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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,299 posts.
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Our fight is far from over
Four months after the disappointing decision on summary judgment in Hachette v. Internet Archive, a number of papers were filed today in the district court, and then the judge is expected to make his final judgment. We expect that, at least while the appeal is pending, there will be changes to our lending program, but…
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Web Environment Integrity has no standing at W3C; understanding new W3C work
This article addresses that Web Environment Integrity is not being worked on at W3C, and proceeds to explaining how work is brought to W3C and the processes that foster the development of Web standards and guidelines that ensure the long-term growth of the Web.
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Wendelstein 7-X: Gigajoule energy turnover generated for eight minutes
After successful recommissioning in autumn 2022, the Greifswald nuclear fusion experiment has surpassed an important target.
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Squeeze the hell out of the system you have
When complexity leaps are on the table, there’s usually also an opportunity to squeeze some extra juice out of the system you have. By tweaking the workload, tuning performance, or supplement…
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Reading Ancient Scrolls
This is an elaboration of my submission for the letter detection prize as part of the Vesuvius Challenge in June. It gets technical and esoteric but the first few paragraphs are of general interest…
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Fine-Tuning Llama-2: A Comprehensive Case Study for Tailoring Custom Models
We examine the Llama-2 models under 3 real-world use cases and show that fine-tuning yields significant accuracy improvements.
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ML is useful for many things, but not for predicting scientific replicability
How the veneer of AI is used to legitimize awful ideas
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The crash of Air France flight 447 (2021)
The story of the infamous disappearance of an Airbus A330 over the Atlantic, and the fundamentally human mistakes which led to the tragedy.
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What HashiCorp’s license change means for our customers
On August 10, 2023, HashiCorp changed licensing for all its products, including Terraform. See what does it mean and how to mitigate its impact.
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Fastest branchless binary search
Fastest general and simple binary search C++ implementation
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There is no hard takeoff
Back in 2014, Elon Musk referred to AI as summoning the demon. And it wasn’t hard to see that view. Soon, Go agents would beat top humans learning from self play. By the end of 2017, the same algorithm mastered Chess and Shogi. By 2020, it didn’t even need tons of calls to the simulator, and could play Atari too.
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Artificial General Intelligence – A gentle introduction
[On-line document since 2007, last updated in September 2026] [Translations: 中文 , Español , lietuvių kalba ]
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The Bipolar Lisp Programmer (2007)
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. Robin Williams
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Sorting in Emacs
In this article, we will perform a series of hands-on experiments that demonstrate the various Emacs commands that can be used to sort text in different ways. There is sufficient documentation available for these commands in the Emacs and Elisp manuals. In this article, however, we will take a look at some concrete…
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Browsers barely care what HTTP status code your web pages are served with
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2023109 points48 commentsHistory & Retro Computing details
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1, A2) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries. Last time we discussed Rome&…
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Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release
In the coming months Mozilla will launch support for an open ecosystem of extensions on Firefox for Android on addons.mozilla.org (AMO). We’ll announce a definite launch date in early September, ...
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I fixed a bug the other day
I fixed a bug that was in production for 2 years with a few lines of code.
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HashiCorp Switches to BSL License
HashiCorp helps organizations automate hybrid cloud environments with a unified approach to Infrastructure and Security Lifecycle Management.
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Rewriting wipEout
The source code for the classic PSX launch title wipEout was leaked in 2022. A few month ago I finally sat down to take a look at it. The result is a (nearly) complete rewrite that compiles to Windows, Linux, macOS and WASM.
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A Modern C Development Environment
A community and blog for embedded software makers
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My Overkill Home Network
In this post I will hopefully detail my entire home network. Some of this has been in separate posts explaining single items, but nowhere do I have all of the network in one post with all the changes since last year. Here is a full shot of the rack in
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HashiCorp adopts Business Source License
HashiCorp adopts the Business Source License to ensure continued investment in its community and to continue providing open, freely available products.
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Turns out lowly thymus may be saving your life
Study suggests the organ plays a vital role in immune health, particularly cancer prevention.
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Water Cooled Rooftop Solar Panels
Some combinations were just meant to be. Peanut butter and jelly, ice cream and spoons, solar panels and canals, and solar photovoltaic (PV) thermal integrated roofing. Who’da thunk. Images Courtesy of TractileOf all the presentations I watched at the Energy Expo one particularly stood out to me. The presentation was…