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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,919 posts.
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PC keyboard hides an interesting secret
I found this keyboard on eBay recently, although it wasn’t quite the one I was looking for I still think it is interesting. Let me show you why. This is the keyboard, and you would be forgiven for…
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Humanness in the Age of AI
A path to an open and permissionless identity protocol.
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A new era of transparency for Twitter
At Twitter 2.0, we believe that we have a responsibility, as the town square of the internet, to make our platform transparent. So today we are taking the first step in a new era of transparency.
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ChatGPT – The Revolutionary Bullshit Parrot
ChatGPT seems convincing and wise but is neither wise nor hallucinatory—just bullshit. Here’s biased take on AI’s socalled revolution.
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German police raid DDoS-friendly host FlyHosting
Authorities in Germany this week seized Internet servers that powered FlyHosting , a dark web offering that catered to cybercriminals operating DDoS-for-hire services, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. FlyHosting first advertised on cybercrime forums in November 2022, saying it was a Germany-based hosting firm that was…
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Could you train a ChatGPT-beating model for $85k and run it in a browser?
I think it’s now possible to train a large language model with similar functionality to GPT-3 for $85,000. And I think we might soon be able to run the resulting …
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BigQuery prices increasing by more than 100% for many users
New BigQuery pricing editions and autoscaling let you choose the right price-performance for your workloads, and pay for only what you use.
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Pizza rolls and the meaning of midcentury food
How a snacktime staple embodies a specific cultural moment
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Postgres as a graph database
You don't need Neo4j for graph data. Walking through nodes, edges, and recursive traversals in plain Postgres, with working SQL.
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If AI scaling is to be shut down, let it be for a coherent reason
There’s now an open letter arguing that the world should impose a six-month moratorium on the further scaling of AI models such as GPT, by government fiat if necessary, to give AI safety and …
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Nim 2.0.0 RC2
The second release candidate (RC2) for Nim version 2.0 is ready for testing.
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Pairing With GPT-4
GPT-4 won't build your application for you, but it can be a very helpful addition to your toolbox.
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Visual programming with Elixir: Learning to write binary parsers (2019)
Visualize binary protocols by building parsers in Elixir.
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Helix 23.03
A post-modern modal text editor.
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Nuclear power is too safe
If you don't pursue safety in a way that is cost effective, you are killing people.[David Okrent]
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AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects
The thing I’m most excited about in our weird new AI-enhanced reality is the way it allows me to be more ambitious with my projects. As an experienced developer, ChatGPT …
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SSD as Long Term Storage Testing
2022 September 10 What is the best media for long term storage is a question that I read frequently from online forums. First and foremost, as far as I’m aware there is no real “set it and forget it” long term storage. In this digital age, data needs to be validated regularly and cycled to a new media every 5-10 years…
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When SVG almost got network support for raw sockets
SVG Phone Home
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Gmail is killing independent email
Email is an open system, right? Anyone can send a message to anyone... unless they are on Gmail! School Interviews uses two email servers t...
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The state of open-source in 3D printing in 2023
After several years of development, complicated by the pandemic, disrupted supply chains, and war in Europe, we announced our new Original Prusa MK4 today. We began shipping the first units of the XL two weeks ago. There is an upcoming PrusaSlicer...
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Programming isn’t coding (2020)
When teaching “programming”, a surprisingly small amount of time is spent actually helping students with logic – and a lot helping them learning & managing programming tools.
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My kids and I just played D&D with ChatGPT4 as the DM
Spoiler Alert: It absolutely blew our minds
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Why not tell people to “simply” use pyenv, poetry or anaconda
You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.
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When Google paid websites to promote Firefox
Having grown up in the 2000s, I love discovering that things I presumed were banal back then were, in fact, part of a bigger story.
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The undocumented Android change that led to aCropalypse was reported during beta
The bug lies in closed-source Google-proprietary code so it’s a bit hard to inspect, but after some patch-diffing I concluded that the root cause was due to this horrible bit of API ‘design’: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/180526528 .