The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,916 posts.
Developers often believe that software performance follows a Pareto distribution: 80% of the running time is spent in 20% of the code. Using this model, you can write most of your code without any care for performance and focus on the narrow pieces of code that are performance sensitive. Engineers like Casey Muratori…
Every Web search result seen in Brave Search is now served by our own index. We've removed all search API calls to Bing.
Dear Pinecone Community, I am thrilled to share some exciting news with you all. We raised $100 million in Series B funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from ICONIQ Growth, and our existing investors Menlo Ventures and Wing Venture Capital. This funding brings our valuation to $750 million, hitting…
Today, our cofounder and CEO Drew Houston shared the difficult news that we’ll be making reductions to our global workforce. He sent the following email to all employees:
Nubank is making all editions of Datomic free of licensing fees, released under Apache 2.0 and available directly from Maven Central, no signup required.
Recreating the used bookstore experience via contrastive learning, t-SNE, and 100M book reviews.
A guide to learning COBOL for the modern programmer.
How I received the signal of MANY satellites with an RTL-SDR V3
This page is a "brief" summary of some of the huge number of improvements in GCC 13. You may also want to check out our Porting to GCC 13 page and the full GCC documentation .
The California Court of Appeal has held that a geofence warrant seeking information on all devices located within several densely-populated areas in Los Angeles violated the Fourth Amendment. This is the first time an appellate court in the United States has reviewed a geofence warrant. The case is...
An overview of Rust GUI libraries and frameworks, focused on WASM. Discover the latest GUI toolkit options for Rust, increase your programming skills, and create efficient WebAssembly bundles that will help you build comprehensive applications.
I like Sun Ray laptops. They make surprisingly useful thin clients. Here, going from right to left, I'm playing Quake on my Solaris UltraBoo...
“Mathematics,” wrote the historian of science Carl Benjamin Boyer many years ago, “is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.” The same might be said about the mathematical algorithms we choose to prioritize — especially in these modern times, when the right set of formulas can be worth many…
There are many legitimate arguments to be had about performance, but there are also plain old excuses. It's time to end the excuses.
How we are now leveraging embeddings and vector databases to generate prompts for ChatGPT.
Andy Pavlo - Carnegie Mellon University,
A note from the author You can buy this story as part of my collection, Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories. "Tim! Do you want a bar of gold?" Tim, raincoat on, about to leave for the weekend, was completely flummoxed by the question. He froze in place, one ...
This essay was originally written in December 2022 as I pondered the future of my job. I sat on it because I wasn’t sure of the optics of posting such an essay while employed by Google Brain. But then Google made my decision easier by laying me off in January. My severance check cleared, and last week, Brain and…
Blog posts about GNU Guix.
Mastodon won't be the next Twitter, and it's not because of Bluesky. The ideals and execution won't scale.
We implemented OAuth for the 50 most popular APIs. TL;DR: It is still a mess.
OR: How to eat fewer asparagus beetles
Online newspaper subscriptions have a reputation for being difficult to cancel, but new guidance from the FTC may change that.
A little bit of magic, but mostly just practice
Ruby's switch statement is very versatile and flexible, especially due to the dynamic nature of Ruby. This post shows how it works with examples.
I wrote a blog post a while ago complaining about Gradle, mostly from a position of ignorance: I had never really taken the time to properly learn the tool and I was frustrated while trying to stumble my way through working with it. But luckily, my company encourages learning and experimentation so I was given an…
One of the most asked about topics to folks working on upstream container technologies is running Podman within a container. Most of this has histo...
This post is the perfect starting point for learning to build your own LTE network. View this lession as a guided introduction – including the installation, configuration, and best practices that will ease your learning.
A curious pattern in polar plots with prime numbers, together with discussion of Dirichlet's theorem
