who’d like to take a crack at emulation. Publicly-maintained resources like the Pan Docs make it both approachable and convenient to get an overview of the GameBoy’s address space layout, to understand the mechanics of hardware…
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D1: Improvements to performance and scalability
We've been heads down iterating on D1, and we've just shipped a major new version that's substantially faster, more reliable, and introduces Time Travel: the ability to restore a D1 database to any point in time.
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LangChain: The Missing Manual
The handbook to the LangChain library for building applications around generative AI and large language models (LLMs).
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My solar-powered blog is now on lithium iron phosphate
In my last blog post I discussed how a small solar project - to power this blog on a Raspberry Pi - escalated into a full-blown off-grid solar setup, large enough to power the computer I use at the moment to write this update 1 . In this update, I want to discuss my battery upgrade.
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MTIA v1: Meta’s first-generation AI inference accelerator
In 2020, we initiated the Meta Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA) family of chips to support our evolving AI workloads, starting with an inference accelerator ASIC for deep learning recommendation models (DLRMs).
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Dandelion Root Recipes
Dandelion root recipes offer a variety of uses, from herbal teas to hearty dishes. Discover how to incorporate this nutritious root into your meals and remedies.
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With new trade deal, Big Tech wants to be above the law
Here’s how Big Tech is trying to give itself immunity from government oversight through the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework.
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Hands-Free Coding (2020)
Earlier this year, I lost the ability to use a keyboard and mouse for extended periods. Fortunately, this wasn't as catastrophic as it sounds! This article chronicles my experience using adaptive tools like dictation and eye-tracking as my primary mechanisms for writing code.
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High-performance tidy trees visualization (2022)
This article introduces the algorithm to draw non-layered trees in linear time and re-layout partially when some nodes change in O(d) time, where d is the maximum depth of the changed node.
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CLI tools for working with ChatGPT and other LLMs
I’ve been building out a small suite of command-line tools for working with ChatGPT, GPT-4 and potentially other language models in the future. The three tools I’ve built so far …
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The Future of Programming – Interview with Richard Eisenberg
Listen in on Jane Street’s Ron Minsky as he has conversations with engineers working on everything from clock synchronization to reliable multicast, build systems to reconfigurable hardware. Get a peek at how Jane Street approaches problems, and how those ideas relate to tech more broadly.
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Recreating Medieval English Ales (1998)
In medieval England, ale was an alcoholic drink made from grain, water, and fermented with yeast. The difference between medieval ale and beer was that beer also used hops as an ingredient. Virtually everyone drank ale. It provided significant nutrition as well as hydration (and inebriation). The aristocracy could…
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Windows XP Activation: Game Over
For almost two decades, MSKey Readme 1 has heralded the defeat of Windows XP's product activation, not via mere circumvention , but by cracking the encryption algorithm itself.
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ChatGPT app for iOS
The ChatGPT app syncs your conversations, supports voice input, and brings our latest model improvements to your fingertips.
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Unit Testing eBPF Programs
They provide a safety net when making changes, and give you that nice, warm feeling when you see them all pass after a change.
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The Great CPU Stagnation
A blog by and for database architects.
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20 Years of Gentoo
Let’s see how Gentoo is doing these days. Below is a plot of Gentoo’s rankings on DistroWatch :
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The simple joys of scaling up
Explores why scale-out became so dominant, whether those rationales still hold, and some joyful advantages of scale-up architecture. | Reading time: 16 min read
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The Alan Turing Institute has failed to develop modern AI in the UK
The UK’s flagship institute for artificial intelligence, the Alan Turing Institute, has been at best irrelevant to the development of modern AI in the UK.
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Passage by 1Password: Add passkey support to your app or website
Expert articles, security news, product updates, guides, and research from 1Password on password management, privacy, and digital security.
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CRDT-richtext: Rust implementation of Peritext and Fugue
Made in Notion, the connected workspace where AI agents and teams organize docs, projects and knowledge together.
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Where have all the hackers gone?
A way to talk about programming languages, and a plea to Think Different™
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European standards bodies are inaccessible to Open Source projects
Europe’s standards bodies have no functional relationships with Open Source charities and do not consult them.
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Who wants to be tracked?
“We value your privacy…”, the clichéd beginning of many a privacy notice. I legitimately do value my own online privacy, and whenever I read that phrase as part of a website consent banner it sounds like lip service at best. Consent banners ostensibly exist to give users control over their data & personal privacy. Far…
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The Case for Bash (2021)
Bash is oft-maligned: you hear it sneered at in sentences like “our continuous integration pipeline is just a pile of bash scripts .” It is commonly regarded as unintelligible and thus unmaintainable. The pile of bash scripts are the toxic byproduct of an infrastructure team understaffed, pressed for time, unwilling…
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User Driven UI
Notes about creative coding on the Web.