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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,400 posts.
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Yale researchers reconstruct facial images locked in a viewer’s mind
Using only data from an fMRI scan, researchers led by a Yale University undergraduate have accurately reconstructed images of human faces as viewed by other people.
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Andreessen Horowitz Raises New $1.5B Fund
BY SCOTT KUPOR We are pleased to announce the closing of Andreessen Horowitz Fund IV, a $1.5 billion multi-stage venture capital fund. We are grateful for the ongoing support of our limited partners and thankful to the many outstanding technology entrepreneurs with whom we’ve had the chance to work over the last five…
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Tarsnap now accepts Bitcoin
There is a significant commonality between Tarsnap and Bitcoin — both rely crucially on strong cryptography, and anecdotally it seems that many Bitcoin users rely on Tarsnap to back up their "wallets" (I have no concrete data since I can't tell what data people are backing up ) — so it's not surprising that many…
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After reviewing about 30 YC applications, here's some general advice
Demo day just wrapped up for Beacon. We feel pretty good about what we've done since starting YC in January. But it's been a long and winding road to get here. One of my cofounders (@dmitric) and...
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WebScaleSQL: A collaboration to build upon the MySQL upstream
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Switch from Photoshop to Gimp: Tips From a Pro
Over six months ago, I stopped using Adobe Photoshop and switched to GIMP for all my personal photography projects. This wasn’t the impossible task that most people believe it is.
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Ccv open sources near state-of-the-art image classifier under Creative Commons
In previous posts, I mentioned that the even numbered release will be bugfixes. However, 0.6 is a bit different.
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“The Mill” – It just might Work
The Mill is a new general-purpose high-performance processor design from out-of-the-box computing ( http://ootbcomp.com/ ). They claim to beat typical high-end out-of-order (OOO) designs like the Intel Haswell generation by crazy factors, such as being 2.3x faster while using 2.3x less power compared to a Haswell. All…
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Depackaging the Nintendo 3DS CPU
If you haven't read my Nintendo 3DS intro blog post first, I'd suggest it as it's a fun short read that gives some backstory of my interest...
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MLB.com is using my Google Analytics code
After seeing a little spike in traffic on Analytics I did some further investigation. Lo and behold Websanova is tracking MLB.com!
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Inclusiveness at Mozilla
I am deeply honored and humbled by the CEO role. I’m also grateful for the messages of support. At the same time, I know there are concerns about my commitment to fostering equality and welcome for LGBT individuals at Mozilla. I hope to lay those concerns to rest, first by making a set of commitments to you. More…
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We may have witnessed a NSA "Shotgiant" TAO-like action
Last Friday, the New York Times reported that the NSA has hacked/infiltrated Huawei, a big Chinese network hardware firm. We may have witne...
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RethinkDB 1.12: simplified map/reduce, ARM port, new caching infrastructure
Today, we’re happy to announce RethinkDB 1.12 ( The Wizard of Oz ). Download it now!
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ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text
ASCII delimited text solves the problems exporting and importing structured text files and is part of the design of the character set. Unfortunately a lot of people and systems use CSV and other pr…
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Press Conference in Brazil to Announce Discovery in Outer Solar System
Media Advisory: Press Conference in Brazil to Announce Discovery in Outer Solar System
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Mozilla's low-overhead open source replay debugger
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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Mistakes we've made
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
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Oculus Joins Facebook
We started Oculus with a vision of delivering incredible, affordable, and ubiquitous consumer virtual reality to the world. We’ve come a long...
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Google Announces Massive Price Drops for Cloud Computing Services, Storage
Updated at 12:52 PM PST to include App Engine pricing information Editors note: Tune in to Google Cloud Platform Live for more informatio...
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Microsoft makes source code for MS-DOS and Word for Windows available to public
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