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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,921 posts.
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Study Suggests Fructose Could Drive Alzheimer's Disease
An ancient human foraging instinct, fueled by fructose, may hold clues to the development of Alzheimer’s disease, according to researchers.
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Homebrew 4.0.0
Today, I’d like to announce Homebrew 4.0.0. The most significant change since 3.6.0 enables significantly faster Homebrew-maintained tap updates by migrating from Git-cloned taps to JSON downloads.
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I replaced grub with systemd-boot
To be able to investigate and work on the the measured boot features I have switched from grub to systemd-boot (sd-boot).
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Postgres WAL Files and Sequence Numbers
Go inside the WAL file with this in-depth look at WAL file Log Sequence Number (LSN), WAL segment positions, WAL file names, and pg_switch_wal.
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WebKit Supports Nested CSS
Back in December, we wrote an article detailing three different options for CSS Nesting.
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How the Fed “Went Broke”
For the first time in modern history, the Fed is operating at a loss. This article explores what that means for savers and investors.
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Scientists find first observational evidence linking black holes to dark energy
Study No. 1 in The Astrophysical Journal: A Preferential Growth Channel for Supermassive Black Holes in Elliptical Galaxies at z ≲ 2 Study No. 2 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters: Observational Evidence for Cosmological Coupling of Black Holes and Its Implications for an Astrophysical Source o
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Cut the Cutesy Errors
If your app has just ruined my day, I need help, not humour.
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It Looks Like You’re Trying to Take over the World
Fictional short story about Clippy & AI hard takeoff scenarios grounded in contemporary ML scaling, self-supervised learning, reinforcement learning, and meta-learning research literature.
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Rerun OSS beta is released
Today we're making the the Rerun open source project public. Rerun is now installable as `pip install rerun-sdk` for Python users and `cargo add rerun` for Rust users.
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Sanders calls for minimum salary of $60000 for public school teachers
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) shined a spotlight on the teacher shortage at the “Respecting Our Teachers: A Town Hall on the Teacher Pay Crisis in America,” held on Capitol Hill Feb. 13. With speakers including AFT President Randi Weingarten, National Education Association President Rebecca Pringle, Sen. Ed Markey…
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Godot 4.0 RC 2
Tightening a few bolts here and there, Godot 4.0 RC 2 brings us one step closer to the stable release. We're now counting in days!
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All the Buns Are Blank
Damn! Remember when these buns had sesame seeds?
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Food coloring, anti-caking nanoparticles may affect human gut
Metal oxide nanoparticles – commonly used as food coloring and anti-caking agents in commercial ingredients – may damage parts of the human intestine, say Cornell and Binghamton University scientists.
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Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”
Last week, Microsoft announced the new AI-powered Bing: a search interface that incorporates a language model powered chatbot that can run searches for you and summarize the results, plus do …
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From Bing to Sydney
More on Bing, particularly the Sydney personality undergirding it: interacting with Sydney has made me completely rethink what conversational AI is important for.
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When Rust hurts
Why I am not enjoying programming in Rust.
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Last Flight Out
Good-byes, and the beginning of winter isolation.
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Apple doesn’t want you developing hobby apps
Apple still charges a $99 yearly developer fee, even if you don't want to publish your app on the Appstore. The provisioning certificate that Xcode provides only lasts one week.
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Real-time Ubuntu is now generally available
Real-time Ubuntu brings end-to-end security and reliability to the time-bound workloads of modern enterprises. With support for real-time compute, Canonical furthers its commitment to providing a best-in-class experience for open-source software consumption. 14 February 2023, London: Canonical today announced the…
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Introduction to Datalog
A rule-based data query language that thinks differently
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Trying every combination to flash my Asus motherboard's BIOS
tl;dr: Use an old-fashioned USB 2.0 flash drive, format it FAT32, download the firmware, make sure it's named correctly, and use the motherboard's 'BIOS Flashback' option after powering off the computer. This past week, I devoted far too much time to the task of updating my brand new motherboard's BIOS. It started…
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Shrinkflation, SanDisk Style
A cheap USB stick and the marketing around it caused disappointment, more at 11.
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PyTorch at the Edge: Deploy 964 TIMM Models on Android with TorchScript
Learn and deploy over 900+ cutting edge PyTorch classification models on Android.
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